Quote Originally Posted by Zohnax View Post
I am not saying there should not be any challenge, but rather the challenge is far too extreme. If you hit every almost every window for "months and months" that's pretty harsh for one fish. There is a thread on reddit posted today after someone finally caught their Ruby Dragon saying, "I've been at 203/204 for over a year now... ...But just now..." and they posted a picture of having caught it. If you read through the comments, there is a lot of similar sentiments. This person reports being after it for six months. Another person saying attempted often since 4.5 (when it released) and it escaped three times before they caught. Another still, "I've been hunting this since March with no luck."

If the Ku'ers escaped a lot less frequently or could not bite themselves, great.
If the Ruby Dragon bit more or could not escape, great.
If the windows were more frequent than averaging 2-3 per week, great.

Adjusting any one of these factors would make this fish a lot less punishing for a lot of people. However, the way it stands now is worse than HNM camping was in FFXI; which the XI Devs actually replaced some of the HNMs with force spawn items instead in some recent years.
See I just don't see the issue with an outlier like this. It's probably the worst one to catch for sure. But I don't think this is a bad thing.
There's gotta be that 'one that got away' afterall, it's a very fisher like thing to have. This was also my mindset when I was going on for about a year or so without it as well.

What I would like to see is it being able to display in an aquarium though. All the trouble it's worth and you get a muddled picture of it on a frame...