If you’ve been out and about fishing the levels away in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, it can be easy to forget that there are a number of fishing leves available to help you get a leg up toward level 50.
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The fieldcraft leves available to Fishers are different from those of Botany and Mining in that they function much like tradecraft leves. You must collect the amount of fish requested and turn them in — and turning in high quality fish results in double the base experience, and then some.
While there are plenty of fishing leves available, this article/list is focusing on repeatable fishing leves. These adhere to the same rules as their tradecraft counterparts, sans the shard gains (and at times, aiming for leves of a lower level than your Fisher). You can check out the details on this whole process on my primary Repeatable Tradecraft Leves Guide.
All of the below leves are repeatable, and as such you must turn in the requested amount of fish three times in order to take full advantage of these levequests. Paired with high quality turn-ins, you have a ton of experience on your hands!
Often these fish can be found in the same region as the levemete!
(My fishing tackle guide is complete!)
Level 20
Quarrymill – Blind Ambition (6109 XP)
Requires: 3 Dark Sleeper
Freshwater
Quarrymill – Food Chain Reaction (6109 XP)
Requires: 3 Faerie Bass
Freshwater
Level 25
Quarrymill – The Truth Will Set You Free (9885 XP)
Requires: 3 Five-ilm Pleco
Freshwater
Quarrymill – Fishing 101 (9262 XP)
Requires: 3 Dark Bass
Freshwater
Level 30
Costa del Sol – Kitchen Nightmares No More (14725 XP)
Requires: 3 Black Sole
Saltwater
Costa del Sol – The Blue Period (14725 XP)
Requires: 3 Sea Pickle
Saltwater
Level 35
Coerthas (Observatorium) – Fry Me a River (21057 XP)
Requires: 3 Giant Bass
Freshwater
Coerthas (Observatorium) – Gathering Light (19950 XP)
Requires: 3 Lamp Marimo
Freshwater
Level 40
Coerthas (Whitebrim) – Rationally Speaking (19950 XP)
Requires: 3 Golden Loach
Freshwater
Coerthas (Whitebrim) – Make a Fish (26707 XP)
Requires: 3 Abalathian Smelt
Freshwater
Level 45
Mor Dhona – Snail Fail (35520 XP)
Requires: 3 Ingus Snail
Freshwater
Mor Dhona – Sleeper Creeper (32572 XP)
Requires: 3 Sludgeskipper
Freshwater
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