Willow Fishing RodFollow

Guild levequests are one way: http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/1509/ffxivgame20100907060833.png

I'd imagine it will be craftable as well, eventually (Or maybe it is already, just need to find the recipe!).


**EDIT: It's a fairly substantial upgrade. Just submitted this to the ZAM database email address, thought you may want a peek until it's added:

Item Name: Willow Fishing Rod

Slot: Primary
Requires: Fisher
Optimal Rank: 10

Attributes:
Gathering 22
Output 20
Scanning 17

Elemental Wheel: 0

Wear: 97600/97600
Repair Materials: Willow Branch x1

In-game model and tooltip: http://img829.imageshack.us/slideshow/webplayer.php?id=willowfishingrodstats.png

Edited, Sep 7th 2010 1:19pm by Giblos

Ul'dah (extended info was in the first pic).

Fastest way would be to ask somebody who has been there already to teleport you. Otherwise, you have to walk and/or take a ferry. If I remember right, Ul'dah is in the center of the map, with Limsa Lominsa to the west of it, and Gridania to the east.

It's possible :) I just went from Gridania > Ul'dah > Limsa Lominsa last night for an adventure, and it actually wasn't all that difficult (only time consuming!). If you're going from Gridania I think that the fastest route is to run to Camp Tranquil then run straight down that path until you reach Thalanan. Once you reach Thalanan just open up your map, and you should see Ul'dah towards the middle, and the ferry docks for Limsa Lominsa will be farthest west you can go on the map. For the most part, I think that you stay on the main paths in these areas to reach the cities. :) Good luck!

Also, you can repeat the levequest and get the same reward. I've already given one spare to a shell member who decided to pick up fishing ^_^

Dang.. hope it's just a case of a lucky randomness on the item. Was very very handy just getting the rod from the leve. Particularly now that the skill points are a tad harder to get.

Going to try exchanging multiple (okay all 8) leves next reset on the Crow Fly one, see if maybe it upgrades the item... aside from that.. decided screw the weapon going to under take a project to get either the Ash or Bamboo rod made. Bamboo just a tad tougher, but I've seen some of the mats for it already in Bazaars.

Yeah max leve exchange didn't help any at all (other then give a hole crap load of gold for it). Yeah I've been meaning to try that myself, however currently lack to skills to make the metallic parts.. all these dang crafts I have underway.. and somehow it's always the ones I don't have that I need.

I've been checking guildleves at every city since the game went live. As far as level 10 fishing leves, I've not seen this been a reward yet.

I've been recycling the leves and the ash rod isn't a reward either. Someone saw me shout and invited me to their ls, he's ranking his carpenter to make me a better rod, lol. Even shouting with a 40k reward didn't get me any tell's except the guy who's now helping me.

I haven't seen any rod's in bazaar's when I checked though but it takes so long to keep track of the retainers without some form of search so I'm just waiting, I should get a better rod tomorrow... XP from leves is starting to fall of very fast too, I get same xp catching normal fish from rank 10 leves as I do fishing in grade 3 water in the Black shroud, I should try the grade 4 I found in beta but there's a agro mob nearby and the grade 8 beach has snippers and salamanders that agro...

Unsure if it's legit or not, but this site lists a recipe for a bamboo rod which is a step higher then the willow. Could be useful in comparison for figuring out the willow rod.

http://ffxiv.yg.com/recipe/bamboo-fishing-rod?id=1036

Thanks for the heads up. That is a recent recipe update. The good news is that the iron wire and hempen bowstring remained the same, but unfortunately the bronze reel changed to brass reel for the Bamboo Fishing Rod.

Any level 20+ armorers available on Mysidia yet, send me a tell! :)

I am using the comparison of Ash vs Bamboo to try and determine the medium (Willow) recipe. Nakki Leather isn't used in the Ash Fishing Rod synth and I doubt it is in the Willow synth. It is still going to require quite a bit of playing around with.

Well I got my first 2 rank 20 leves last night and the reward was only gil...

It did, however, show me more rank 3 spots in the Black shroud, east of camp Tranquil. On the other hand, it's infested with agro mobs and notably the fish up 3 fish leve spot was in a dead end guarded by a lone wolf...

The other leve wanted me to check out 3 spots, first 2 were easy but the third seemed to be up on a cliff or inside a cave, after I failed the leve I kept trying to access that spot for a while until I just gave up and let the agro mobs eat me.

Me thinks SE wants you to level a combat job besides fisher, why else would the spots be smack in the middle of agro mobs?

I'm about to give up on getting a better fish rod and fishing completely because of it.

I found another carpenter but then we found out we need a rank 21 armorer item and the reel is hard to get too it seems. It was so easy to get in beta but in retail I can't even get a ash fising rod because of a few missing ingredients... MY linkshell didn't like me complaining about it either /shrug everyone and their sister is making armor/weapons but not a single fishing rod is for sale on my server...

I got them in Gridania when I hit 16 fisher, I havent seem them in Limsa yet and I'll try Ul'dah tonight.

thats lame they only go to a certain city :(

The reel is a rank 15 Blacksmith synth. It should be available. I successfully gathered the parts necessary and made one, but the Iron Wire required is a rank 21 Armorer synth. That one is a bit more difficult, and from all of the sites I have checked, it is not sold by vendor.

It is probably just a matter of being patient for another week or so.

I'm pretty frustrated with fishing due to being cockblocked by rods... Why so difficult to obtain? Seems reasonless to me.
Iron wire for level 7 rod? Really?

Edited, Oct 3rd 2010 9:53pm by sylph19

Willow Fishing Rod recipe is up on YG now.

I had a carpenter friend try the recipe with the ingredients YG lists for the Bamboo rod.

"You cannot make anything with those materials." Good job YG!!!

The next day the willow rod recipe popped up and had my carpenter friend make me one. xD

Tipped him 20k he was thrilled. 100k for this rod is a total gouge. It's nice to have, but you can rank just fine at grade 3 with weathered or ash rod. My advice if you don't have a lot of gil, is wait for more people to start making them, or find a carpenter to make it for you.

Edited, Oct 6th 2010 10:19am by mattkujata

I do have all of the materials for the Willow Rod. I finished acquiring those last night, and have lots of materials to spare now.

The most expensive ingredients were the iron wire and the brass reel. Iron Wire took 2x Iron Ingots (which are 5x iron nuggets @4k each) so that came out to 40k, but at least you got 12. The Brass Reel is about 25k for one (brass ingot, brass plate, brass rivets).

I can start producing quite a few of these on Mysidia now if anyone needs one send me a pm.

For the Bamboo Rod, I was just missing the Antelope Horn, but if that recipe is incorrect well... we'll start over I guess. I was able to find someone selling Nakki Leather for only 5k so I snatched up all he had quickly.

I have seen a few Willow Rods for sale on Mysida about 2-3 days ago for 187,500 each.

Edited, Oct 6th 2010 1:23pm by LordMethos

Got my Willow Rod made last night. I tried to attempt it myself as Carpenter 11 with Common guild support. I received the message that I needed to wait till I was of greater skill, so this synth is NOT a level 11 Carpenter synth.

I had it made by a level 21 Carpenter and he appeared to have a few struggles with the synthesis.

After fishing with the new rod last night. The very first thing that I noticed was that the "remainder" bar depleted less when missing my target zone. Therefore, it allowed more attempts to catch the fish in the correct zone.