How to Catch Furcacauda in FFXIV (Lv.100 Modest Lure Method)



This is a short guide for catching Furcacauda in FFXIV using the Lv.100 ability, Modest Lure. See description for more information on the method at a deeper level.

📖Chapters
0:00 Intro & What to know ahead of time
0:05 Window Prep
0:39 Casting out early
1:03 Furcacauda window “loop”
1:31 “Why is Modest Lure better?”
1:45 Furcacauda Catch
2:13 Outro

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Furcacauda
Location: Elpis
Fishing Hole: Lethe
Bait: Skyspoon Lure
Conditions: 15:30 – 16:30 during Umbral Wind after Fair Skies
Folklore Tome: The World Unsundered
Minimum Gathering: 3,300

📋Window Prep
Arrive early to Lethe and cast out with Sky Spoon Lure. Use Modest Lure 3 times (or until you see “you have a feeling your next cast will be a small sized fish). Reel in any ! bites, and if it’s an Isle Skipper, use Surface Slap and Chum then wait for the window to open.

If it’s not a ! bite (or it’s not Isle Skipper), just cast back out and repeat using Modest Lure until you get the Isle Skipper — it really shouldn’t take too long.

⌚Furcacauda and the Split Window
Furcacauda has what fisher’s have come to call a “split window.” This is a window which has a time condition that straddles a weather transition at 00, 08, or 16, meaning that it can’t ever be up for the full time condition; the weather condition means its window will either start or end when the weather transition happens.

Specifically for Furcacauda, its window can start at 15:30 or 16:00, depending on when it’s going to be Umbral Window. If it’s Umbral Wind from 8-16, then its window is 15:30 to 16:00. If it’s Umbral Wind from 16:00 to 00, then its window is from 16:00-16:30. This is important to know for utilizing this method!

🎣Catching Furcacauda
When it is 2 eorzean minutes before Furcacauda’s window (so, either 15:28 or 15:58) cast out and use Modest Lure TWICE, then wait until 1 eorzean minute after the window (so at 15:31 or 16:01) to use the third Modest Lure. Wait for a fish to bite (which with Chum will be 5 seconds after you use the third Modest) – if it’s a ! or !! bite, use Rest, cast out, and use Modest Lure 3 more times (or until you see “You have a feeling your next cast will be a small sized fish!”) and then wait again for the next bite.

If it’s a !!! bite, use Hook to attempt to Furcacauda.

You can get 6 casts during the Furcacauda window like this.

📈Why is this method better than Slap + Chum?
With each stack of Modest Lure, the chance of any fish in a fishing hole which can be caught with Precision Hookset goes up, with 3 being the maximum increase. This increase is (far as we know) so great that it gives you a better chance of Furcacauda biting in a window with 6 casts, compared to the Slap + Chum method (for Lv90-99 FSH), which is potentially 10-11 casts. Now, Furcacauda still takes a while and the chance to bite is still low, but it is still GREATER than without Modest Lure.

We can really only get away with this because Furcacauda is a “Precision Hookset” fish, along with Antheia and Isle Skipper. Since we can remove the Isle Skipper with Surface Slap, that just leaves Furcacauda and Antheia as Precision hookset fish – meaning Modest Lure will make it MUCH more likely that one of them will bite. Most of the time, if it is a Precision Hookset fish that bites, then it’ll be Antheia, but Furcacauda has a still better chance of biting than with the Lv.90-99 method.

Good luck and happy fishing!

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4 thoughts on “How to Catch Furcacauda in FFXIV (Lv.100 Modest Lure Method)”

  1. Thanks! Saw your post about this on twitter a couple days ago and managed to get it with modest lure in yesterday's window. It's a shame that Ealad's fishing hole is all precision hookset…

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  2. You may be wondering "This is only 6 casts, the Lv.90-99 method is like 10-11 casts per window!?" — Modest Lure's increase of Precision Hookset fish in the hole – combined with the amount of precision hookset fish in the actual hole, makes it so that even though you get less casts per window, the chance for Fork to bite is INCREASED when Modest Lure is at 3x stacks OR you get the guaranteed small-size fish proc.

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