Please make the Placodus more accessible in Ocean fishing

[LegendWait]

Hello.

The Placodus is really hard to get, here's why:

First, its the only blue fish that requires a mooching for its intuition buff.

You have to get a Rothlyt Mussel HQ, mooch it into a troll fish (not that easy sometimes) that gives you a small buff window to get the Placodus. But then you have to fish another Rothly Musset and pray you have a Placodus bite, which is really rare. The other blue are easier to get because you get at least two clear strait attempt during their intuitions, for the Placodus you are lucky if you get the intuition, let alone a clear shot during that buff. That's a 4 cast affair that really happens rarely in the short spectral duration. That last cast also seems rarer then the other blue fish, but that might only be unlcky RNG.

Secondly, the Placodus is one of the only two blue fishes that has only one window per 22 hours , most of the others have two. The exception is the Seafaring Toad, which is a strait catch after getting the intuition (2 casts affair).

https://ffxiv.pf-n.co/ocean-fishing?filter=placodus

Thirdly, The Placodus window appears to be skipped over every now and then for some reasons. Its often happening that the Rothlyt Sound (Sunset) route is skipped, making the fish unavailable in that 22 hours cycle.

Please address this by making the route more frequent, change the route cycle issue, the bite rate, change the intuition length, the bite probability or any other way you might see fit.

Thank you

[Jojoya]

The rarity is probably intended to keep players engaged with Ocean Fishing longer and to give it an element similar to open world big game fishing.

I don't think anyone would object to SE changing it but I doubt very much that they will.

[ServerCollaps]

placodus got away 3 times for me before I could finally reel it in

set the language to JP, take solo boats, skip spectral in area 2 and you will get plenty of good placodus tries

[melbye]

Never even gotten to the point where i can lose it, cause i barely get Rothlyt Mussel to bite at all. In the rare times i manage to activate fisher's intuition i never get another mussel

[Toutatis]

It's the first one I got and first try. Rng, like all the others. Mooching is not really different to catching a few other specific fish before the blue fish. Also, intuition length CAN be changed with planning.

If you want to max chances, try to make your party and get your own instance to plan for a longer spec window. What Servercolapse said works but you can also simply queue your group at xx.14

Also for the Rothlyt Mussel, look at the timer (3-4 seconds) and type of tug (!) Don't bother with high scores when going for a specific fish. Eat good food (Yakow moussaka), build Thaliak stacks, use chum and and keep your GP points for situations like this.

Never even gotten to the point where i can lose it, cause i barely get Rothlyt Mussel to bite at all. In the rare times i manage to activate fisher's intuition i never get another mussel

That's the lot of most blue fish there. You get lucky or not. Occasionally you get a second shot a it but most of the time you don't. Sometimes you have to get 2 types of different fish like ax2 and bx1 before you get a chance at the blue fish.