This is true for all leve quests though. To change it to allow for a mixture of both HQ/NQ would also have to change it for every other turn-in quest.
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Of course. It just wouldn't be hard to implement. Also it hurts a lot more with this quest than anything else.
Edit: Leves with non-stackable turn-ins already do this. You can trade in 1 hq 2 nq of a crafted gear. Easy as pie even to just change this fishing quest to have 3 boxes where you'd put 1 fish each.
it took me about a week of fishing to catch 5 lone ripper
in the end I got 1 sand and 4 fails at 70% success per attempt
that rng :'D
My biggest beef with the 2.3 bigfish (not even 2.2 ones) are the fact that a lot of them only have 2 hour windows. And when I say 2 hours I mean 2 Eorzea hours which is only like 2-3 real time minutes.
Take Twitchbeard for example:
1. Must be mooched with full moon sardine
2. Must be during clear/fair weather
3. Can only be caught between 4am-6AM (at 6am you can no longer catch full moon sardines too mooch it)
So now I basically have to have RNG luck to even get an HQ sardine in those 2 hours, and then hope the sardine actually catches a twitchbeard and not a nautilus. So far, this has not happened. This is not the only fish that has this 2 hour window. Captain's Chalice in Western Lanoscea, Joan of Trout in Upper Lanoscea, Vip Vipper in South Shroud all suffer the same fate.
I can deal with HQ/NQ/desynth rng, I can deal with dumb weather requirements, but this 2 hour window thing needs to go. I end up wasting so many foods because I only need them for about 5 minutes and I have 26 minutes left trying to figure out where I can go to make good use of the rest of the time.
Lol you think that's bad try the Sinker (or what I like to call the STINKER) in South Shroud...
I didn't have issues with Gobfather though, caught it on my first attempt.
That's why I do most of my dedicated fishing time on Sundays. Just don't have enough time during the week to sit down and play weather/time/zone tetris for each fish lol