Fishing/Spawn Chance

Fish Spawns

Fish spawns are affected by three factors: fishing level, Familiar Waters, and Advanced Fish Mapping. Fishing level will increase spawn rates of uncommon, rare, epic, and legendary fish by a small factor. For example, at fishing level 1 spawning a legendary fish is usually around 0.5% chance. At fishing level 35, this is increased to around 1.5%.

The most impactful factors for fish spawns are Familiar Waters and Advanced Fish Mapping, which directly increase legendary fish spawns. When trying to catch rarer fish, these skills will make the largest difference.

When fish spawns show Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and the "All" season, the individual season's rates take precedence. The spawn rates specific to the current season is more accurate than the "All" season.

Calculations

For simplicity, fish spawns are calculated at two extremes.

• Fishing level 1 (with no skills)
• Fishing level 70 with 3 points in both Familiar Waters and Advanced Fish Mapping

At higher levels with these skills, the spawn rate of legendary fish is greatly increased, and the rate of common fish is greatly decreased. This is why the Max Spawn Chance might be lower than Min Spawn Chance. Catching rarer fish will always have a higher spawn chance for Max Spawn Chance.

Fish spawns are calculated per location. These values are then sorted by fish and added into spawn tables. Adding all the values from a spawn chance column should yield 100% for each location.

Min Spawn Chance

Min Spawn Chance is calculated at fishing level 1, with no skills.

Max Spawn Chance

Max Spawn Chance is calculated at fishing level 70, with 3 points in both Familiar Waters and Advanced Fish Mapping.