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Friday, April 3, 2026

lu shang plan

so I hit lvl 35 before maint started
doing calamari and bluetail rn

I have about 1,350 moats turned in
and I have 2,900,000 gil
lu shang recently dropped in price so I am pretty confident I could buy for 2.9m but I have plans already with my gil(th4 gloves for 1m, and I really dont want to be dead broke)

should be no problem getting to 50 on calamari and bluetail
and bluetail just happens to be my chosen path to lu shangs
I should be able to pull in about 200k a day on bluetail
resulting in about 12-14 days to finish lu shangs
npcing all my bluetail and buying moat carp
no reason to get lu shang before 50 with the skill up nerf pre-50

once maint ends i'll probably stay fishing until I hit about 40 then go to sleep
then try to go 45+ when I wake up
no plans until wednesday so I have plenty of time to get skill ups
at 50 it is pretty simple, just fish bluetail all day for a little under 2 weeks
I don't mind dipping down to around 2m as long as I am willing to do more bluetail to get back up to 3m once I get lu shangs buuuut I probably wont lol i'll probably be sick of bluetail and more than ready to start actually gaining skill and selling those fish for gil 
but I really don't want to "spend" any gil so I may hit 3m and make that my anchor then only spend gil I past 3m

Once I get lu shangs I really don't see myself using it for more than a few weeks
I should be 78 in no time
then the challenge is getting enough guild points for sea serpent's rumors
then i'll be fishing for gil once again to buy lik and gugs
gug or lik first idk lik is much cheaper so it would be easier first or second gug is about 3 times the price
so really I should get the gug item first, then sell my lu shang then fish bluetail or w/e daily until I can get the lik item
either way anyhow I do plan on getting ebisu at 78
I need lu shang's for 50-78 but at 78 I'm selling lu shang and dropping mils on ebisu fish
having made 3 ebisu for myself on retail and selling fish to make dozens of ebisu too I know the average rate is about 1/300 many go less probably more than go over but about 1/300
at 3k/lik and 9k/gug that is not going to be bad at all
no woodworking to repair lu and no roe gloves to stop rod breaks makes the appeal of fishing for lik or gugs to complete the quest very low paired with the price being so low  I'm used to gugs being 60k and lik 40k so 3k and 9k is nothing haha

whelp maint is ending soon so time to get back at it

Thursday, April 2, 2026

Lu Shang route

So basically what I’m getting is
I can either straight fish moat carp which is more expensive and takes longer overall 
I can fish bluetail and npc them then buy moat carp which my math shows it takes more fish caught then just straight moat carp
Or I can just buy moat carp dipping into my Gil but I don’t need to spam fish I’m already at the level cap for making getting to 100 slower

I have enough to buy all the moat to finish but then I’ll be broke
I’ll probably do a mixture of everything 
I’ll get up to bluetail cap
Then see how far away from 10k I am
Which I imagine will be a lot
Because I don’t see myself making that much Gil -55 or even -61 from fishing alone

But honestly what I am feeling
I don’t see how just fishing moat carp wouldn’t be the best route 
If I can fish 600 moat carp a day it’ll be like 14 days of fishing
It’ll cost me 500k
I really don’t think I’ll make 2,000,000 Gil npcing bluetail in 14 days
I don’t see that happening
Well just did the math and it does math out surprisingly 
600 fish a day at 300g per fish 180,000 times 14 days 2,520,000 so that math does make sense
That really isn’t bad Gil at all honestly

I’m about to hit 27 tonight so I still got plenty of time before I can start catching bluetail but it seems realistic
I’m still only looking at 14 more days when I get serious 

The real kicker is that moat need to be caught with insect paste and for 10k you’re looking at about 600k in bait
Where bluetail can be caught with a minnow so bait cost is much less

Either way I’m looking at about 14 days but I’ll need to get my skill up for bluetail first
But that does seem really good as much as I was putting it down

Monday, March 16, 2026

okay..

at devil manta
caught it and a excal/aegis pld checked me 3 times and said something along the lines of:
I pray you use this angel skin to get better gear
it takes me about 2 mins to kill, not slow 
i've only played thf for about a month and my gear is just enough to get the manta kills

I fished the manta 3 times in a row
then a few later he finally got it

when he got it he killed in about 30 seconds and said
"see how quick you can kill those upbeat"

no idea why he is talking to me
he is a excal aegis pld why is he even camping devil manta if not thf...
i've played thf for 1 month he's probably played since release

I have all relics all empy 3 mythics 2 aeonics 1 escutcheon 3 ebisu capped digging and much much more on retail
no s**t i know manta can be killed quick wtf

I blisted him
I'm not putting up with that bs

even if I sold an angel skin for gear it wouldn't make a dent all the good stuff is 500k+ and a skin isn't even 500k

that guy was on something
he wasn't teaching or showing me anything