The (brief) History of FFXIV Fishing - Part 1 - "The Grandmaster Caster Era" 

I really like the idea of having a "No GP Regen" buff. I think that could be very interesting.

Reducing the slip chance of !!! is the only thing I can think of that would be worth it. It would also make every big and legendary fish (okay, a few exceptions) easier, but also SLOWER. And yes, by saying consume ALL GP, or reduce to 0 GP, but not 0 MAX GP, that allows the use of a cordial after you use it, and your stacks... but that is a KNOWN amount of GP, exactly even footing.

oh DDOS's are fine. It's just an hour because that's all the quiet time I had to record, lol.

Got to the end of the video, I'm absolutely looking forward to hearing how Surface Slap *decimated* some older fish. As sometime who started fishing in the final patch of Endwalker (6.55 specifically, didn't hit level cap until DT came out), it's absolutely fascinating to think that ARR fishing just used to be cast and mooch and that's it. Nowadays you get chum and patience 1 so much sooner than HW levels, probably in part because of that initial response to fishing being a mostly passive activity that you could genuinely do while cooking. And also yes you're right fishing is hilariously overwhelming to learn right now because you've essentially got to learn the mechanics behind Mooch, Patience, Intuition/Double Hook/Triple Hook, Surface Slap, Prize Catch, and Lures.

@@SaltExarch yea, that sort of popped up on me and wasnt something I checked ahead of time, so I straight up wasn't sure. I thought it was added in SB, but psyched myself out and thought it was later.

@@FruitySnacks I definitely understand that. A lot of the small QoL updates can blend together after you've been playing for a while. I've only been playing since Stormblood and I'll still sometimes forget when things were added/changed

You can one shot ARR primals using the self destruct method as a BLU mage provided they don't have a soft lock for a transition (namely Shiva and Ramuh). Unfortunately going Heavensward onwards, most iirc have required phases or one hit ko mechanics.

@@BigfootGolem very, very, very few fish multiweek downtime. Helicoprion is tied to a very common weather, so it's very unlikely it was down for weeks. Days, maybe. Weeks, unlikely.

@@FruitySnacks I think I might have just gotten unlucky, double checking it is a couple of weather transition conditions, each with 2% chance, so maybe just a poor mix of luck and bad hours, so perhaps not week long breaks, but just unfavourable memory recollections.

To get content to make videos on, clearly. /s