Fishing Coral Fragments in SSG

[Seif]

I'm sorry if this thing was already asnwered, but i couldn't find the info i need with search <.<'

Btw the problem is this... I'm skilling up fishing at SSG catching up Breams and Grimmonites, and i have bonecraft 96 with bone purification, so i though i could fish up some corals and craft some RR gorget... ok... i fish there for 3 hours a day, for 4 days straight and only 1 coral!
I tried fishing at the pond under the bridge, but i couldn't catch even a nebimonite, so i moved to the pond behind the Mithril Door, which has the same fish and items, but nothing... just fish and kelp...
So i'm thinking... did SE nerf coral fragments in SSG? <.<'

The final question is: there is still a place where you can fish Corals with a decent catch rate?

Thanks :3

[Omnipotent]

no

[kihre]

I think SE nerfed coral fragments several months ago due to fishbots, but I could be mistaken. Some friends have found chocobo digging alright for coral, though.

http://www.finalfishing.com/ was a good resource for me with fishing when I did it, but i'm sure there are other sites out there as well. good luck!

[Raineer]

It is nerfed badly, there is no longer a free lunch.

[Seif]

Thanks a lot. I will try Digging someday, but i already know when i'll have the right lvl to dig in West Altepa, bum! SE will nerf that place... it's my luck <.<

[Thistle]

Thanks a lot. I will try Digging someday, but i already know when i'll have the right lvl to dig in West Altepa, bum! SE will nerf that place... it's my luck <.<

Good luck with that. With the chocobo nerf (100 items per day) it will take RL years to level up. The lowest levels are okay, but the higher ones?

The nerf happened more than a year ago, maybe going on two years now. At that time, I was an A20 digger (third highest level). In the time since then, I've leveled up once. This is with digging every single day, not skipping a day for illness, vacation, birthday, anything. Heck, I've been digging that way for 3+ years now and I'm still only second highest level (A15).

You can dig in the Deserts at lower levels, of course, but you won't get the top level stuff. And keep in mind that the Deserts are THE most popular zones to dig in, so most of the time you'll be lucky to get anything, let alone the good stuff. (Note: Midgar seems to have more diggers than most other servers, so that might be different for you.)

You can also get coral frags digging in Bubu, but they're really rare there. I get 0-1 per day/100 items (mostly I don't waste my time digging in that zone though).

[Spekkio]

i'd been told that hot and cold gave a significant boost to choco digging skill. any idea if that's true or not?

[evilpaul]

I've fished there many hours gaining a bunch of levels and never caught one. I never saw the level 1 /anon people there pull one up either.

[Thistle]

i'd been told that hot and cold gave a significant boost to choco digging skill. any idea if that's true or not?

I've done Hot & Cold since the day it was introduced. I have a bird trained for it, and I succeed more than I fail. See my above post for how fast I'm skilling up in digging. :/

[Spekkio]

i'd been told that hot and cold gave a significant boost to choco digging skill. any idea if that's true or not?

I've done Hot & Cold since the day it was introduced. I have a bird trained for it, and I succeed more than I fail. See my above post for how fast I'm skilling up in digging. :/

well that sorts that. thanks for answering it for me.

[fndragon]

The nerf happened more than a year ago, maybe going on two years now. At that time, I was an A20 digger (third highest level). In the time since then, I've leveled up once. This is with digging every single day, not skipping a day for illness, vacation, birthday, anything. Heck, I've been digging that way for 3+ years now and I'm still only second highest level (A15).

Strange. I was... A40 when the digging nerf hit. I just hit A15 about a month ago. (which tells you how long it takes these days). I've done hot and cold nearly every day as well.

As far as Coral Frags go, they only pop in W.Altepa, and only if your server has no competition for W. Altepa digging. On Diabolos it's pretty much farmed out all the time, however I love days when I can find *anything* in W.Altepa.

Fishing - Yeah, it's been nerfed pretty badly. Especially with the fatigue system.

[shihei]

Hmm yea I have to agree that digging for coral in the desert was pretty terrible once the LoO nerf hit.
But if you learn the respawn timers on items and you are max level(A10, I was getting A5 in some zones, I think they ninja'd in a new level) like I was, you could still dig up a bunch but take really long doing it. I'd usually end up getting like 5-6 coral before I wanted to go get some O. ores in rolanberry with my last 50 items diggable.

Isn't coral fragments fishable in korrolokola? After the LoO nerf I saw a couple of RMT at the ponds there fishing them up but really shittastic rate. Tried myself and didn't get 1 in over an hour.

[Spekkio]

Hmm yea I have to agree that digging for coral in the desert was pretty terrible once the LoO nerf hit.
But if you learn the respawn timers on items and you are max level(A10, I was getting A5 in some zones, I think they ninja'd in a new level) like I was, you could still dig up a bunch but take really long doing it. I'd usually end up getting like 5-6 coral before I wanted to go get some O. ores in rolanberry with my last 50 items diggable.

Isn't coral fragments fishable in korrolokola? After the LoO nerf I saw a couple of RMT at the ponds there fishing them up but really shittastic rate. Tried myself and didn't get 1 in over an hour.

i think i tried after LoO nerf too and got no bites. i gotta believe it's there b/c RMT used to live there like 3 to a pool. since the goblin bounty hunters are EP to a 14 or so, it doesn't take much for them to be able to camp out there safe and sound again. just as a reminder, jammer leeches are NMs, so if you ever see them there again, you know what to do...