Collect (Fisher)

Collect

Acquired

 FSH (actions)

Level

50

Type

Ability

Casting

Instant

Quest Req.

Inscrutable Tastes

Patch

3.0

Readies the catch to retain as a collectable.

— In-game description

Collect is an action unlocked by questing at level 50. It is available for Fisher.

Notes

Fishing for collectables works differently from other Disciples of Land. To catch collectable fish, you simply enable Collect to activate the Collector's Glove buff and fish (or spearfish) as normal. Any fish capable of being a collectable that you catch with Collector's Glove active will have a random amount of collectability influenced by the fisher's perception rating.

Fish caught as collectables cannot have their yield increased by using Double Hook or Triple Hook; the fisher will only receive a single collectable fish.

Note: It is possible to catch collectable fish in a non-collectable form if you forget to enable Collect. Non-collectable versions of those fish generally have no use, although some are used for Fisher's Intuition to catch particular species of fish.

For a full list of general-purpose gathered collectables with thresholds and scrips, see: Fishing Collectables.

Increasing Collectability

The collectable score is directly related to the fish's length, so actions which increase the chances to catch large-sized fish or otherwise affect the size of the fish will therefore also increase the collectability rating.

Fishing Actions:

• Patience II gives a buff which both increases the odds of catching large-sized fish, and of catching average-sized fish of greater length.
  • While this buff is active, the fisher will need to use Precision Hookset to hook fish with weak bites or Powerful Hookset to hook fish with strong bites.
• Prize Catch guarantees that the next catch will be a large-sized fish.
• Big-game Fishing increases the chance that the next large-sized fish caught will be an especially large specimen. (This chance increases based on the fisher's perception rating.)

Spearfishing Actions:

• Nature's Bounty increases the chance of landing a large-sized fish on the next spearfishing attempt. (This chance increases based on the fisher's perception rating.)

Collectables prompt window

Upon catching a fish while Collector's Glove is active, a prompt window will appear, asking whether the player would like to receive the fish as a collectable. This has several quirks:

• Answering "yes" (or closing the window) will add 1 copy of the fish to the player's inventory as a collectable. This also forfeits the opportunity to mooch, as collectables cannot be used to mooch.
• Answering "no" will add regular (non-collectable) copies of the fish to the player's inventory. In this case, whether the player used Double Hook or Triple Hook is considered in the quantity received. These regular fish follow regular mooch rules.
• For purposes of Fisher's Intuition, the fish are not considered as "entering the inventory" until the player selects a response in the prompt window. Due to this, the prompt window can be used to delay receiving the fish until a desired time - sometimes to recover GP, or to assure intuition is triggered at a specific time.
• Disconnecting from the game while the prompt is still active will forfeit the fish, and they will not enter the inventory.

History

• Patch 3.0 (2015-06-23): Added.