fishing guide (Buy Final Fantasy XI Gil)
#1) Fish for skill, NOT profit. At low levels, the gil is a nice bonus
but you should be focusing on skillup, for more money later!
#2) Sell to NPC’s. For most fish in this guide, the AH doesn’t move quick
enough to sell the item as fast as you’ll catch it. Exceptions might be:
Yellow Globes, Cobalt Jellyfish, Quus.
#3) Turn on all chat filters, and remove your linkpearl.
Talking to people slows down the rythem. it affects bites per hour.
#4) Clear out inventory space! as much as you can!
Take your pole, lure, and 4 pieces of fishing gear. Nothing more.
#5) As soon as you can, do the Gobbiebag quests.
Carrying more fish = carrying more money.
#6) Always use lures if possible. Cheaper, and if you fish smart,
you’ll only need 1!
Gear: (Requires starting capital, like any craft)
Do not be cheap here. If you can’t afford *all* items,
farm some more gil first. This really increases the speed of
skillgain/bites per hour.
#1) Fishermans Tunic
#2) Fishermans gloves
#3) Fishermans leggings
#4) Fishermans boots
#5) Mithran rod
#6) Sabiki rig
Please note, this guide is about SAFE (and therefor the least costly) fishing. There may be other places with better bite rates, or gil per catch.
There may be other places you can get skillups during the ‘dead zones’
But, I’m more interested in not replacing a rod or lure every 1000 casts.
Now that we have that out of the way, I’d also like to make another suggestion This step is entirely optional.
Purchase yourself a decent wireless gamepad!
Fishing becomes a *lot* less painfull if you can sit back and watch TV, and use a gamepad controller to fish. I personally use a Saitek p3000 wireless. I fish with full view of my computer monitor (even when watching TV) so I don’t need (or even want) the rumble motors.
However, when the fish bites, if you have a rumble device enabled, it will shake to let you know.
If you use a controller, you can easily fish while doing other things. And you won’t be inclined to chat (again killing your skillup rate) just keep an eye on the screen for GM conversations. Though it hasn’t happened to me yet, if a GM contacts you, and you don’t reply.. he’s just going to assume you are a bot. I will be having you fish in a *lot* of cities, so you will be getting a lot of tells (that you SHOULD ignore, most of the time it’s another annoying self-righteous bot-hunter) and after you ignore several, you *will* get a GM visit. Just do what he asks, and fish happily ever after.
the guide:
0-11
Port San d’Oria, Windurst Waters, Bastok Markets (bridge)
Mithran Rod/Insect Paste
In these aeras you will catch Moat Carp. Turn them in for the LuShangs quest (100gil per fish) or sell them on AH for about 3.5k/stack.
0-19:
Port windurst, Mhaura, Selbina, Port Bastok
Mithran rod/Sabiki Rig
In these areas, you will catch Cobalt Jellyfish, Pamtam Kelp, Bastore Sardines, Quus, Yellow Globes, and rusty items.
You’ll skill relatively quickly from 0-11 here. After 11, it still gains, but slowly.
10-14:
Selbina
Mithran rod/Minnow
Here, you will catch Greedie, and Fat Greedie. The Fat Greedie can be used for a quest in selbina.
14-17:
Mhaura
Mithran rod/Worm Lure
Here, your main target will be Yellow globes. The worm lure will focus on this particular fish, and you’ll gain skill a little faster than mentioned above with sabiki rig. Gains will still be slow (you ARE fishing)
15-27
Port San d`oria, North San d`oria, Windurst Waters, Bastok Markets (bridge)
Mithran Rod/Shrimp Lure
In these aeras you will catch Tricolord Carp and Gold Carp. Sell these directly to NPC. Tricolored will sell for about 120, and gold for over 400.. At 15, the gains will be slow, but the gil should be decent. You still won’t be making huge money yet. Stick with it!
27-47
Bastok Markets(Storage of water), Zeruhn Mines(bridge)
Mithran Rod/Worm Lure
In these aeras you will catch Dark Bass, and Black eels. The Dark bass will give good gains, but only sell for about 40gil to NPC. They’ll give gains till level 33. Black eels are what you are *really* after. They’ll sell for 300g each to NPC, and will cap you at 47 fishing! At the early stages of this section, gil and gains will be slow. by the latter skill, both should be coming in at a respectable pace.
40-53
Buburimu Peninsula (beach)
Mithran Rod/Rogue Rig
Warning! (It has been pointed out to me that this portion is not 100% safe as there is the chance of catching Bluetail, which can break the mithran. Please keep that in mind. I will research another path to 53, and update this ASAP.)
In this area, you’re primary focus will be on shall shells. I don’t recall the price, but I think they sold for about 600g per to NPC, or if you AH them, about 10k per stack. the rogue rig is quite expensive, but 2 stacks of shells on AH will earn it back. HOWEVER, any lure will work here for shal shells. Just not as effectively as rogue rig. The setup I described should have you making about 10-20k per hour depending on moon. If you use any other lure, expect it to cut into your profit potential.
53-69
East Sarutabaruta (lake)
Composite Rod/Fly Lure
This is where fishing becomes extremely slow to gain. Especially at early levels. It’ll take you to level 69, and the crescent fish sell to the guild for 1300 gil. The downside? Read the first line of this description. I’m 55 fishing, and am catching about one stack every 2 hours. Ready for the next level? We recommend The MMORPG Exchange for your FFXI GIL needs. MMORPG-Exchange has supplied us for years and has great customer service and 24/7 instant delivery.
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