Dragonspine, am I doing it wrong?

[Shadygrove]

I have an alt with worse stats than yours, fishes enough each week for the challenge log.

Usually 10 - 12 dragonspines / session. WAY less than an hour.

My advice. Drop the macro, pay attention. If netflix is that important tune your macro and accept the lower catch rate.

[Angelhearth]

I have an alt with worse stats than yours, fishes enough each week for the challenge log.

Usually 10 - 12 dragonspines / session. WAY less than an hour.

My advice. Drop the macro, pay attention. If netflix is that important tune your macro and accept the lower catch rate.

I have Bipolar Disorder, and my hands are kind of shaking a little in addition. Not easy to keep up with modern games, so I prefer macros when things are time sensitive.

[Angelhearth]

I have an alt with worse stats than yours, fishes enough each week for the challenge log.

Usually 10 - 12 dragonspines / session. WAY less than an hour.

My advice. Drop the macro, pay attention. If netflix is that important tune your macro and accept the lower catch rate.

And why are people commenting as if my stats are bad? I have the best gear available in this patch, and everything is overmelded.

[Kirika-]

And why are people commenting as if my stats are bad? I have the best gear available in this patch, and everything is overmelded.

That player was saying that "Their alt (Shadygrove's Alt) has worst stats that you (Angelhearth)"
They did not say that you have bad stats.

And the point they were making is that the target fish can be caught with less than optimal stats, which is true... They can be caught with gear and stats that was previous patch less than optimal.

[Angelhearth]

That player was saying that "Their alt (Shadygrove's Alt) has worst stats that you (Angelhearth)"
They did not say that you have bad stats.

And the point they were making is that the target fish can be caught with less than optimal stats, which is true... They can be caught with gear and stats that was previous patch less than optimal.

That was the second or third time someone mentioned it, so I was starting to wonder, because, so far, no one has said, you have more than high enough stats, or, your stats are to high, and because of that you get more bites from other fish.

[Kirika-]

Well, while high stats help with most fish, rare "big fish" and quest-only types are generally just on a set RNG table.
Meaning, if you do have the minimum required stats for the fish to be in the loot-pool, and you have the correct bait/time of day/weather/location/active quest/any-other-variable that effects the direct ability to catch said fish, then that fish will be in the RNG loot pool but subject solely to it's fixed values and RNG.
The fish's "hidden stats" come into play of which we can only theory about it's effect, meaning, lets say for example, the target fish has a "hidden stat" of it has a 70% chance on a bite to get away, so no matter how high your FSH job level is over the fish's level or how high your Gather/Perception/GP is, 70% of the time it will always get away.
It gets really annoying on old ARR content "big fish" which have an on bite fixed value to get away (among other hidden stats), generally always getting away it seems, when you should be the god of the fishing pole having stats a couple thousand points over what is required to get a bite from one.

However, that is one of the reasons that the FSH job is closer to real life, as while stats help to unlock the fish in question, it really boils down to if the fish will let you catch it.