Big Fish and You - Patch 2.3

[Nyalia]

Hmm, does anyone know if the Big Fish have arbitrary gathering requirements set per fish, or if there are set tiers of fish? Like, Frilled Shark and Aetherlouse are the same tier, both requiring 383 Gathering, and Shark Tuna and Twitchbeard are also the same tier which requires only 348 gathering? If that's true, it'll be much easier to figure out the hard gathering requirements.

[Wulfgang]

Hmm, does anyone know if the Big Fish have arbitrary gathering requirements set per fish, or if there are set tiers of fish? Like, Frilled Shark and Aetherlouse are the same tier, both requiring 383 Gathering, and Shark Tuna and Twitchbeard are also the same tier which requires only 348 gathering? If that's true, it'll be much easier to figure out the hard gathering requirements.

I lean towards the tiered school of thought and it has generally worked for me.

Possible longshot, but there may be a way to formulaically interpolate the minimum gathering requirement based on the delta in the desynth percentages associated with fish with known gathering requirements. For example, compare the desynth % success (use a fixed desynth level) for a 383G Frilled Shark (i80) to a 348G Sylphsbane (i80). That said, if two i80 348G fish have different % success rates at the same desynth level, this theory is shot.

[Torquere]

I lean towards the tiered school of thought and it has generally worked for me.

Possible longshot, but there may be a way to formulaically interpolate the minimum gathering requirement based on the delta in the desynth percentages associated with fish with known gathering requirements. For example, compare the desynth % success (use a fixed desynth level) for a 383G Frilled Shark (i80) to a 348G Sylphsbane (i80). That said, if two i80 348G fish have different % success rates at the same desynth level, this theory is shot.

It's been my experience that all 2.3 fish use the exact same Desynth rate. I could be wrong, but I haven't seen any difference between one and the other. On the other hand, it has been proven that some 2.3 fish need different Gathering rates, Aetherlouse and Frilled shark being the two most noticeable.