So I just recently got my Ebisu and was hoping to fish for Hakuryu but I can't get enough minnows! I try get them on the faries but they are always sold out, or only sell like 6 each. How do you get larger quantities (like 70-80)?
Easier to just craft? Seems expensive if you buy of AH or craft.
Hakuryu - Can't Get Minnows!
Hakuryu - Can't get Minnows!
You don't say.
should've planned ahead before jumping onto the Ebisu bandwagon
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Lakshmi.Inspectorgadget said: »
should've planned ahead before jumping onto the Ebisu bandwagon
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Siren.Kalilla said: »
Oh yes, glad I stockpiled baits etc before the 100 wagons came
lol
Fish Bastore Sardines on a mule with Sabiki Rig. Turn it into Sardine Paste and never worry about camping guilds again. Lower bite rate but who gives a ***when you can't even buy Minnows otherwise. My server is completely sold out on them every time I try going to the guilds.
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There are lower bite rate alternatives but personally I craft them, skills are low and simple for minnows - Alchemy 30ish and Goldsmithing around 3? Most expensive ingredient on Odin is copper ingots which are easily (but takes time) made just sitting in the blacksmiths guild in Northern San d'Oria buying copper ores and synthesising in bulk for ingots.
Glass fiber is ridiculously easy if you have the skill. If not AH is usually around 20k (at least on Odin) a stack but can sometimes get lucky with guilds.
Just depends on how much free time you have and how much you're willing to eat into the profit margin for each fish.
Glass fiber is ridiculously easy if you have the skill. If not AH is usually around 20k (at least on Odin) a stack but can sometimes get lucky with guilds.
Just depends on how much free time you have and how much you're willing to eat into the profit margin for each fish.
Asura.Originalkord said: »
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Good luck with your minnow goals of 2013.
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I think it's absolutely hilarious that people think there is an ebisu bandwagon, seeing as how it's been around for years, and nothing has changed to make it more worth getting now. It's not a bandwagon, people are just finding fishing to be the best thing to do because the game's content is so limited right now.
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Zatu said: »
I think it's absolutely hilarious that people think there is an ebisu bandwagon, seeing as how it's been around for years, and nothing has changed to make it more worth getting now. It's not a bandwagon, people are just finding fishing to be the best thing to do because the game's content is so limited right now.
Yeah no
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Cerberus.Taint said: »
Zatu said: »
I think it's absolutely hilarious that people think there is an ebisu bandwagon, seeing as how it's been around for years, and nothing has changed to make it more worth getting now. It's not a bandwagon, people are just finding fishing to be the best thing to do because the game's content is so limited right now.
Yeah no
Go on...
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The percentage of the endgame population that thinks botting is ok has increased dramatically. As such, there are many more of them doing the most widely available thing to afk profit - Ebisu. It doesn't help that the borderline people are watching their friends get a mil a day for botting overnight.
I'm just turning mine in to ditch Lu's and get 110, I can't really see the profit being worth the hassle any more.
I'm just turning mine in to ditch Lu's and get 110, I can't really see the profit being worth the hassle any more.
Definitely an Ebisu bandwagon, yes its been around for years, but about a week ago i went to the Glacier only to find 30+ people there pulling up haks.
As far as hak "fishing" goes, not everyone has an event LS, that can do some of the more lucrative things like ADL every night or legion. You can do dynamis to make some money, but that can get old and tedious quickly.
I just picked up my Ebisu yesterday and while i'll probably do some hak fishing, my main intention is to do Matsya for a shawl, as other crafts, while cost a bit to skill up can have a way better profit margin then sitting in glacier all day with a monkey doing it for you.
As far as hak "fishing" goes, not everyone has an event LS, that can do some of the more lucrative things like ADL every night or legion. You can do dynamis to make some money, but that can get old and tedious quickly.
I just picked up my Ebisu yesterday and while i'll probably do some hak fishing, my main intention is to do Matsya for a shawl, as other crafts, while cost a bit to skill up can have a way better profit margin then sitting in glacier all day with a monkey doing it for you.
Fish Sardine
You also may need to spend an hour in sky farming earth clusters to craft them. They're in short supply on my server and will save you a bit more money.
Lakshmi.Watusa said: »
Fish Bastore Sardines on a mule with Sabiki Rig. Turn it into Sardine Paste and never worry about camping guilds again. Lower bite rate but who gives a ***when you can't even buy Minnows otherwise. My server is completely sold out on them every time I try going to the guilds.
You also may need to spend an hour in sky farming earth clusters to craft them. They're in short supply on my server and will save you a bit more money.
Well, I just came back from a break, so I suppose I underestimated the amount of people fishing. I just know that 2 months ago, I was fishing haks with no more than 5-7 people with me. Didn't realize it skyrocketed so much lately. I do agree that the majority of players are now finding botting to be not that big of a deal, so I guess that also plays into it.
Zatu said: »
Well, I just came back from a break, so I suppose I underestimated the amount of people fishing. I just know that 2 months ago, I was fishing haks with no more than 5-7 people with me. Didn't realize it skyrocketed so much lately. I do agree that the majority of players are now finding botting to be not that big of a deal, so I guess that also plays into it.
When i took up fishing back in early may, I had been through glacier a few times and near the coastline it was a ghost town, maybe 1-3 people I would guess.
Now it's almost as if people are standing shoulder to shoulder doing it.
Siren.Kalilla said: »
First time I legit laughed out loud by a post on these forums in a very, very long time. Thanks for that. XD
Asura.Alkimi said: »
Fish Sardine
You also may need to spend an hour in sky farming earth clusters to craft them. They're in short supply on my server and will save you a bit more money.
Lakshmi.Watusa said: »
Fish Bastore Sardines on a mule with Sabiki Rig. Turn it into Sardine Paste and never worry about camping guilds again. Lower bite rate but who gives a ***when you can't even buy Minnows otherwise. My server is completely sold out on them every time I try going to the guilds.
You also may need to spend an hour in sky farming earth clusters to craft them. They're in short supply on my server and will save you a bit more money.
Make it more worth your time by spending an hour or two killing worms first. Use the Zinc Ores you get to make Brass Ingots and use the Flint Stones you get to make Glass Fiber. You can then use them to craft your own minnows. It'll only cost you the price of the crystals so every fish you hook up is a profit.
Inevitably any way of making money that doesn't rely on fluctuating AH prices or waiting for people to buy your product or item is going to be popular: more so when it can so easily be botted.
Whether or not it's worth it, I'm not convinced. On Lakshmi a stack of Brass Ingots is 40k, a stack of Glass Fiber 30k so you're looking at 70k for 12 minnows. I don't know what the success/line break ratio is like with Hakuryus but you'd need to fish up 7 just to break even making your own minnows - you could just sell the materials for 70k if you're not going to fish up more than 7.
Seems like Watusa's idea is the best or just finding another source of income except for those days where you get lucky and find a billion minnows waiting for you at the guild NPC.
Inevitably any way of making money that doesn't rely on fluctuating AH prices or waiting for people to buy your product or item is going to be popular: more so when it can so easily be botted.
Whether or not it's worth it, I'm not convinced. On Lakshmi a stack of Brass Ingots is 40k, a stack of Glass Fiber 30k so you're looking at 70k for 12 minnows. I don't know what the success/line break ratio is like with Hakuryus but you'd need to fish up 7 just to break even making your own minnows - you could just sell the materials for 70k if you're not going to fish up more than 7.
Seems like Watusa's idea is the best or just finding another source of income except for those days where you get lucky and find a billion minnows waiting for you at the guild NPC.
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Aeyela said: »
Make it more worth your time by spending an hour or two killing worms first. Use the Zinc Ores you get to make Brass Ingots and use the Flint Stones you get to make Glass Fiber. You can then use them to craft your own minnows. It'll only cost you the price of the crystals so every fish you hook up is a profit.
Or you could spend a few hours in an exp party and get loaded up even offer to buy the stuff for a fair price. Craft a metric f-ton of them and be good for a few days.
charged whisker tonberries in aby konschtat desynth fiber
I haven't found crafting Flint Stones being worth my while. There's never enough up on AH to craft enough for minnows since it's an 8:1 ratio. You pretty much have to suck it up and buy Glass Fiber off the AH and accept your losses that you'll make up in an hour or two.
I also love how any time I talk about Sardine Paste I get messages from people to "edit my post" as if Sardine Paste is some big *** top secret we can't let anyone else know or they will take all our moneyz. Everyone knows, move on.
I also love how any time I talk about Sardine Paste I get messages from people to "edit my post" as if Sardine Paste is some big *** top secret we can't let anyone else know or they will take all our moneyz. Everyone knows, move on.
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