[kynadre]

I love fishing, it's a great way to pass the time when I'm bored or waiting for a party and I really enjoy a good fight for a good fish. I am a regular fisher on the aht urhgan ferry for Veydal Wrasse (cap35), starting at level 28 and now at level 30.5-ish fishing. I was having great bites and awesome success about two weeks ago with 9/10 success on the wrasse, and I could get a really high-level fish down to 25-30% every time they were on the line.

After fishing them for a week I went on vacation for a week, so here it is now two weeks later and I headed out onto the ferry for a day yesterday, and I couldn't believe it... suddenly fishing the Wrasse was incredibly difficult! They danced much more than they had before, their stamina didn't deplete as quickly, and I could only pull in about one in every ten wrasse I got. Most of the rest got to 25-30%. The other fish that I can normally get to 25%-30%, i couldn't even budge to 95%. I verified that these are indeed the two fish I normally see since I was able to get one of those wrasse barely to 10% and pulled it in.

I was the same job, with the same gear (fishing tunica set), same rod and bait, same location, same moonphase and ingame weekdays as I always fish, and yet everything was going horribly wrong!

What else is there besides:
Lure/Bait
Rod
Fishing Gear + Support
Ingame Moonphase
Ingame Weekday
Ingame Location

Is the real-life moon a factor? Two weeks ago it was a full moon and now it's a new moon. That's the only thing I could think of. Does anyone else have any testing they've done to see if the RL moon affects fishing? Or if there's anything that I haven't accounted for?

Help!

[Littlebender]

The in game moon perhaps... but the real moon can go and fck itself!
People always compare the tone of my skin to the moon

[kynadre]

I was fishing all day yesterday so I ran the whole gamut from full moon to 50%, and since I'd fished for a week before, I'd been out on the boat for hours at a time at very random ingame times with consistent results. Fishing was consistently good then, and consistently terrible yesterday and today.

[Fauchevont]

I unfortunately can't give you any more tips beyond what you already know and listed, but the same thing happened to me back when I used to fish on the Mhaura/Selbina ferry for noble lady and nebimonites. Back when my fishing was only 11 or 12, I used to be able to fish up nebimonites with ease, noble ladies were a little more difficult but I could still land them most of the time. Then my fishing leveled up a few more levels, and all of a sudden it was exactly as you described; nebs were all over the place fighting me, and noble ladies were a joke to even attempt. Nothing else had changed, except that my fishing level had increased. So, I can't imagine why, but maybe that would have something to do with it? For all the sense that makes. I just can't think of anything else that would be the cause.

[kynadre]

"Then my fishing leveled up a few more levels, and all of a sudden it was exactly as you described; nebs were all over the place fighting me, and noble ladies were a joke to even attempt. Nothing else had changed, except that my fishing level had increased."

EXACTLY what's happened to me. I'll keep trying every once in a while (like every couple of days); maybe it is something wierd with the fishing level, but maybe it's something else that has to do with the RL moonphase. I don't know; they made this game complicated enough that I wouldn't put it past them. I'll keep you posted on what I figure out. If it's permanent, well... goodbye my favorite fish ; ;

[Fauchevont]

"Then my fishing leveled up a few more levels, and all of a sudden it was exactly as you described; nebs were all over the place fighting me, and noble ladies were a joke to even attempt. Nothing else had changed, except that my fishing level had increased."

EXACTLY what's happened to me. I'll keep trying every once in a while (like every couple of days); maybe it is something wierd with the fishing level, but maybe it's something else that has to do with the RL moonphase. I don't know; they made this game complicated enough that I wouldn't put it past them. I'll keep you posted on what I figure out. If it's permanent, well... goodbye my favorite fish ; ;

Awww, hopefully it won't be that bad. /comfort I'm going to try skilling up my fishing on fish that are more for my "target" fishing level, then get back to nebs and noble ladies and see what happens. I can't imagine it's going to be permanent for either of us, since I see people on the ferry still fishing up nebs and nobles with a Lu Shang's and a bazaar comment that says they're like, 60.3 skill level in fishing, lol. So I'm hoping thing's will go back to normal (or be even better) once I get a few more skill ups under my belt.

Best of luck to you!