Fsh Level 68 Quest

I'm not sure what to do for this quest. For some reason, like all the other Fsh quests for SB, they give you a fish to fish up (or spear), that you can't normally get if you're not on that quest. The problem is they don't tell you how to get it or even where to actually get it. I'm stuck on this quest because I've used all the available bait at this level for quite some time and haven't gotten a single thing and you're supposed to HQ this fish. I even tried spear fishing in the waters with all three gig heads and nothing. Does anyone know what I'm missing?

Would you be able to share your info for fisher level 65 quest? I thought it was in Isle of Bekko fishing but ive not seen it. Is there a weather condition? Or am I supposed to be spearfishing lol

Sure thing! I just hit 70 (I think first on Gilga xP). It isn't the isle of Bekko. It's literally right next door, Shaol Isle (or w/e). Like a 20 second walk. You have to read the quest text to get that information.

thanks! I did read the quest text but maybe I missed over this... I thought it would be near the npc where you turn in!

Yea, the Fsh quests are super misleading.

Go to the Sunken Junk and spearfish for ichthyosaurs (large gig) with Truth of the Oceans active. As you catch more ichthyosaurs, the game will do some emotes about shadows gathering and intensifying, which will result in a swimming shadows pool forming (similar to an unspoiled botany/mining node). Truth of the Oceans will point you in the direction of that. There you can catch the quest fish. I still used a large gig and that worked fine. I'm not sure if it spawns in random spots, but while the Sunken Junk is at roughly (9, 34), my dafangshi node was at (38, 36).

I finally figured it out.
spear fishing around 11, 35. the sunken Junk

With truth of oceans active
keep catching Ichthyosaur and you will notice a message stating you sense movement in the shadows. keep doing this until the swimming shadows spawns. i managed to get 2 on my first spawn.

I did all of these with the large gig head

edit: i should've refreshed this page before responding lol

Thanks a bunch guys! :D To confirm, you can catch the 70 fsh quest fish via normal fishing using a Bream lure (50 Red Scrips in RR)

I streamed a portion of my attempt at catching the dafangshi fish, so if anyone comes to this thread looking for visual help, here is a link to my YouTube video.

I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I have caught 15 Ichthyosaur and got one message on the shadows forming and then nothing else. I did not see it point me to a direction. What should I have done? That was over 30 minutes ago.

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Originally Posted by Puhlo

I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I have caught 15 Ichthyosaur and got one message on the shadows forming and then nothing else. I did not see it point me to a direction. What should I have done? That was over 30 minutes ago.

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Is it possible that you've deactivated Truth of the Ocean at some point while spearfishing? It needs to be on constantly if you want the shadows to keep forming. Otherwise it should work when you catch Ichtyosauruses.

Also the fishing spot that it spawns glows visibly only on the minimap.

They really should consider letting Veteran's Trade work on more than one fish. :/

I've been at this for almost 2 hours now, yet I keep catching either the Yanxian Prawns or Cherry Salmon. And if you Veteran Trade one, you still get the other, instead of the Ichthyosaur (which, if the number is the same for each forced spawn, you need to catch roughly 10 of them). The one time I got the node to spawn, I caught Doman Bubble Eyes and another fish, and only managed to get 1 HQ Dafangshi (with the Small Gig head). Mildly annoying.

It's also worth noting that if the Swimming Shadows node spawns with a Gathering Yield +1, it doesn't affect the Dafangshi, just the other fish in the node.

Remembering now why I always shelve FSH after a few levels. Sigh.

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

Remembering now why I always shelve FSH after a few levels. Sigh.

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FSH is that thing I wish I could enjoy.

Between the "The fish got away..." when you're wearing gear that SHOULD be good enough (I'm only Lv62 at this point, and wearing full SB gear fishing Lv61 fish in Fringes), the ridiculous requirements for the quests (especially Double-Mooches......sigh), FSH is just not fun IMO.

It should be a relaxing thing where you slowly make progress over time, but they're trying to turn it into this Gamble-against-RNG type thing, where you need to Mooch anything that's worth anything whatsoever, and then on top of that, you need HQ mooches at that! Yes, I know, Patience, Hooksets, etc but then they have those eating so much GP that you need full GP melded gear to even think about trying that...


It seems like Crafting and Gathering both are "gotta max ALL of your gear or you're gonna have a bad time" .... even Pre-Endgame now. I can understand 1-3 Star stuff being like this, but dude, even Pre-Star is like that. Combat isn't anywhere near this hard. You don't need melded Gear to get through a dungeon, you don't even need melded gear for Shinryu or normal Deltascape.

Why do you need melded gear to do nigh-anything in DoH/DoL? Why are you forced to wear HQs and have melded gear to get anywhere, even pre-endgame?

It's just kind of ridiculous. I just wanna throw my line out and enjoy some relaxing fishing. But no, I won't get anything unless I've spent hours grinding my eyeballs out or blowing half of my money on ultra-expensive gear and melds before I can do that fishing.

There's a reason I stopped on class quests in HW. You are pretty much required to BUY the fish they want (which is why I assume they switched to Quest-Caught-Only fish that can't be bought).

But SE seems to fail to understand why people were buying the quest fish before in HW, because the fish were simply too annoying to catch otherwise unless you were wearing endgame melded gear. And even then, stuff like Black Magefish are STILL annoying (which is why they are 50k+ for 1 NQ in the MB).

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Originally Posted by HyoMinPark

They really should consider letting Veteran's Trade work on more than one fish. :/

I've been at this for almost 2 hours now, yet I keep catching either the Yanxian Prawns or Cherry Salmon. And if you Veteran Trade one, you still get the other, instead of the Ichthyosaur (which, if the number is the same for each forced spawn, you need to catch roughly 10 of them). The one time I got the node to spawn, I caught Doman Bubble Eyes and another fish, and only managed to get 1 HQ Dafangshi (with the Small Gig head). Mildly annoying.

It's also worth noting that if the Swimming Shadows node spawns with a Gathering Yield +1, it doesn't affect the Dafangshi, just the other fish in the node.

Remembering now why I always shelve FSH after a few levels. Sigh.

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Are you only using a small gig head for the whole thing? If so switch to a large one. I did this quest in literally 3 nodes. First node I caught 1 Ichthyosaur, Second Node had increases Yield +2 so I Veteran Traded Yanxian Prawns and used the extra gathering attempt skill. 3/4 of my remaining spears caught them giving me 9 and spawning the Swimming Shadows. I continued to use a large gig head and caught 100% HQ Dafangshi from the Swimming Shadows giving me 5 of them and finishing the quest.

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Originally Posted by Dement

Are you only using a small gig head for the whole thing? If so switch to a large one. I did this quest in literally 3 nodes. First node I caught 1 Ichthyosaur, Second Node had increases Yield +2 so I Veteran Traded Yanxian Prawns and used the extra gathering attempt skill. 3/4 of my remaining spears caught them giving me 9 and spawning the Swimming Shadows. I continued to use a large gig head and caught 100% HQ Dafangshi from the Swimming Shadows giving me 5 of them and finishing the quest.

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You got lucky. It took me an hour to get all the Ichthyosaurs because of the same thing this poster described (yes I was using large gig) and then I just barely got the three HQ Dafangshi because that eel kept wanting to come up instead.

How would anyone fucking know to do this!?

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Originally Posted by Talshara_Blade

How would anyone fucking know to do this!?

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By finding it on the internet, of course, because we can't possibly expect the game to explain any of this.

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Originally Posted by TaleraRistain

By finding it on the internet, of course, because we can't possibly expect the game to explain any of this.

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Really makes you wonder about the people who find it first.

It only took me 6 fish to get it to spawn. And I pulled 5 HQ.