4.4 fish

[Chingona]

Anything new with the new fish in patch 4.4?
any valuable desynthesis?

[Espritduo]

Nothing interesting, but if you need to know the conditions for catching them:

Watcher Catfish: Rhalgr's Reach - Rhalgr's Reach. Mooch from Gyr Abanian Trout (use Midge Larva bait). Thunder weather, any time works.

Bloodtail Zombie: Rhalgr's Reach - The Outer Fist. Mooch from Balloon Frog (use Nightcrawler bait). Cloudy weather, 8am-12pm.

Hardhead Trout: The Fringes - Timmon Beck. Caught with Stonefly Larva. Any weather, 4pm-8pm.

Downstream Loach: The Fringes - The Velodyna River. Caught with Stonefly Larva. Fog weather, any time works.

Corpse Chub: The Fringes - Mirage Creek. Caught with Suspending Minnow. Clear weather, 8pm-12am.

The Last Tear: The Peaks - Heather Falls. Caught with Salmon Roe. Fair weather preceded by Fog, any time works.

Moksha: The Peaks - The Ephor. Caught with Suspending Minnow. Clear weather preceded by Dust, Wind, Fog, or Clouds, any time works.

Hemon: The Peaks - The Bull's Bath. Caught with Suspending Minnow. Cloudy weather preceded by Dust, Fair, Wind, Clouds (possibly just Clouds works), any time works.

Ku'er: The Ruby Sea - The Ruby Price. Caught with Blue Bobbit. Cloudy weather preceded by Thunder, 12am-8am.

Argonautica: The Ruby Sea - Onokoro. Mooch Ruby Shrimp (use Live Shrimp). Windy weather, any time works.

Princess Killifish: Shirogane - The Silver Canal. Caught with Nightcrawler. Any weather, 4am-6am.

Hagoromo Bijin: Yanxia - The One River (West). Caught with Stonefly Larva. Fair or Clear weather preceded by Clouds, any time works.

Green Prismfish: Yanxia - Prism Lake. Caught with Stonefly Larva. Fair, Clear weather, 12am-4pm.

Indigo Prismfish: Yanxia - Prism Lake. Mooch from Violet Prismfish (use Stonefly Larva). Any weather, 12am-4am.

Blade Skipper: The Azim Steppe - Upper Yat Khaal. Caught with Suspending Minnow. Fog weather, 4am-8am.

Duskfish: The Azim Steppe - Azim Khaat. Mooch Zagas Khaal (use Nightcrawler). Cloud weather preceded by Rain, 10am-4pm.

[RAMRODICUS]

I THINK UR STUCK WITH AETHERSANDS WHICH HAVE DROPPED IN PRICE. NOT SURE IF FISHINGS GOOD ANYMORE

[Tint]

I THINK UR STUCK WITH AETHERSANDS WHICH HAVE DROPPED IN PRICE. NOT SURE IF FISHINGS GOOD ANYMORE

Capslock? However...

Yeah, it is really sad that there is not much you can do as a fisher to earn some money.

All throughout HW I had a nice income with fishing for aethersands and luckily I had a personal airship and could fish in the Diadem whenever I wanted. Early SB was good too, aethersands and the fish for buffood, especially that sushi...
But since 4.2 it became really hard to earn some gil.

Fishers need expensive gear and materia melds too. Reaching the stat requirements for catching big fish is maybe even harder than what botanist and miner have to deal with.

Siesta at the beach is nice and all, but we need an income too :O

[RAMRODICUS]

YEAH, I AGREE WITH YOU TAINT. I WISH YOSHI P WOULD GIVE A GOOD FISH TO CATCH LIKE FOR LU SHANGS ROD FROM FFXIV OR SOMETHING AND THEN MAKE A REALLY GOOD BUT RARE FOOD AND UP THE VALUE. LIKE MAYBE IT COULD GIVE +2 STRENGTH OR SOMETHING.

[Shadygrove]

...
Yeah, it is really sad that there is not much you can do as a fisher to earn some money...

To maximize returns from fishing you need CUL desynthsis.

[DrWho2010]

i really wish that desynth level 340 wasn't gated just behind big fish.... also i'm considering resetting my cul desynth as there are no more good rewards - like the assassin beta minion or rare swimsuits (or the cloth to make said rare swimsuits).

[ArumatKelewae]

Reading Ramrodicus post got me thinking, it could be a nice idea to have CUL crafts using very rare fishes that would permanently boost your attributes within a certain threshold of course.

Something like +10 to all attributes max, +1 per CUL craft. That means one would need a copious amount of rare fishes (and a high level CUL) to max all stats (16 stats including crafting and gathering ones if I count correctly).

[KageTokage]

I was really hoping they'd add a fishing source for the newest aethersand type.

[Shadygrove]

Reading Ramrodicus post got me thinking, it could be a nice idea to have CUL crafts using very rare fishes that would permanently boost your attributes within a certain threshold of course.

Something like +10 to all attributes max, +1 per CUL craft. That means one would need a copious amount of rare fishes (and a high level CUL) to max all stats (16 stats including crafting and gathering ones if I count correctly).

From the begining of 2.0 fishing was designed NOT to be a moneymaker like it was in FFXI.