How Fish Eyes Works in FFXIV

Fish Eyes, a buff which removes the time requirement of fish. Except, not all fish… and it doesn’t work in Ocean Fishing… … … but it makes SOME big fish a little less annoying!

Chapters
0:00 Intro & what to know ahead of time
0:10 Time Only Requirement Fish Eyes Example (Vidofnir)
0:39 Vidofnir caught with Fish Eyes
0:54 Weather Requirement Fish Eyes Example (Moggle Mogpom)
1:51 Weather Incorrect Example
2:22 Weather (+ transition) Correct Example
3:40 Moggle Mogpom caught with Fish Eyes.

FFXIV Free Trial Fishers:
All of this can be applied to you! If you plan to use Fish Eyes, I highly recommend getting food to increase your GP, so you can handle using Fish Eyes.

Fish Eyes is a 550 GP buff that, for its duration, will let remove the time requirement of any fish in a fishing hole. It DOES NOT remove the weather requirements for fish! Not ALL fish can be caught with Fish Eyes effect. Legendary Fish, Ocean Fish, and fish from certain expansion zones can NOT be caught with Fish Eye’s effect. For a complete list, see below.

NOTE: Fish Eyes will cancel any active mooches, but will not cancel Surface Slap or Identical Cast! It is extremely recommended to prepare as much as you can and let your GP regenerate before using Fish Eyes!

Time Only Requirements:
for example, if you are trying to catch a fish like Vidofnir (shown) or Vip Viper, you just need to pop Fish Eyes, and then anytime you cast during the duration, the following bite could be one of those fish. This is because they do not have weather requirements, only time requirements.

Weather Only Requirements:
If you’re going after a fish like Gigantshark or Moggle Mogpom (shown), Fish Eyes wouldn’t work anytime, and you’d need to wait for the proper weather (or weather transition!) to occur to catch the fish. For example, Moggle Mogpom has the conditions of 10 – 13, during Clear Skies after Gales in the Churning Mists. If you used Fish Eyes, but the weather is just Gales, you would not be able to catch Moggle Mogpom because the weather is not correct. If the weather was Clear AFTER Gales, then for the entirety of the Clear Skies in the Churning Mists, any time casted out while under the effect of Fish Eyes, you’d have a chance to catch Moggle Mogpom.

List of Fish that DO NOT WORK with Fish Eyes (as of patch 5.58)
• Any fish in Stormblood zones
• Any fish in Shadowbringer zones
• Any Ocean Fish
• Namitaro
• Endoceras
• Helicoprion
• Kuno the Killer
• Shonisaurus
• Neptodragon
• Armorfish
• Problematicus
• Opabinia
• Raimdellopterus
• Charibenet
• Sea Butterfly

Good luck and happy fishing!

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