A Dragon of a Problem with Big Fishing

[Espritduo]

Blue Bobbit > Surface Slap Couerl Eel Snakes > Patience II > Cast > Powerful Hookset Ku'ers... there is not a lot of skill involved in that process. I generally try to prep an HQ Ku'er before The Ruby Dragon window so I get a chance at the start of the window. It reads to me that you got lucky within that one month you spent after Ruby Dragon and I believe I mentioned lucky people in my original post. Yes, I have experience Ku'ers getting away that much. If I had to eyeball-guesstimate, I would say close to 40-50% escape rate. But some windows, I just do not get that many bites at all, even after Surface Slap. .

Eh, at the end of the day it still took me a month of fishing for one fish, so I wouldn't say I got lucky. If anything I got lucky with the amount of windows I had, not in the attempts themselves, which involved probably over a hundred ku'er mooches (you are chain mooching the ku'ers right? None of your statements really make that clear to me). I had a decent spread of windows in that month, and the lucky thing is that it was right before the infamous 2-month drought of ANY windows for the dragon that I caught it. If I hadn't gotten it on that last attempt, I would have been waiting nearly two months before I could even try again. That kind of window absence I would say is too much. I'd say getting at least 1-2 windows per week without any major droughts would be fine.

As far as stetha goes, you said it yourself, there are far more windows for it, so you spend far more actual time trying and failing to get it, which just hurts so much more because you feel like you're wasting time that could be spent actually accomplishing something elsewhere. I know all the tricks for catching it and used them freely, and it still took me two months of misery before I landed it. RNG will always be RNG and all that, and I wouldn't be opposed to easing the reqs on either fish, but dollar for dollar I found Stetha to be the more painful fish to catch, even if Ruby Dragon is technically "rarer" due to its lack of windows.

And let's be real here, it is a FREAKIN DRAGON we're talking about here. If there was any fish in the game that deserves to be "that one fish", a giant flying dragon that is apparently a mad auspice on the level of the Four Lords definitely fits the criteria.

[Zohnax]

(you are chain mooching the ku'ers right? None of your statements really make that clear to me). I had a decent spread of windows in that month, and the lucky thing is that it was right before the infamous 2-month drought of ANY windows for the dragon that I caught it. If I hadn't gotten it on that last attempt, I would have been waiting nearly two months before I could even try again. That kind of window absence I would say is too much. I'd say getting at least 1-2 windows per week without any major droughts would be fine.

RNG will always be RNG and all that, and I wouldn't be opposed to easing the reqs on either fish, but dollar for dollar I found Stetha to be the more painful fish to catch, even if Ruby Dragon is technically "rarer" due to its lack of windows.

I thought that chain Mooching would have been too obvious to list. There have a few times where I have had one or two chains in a window, but it has not been often and I am into my third month, and 17th or 18th window at this point. Although my primary focus in on Ruby Dragon in this post, the point can be stressed to include other brutal Big Fish requirements. One to two attempts a week is about the average I have noticed, but that is also assuming hitting every window despite the time of day. It can be extraordinarily more challenging being a working person or a regularly sleeping person. Say both attempts per week are during working hours and you are basically out of luck for another week or longer. Then compound the difficulty with hooking The Ruby Dragon between the Ku'ers bites and escapes along with the distant windows and that is a recipe for a very defeating experience when you spend 22 minutes a sitting involved with prep and 11 of those minutes trying for The Ruby Dragon itself.

I feel like a fish being this challenging during the expansion it is released on is fine, but once we go up 10 levels and a bunch of Gathering points, older Big Fish should get easier, so I agree with you there.