(LEGACY) How to catch Cinder Surprise in FFXIV 🥚

Cinder Surprise, or also sometimes called Mr. Egg or just “egg”, it the Rare, Legendary Fish of the River of Sand in Amh Araeng. It’s a straight forward intuition fish… but that doesn’t make it easy. Dumb Egg 🥚

📖Chapters
0:00 Intro & What to know ahead of time
0:18 Cinder Prep
0:52 The four swoosh method for prep
1:13 Important Prep Reminder
1:53 Cinder Window opens + Slap options
2:54 Chum and No Chum recast times
3:14 Cinder Surprise Catch 🥚

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Cinder Surprise
Location: Amh Araeng
Fishing Hole: The River of Sand
Bait: Desert Dessert Frog
Conditions: 0-2, Heatwaves after a Dust Storm
Min Gathering: 2250
Intuition Length: 6min

📋Prep Phase
Arrive EXTREMELY early. I usually do about 30 minutes (real life) before the window opens, but 20 minutes also can work. You need a total of 10 Sand Eggs to trigger Cinder’s Intuition. What you want is to catch 9, and then Identical Cast the 9th egg so you can “hold” the last egg until it’s time for Cinder’s window.

Start by casting out into the River of Sand with Desert Dessert Frog. Sand Egg is a ! bite before 10 seconds, but so are a couple other fish. Reel in any ! bites before 10s. If 10s pass and no bite, just hook to reel in, and cast out again. An easy way to tell when to reset the cast is to count the number of swooshes your rod makes. After 4 swooshes, reel in and cast out… it’s about 4 swooshes until Sand Egg will no longer bite.

Catch a Sand Egg, then use Identical Cast and Double Hook to can two more. Continue to catch sand eggs until you have 8 (EIGHT). You don’t want to catch your 9th sand egg off an Identical Cast, because then you can’t Identical Cast it. Once you have 8 eggs make sure you have enough GP for Identical Cast; cast out and catch a 9th Sand Egg, then Identical Cast right after it. This will leave you prepped for Cinder’s window.

🥚Cinder’s Window
At or soon after 23:52 (11:52pm) Eorzea time cast out, and catch your 10th and last Sand Egg to trigger Cinder’s Intuition. You have two option for Surface Slap targets.

First option is to slap the sand egg you caught to trigger intuition. If you do this, you can wait until a little after X:52 to cast out, slap and then chum. Cast out after midnight Eorzea time.

Second option is to catch the sand egg to trigger intution, then cast out again, catch, and Surface Slap the next fish that bites. Chum afterwards, then cast out again if it is after midnight Eorzea time.

Either method is valid, I usually slapped the Sand Egg that triggered intuition, but for this catch, I did the second method. Be sure you use Chum right after slapping something.

IN THE WINDOW you’re just going to chum and cast as much you can. Hi-Cordials are HIGHLY recommended. If you are using a standard timer macro (linked below), Cinder will bite NO LATER THAN 13s with Chum. Cinder will bite NO LATER THAN 18s WITHOUT Chum. If you don’t have a bite after either of those times, use hook to reset the cast, chum if you can, and cast out again.

And that’s it! Repeat until your intuition has ended! Across the intuitions I had during the confirmed window, I averaged about 1 egg bite per window, sometimes two, sometimes none. Cinder Surprise is a RARE bite. Worthy of its Legendary Status.

Good luck and happy fishing!

💻Cast Timer Macro: https://pastebin.com/vvyciqJR
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