What does nature's bounty actually do? FSH

[Highwilds]

The purpose of Patience II is exactly to have higher chances at catching "Big Fish" aka those that are green. ("big fish" is SE's own wording for those) I don't know about star-marked fish. Otherwise the tooltip for that skill says twice the exact same thing:

"Increases the chance of landing an HQ fish by 80% while reducing Hook efficiency by 75%. Increases the likelihood of catching larger fish."

Nature's Bounty's description is pretty similar in wording as Patience II: "Increases the chance of landing a large catch on your next spearfishing attempt."

The only difference I see is the HQ chances. Patience II increases that as well, where as Nature's Bounty doesn't mention anything about increasing HQ chances, just the chance of 'larger' fish. The Teeming Waters spots already have their own bonuses, like insanely high HQ catch rate.

The expansion is still young, and there's no big fish yet to be caught, but at least now we have the skills ready when they arrive. That's how I see it.

[magnanimousCynic]

The purpose of Patience II is exactly to have higher chances at catching "Big Fish" aka those that are green. ("big fish" is SE's own wording for those) I don't know about star-marked fish. Otherwise the tooltip for that skill says twice the exact same thing

Patience II does not increase Big Fish chance, it simply makes the fish you catch larger for more Scrips.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/5uj9zi/popular_fisher_misconceptions_explained/

[Elamys]

Patience II does not increase Big Fish chance, it simply makes the fish you catch larger for more Scrips.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ons_explained/

Thank you for confirming that. I was like 99% certain that was the case but this topic made me question it.

[RichardButte]

Patience II does not increase Big Fish chance, it simply makes the fish you catch larger for more Scrips.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ons_explained/

This is just what we needed, thanks!