Ten Ton Hammer - Taking MMO Gamers to the Next Level!

If you move your rod in the right direction, your target will lose some endurance. This looks like the standard health bar of all mobs in the game. If you move your rod in the wrong direction, the target will gain some endurance back. It’s possible to keep up this back and forth battle for an extremely long time if you’re not paying attention or just hitting keys at random. Remember to watch the fish though, and you’ll do just fine. Once your target’s endurance has been depleted, you’ll automatically reel in your catch. If it’s a fish, you’ll get it delivered every time. If it’s an unknown, you’ll sometimes end up with nothing.

Combos can be hard to figure out, but they're well worth the effort!

Catching unknowns may not sound like a lot of fun, but you’d be amazed at some of the things you can get that way. While there is a very small chance you can end up pulling a monster you’ll have to fight or flee from (during one three hour session of fishing, I never had this happen), you can also get some highly coveted items as well. One of my first unknowns produced a bag which contained a Silver Masterwork Sigil. As all the crafters out there know, these can be an insane pain in the ass to try and accumulate in crafting (unless they’ve finally altered the drop rate), so fishing can have its benefits.

When it comes to catching actual fish, everything stated above still applies but there’s one more important difference and that’s combinations. Combos allow you to deplete the endurance of a fish extremely quickly. Each species has its own combinations. Once you learn them, they’ll be kept in your journal so you can always look them up later.

Even if you know a species’ combo though, you can’t just use it whenever you want. You have to wait for the fish to move in a direction, and then hit the corresponding key. If that direction is the first part of the four-part combo, then the combo will begin. This is also how you learn new combos. When a combo begins, an icon will pop up on your screen letting you know it has begun. At that point, you only have a couple of seconds to complete the sequence before the fish moves again, so hit your keys quickly. After you get the first part, hit directions at random if you don’t know the correct sequence yet. If you’re right, the icon on the screen will change and show you if you’ve gotten the next part correct, so pay attention and remember them! If you get part of the sequence wrong, you’ve ended the combo attempt.

Alright, you’re almost ready to go out on your own, but there’s one last thing you need to be aware of. If you mess up, fish can get a combo on you and gain a significant amount of their endurance back. If you get a fish’s initial direction wrong, a fish (unlike an unknown) has a chance to begin a combo. Each fish has a different combo against you and it works the same way. They can’t just do it any time. You have to mess up, and mess up in the “right” direction.

The stronger a fish is, the faster it will be, so until you get your skill up, there are some fish that even though you got them on your line, you’re simply not going to be able to catch them. Keep at it though, because you never know what surprises the sea has in store for you. Be sure to go fishing on a boat too, rather than just on the docks. Some fish can only be found in the deepest parts of the ocean. Who knows what terrors of the deep are waiting out there for you?