Ocean Fishing Guide for FFXIV Patch 6.4

To score well in Ocean Fishing, you firstly need to understand what skills are worth your GP to gain points.

• Double Hook and Triple Hook are important skills, allowing you to catch multiple fish in a single cast. These fish can then also be large, giving you double points on all fish caught on that cast.
• Prize Catch guarantees that the next fish will be large and pairs incredibly well with Double Hook and Triple Hook. During Spectral Currents, you may want to chain these together to potentially catch seven large fish at once. This can get you over a thousand points if done on the right fish. If you have a Cordial and Angler's Art stacks ready, you can even do this a second time netting you around 3000 points on just two casts!
• Identical Cast guarantees the next fish will be what you just caught, which can be used on high value fish. Can not be used on fish if their window has ended, such as Spectral Fish.
• Patience II and the corresponding skills give you large fish, but at a heavy GP cost, while also meaning you can not Double Hook and Triple Hook due to the Inefficient Hooking status. This is generally only worth it to build Angler's Art stacks or for experience if leveling.
• Thaliak's Favor is by far your best use for your Angler's Art stacks, allowing you to stockpile hundreds of GP for later use.

On top of skill usage, you need to also consider your Voyage Missions and point bonuses available. At the end of the third stop, your points will be multiplied against a range of factors and bonuses to give you your final score. This can more than double your points, Scrips and experience.

When you first begin Ocean Fishing, you will be given three Voyage Missions. These provide a bonus at the end of your third stop giving you additional points towards your score. It is always worth aiming for these when possible.

To an extent, these missions are predictable or can only appear on certain voyages, allowing you to gain practice and optimise how and when you spend time aiming for these compared to aiming for other point bonuses.

The first mission is always the same on a specific route, the second mission is always the same and the third mission will always require you to catch a number of weak, strong or ferocious bites. The amounts required for the third mission will change depending on the route, but are the same every time on that route.

At the end of your ocean fishing journey your final score will be calculated based on the score you recieved and a collection of bonuses for meeting various objectives, such as finishing Voyage Missions, scoring a certain amount of points or catching specific fish.

The full list of objectives are:

Achivements such as "Teach a Man to Fish", "Big Fish in a Small Pond" and "Ocean Fishing Fanatic" overwrite the previous iterations of that achievement. You would get 20% for completing all three voyages, not 35%.

There are also additional objetives that require an entire party to focus on with coordination. These also give achievements and moreso for the achievement than the score bonus they offer. Your time is often spent better focusing on the other objectives listed above.

Randomly, Dolphins and Seagulls can visit the boat. Their appearance can provide three different buffs, with Seagulls providing the Gullstorm buff and Dolphins providing Cetaceous Speed. Dolphins will also provide Auroral Flipper if a Spectral Current has not appeared yet. There is nothing you can do to influence the chances of them appearing.

Buff	Duration	Effect
Gullstorm	90s	Increased large fish chance.
Cetaceous Speed	90s	Increased GP regeneration rate (+10/tick).
Auroral Flipper	120s	Increased Spectral Current trigger chance.

When catching specific Spectral Fish, for example Spectral Megalodon, you have a chance to change the enviroment on the boat. This is called a Spectral Current.

A Spectral Current completely changes what fish are available, as well as making the fish much faster and incredibly valuable for your points. This is where you gain the majority of your points. Rare Fabled Fish are also available during this time, if you meet certain requirements.

Spectral Currents have a small chance to occur at each stop when the spectral fish is caught. This chance per person increases as less players are on the voyage to help with balancing. A Spectral Current can occur as long as there is more than 1:30 left at your current stop.

A Spectral Current is normally 2 minutes but the duration can change based on certain factors:

• If a Spectral Current does not occur, the next current will be 3 minutes as well as the chance of a Spectral Current appearing increasing.
• If a Spectral Current has to end early due to running out of time at the current stop, the remaining time will be added to the next Spectral Current.

Fishers Intuition is a buff that can appear if you catch specific fish. This buff then allows you to catch another different fish otherwise unavailable that is generally quite hard to catch. This also rewards purple scrips.

There is always an intuition fish available when fishing normally and sometimes during a Spectral Current. The intuition during a Spectral Current however are also known as fabled fish and require specific baits not normally used during ocean fishing.