(This guide contains no MSQ quest name spoilers, but does include the a mid-game zone announced in a live letter, along with its music.)
Found in the waters of Thavnair, Gilled Topknot is one of the many ways to get Moonlight Aethersand!
Chapters
0:00 Intro & What to know ahead of time
0:15 What to look for & catching Gilled Topknots
0:40 Veteran Trade Target
1:06 Reducing Gilled Topknots
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Fish: Gilled Topknot
Location: Thanvair
Hole: Southern Akyaali
Size/Speed: Medium Size, Fast Speed.
Conditions: Any Time/Weather
Arrive at Southern Akyaali’s waters and use the Lv 85 Teeming waters. Make sure you have collector’s glove active! Moonlight Aethersand comes from a couple of fish, one of them being Gilled Topknot.
Gilled Topknot is a fast medium sized fish. While spearfishing, ONLY spear the medium sized fish. Ignore the rest to increase your time (and thus # of Topknots that can spawn) at the teeming waters. If you catch the slower medium sized fish, use Veteran Trade. This will ensure all the future medium size fish that spawn will be Gilled Topknot.
Repeat over and over until you have as many Gilled Topknots as you want. Use Aetherial Reduction to open the menu to begin aetherially reducing the Gilled Topknots. You can also right click on them to do this. They will give a varied number of Moonlight Aethersand. The higher the collectability, the more sand you’re likely to get.
Good luck and happy fishing!
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Hey all! This is the first Spearfishing fish guide, so it's sort of a tester for me. If it feels a bit rough (or if there's something you want to see in a spearfishing guide), let me know!
With spearfishing being more relevant in fishing now, you'll be seeing a LOT more spearfishing content.
Thanks for the guide! Made me realize I was spearfishing one too far to the left and wondering why I always had to spawn a shadow and how on earth that was ok for farming aethersand.. welp.
Is Perception better for getting bigger Topknots? i usually average 191-232, only going past that with Bounty.