Fishing

[cdgreg]

People should stop saying you don't need Mooching for Matsya, while it's technically true at 110+9 skill I can almost never get them all the way down even on a perfect reel. (And when I do my line breaks every time, but that's just my luck.)

Your ability to reel in a fish (without a bot) depends more on the platform you are using than your personal ability to click left or right. You are as equally wrong/right to say you do need mooching, as they are to say they do not.

[Corkadile]

Trying less legitimate methods to see if I was simply terrible was still 50/50 on time.

[cdgreg]

Trying less legitimate methods to see if I was simply terrible was still 50/50 on time.

I believe this aligns directly with what I said above. It has nothing to do with your ability to click left or right, it is the platform (read PC) you are playing on. This is not a new revelation, it is why SE has been unsuccessfully trying for years to level PC fishermen with PS2 fishermen in terms of ability to reel in fish. The reason I included (without a bot) in my previous reply is because a bot allows you to kill the fish at whatever % you determine is the threshold for your PC to nearly run out of time even with perfect left/right clicking. Flashing back to 2008 I used to fish Lik on a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop that ran at the speed of a TI-83 calculator because I could not reel in shit on my super-cool AMD dual-core 2.40 ghz processor with 4 gb of ram.

[Corkadile]

Ah, I see. Well... I guess I'm largely boned then. That enormously demotivating.

[nibu]

SE introduced the FPS cap during the fishing minigame to adjust for the PS2-PC difficulty gap. My impression was that this helped.

[dasva]

SE introduced the FPS cap during the fishing minigame to adjust for the PS2-PC difficulty gap. My impression was that this helped.

It does. It pretty much eliminates the differences. Takes me down from the 29-30 fps I normal run down to 15 which is even lower than my comp from 2003 runs normally

[Rikaa]

I just got my fishing to 100 I'm trying to catch armored pisces but they are barely biting. I got like 2 in the past hour or so. I'm using a Lu Shang's and a sinking minnow.

[dasva]

Welcome to high lvl fishing lol

[Switchorz]

For AP I used a Minnow.

[Kamil]

Do I need the KI to turn in the Tiger Shark for Expert? Can I have someone fish it for me, then I turn it in for myself?

[nibu]

Do I need the KI to turn in the Tiger Shark for Expert? Can I have someone fish it for me, then I turn it in for myself?

The latter. It's just like any other rank fish that you could fish yourself, buy from AH, etc.

[Uselessaccount2]

So you could turn in the fish without having her tell you what fish you need? If I remember correctly, she doesn't even tell you about the Tiger Shark until you get the KI.

[Guitarman]

Yes you need the KI to get the rank up.

[Julian]

60 pugils
1 matsya

why do I even bother anymore?

[vagus]

60 pugils
1 matsya

why do I even bother anymore?

This is why the fish should be a minimum of 500K. Sadly we have idiots on Odin that will undercut.

[Uselessaccount2]

This is why the fish should be a minimum of 500K. Sadly we have idiots on Odin that will undercut.

Add Phoenix to that list.

[dasva]

Whoa that's really bad luck though. Were you keeping monsters up?

[solkanar]

60 pugils
1 matsya

why do I even bother anymore?

Had a similar run a couple days ago, 134 for 4 which ultimately put me at 0/108 on shawl. Every day I fish Cherax and Matsya I wonder why I do it, yet I keep doing it...

[cdgreg]

60 pugils
1 matsya

why do I even bother anymore?

Because minnows are such a nightmare to come by you have little to no other choice.

[Julian]

Because minnows are such a nightmare to come by you have little to no other choice.

My other choice is to just not fish, and just level my subcrafts from 60>70 and be done with it already! :/

I don't keep monsters up because I'm lazy as fuck, and I gave up on doing that after my first 40-50 matsyas or so. I usually went with like 40~60 bait anyway so it felt like too much effort to save on 5-10ish baits by the time I fished them all up.