Ocean fishing is horribly designed

[SuperZay]

So, what would ya say if I found someone that literally got everything on their first go? Did they earn it? Or were they just blessed by RNGeebus? This is just an RNG fest... There's not that much skill involved in this minigame.

If they went through efforts of finding a competent party for these titles and learning tactics then yes, they earned it. But it's always easier just to ask devs to give everything for free without any effort.

[KageTokage]

Spectrals really should be more common then they are because there's still a huge amount of RNG involved in getting valuable fish during a spectral current.

The trips don't feel fun if they don't trigger because barring extremely good luck with intuition fish, your score is not going to go anywhere.

[RyuDragnier]

If they went through efforts of finding a competent party for these titles and learning tactics then yes, they earned it. But it's always easier just to ask devs to give everything for free without any effort.

Fishing 200 of a specific type of fish yourself isn't a lack of effort. It means more effort is put on yourself, since YOU have to be the one to fish all those sharks, octopodes, jellyfish, and seadragons. Instead of you getting lucky with an instance and with a full party that could get you the title, it's all based on your own hard work. So how about you stop asking for others to carry you to the titles and start asking that it be a singular fisherman's job to get them if they want them.

[SuperZay]

It will be just an easy, grindy achievement with 1/10 difficulty done in 1 week by anyone. Like numerous existing 'catch X fish in this location' achievements out there. All you would need is to spam a few voyages without ever worrying about lures, weather, food, hi-cordials or maximizing your double hooks. I was personally getting 33-34 sharks per trip, so any comparible as challenging solo version of Shark Hunter would be 'catch 40 sharks in 1 trip', not 'catch 200 sharks ever'.

[Derio]

I enjoy it. However like most have stated, if it doesnt get updated rewards during this expansion then it will become forgotten.

Hopefully before next expansion they will add new routes, fish and prizes. Perhaps long term goals which include glamour, housing items, chocobo barding, etc.

[Keridwyn]

It will be just an easy, grindy achievement with 1/10 difficulty done in 1 week by anyone. Like numerous existing 'catch X fish in this location' achievements out there. All you would need is to spam a few voyages without ever worrying about lures, weather, food, hi-cordials or maximizing your double hooks. I was personally getting 33-34 sharks per trip, so any comparible as challenging solo version of Shark Hunter would be 'catch 40 sharks in 1 trip', not 'catch 200 sharks ever'.

You know what else it would be, less impact on the people not hunting titles because right now there's an issue where some groups of title hunters just up and leave if the RNG isn't what they're looking for. I'm fine with the achievements being made more difficult via an increased volume in exchange for being made solo achievements because folks would be less likely to leave. Ocean Fishing doesn't replenish it's ranks so when several title hunters jump ship...that's a bunch of other people that are now at a disadvantage. I'd rather the achievement get changed than some sort of punishment get handed down.

[einschwartz]

After I got my FSH to 80, I've been taking 2-3 trips daily in attempt to get the mount. It's been 3 weeks now. I have consistent runs of 2 spectral every time I got into the boat. But getting a !!! to appear during spectral is extremely rare for me. I could count with one hand how much it had pop. The irony is I used to get them more frequent while I was a low level fisher. Only yesterday I managed to double hook 3x !!! in one of the spectral currents. And that nets me with 9.8k points with 70% bonus! T_T (sigh)
It took this long but people are starting to drop out when there's no spectral in the first stop now. I will keep trying in hopes RNGesus will bless me someday.

[Espritduo]

After I got my FSH to 80, I've been taking 2-3 trips daily in attempt to get the mount. It's been 3 weeks now. I have consistent runs of 2 spectral every time I got into the boat. But getting a !!! to appear during spectral is extremely rare for me. I could count with one hand how much it had pop. The irony is I used to get them more frequent while I was a low level fisher. Only yesterday I managed to double hook 3x !!! in one of the spectral currents. And that nets me with 9.8k points with 70% bonus! T_T (sigh)
It took this long but people are starting to drop out when there's no spectral in the first stop now. I will keep trying in hopes RNGesus will bless me someday.

Make sure you're paying attention to the time of day for each stop. All the big point spectral fish are time-specific as well as bait-specific, so you need to do your research to know what fish you should be going for, as well as what bait they bite on. For fish that have the same bite strength as other fish in the pool you need to know how long their bite times are to know what to double hook as well. Just going in blind and waiting for !!!'s is not going to take you very far. Many of the big point fish are not !!! fish at all, nor do they use plump worms as bait.

This is the go to spreadsheet I use and have seen thrown around most often, and might as well be the "official" guide to what fish bite where when how and how much.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...ring&sle=true#

[MomomiMomi]

After I got my FSH to 80, I've been taking 2-3 trips daily in attempt to get the mount. It's been 3 weeks now. I have consistent runs of 2 spectral every time I got into the boat. But getting a !!! to appear during spectral is extremely rare for me. I could count with one hand how much it had pop. The irony is I used to get them more frequent while I was a low level fisher. Only yesterday I managed to double hook 3x !!! in one of the spectral currents. And that nets me with 9.8k points with 70% bonus! T_T (sigh)
It took this long but people are starting to drop out when there's no spectral in the first stop now. I will keep trying in hopes RNGesus will bless me someday.

Honestly just drop out if there's no spectral on the first stop. If you start early enough you have enough time to start another trip.

[Theodric]

Well, I gave it another try. I'll forgive it taking a full fifteen minutes to get a group after queuing up since it was 4am at the time. At the first destination we didn't get a spectral current, though we did get one on both of the other destinations. I managed to snag 8855 points in total though it does seem like you need to get a spectral current at all three destinations to qualify for the mount.

Is it possible to see multiple spectral currents at the same destination?