Fishing

[urat]

Decided to go through and see just how many useless fish there are out there, check it out guys:

Gurnard: skill cap 26 (Only use is to be eaten by mithras)

Lungfish: skill cap 31 (Helluva GP fish though so semi useful I guess?)

Yayinbaligi: skill cap 31 (completely useless, eastern version of catfish)

Veydal Wrasse: skill cap 52 (you can trade it to the apkullas! :D)

Kilicbaligi: skill cap 51 (eastern marlin)

Garpike: skill cap 83

Megalodon: skill cap 87

Pirarucu: skill cap 89

Turnabaligi: skill cap 98

Abaia: skill cap 100

Gerrothorax: skill cap 100

Matsya(?): 100 of course, might be useful to npc sell for 25K...I guess >_>;

Molo Mola: skill cap 100 (okay we know this guy isnt useless, he makes an awesome bazaar trophy :3)

and of course, everyone's favourite:

Tricorn: skill cap 100, the must useless retarded overkill fish of them all. Wtf is this thing even? looks like a mutated horse D:

So SE what exactly is up with all these completely useless fish? Whats the point of having such an awesome fishing system when only 10 of your hundred fish are even useful?

Also, wth can we eat legendasry fish but the game wont let us? This has always bugged me. You have lik, gugra, etc, coded as a food, but when we try and eat em, even as a mithra, it wont let us D:

Is there a way to eat these fish? At first I just thought yo uwere lazy and coded em that way to be eaten somehow later, but even your very recent fish like matsya and megelodon are like this as well...

Just another case of cardian cards? D:

[cdgreg]

In somewhat regards to Urat's post, I recently compiled a list of all the legendaries and a few other rare, huge, high level fish. Look it over quick and let me know if I missed anything. It's a secret why I compiled it!

Abaia
Armored Pisces
Ca Cuong
Cave Cherax
Gerrothorax
Giant Chirai
Gugrusaurus
Kalkanbaligi
Lik
Matsya
Megalodon
Mola Mola
Ryugu Titan
Sea Zombie
Takitaro
Titanic Sawfish
Titanictus
Tricorn

[urat]

Zaldon?

Thats what I'm getting from that list, I dunno O.o

[Windfoxster]

Gonna try to catch mola mola myself after i dinged 100, is it extremely hard, in terms of biterate/success rate? Same for matysa too.

[Anomander]

In response to the lack of skill, I have gotten it once on Lik and maybe 17 total times on Gugs? Out of hundreds of catches. (The Lik one came as a big shock, having never seen it happen on them before.) I have 100+5 fishing skill.
On ebisu fish with an ebisu, its extremely uncommon.

All of the above was done post update. I received my opal silk and turned in my mats for ebisu the night before it was announced the next patch would buff ebisu. Pretty ridiculous waking up to that lol.

[urat]

I made a solid attempt at mola mola over about 4 boat trips with sliced bluetail, kept catching kilicabaligis (marlins) and never got a hook.

I dunno if they just have terrible bite rate or need a better bait =/

[*Blaize*]

If you were trying on the boat to Nash, I'm pretty sure they don't bite there.

I caught one with Lu/Minnow (and it's now sitting in my bazaar :>) on the boat from Whitegate to Mhaura, they're pretty easy to drain but they have a retarded amount of stamina, think I pulled mine up with a second or 2 to spare. (was lv43 at the time)

[cdgreg]

Is fishing advanced (paid) support +2 or +3? I know it's pretty impossible to figure out now adays, but hoping an old-timer who's been fishing since before the change can hopefully say for sure.

[urat]

Isn't there speculation that the three different fishers will each give you different supports for different fish types or something? I recall reading that a long time ago, based on the fact that each one would always recommend fish from a set type: saltwater/freshwater/somethingelse or something?

Anyone recall reading this somewhere? @_@

[Ethan]

In the starting fishing thread, Urat said to fish for money and buy your Lu Shang's rod. Does the Testimonial Key item accomplish anything at all?

[urat]

There's a little speculation, but there's no way to confirm if it does anything.

[cdgreg]

Isn't there speculation that the three different fishers will each give you different supports for different fish types or something? I recall reading that a long time ago, based on the fact that each one would always recommend fish from a set type: saltwater/freshwater/somethingelse or something?

Anyone recall reading this somewhere? @_@

You're going voodoo on me again urat! There's only 2 npcs who offer advanced support correct? Windy + Whitegate

[urat]

No not the advanced support, the normal support. =P

I think it was on the fishing discussion page on otherwiki, lemme try and find where it was said, hold on

[cdgreg]

Ahh, well I'm looking more for hardcore data on the paid/advanced support, whether it's +2 or +3.

[Albender]

Now that you guys discuss on Mola Mola, I guess nobody got good feedback on what bait to use...

I may give it a try later with Sliced Cod.

Cheers

[*Blaize*]

I used Lu/Minnow (as I said in the post 5-6 above yours) on the Whitegate <-> Mhaura ferry.

[Sarial]

Looking for Nebimonites. I'm in SSG. Where the fuck do I fish? I keep getting Norg Shells and kelp and shit. Should I expect to be like 1/40 on Nebs? Don't think so . . .

[Dowzer]

lol Sorry, I should have mentioned those, it sounds like you're at the right pond. The spot in SSG is under the bridge near the gold and mythril doors. Although I didn't have that much trouble so maybe you're at the wrong spot, even without Lu's 1/40 is ridiculous...

[Sarial]

I haven't even had a Nebimonite on my rod. Wiki says you can't get Nebs at that because it's a pond. I went 0/8 on anything there, with "nothing on my line" before I changed places.

[nibu]

Don't fish directly under the bridge. That one particular spot is a dead-zone, which prevents lvl 1 RMT from fishing there without getting aggro. Fish at that pond, but just not immediately under the bridge where you can't get aggro normally.