Fishing: Alternatives to Cat Became Hungry

[Silverbane]

What used to be perhaps the best site on the internet for FFXIV fishing information is now packed with annoying video ads that force Firefox to scroll up, hiding what you wanted to see and stuffing the videos into your face. And if you ad-block, you get a dumbed-down and flakey mobile version.

The information on Cat became Hungry came from the FFXIV fishing community, and now it's being monetized in a most annoying fashion.

So, what's the alternative?

[Igrainne]

Personally i use ffxivdb.com

You can type the fish name you need and the comment sections have the coordinates and all the worthwhile info in there.

[magnanimousCynic]

I use http://www.garlandtools.org/ffxivfisher/

It even takes consecutive weather requirements into account.

[Silverbane]

I use http://www.garlandtools.org/ffxivfisher/
It even takes consecutive weather requirements into account.

Unfortunately, Garland Tools just links to Cat Became Hungery if you want information on, for example, which bait catches which fish at each fishing hole.

[Maeka]

xivdb.com usually works. Though sometimes it isn't always up to date for the latest, and some information is missing. Also, consolegameswiki too can work, but again, spotty and sporadic information in parts.

Would be nice, if they gave us an in-game way to know this stuff. They let Botanists and Miners know where everything is (except for unspoiled nodes) but yet FSH just get "???"s everywhere in their logs until they fish it the first time. Dunno why that is. And even after you fish something, the game STILL won't tell you what it bites on, or what it is mooched from.

[tdb]

They let Botanists and Miners know where everything is (except for unspoiled nodes)

And even for unspoiled/legendary nodes you can see which zone it's on. If you're on the correct zone (anywhere on it) when the node is up, you get a nice pointer on your minimap towards the node. With a little bit of out-of-band knowledge (the active legendary nodes change every two Eorzean hours) it's possible to map out the nodes added in each patch within a single cycle. After you've gathered from a node once, you'll see a more accurate location and even the time(s) for the node.

[cgbspender]

For Stormblood, I use this Doc : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...#gid=813199271

[raela]

Yeah, the SB google doc is great.. the bait percentages are what I like most about Cat Became Hungry. The website now kills my laptop (if it's on my lap, it immediately gets hot enough to be uncomfortable on my legs, and I have to close the tab within a minute or the videos freeze the browser. I know the percentages aren't 100% accurate, but it's better than nothing.. and the comments can be really helpful.

[Keldon]

I'm not seeing these videos you're talking about in my firefox: I've got addblocker (but it's set to off for that site) and NoScript, allowing FF14Angler.com (only other things that show up there are some random google tracking things, which I leave off out of apathy). Are you sure you don't have some malware or something?

[QT_Melon]

Yeah you have to add in Greasemonkey/Tapermonkey and add in a userscript

// ==UserScript==
// @name        Cat became hungry
// @namespace   Newtab blank
// @version     1
// @grant       none
// @include     http://*ff14angler.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

var whitelist = ["id"];

$("#contents").each(function() {
    var attributes = this.attributes;
    var i = attributes.length;
    while(i--) {
        var attr = attributes[i];
        if($.inArray(attr.name,whitelist) == -1)
            this.removeAttributeNode(attr);
    }
});

Then get Adblockers.