Shark Mount

[Espritduo]

She opens up at the appointed time, not a second sooner. If you are talking to her before the time the ship opens you cannot get on. Wait until the hour turns and a ! will pop up on her head, which you can still plainly see even if a hundred people are all crammed in there. That is when you can board the ship, not before. They need to change that too-early message to something else because it seems it is really confusing a lot of people into thinking they can't do the content because it's full. It's never full.

[Alleo]

Is that not explained at the NPC? I do remember that there is a lot of text that explains how it all works.

Anyway I got my shark and I realized how horrible the flight animation looks. If I stand still my character just lies on him. But as soon as I start she lifts her legs and her upper body..it looks completely off and annoys me..so many hours, stress and praying for luck, only to get a mount with generic music that has a horrible animation for it..

[Canadane]

Managed to get Jellyfish Fanatic before I got my shark mount lol

[Canadane]

I can't even handle the basics of getting onto a ship. The game text tells me to talk to the fisher guild lady. I do, she says the voyage is already full - but there's a message to check back in a few minutes. With a Raubahn's Wall level crowd gathered around, it's easy to see the next 24 spaces will fill is milliseconds, so I say 'screw this' & leave.

Then guildmates tell me you don't have to speak at all to anyone to go? Huh?

There's more than once instance, this seems to be a common misconception.
24 people per instance, everyones getting on board. This isn't a situation where only 24 people of hundreds are going to get something.

[Espritduo]

Managed to get Jellyfish Fanatic before I got my shark mount lol

What was your approach to that? Now that I've got the mount I want to try and get those achievements but it just seems impossible without a very specific pre-made group of maxed out fishers who are all on the same page on what needs done, and even then you need ALOT of jellyfish, even with 8 people going at it.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

Just hit 11k. Went in at level 69 with level 60 gear, 665 gp. Didnt use patience at all. Saved gp for 2x double hook guaranteed. With patience strategy I needed lucky timing to get 2x off.

That's right. Patience is for leveling as it grants great xp. But for points it's best to not use it at all. You make it or break it mostly by the number of fish you can catch during spectral shift, so Patience just steals away your GP for Double Hook which seems the most important action.

[Sirweed]

hey yo Yoshi-P add more fish we need at least 145 species

[Snapdragyn]

I'm really not seeing the mathematical possibility of this mount as anything but a lottery ticket win. I've been fishing my fingers off, & have yet to break even 6k. It's to the point I just quit out of the game after only getting 571 points on the entire 1st stop of a journey.

Could this be relabeled as something other than an 'achievement'? Because I fail to see how having the Great Gods of RNG rain down upon you is any sort of 'achievement'. 'Got whacked upside the head by dumb luck,' more like?

I've read the guides, I'm using the right baits for the right areas, I'm level 80 in good gear (not yet 460, but just the step below), I use food for a bit of extra GP, & I save my GP for spectral currents - which, btw, rarely happen at all (even when I've caught spectral fish & had people in my party say that had as well) & even when they do only get me maybe 1-1.5k. Multiple that by 3 stops, throw in a bit extra - maybe someday I'll break 5k before bonus? &... the best bonus is 50%, so... yeah. The math is seriously wonky on this. Effing RNG BS - not 'achievement'.

[Waffles298]

the highest i’ve gotten (with bonus) was 9.8k, which was more dumb luck than anything else because i managed to double hook 3 funnel sharks and then catch an additional 2. it would have been 10k if the bonus was 70% instead of 60% (only got 2 rainbow procs)

[Gula]

Should have been Sastasha's theme. Alternatively, Sastasha 2020. For the mount music.