Is LuShangs worth it?

[Nodoka]

Is it really worth the carps turned in? Up until now I have been selling my carps.. but I want to know if I should save up for a lushangs.

Comapred to a composite rod, how much more bites do you get? How much better are the catch rates? 833 stacks of carp are alot. XD I wanna know if its really worth it.

[T42289]

Yeah, I would really want to know this too. I mean I'm thinking it must be, because why else would people buy it?

[LockeCole]

With Lu Shang you can also farm monsters that pop from fishing, which I heard sell for more than 100k. I know several Japanese people who do this with their high skill and rod. I don't know anything about the fishes though orz.

[Grayeyes]

Bastore Breams are the fish of choice to high level players. Catch relatively fast with a lu Shang's and sell to the NPCs for 1-1.3k (can't remember) each.

[PetriW]

Well, with a lu shang rod you can get 20k gil an hour with relative ease.
You could of course also just fish moat carp with a glass rod for like 16k an hour. (at higher skill of course)

Depends on your ambitions.

Edit: brain failure, i mean with LU SHANG you can get 20k an hour with relative ease.

[Grayeyes]

4 stacks of moat carp in an hour?!

What kind of skill are we talking here :D

[PetriW]

70+ skill.

Just for fun today I picked up a glass rod, made some insect paste and went fishing in Rabao. Caught 9 stacks in 2 hours, the Sandfish paid for the IP. Moon at 71%+ and fished over lightsday and darksday.

At 56 skill I caught at least 3 stacks an hour without problems.

[Grayeyes]

Man, I didn't know having a skill that much higher made THAT much of a difference.


*ponders taking up fishing again*

[Darkani]

Im dissapointed.. is 20k/hour the most you can get from high lvl fishing? I was expecting at least 50k/hour.

Should just stop leveling it and get some craft high enough ><

[TofuBomb]

hmm i've heard from a guy I met raising crafts that he was making around 75k a hour with about 60ish fishing. Think he was being honest considering how much he was dumping to power level the craft. (alchemly) I won't say what he was fishing without his permission even though he probably wouldn't care but he did that without using lu shang a different rod he used, (he was raising alchemly to be able to repair it.)


ps. He said it took him around 6 months to get that level of fishing so it was no easy task for the big gil/hr

[Vairu]

i'm sure you can make more than 20k/ hour

i'm at 30 and i can make about 12k~ per hour or maybe more if i was going for breams i haven't tried yet. From carps and pipira's though i can make a lot of gil

i'm thinking of getting lu shangs though but i wish there was a lure you can use for moat carp, i'll just make the IP myslef cooking is almost at 20

[Unholy Prince]

you can make MUCH more then 20k an hour with a high fishing skill and a lu shangs. I've heard reports of 60k/hr or more. If you need proof go to http://www.lisaarndt.com/phpBB2/ and look at some of the posts from the high lvl fishers.

[Vairu]

woot thx for that link

[Et Cetera]

A Lu Shang costs 10,000 moat carp. Roughly 3,000,000 gil? From what I've read here 60k per hour... 100k on farming monsters... yea it's well worth it. But from what I can tell it has alot to do with bragging rights lol.

[Funguwari]

My friend fished Moat carp, farmed to buy stacks of Moat carp to do the quest.

She had her Lu Shang's within 1-3 weeks or something... dosen't seem like a long time.