Shark Mount

[ElazulHP]

Just got the Shark mount. Interesting mount, however, uses the usual generic mount music. Was hoping it would have some other theme, but alas. Posting here in case anyone was curious what it looked liked and how it was done.

Got it by getting 5680 points and then having an 80% bonus at the end. Used krill & ragworms while using Patience 1 and popped Hi Cordials like candy until a Spectral Current popped then switched immediately to Plump Worms and went all out. Was not level 80 at the time either so can be done before max level.

[Hasrat]

That's some very loose definition of "shark."

[Canadane]

Congratulations!
Hope to get mine today. I didn't get to do much fishing yesterday.

[Kiba_Whitewolf]

It constantly feels as though I am doing something wrong in each of the ocean runs I've done so far. I can't explain it. I always seem to be much lower on points than most of the people in my party and I am doing the exact same things as described by people with the mount on both here and reddit:

- Use krill/ragworms normally
- Constant use of Patience I
- Constant Hi-Cordial use
- Plump worms in spectral
- Double hook in spectral

I know you can't get the points to reach the mount without spectral happening at least 3 times, but I have no idea what I am doing different to see others in my party reaching 4-5k points while I may only have 2.5k.

[Alleo]

Seemingly there are people that got the mount even just with two spectrals (I also just missed it by 900 points) if you have the right amount of bonus. Maybe you get less points because your luck is bad and you get lots of NQ fish? Also its a big difference if you can only double hook once or twice per spectral and if you get lucky and have !!! when you use it. (And on top of that the NQ)

I am honestly not really sure if I like that new content. We already had people drop out after the first round because of no spectral (and it being quite difficult to reach 10k with that) which of course made it worse for the rest of us. I also wonder when the first people will go there just to troll others by doing nothing. Seeing how you need the bonus at the end which you only get by doing it as a group.

[Canadane]

I'm not sure why people swap to plump specifically in spectral. There seems to be a huge overlap in what you catch with any bait.
Personally I'm trying to figure out the rarer achievement bonuses you can get. Tried catching 15 or so octopus types as a party and it wasn't enough it seemed.... Wanna be an Octopus Traveler!

[Dustytome]

I'm not sure why people swap to plump specifically in spectral. There seems to be a huge overlap in what you catch with any bait.
Personally I'm trying to figure out the rarer achievement bonuses you can get. Tried catching 15 or so octopus types as a party and it wasn't enough it seemed.... Wanna be an Octopus Traveler!

There's just a higher chance at catching the bigger fish worth more points with the plump worm, but the big fish just take too much time to catch outside of spectral.

[DrWho2010]

plump worm is just so fast you wanna use that to get as much fish as possible in spectral window. unfortunately for me i've never been on a trip where there's been more than one spectral

[Odstarva]

This is the big issue I'm having. Is there any actual trick to triggering the currents? Is it pure RNG?

[Commander_Justitia]

Why double hook in spectral? It seems better to use GP on patience II with powerful hookset etc. as you get more HQ fish out of that. Do two-four fishes give way more points than one HQ?

I've seen somebody get over 11k with just two rainbows, it is possible, so don't give up after first area.

With a sitting animation it seems to take longer to fish, during a spectral current? But maybe Im wrong

I think party finder groups may be a better option to coordinate. You can make 3 teams and say enter the duty after 5min when everybody solo already entered. You can assign 2 people for one bait so you get the most out of every zone, which is important for the 10% bonuses at the end. Spectral fishes seem to be fishable with more than one bait anyway, they overlap.