This is a short guide for catching Ruby Dragon at Level 100 Fisher in FFXIV.
đChapters
0:00 Intro & What to know ahead of time
0:05 Window Prep (Coeurl Eel Snake Slap)
0:41 Catching and Storing Kuâer
2:07 Ruby Dragon âOpenerâ (Using Stored Kuâer)
3:19 After the âOpenerâ (Getting More Kuâer)
3:26 Catching Ruby Dragon
3:50 Outro
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Fish: The Ruby Dragon
Location: The Ruby Sea
Hole: The Ruby Price
Bait: Blue Bobbit (Mooch)
Conditions: 04-08, Thunder to Clouds
Folklore Book: Othard
Min Gathering: 1,300
Before starting anything, use Patience II to get 10 Anglerâs Art Stacks somewhere in the Ruby Sea well before midnight. Iâd recommend around 9pm Eorzea Time.
đ(Kuâer) Window Prep
Once you have 10 Anglerâs Art Stacks, cast out into the Ruby Price with Blue Bobbit. Reel in any !! bite until you get a Couerl Eel Snake. Once you catch one, use Surface Slap, Prize Catch, and Chum.
You can use Ambitious Lure but itâs not needed at this part.
đŁCatching Kuâers
Once midnight passes, cast out and use Ambitious Lure (ALure) 3x or until you see âYou have a feeling the next cast will be a large-sized fishâ and ONLY ATTEMPT TO HOOK !!! BITES. Once you get a !!! bite, this will be Kuâer. Use Spareful Hand and then repeat the prep steps from before:
1. Catch a Coeurl Eel Snake, Surface Slap it.
2. Use Prize Catch
3. Use Chum
4. Cast out, use Ambitious Lure up to 3x
5. Hook only !!! bites, use Spareful Hand on catch
6. Return to Step 1.
Youâll repeat this until you (ideally) have 3 Kuâers stored as swimbait (and one prepped with Mooch), but the ultimate goal of the 0-4 Kuâer window is to get as many Kuâer stored as possible. GP management is IMPORTANT here. You shouldnât use Anglerâs Art stacks too much (weâll need that for the Ruby window), and you should always have enough GP to use Spareful Hand.
The skill usage priority is:
Spareful Hand/Prize Catch
Surface Slap
Ambitious Lure
Chum (not chumming is OK!!!!)
đŁCatching Ruby Dragon
Once 4am passes, use Prize Catch, set a stored Kuâer as your swimbait* and cast out. When mooching a Kuâer itâll either be a another Kuâer (sub 25s bite) or itâll be Ruby Dragon (25s+ bite). Use Hook to catch whatever bites.
If itâs a large-sized Kuâer (the first one will be if you used Prize Catch) Mooch it.
If itâs an average-sized Kuâer, and Makeshift Bait IS NOT active, use Makeshift Bait then use Mooch II.
If itâs an average-sized Kuâer and Makeshift Bait IS active, use Mooch II.
Repeat mooching Kuâer until the chain breaks for whatever reason. Once itâs broken, set your next stored Kuâer as your swimbait and cast back out repeating the above.
*If you have a Moochâd kuâer in storage, just mooch it then follow these steps.
Keep using all the stored Kuâer you have until they run out. Once they do, return back up to the steps in âCatching Kuâerâ â immediately mooching any Kuâer you get.
Any bite over 25s off a Kuâer Mooch is Ruby Dragon. While Ruby isnât slippery, it CAN SLIP. Itâs not a guaranteed catch once it bites â as with all fish in FFXIV.
đŠ BONUS NOTES!
â GP Management at Lv.100 is much more important compared to the Lv.80 or Lv.90 methods, as there is much more active skill usage.
â Ambitious Lure attracts powerful Hookset fish, so if itâs not a Kuâer that bites, itâll be Glass Herring. Early estimates put Kuâer bite chance with 3x Ambitious Lure stacks at near 45%.
â Seriously, GP management is important now for this fish.
â Ruby Dragon is considered one of the longest fish to go for â potentially taking many months worth of windows to catch.
Good luck and happy fishing!
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This is so unfair! I had to catch Ruby Dragon without all these extra abilities. It's catering to casuals and is a SLAP IN THE FACE to HARDCORE FISHERS! I will be boycotting re-catching Ruby Dragon and I encourage all the REAL fishers to do the same. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go empty the can I have duct-taped to my head that catches my brain juices leaking out.
Ruby Dragon is so notorious Fruity had to record a guide for it for a third time.
That's an achievement for a Stormblood fish.
Is Ruby Dragon required for the big fish achievement? I was wondering what uses it has
Took me 9 months to catch this goddamn fish before Dawntrail came out. The scar shall never heal. These sprouts nowadays don't know the true terror of losing the Ku'er you prepped on the first mooch.
ohhh are we using Prize Catch during the Ku'er loop to keep our Ku'er mooch bait up?
but would it break the mooch chain to store one?
folks really be gatekeeping fish lol … i struggled for 3 years to get big fish title last one being ruby but why would i be mad others wont have to struggle as much due to new skills ?
if anyone did it without( lvl100 skill) and had to fight for ruby or other fish but came out succesful these skills wont take away the joy, the relief and the memory you have of catching that "elusive fish" back then but now its unfair others can? , mind you even with the skills cathing ruby aint easy .
This is the last fish I need, glad to see I've basically been doing what I should be doing. Complaining here means that I'll catch it for sure on monday right?