Fishing

[Wakabo]

Before I fish Talacca cove, should I be prepared and come a higher level job with chance to fish up monsters? Or am I safe to lfp and /blm on lower levels?

[Zetanio]

New info:

King Perch and one of the other new fish can be caught with Minnows and Meatballs. All fish caught with Ebisu/Lu Shang. Double checking other fish's name.

[Fievel]

Before I fish Talacca cove, should I be prepared and come a higher level job with chance to fish up monsters? Or am I safe to lfp and /blm on lower levels?

Lower levels is fine, you'll know if its a mob.

[Wakabo]

Is it just me or do other fishers fish WAY too much and eat their storage space. I have 40 slots alone taken up by fish shit sucks. I try to spam bone crafters to buy it too but only a few have taken me up on my cheap cheap offers.

[Wintermute]

Is it just me or do other fishers fish WAY too much and eat their storage space. I have 40 slots alone taken up by fish shit sucks. I try to spam bone crafters to buy it too but only a few have taken me up on my cheap cheap offers.

I've got a mule pretty much packed with nothing but Fish. If I try to sell them they just sit on the AH because I always list shit right before the price bombs and the only person I know with BC lives in a different time-zone so I can't exactly get a hold of them to synth shit to NPC or AH.

[Wakabo]

I don't have a mule sadly -.- I know I need to get one.. but I'm inches away from npc'ing it all just because of the new af3 shit taking up space. I know they will make the items stack-able next update for sure but for now it's hell.

[nibu]

JP wiki has added Grimmonite and Rhinochimera as tradable. Unknown what drops from grimmonite, rhinochimera drops Solon Torque.

[Wintermute]

Bloody Inlet. I've got half a stack of Trumpet Shells and I can't fish up another 6 to save my life, every day there's a new batch of fishers on the bridges and I can't seem to get anything but crap.

Need to finish the stack so I can go someplace else and target a different fish.

[Wakabo]

How many people are fishing there? there is NONE where I fish, but they could be on other bridges. But why go far from the OP warp?

[Wintermute]

I usually go straight from the port and head left to the bridge but lately there's been about 7 people clustered there fishing. Last few times I went to the bridge past the Goblins/Tigers and fishers have started showing up there too.

Sneaking suspicion it's the same 7 or 8 people I saw clustered in Nashmau last week.

[Wintermute]

At the risk of sounding like a colossal retard:

Are skillups in Fishing entirely random or does fishing closer to your current level improve them?
Some guides seem to mention that fishing within 15 levels of your current skill should improve the rate of skillup but when I was near to capping on Shalls my rate was pretty poor.

I'd like to skill faster since it'll speed up fishing in general but if it's all luck of the draw I'd rather try my hand at Black Sole/Dil and build a surplus so I can make Sushi later on down the road after I've levelled my cooking a bit more.

[Wakabo]

I've noticed better skill up's as I get closer to the fishes level. I'd stick with that.

I tried black sole for a bit, no go. Only got a few every so often and wasn't worth it at 50~ some skill.

Just dinged 60 fishing myself o;

[Zetanio]

At the risk of sounding like a colossal retard:

Are skillups in Fishing entirely random or does fishing closer to your current level improve them?
Some guides seem to mention that fishing within 15 levels of your current skill should improve the rate of skillup but when I was near to capping on Shalls my rate was pretty poor.

I'd like to skill faster since it'll speed up fishing in general but if it's all luck of the draw I'd rather try my hand at Black Sole/Dil and build a surplus so I can make Sushi later on down the road after I've leveled my cooking a bit more.

I've been skillling on Cone Calamary, Bluetail and Gigant Squid with my fishing at 17. (It's now 26) I haven't really noticed a difference except higher level fish are obviously harder to bring in. A good skillling idea is to catch fish using a rod that is too big. Comp Rod + Minnow ensures that while I can reel in all Cone's and Bluetail and receive skill ups, I rarely actually bring the fish in which let's me catch wayyy more then the 200 cap.

[Fievel]

Two character taken from 0 to 100 fishing I noticed better skill ups when the fish I was catching was within ~6 levels of me. Could get skill ups on fish much higher but they weren't as common.

[Zetanio]

Two character taken from 0 to 100 fishing I noticed better skill ups when the fish I was catching was within ~6 levels of me. Could get skill ups on fish much higher but they weren't as common.

Take this advice. My data range is much smaller :D

[Fievel]

Best way to skill up - get two Pelican Rings 3 seperate skill ups on one fish is hot shit.

[Wintermute]

Best way to skill up - get two Pelican Rings 3 seperate skill ups on one fish is hot shit.

My current Pelican is a Rusty Bullshit magnet.
Every time I use it I either catch items or nothing at all.

Will try fishing up stuff closer to my level later on see if that helps. Cheers all.

[Sho]

Aizenkunitoshi, any knowledge of the latent on this yet?

I'll try and fish one up soon this weekend and test the latent on my NIN if I can get one.

[Zetanio]

Goddamnit. I've been fishing for 3 weeks to make enough gil to buy Lu Shang's because the AH price is so much lower then the moat carp costs. There have been 2 listed for the ENTIRE time I've been fishing for gil. I finally got up to about 2.4 million gil and BOOM.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pidlushang.png

[Wintermute]

Hah. First Marlin I ever trade in and I get a Pirate's Chart.

Nice change after a skillup drought.