Big Fish and You - Patch 2.4 (speculation (or is it? :))

[Garlyle]

New big fish, with new conditions for big fish (oh god ahhh)

There's a new i80(?) rod, the Ironworks rod, which doesn't appear to show in any of the new craft lists unless I missed it, so is likely quest based like every other rod upgrade.

There's also new i60 slots for... body, hands, pants, and legs? They're crafted, so they'll probably want materia attached. ...oh and their recipes each use a mastercraft demimateria (although that might be much easier to get now that a crapload more stuff can be desynthed)

At least it seems that head and all accessories remain BiS, but oh god here comes the wallet pain again.

[Huckster]

Go Big or Go Home VIII Catch 94 different varieties of big fish.
Go Big or Go Home IX Catch 100 different varieties of big fish.
Go Big or Go Home X Catch 106 different varieties of big fish.

New fish, including big fish, have been added to the 21 fishing holes available to fishers between levels 35 and 50.
Fish that appear only in certain combinations of weather conditions have been added.
E.g. Breeds of fish that only appear in rainy storms that directly follow sunny spells.

Fish that only appear based on your previous catches have been added.
E.g. Breeds of fish that only appear after five of their natural predator have been caught.

Two new fishing holes have been added in Eastern La Noscea.

The following changes have been made to open world areas:
Players can now board the Rhotano privateer, a large fishing vessel off the coast of Costa del Sol in Eastern La Noscea.

[LlenCoram]

Is anyone else annoyed that they're adding yet another new rod? I only JUST got the Halcyon Supra and it's already being made obsolete, and I bet any money that the new rod will be even more removed from actual fishing as the Supra was.

The luminary rod in 1.0 needed over 26,000 fish to catch. I caught every single one and earned that rod.
The forager's rod needed those damned silver sovereigns. 34.5 hours later I'd caught them and earned that rod.
The halcyon supra needed 3 olgois. No problem, caught. It also needed between 2 and 5 million gil worth of stuff that has nothing to do with fishing. That pissed me off.

I bet 100,000 gil that the new rod won't require a single goddamn fish. It'll just be another situation of us needing to throw as much money as possible at it. And in three months, we can all look forward to having to do it again.

Nevermind how annoyed I am that the "new" big fish look to be, once again, pure RNG. Whatever happened to actually using your skill to catch fish?

Hey Yoshi-P, I seem to recall you saying that this new fishing of yours was supposed to be "non stressful." But hey, you know what? Having only 6 real life minutes to catch a fish that double mooches in a spot with a couple of interrupters and only bites during three types of weather is really stressful.

[Huckster]

Imperial Goldfish Seafood A king among goldfish.
The Old Man in the Sea Seafood A king among Mazlaya marlin.
Nepto Dragon Seafood Believed by Eorzean fisherfolk to be the spawn of Thalaos─legendary creator of seas. It is, however, more likely to be no more than an overgrown little Thalaos.
Coelacanthus Seafood A king among coelacanths.
Endoceras Seafood An ancient sea-dweller with a body like a lance and a temper like the Fury's. Only few have ever seen this living legend, let alone landed one.
Seahag Seafood A queen among dinichthys.
Ignus Horn Seafood A king among ignus snails.
Void Bass Seafood A king among Ilsabardian bass.
Cornelia Seafood A champion among boxing plecos.
Ninja Betta Seafood A king among assassin betta.
Canavan Seafood A king among morinabaligi.
Kuno the Killer Seafood A legendary white catfish rarely seen by even the eldest of fisherfolk.
Pirate's Bane Seafood A king among titanic saws.

[Huckster]

Ndendecki Seafood A king among soft-shelled snapping turtles.
Bat-o'-Nine-Tails Seafood A king among vampire lamperns.
Wootz Knifefish Zenith Seafood A king among wootz knifefish.
Helicoprion Seafood A legendary denizen of the sands, the helicoprion's maw is lined with long curved teeth that help it latch onto its airborne prey.
Darkstar Seafood A king among angry pike.
Blue Corpse Seafood A king among wandering sculpin.
Mahar Seafood A king among rhamphorhynchus.
Shonisaurus Seafood Within this legendary scalekin's body can be found a massive secondary bladder containing lighter-than-air gas.
Magicked Mushroom Seafood A king among mushroom crabs.
Giant Takitaro Seafood A king among takitaro.
Namitaro Seafood This legendary freshwater fish cares not for those kings or queens who encroach upon his territory, and will turn to regicide to keep his waters his own.
Blood-red Bonytongue Seafood A king among bonytongue.

[ServerCollaps]

There's a new i80(?) rod,

ya, the rod is ilvl 80 and the only ilvl 80 tool ingame, every other cls get ilvl 70 off hands...

so mastercraft demi will skyrocket..
I cant see any new sourche of them, except the new gear which also requires them...

I wonder if it will be possible to catch the 2.3 fish with 400+ gathering without failures..

[Huckster]

Pirate's Bane Seafood A king among titanic saws.

[Garlyle]

so mastercraft demi will skyrocket..
I cant see any new sourche of them, except the new gear which also requires them...

There's a huge list of gear in the patchnotes that will now be Desynthable, like the former Myth gear and I think even unweathered? Point being, out of the craploads of new things desynthable I suspect at least some of them will be discovered to be able to drop mastercraft, much like how a cheap source of Fieldcraft III was discovered in 2.38, I think it was.

As far as rods go, it was sort of to be expected. I'd be down for skipping the Supra, but I have a feeling whatever's required for the Ironworks rod isn't necessarily going to be any less absurd. (in before Halcyon Rod Zenith i90 in 2.5 that has to upgrade from the Supra)

On another note, it appears there's furnishings made using certain fish now (Megalodon and a couple others). Interesting.

Pirate's Bane Seafood A king among titanic saws.

oh god no

[runez]

There is a report that the Japanese notes say

Go Big or Go Home X - Item: Ironworks Fishing Rod

Probably means Supra or Gathering FC buff are required + all new gear fully melded for some of the new fish. This is going to get really expensive fast.

[Huckster]

OK - check out the 1st post - I've updated the hypothetical list with the real data - some of it of course is missing but some can be 100% guesses. Can you help me discover the missing ones and match them with locations? Theories?