What? Botany hasn't been listed in the wards? Ridill always has some up for sale. Always. It only costs 1~1.2Mil. It sells frequently enough that all the past sales are from September. Does no one do Hamlet defense on your server or something? I remember reading about hamlet right after it came out, and some dude said he ended up with 3 scythes in one day. I've never checked for the gig, but shit if Botany isn't in there, your server just doesn't do Hamlet or something.
Oh, here's one of several OF threads on the spearfishing thing, almost identical to the DoL site. Yes, that's me in there saying that people have told me that it doesn't work, followed immediately by someone that said "Thanks, that worked!"
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...rfishing-nodes