֨Fishing Guide֨
Hi! Have 1000gil
in your pocket? Want to try investing in fishing? Mina can teach you how to
become a successful Fisherman~ ^^
There are certain
things as a fisher you must understand before starting…
^^ Now mina will
get you started now… Fishing can be very frustrating… Sometimes you get nothing
at all… But rest assured if you are determined… you will be fishing lots o
fishes~ Mina wants you to follow the level categories as not to waste your time
catching nothing >< Mina’s guide is for poor players who have not enough
gil to start… If you have gil to throw, buy a
Composite rod and fish through my guide ^^; There are many alternatives in
gaining skill points depending on your level… The beginning is always tough…
But once you know how things work, the rest is easy!
Sweat
If you catch
something, sweat will appear above your head…
As not to break
your rod, you can see from the sweat to tell whether what you are hooking is
big or small…
If your character
looks panicked, and have lots of big sweat… It is said that the fish/item
hooked is big and have a chance that your rod will break…
Moon Phase
Moon phase will
determine the chance of catching a fish… type [ /clock
] and you will the moon phase percentage…
The best time is
0% - 10% or 90% - 100% … At such timing, you’ll be getting a lot fishes on your
hook! ^^
Guild
Craftsmen of the Fishing Guild
Degong Normality support
Fishing skill rises 1.0 (1 hour). Seawater fishing skill.
Erabu-Fumulubu
Normality support Fishing skill rises 1.0 (1 hour). Freshwater fishing
skill.
Panja-Nanja
Upper-class support Fishing skill rises 2.0 (2 hours). High
level fishing skill.
Level 0-5
Recommended rod: Fastwater F. Rod
Recommended bait: Little Worm
Target fish: Crayfish
Recommended
Locations: Bastok Market/Mines
Port
San’dOria
North
San’dOria
Zeruhn
Mines
Windurst
Woods/Water
Skill cap: 7
You start off
buying Fastwater Rod for about 800gil in the Auction House and some little
worms from NPCs, Babubu in
Your rod has a tendency
to break through rusty items… A stack of crayfish sells for about 800-1000gil
^^
Level 4-7
Recommended rod: Fastwater F. Rod
Recommended bait: Sabiki Rig
Target fish: Bastore Sardine
Recommended
Locations: Kazham
Port
Bastok
Port
Jeuno
Port
Windurst
Mhuara
Selbina
Skill cap: 10
You can purchase
a Sabiki rig from the Auction House for about 2000gil or a few hundred more on
the Steamship at Mhuara/Selbina. Sabiki rig is a lure that will allow you to
catch multiple fishes up to 3. But then of course, only certain fishes respond
to this rig and are mostly saltwater fishes…
Level 5-10
Recommended rod: Carbon Fishing Rod
Recommended bait: Insect Ball
Target fish: Moat Carp
Recommended
Locations: Rabao
Windurst
Woods/Water
Bastok
Markets
Skill cap: 11
Moat carp can be
sold for good money as 4000gil per stack… As soon as you break through the
first few stacks of Moat Carps, you would have enough money to buy a Carbon
Fishing Rod. Mina believes that Carbon Fishing Rod is the most effective rod to
catch Moat Carps though it will break on rusty items. Moat carps are used in
the Quest for Lushuang where you have to turn in 10000 Moat Carps! Moat carp is
the fish for the first promotion test to next fishing rank~
You have to go
Windurst and pass the guild master a Moat carp when you are at least fishing
lv8…
Level 7-12
Recommended rod: Composite Fishing Rod
Recommended bait: Fly lure
Target fish: Copper Frog
Recommended
Locations: Bastok Mines
Skill cap: 11
Around this level
range, it’s quite hard to level up which Mina understands ><
If you can afford
a composite fishing rod at Auction House, it’ll help in your fishing for the
next few fishing ranks…
Fly lures do
attract quite a few big things that will break your rod. Composite Fishing Rods
can withstand such weight and many big fishes, so it won’t break…
Level 8-18
Recommended rod: Composite Fishing Rod
Recommended bait: Sabiki Rig
Target fish: Quus
Recommended
Locations: Kazham
Port
Bastok
Port
Jeuno
Port
Windurst
Mhuara
Selbina
Skill cap: 19
If you noticed,
almost everywhere you fish for Bastore Sardine, you can find Quus too! The answer to progressing towards the next
fishing rank is Quus… Quus
can be easily caught with Sabiki Rig and helps a lot to increase your skill
points! So far Port Windurst is a good place to fish for it… The price of Quus varies a lot as it is used in a popular repeatable
quest in Bastok.
Level 14-23
Recommended rod: Composite Fishing Rod
Recommended bait: Insect Ball
Target fish: Tricolored
Carp
Recommended
Locations: Port San’dOria
North
San’dOria
Bastok
Mines
Zeruhn
Mines
Skill cap: 27
This carp can be
a little hard to catch and sells for 100gil each to NPC. Mina was quite annoyed
with this fish as the returns are not good T_T
Level 18-20
Novice Fishing
At this point of
this it is time for the second test and you will need a Cheval Salmon… I
wouldn’t recommend you to fish for it unless you have a composite rod. You can
buy one at the fisherman guild and no problem; the guild master will still
accept it…
Level 21-28
Recommended rod: Composite Fishing Rod
Recommended bait: Frog Lure
Target fish: Giant Catfish
Recommended
Locations: Port San’dOria
Giddeus
Skill cap: 31
Mina recommends
you to do this fish to level up! This is the best bet around this level range!
A frog lure can be bought in the Auction House for about 4-6k gil… Each Catfish sells about 200gil to NPC and it is rather
easy to catch!
Level 27-35
Recommended rod: Composite Fishing Rod
Recommended bait: Sinking Minnow
Target fish: Ogre Eel / Gold Lobster
/Zafmlug Bass
Recommended
Locations:
Skill cap: 35 / 46 / 48
By now you should
already be quite familiar with the ropes of fishing… Buy one or two Sinking
Minnows as the line may break! Occasionally you may get a Bastore Bream which
sells for almost 2k to NPC, but that is a high level fish.
For this level
range there are no better alternatives than these two locations I recommend.
Level 35-46
Recommended rod: Composite Fishing Rod
Recommended bait: Sabiki Rig
Target fish: Sandfish
Recommended
Locations: Rabao
Skill cap: 50
*Smiles warmly*
Just try using a Sabiki rig there for a few hours… Alternatively, you can use
Insect Ball and you will get lots of Moat Carps too!
Level 37-50
Recommended rod: Composite Fishing Rod
Recommended bait: Crayfish Ball
Target fish: Shall Shell
Recommended
Locations: Valkurm Dunes
Skill cap: 53
Although a rogue
rig can be used to catch these effectively, but Mina lost quite a few Rogue
Rigs on these @-@... Shall shell sells at about 10k per stack~
From this point,
if you really want to continue and hit for high level fishing… You might want
to consider getting Lushuang Fishing Rod~
After mina got
the Lushang Rod, Mina leveled from 50 to 59 on ferry,
using Slice of Bluetails
Then switched to
Meatball for Silver Sharks until 73… Caught a few Legendary Fishes too~
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