Guild Airships (history)

Overview
An airship is a location where access is limited only to guild members, or people who are temporarily invited there. The main purpose is to provide buffs. A guild works toward acquiring a Guild Airship, and then improves on it. Improvements include bigger and better airships, amenities (such as a tavern), and crew (such as a navigator) to facilitate tasks. The more advanced the guild and the guild airship, the more buffs are available.

Information on getting a Guild Airship is in the Guild Renown section of the Guilds page.

Embarking and Disembarking
In every public zone except House Cannith and the Inspired Quarter, is an Airship Tower, used to board Guild Airships. They are also the disembarkation point when leaving the Airship if your Guild has the ability to disembark at a particular public zone. Airship Beacons can be used to travel to your Guild Airship. Airships are disembarked by selecting a location on menu from talking with the captain, by teleport spell, or simply by jumping over the edge (landing you haphazardly in Stormreach locations). On board an airship, the map is blank.

Airship Towers


Airship Towers are located in:


 * House Deneith - Near all the class trainers
 * House Jorasco - Just to the left of the entryway to the Delera's Graveyard
 * House Kundarak - South of the House Kundarak Bank, to the right of the Tharashk Arena quest entrance
 * House Phiarlan - Next to the entrance of the Bogwater Tavern
 * The Harbor - Next to the Auctioneer
 * The Marketplace - Northern part between the entrances to House Deneith and House Jorasco
 * The Twelve - Next to the Wagon Camp

Airship Beacon


An Airship Beacon is a purchasable item from the DDO Store allowing you to open a portal (except from within Raid Dungeons) for you and others to go to your Guild Airship. Non-Guild Members can be sent an invite so they can partake of your Guild Airship amenities.

Airships
The higher the Guild Level, the more types of airship are available; see the Guilds page for information. The Airship Showroom is in The Harbor next to the Auctioneer and the Airship Tower.

''* Stormglory Tempest and Windspyre Gryphon airships advertise as having a different number of hook-points than they actual do. Listed are actual hook-points.''


 * AS stands for Astral Shards. Available from the DDO Store, as low as 5.59 Turbine Points per Astral Shard (when purchased 500 AS at a time). In very rare cases, these also drop as loot.
 * Previous to Update 16 Patch 1, airship prices were in Astral Diamonds. When Astral Shards were introduced, airship prices were changed into Astral Shards by multiplying the AD price by 5 (the conversion factor between AD and AS). This kept airship prices technically the same; however, airships became more expensive per TP because the largest Astral Shard pack is more expensive per unit than the no longer available largest Astral Diamond pack.
 * You must progress from light ship &rArr; medium ship &rArr; heavy ship; pp costs here are the upgrade price from the ship one size smaller.
 * Airships are paid for one-time-only for each ship, vs. amenities and crew that are rented (that is, amenities and crew disappear after a set number of days and must be repurchased). The vendors in the Airship Showroom offer a deposit system where every member of a Guild can deposit platinum or Astral Shards for their Guild towards acquiring or upgrading an Airship.
 * Platinum can be deposited at the Windspyre Airship Vendor in amounts of 500, 2500, 10000, 25000, 100000, or 500000. Astral Shards can be deposited at Stormglory Luxury Airship Vendor in amounts of 25, 50, 125, 500, 1250, or 5000.

Airship Amenities



 * Talk to the First Mate of your Airship to toggle whether Hook-points are visible. Once Hook-points are visible, click any Hook-point to open the store for contracts for that type of Hook-point.
 * Amenities are rented. The below costs are for adding three (most non-TP initial installations), seven (most re-ups and TP initial installations), or 30 days (chests) to a rental contract.
 * All airship buffs last 1 hour and are persistent through everything except death.
 * TP prices updated from live server DDO Store 17 June 2011. Plat prices still from Lamannia test server).

Airship Crew


Airships can be populated by various crew members, the amount of crew members it can employ is based on the size of the Airship itself. You will need to talk to the First Mate of your Airship to be able to turn on viewing the Hook-points. Notes:
 * Crew are rented. The below costs are for adding 3 (non-TP initial installations) or 6 (re-ups and TP initial installations) days to a rental contract.
 * TP prices updated from live server DDO Store 28 June 2010. Plat prices still from Lamannia test server (since no one from the live server has verified the prices).
 * Most bonuses to spell DCs are internally typed as enhancements bonuses, thus do not stack with common spell focus items. The one exception is the Phiarlan Entertainer's bonuses which are typed as morale bonuses, they stack with items, but not with a spellsinger's Spellsong Trance.
 * All airship buffs last 1 hour and are persistent through everything except death.

Airship Customization
Some parts of the airship can be recolored using dyes from the DDO Store. They are permanent until a new dye is used. They can only be applied by Guild Officers and Guild Leaders. To apply, stand on your airship and use the dye.

PLEASE NOTE - currently the following items / upgrades will disappear if ship applied to is upgraded


 * Some items are not on the live server yet. Prices may change.