Dragonspine, am I doing it wrong?

[Angelhearth]

13 seconds is too low.
The catch window opens at a bit under 20 seconds and closes at 25 seconds.

This is the timer macro I used, I still had to manually catch the fish with Precision Hookset, mainly due to a fixed timer on activating Precision is useless due to the bite can happen in a 5-ish+ second range.
It was mainly a way to display on screen when the window would open and when it had passed, which the Hook action would activate as to not to waste the bait nor GP. Basically, when the countdown got around the 5 second mark and lower, any one ! bite was likely a Dragonspine.
With this timer, for each 2 minute window of Patience2, I would almost always get 4 Dragonspine (on a successful catch activate Identical Cast) and occasionally 5
This is not without downtime and lotsa High Cordial, the downtime being waiting on GP to max out and Cordials going off cool down.

/ac "Cast"
/wait 1
/countdown 22
/wait 24
/ac "Hook"

Wait for GP to be 100% full, use Pacience2, chug a High Cordial, then click the timer and be ready on Precision Hookset while watching what ! you got in the correct time frame.... any non one !, let the timer run out.
This way you will have enough GP for two Identical Cast attempts and more than enough for Precision Hookset for each.

Early theorycrafting had assumed the coral shared the same bite timer as the spines, they do not.
The coral works around the times you used in your macro.

I would rewrite that macro to the following

/ac Cast <wait.25>
/ac Precision Hookset
/ac Hook

I don't think Countdown has any effect on fishing, or does it? Use Precision Hookset to make sure that last second bite isn't wasted on Hook. And if Precision Hookset can't be used, Hook will reel in.

They start biting as early as around 6-7 seconds. Most bite before 13 seconds, as far as I've found. Using 13 seconds should in theory get you more of them, since you can use Patience more of the time. I'll give yours a try next time I have an hour to spend on this annoying "quest".

[LilithNocri]

I would rewrite that macro to the following

/ac Cast <wait.25>
/ac Precision Hookset
/ac Hook

I don't think Countdown has any effect on fishing, or does it? Use Precision Hookset to make sure that last second bite isn't wasted on Hook. And if Precision Hookset can't be used, Hook will reel in.

They start biting as early as around 6-7 seconds. Most bite before 13 seconds, as far as I've found. Using 13 seconds should in theory get you more of them, since you can use Patience more of the time. I'll give yours a try next time I have an hour to spend on this annoying "quest".

This has helped me greatly. The timer is nice and I've gotten about 12 in 20-30min. I was a doof and was using Patience I. XD
Thank you for the insight!