Logged on today and saw on FFXIAH that crystal bass were the guild fish for Novice, so I tele-holla'd and choco'd to the crystal spring in Jugner and caught 9 within 20 minutes and got a hefty amount of guild points.

Now I'm just continuing my moat carp grind, hoping the 1/10 dark bass catches will skill me up to 33 before I hit 10k fish. And hell, if it doesn't, whatever. I'll have a Lu Shang. And then I can never catch a moat carp again.

FISHED A BIT MORE TODAY.

28 FSH now.

Finally.

Also above the 1k mark of my 10k moat carps. So, there's that...

JUGNER Fishin'

Decided to spend some time in Jugner until I hit 27. Skillups are much faster there because of the tricolored carp.

26 Fishing

I keep not playing FFXI, which either says that I'm not MMO-crazy anymore or I'm just waiting for FFXIV:ARR. Either way, I got 26 Fishing and I am at 588 moat carps. I don't feel like leveling a battle class still.

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Fishing - 25

After going from 9MNK to 51MNK in a very short time (while also getting NM drops on the way), I decided that I would level fishing again to break the monotony.

Since I still don't have a Lu Shang, and they're currently 7M gil on the AH, I decided to do the "Lu Shang leveling path", which has me fishing out in West Sarutabaruta leveling on Dark Bass. 

I started the trek at LV24 fishing with only ~150 moat carps turned in, and after a few days of casual fishing, I've hit LV25 fishing with ~500 turned-in moat carps.  I actually hit the 200 fish cap yesterday, and my moat carp to dark bass ratio from that fishing spot was around 160 moat carps and 40 dark bass.

This fact is going to make the dark bass cap 33 goal pretty slow, as I only see skill-ups once every 20 or so dark bass (and that's being optimistic).

Fishing in XIV was so much easier! But I'm going to keep at it.