Olgoi-Khorkhoi Help

[Sartori]

Well I did finally catch one yesterday, so that gives me a little more hope now anyway....

[Dillia]

The secret is to hate the fish enough that it lets you catch it out of spite. I caught my first Olgoi one day, and then nothing for the next three days. I filled my FC chat with profanity, then instantly caught two in a row.

"Hate... ...hate... ...HATE!!" -Kefka Palazzo

[Nyalia]

Leeches are best, hands down. You actually only need 348 gathering for these. Without the FC buff, you are required to get at least two pieces of the Forager's set if you skip the Forager's rod - the vest and wristguards. With just those two, and everything fully melded (with i70 right side), you can meet the 348 requirements. The FC buff makes it even easier. Here's one set of gear that works. Note you can use HQ Trapper's Quiche instead of HQ Tomato Pie - either work. There's no need to waste Spinach Quiche on this fish.

As a note, without the two Forager's pieces, HQ Spinach Quiche doesn't get you high enough. Even with just the vest, HQ Spinach Quiche only gets you to 347, one too low. However, with the FC buff, you can forego the Forager's gear and use HQ Spinach Quiche to just barely get enough to get you there.

And yeah - RNG is king with this fish. Having a little more gathering won't help. The worst with this fish is when you catch an HQ one. You need 3 fish for the quest, and they all have to be the same quality. 3 NQ or 3 HQ. If you catch 2 NQ and 2 HQ, you're SoL and need to get a fifth.

[Highwilds]

You need 3 fish for the quest, and they all have to be the same quality. 3 NQ or 3 HQ. If you catch 2 NQ and 2 HQ, you're SoL and need to get a fifth.

You actually need only 2 HQ fish. So 4 max instead of 5! Haha.

[Nyalia]

You actually need only 2 HQ fish. So 4 max instead of 5! Haha.

Oh! Right, they changed that! Sorry, I forgot. At release, you needed 3. Unless I'm crazy and misremembering.

[Shadygrove]

Oh! Right, they changed that! Sorry, I forgot. At release, you needed 3. Unless I'm crazy and misremembering.

At release IIRC you needed 3 HQ....

[Alx789]

Talan knows how much hq he needs )

[Squand]

Having a little more gathering won't help.

Can you link to a source on that? My understanding was that it worked similar to MIN & BTN. You need X gathering to be able to see it, then each 3-10 gathering added you got 1% higher chance of connecting until you reached 95% at which point it caps without skill buffs.

My understanding was, the higher the Gathering, the less Fish Got Away, you would receive.

[Shadygrove]

Not with the big fish.

They seem to have a static, built in, slipperyness.

My fisher alt went from fully melded AF + supra to fully melded forager's (which she glamored her fisher's AF over) and noticed no difference in the escape rate of The Lone Ripper. 100% until this last Monday.

Ditto Ninja Betas. About 30%

[cramerb535]

I found that when casually going after the fish I had my best results. Nothing scientific about it at all but when I started hating life a while back during the Titanic Sawfish stage, the weeks started piling up. You got your first one you'll get the rest in no time!