Magic Bucket = Pure of RNG?

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Originally Posted by luckystrikes

Took me about 130 casts with brute leeches to land my bucket. I already get compliments on the minion from people. I'm glad that is untradeable/unsellable...its a nice tip of the hat to those who leveled their fisher to 60.

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and a punch in the face for all the fishers who actually play the class and want something to make money with. and then it is not even a real reward, like i said, it takes no effort and everyone can get it within a few hours. it would have been the perfect reward for the new big fish achievement...

even the Assassin Fry is harder to get...

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Originally Posted by Tint

and a punch in the face for all the fishers who actually play the class and want something to make money with. and then it is not even a real reward, like i said, it takes no effort and everyone can get it within a few hours. it would have been the perfect reward for the new big fish achievement...

even the Assassin Fry is harder to get...

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Why would it need to be hard to get?
The number of Lv60 Fishers is already quite low compared to other classes, so I don't mind having a little reward just for the sake of it.

Besides, I actually had someone asking me questions about that minion in private, mostly how to get it and if it was hard to obtain or not... and after answering these questions, that person seemed motivated to level up its Fisher class. If this reward was harder to get, maybe that person would've gave up.

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Originally Posted by Tint

and a punch in the face for all the fishers who actually play the class and want something to make money with. and then it is not even a real reward, like i said, it takes no effort and everyone can get it within a few hours. it would have been the perfect reward for the new big fish achievement...

even the Assassin Fry is harder to get...

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I know right? That place is THICK with all those lvl 1 fishers and their weathered rods.

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Originally Posted by Fyce

Why would it need to be hard to get?
The number of Lv60 Fishers is already quite low compared to other classes, so I don't mind having a little reward just for the sake of it.

Besides, I actually had someone asking me questions about that minion in private, mostly how to get it and if it was hard to obtain or not... and after answering these questions, that person seemed motivated to level up its Fisher class. If this reward was harder to get, maybe that person would've gave up.

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the thing is: since 3.0 there is not one single usefull fish where you need some good gear or... skill is not the word, let's say patience for xD
so, a fisher has invested millions in his gear at the launch of 3.0, to get all the 170 stuff and materia, lvled the desynthesis to maximum, got all the folklore books - in the end he spent many time and gil to be on top of all the other, say casual fishers. but you can't do anything with it. the fisher spent the time and gil for nothing. No usefull crafting recipes wich needs high lvl fish, no new awesome stuff drom desynthesis - nothing.

sooo, now compare this to the crafting classes. a crafter who invested a lot of time and millions of gil in his gear expect to get some new recipes wich are hard to make too. let's say he has invested in a i190 set right now. what do you think would happen when square decies: nah, it's unfair for all those casual crafters to make the new recipes that hard, let's just implement more 1 and 2 star recipes and nothing else.

sure, a crafter is harder and more expensive to gear, but this exactly happens with the fisher. retribution staff? magic bucket? aethersands? ... you don't need any good gear or folklore books or high desynthesis for that... so... for what have i invested all the work and time?

normally i would invest time and work in the new i190 gear, but i don't see the point. motivate new people to become a fisher is one thing. but square should not forget the people who are already fishers...

got mine the other day on my 3rd trip, think I casted more than 150 times to land the Minion, gave my spare brute leeches to my hubby and he caught his in about 45 casts so very lucky :D

I'm sorry OP but this is not hard to catch... it just take patience...

it's a straight catch with no time or weather restrictions ( this is the definition of easy when it comes to fishing )..

I caught it in about 400-500 casts, don't remember exactly. Just keep truckin'

Alsoooo Tint!!!! I couldn't agree MORE I wish it was harder to get. Something worthy of real fishers!!! You barely need any gathering at all. Come on SE where is the love for fishers? Any tom dick and harry with a fishing pole can catch this thing.

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Originally Posted by Fyce

Why would it need to be hard to get?
The number of Lv60 Fishers is already quite low compared to other classes, so I don't mind having a little reward just for the sake of it.

Besides, I actually had someone asking me questions about that minion in private, mostly how to get it and if it was hard to obtain or not... and after answering these questions, that person seemed motivated to level up its Fisher class. If this reward was harder to get, maybe that person would've gave up.

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The amount of gathering needed to catch it, you don't need to be level 60. It's pretty damn low. Meaning you need to have invested almost no time in fishing. It's incredibly easy with the script system to get any of the crafting/gathering jobs to 60.

I think real level 60 fishers do deserve something that is exclusive to them considering SE has made everything we catch pretty useless.. no desynth rewards that are notable, not much that is crafted with ( a few things here and there ). Nothing like botany and mining whose spoils yield rewards in almost every direction

I got it after 88 casts on the very last remaining bait. Praise be to RNGesus.

I got mine after just 7 leeches/casts and I had only around 470-480 perception so sounds like your just having bad luck.

I'm still having no luck. Do I need the folklore tome or something? I'm 592 Gathering/ 473 Perception but I've read people with lower getting it. I'm several hundred leeches in and keep getting "the fish gets away" notices.