Fishing RNG... Really!?

[Shadygrove]

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I will try and overmeld my gear, to get my gathering up over 300 and see if that helps ( I know people here are saying that if you have enough gathering to fish the hole thats enough, but I am still not convinced that this is true, it seems like people are just speculating this). I did increase my gathering some and I have noticed now when I fish for the boar skin maps I now catch them within 5 casts, before it would be 20 or more. Happy fishing.

My fisher alt, http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/1417349/ is currently at Gathering 366 and Perception 300 without food. Even with food there are some fish she cannot catch due to gathering too low.

Yes raising your gathering and perception WILL help. But the Boarskin map thing is our old friend the RNG. She gets them usually in the first 15 casts, but occasionally fishing fatigue will set in before she can land one.

[Jeckyl_Tesla]

I have full Foragers gear and max melded in perception and gathering. With food and FC buff, I hit around 410 gathering.

I am still having fish at 310~ gathering get awya due to just RNG.

Gathering only makes it so you can catch the fish, nothing else at all.

This isn't just speculation, this is just through and through how it is. When I have the current maximum gathering you can aquire, you'd think that I should be able to catch 1 stars and 2 stars with no misses, right?

Wrong. They still get away now and then.

EDIT: Though I will test this out when I get the Ironworks rod. Apart from that, I'm maxed.