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Finding perfect roe and fishing on PS4 - When can one expect to get perfect roe?

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bruceleroy98
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I heard that perfect roe chances are down since recent patches. If I fish, when can I expect to get a hit on perfect roe? Should I use a specific fishing location and bait to accomplish this?

  • xSkullfox
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    Its random from extracting fishes, got 2 roes from about 60-100 fishes.
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  • davey1107
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    It's most likely that the system runs the RNG at the time you filet the fish (given the amount of time it takes to filet one fish and generate the reward items). This means the reward isn't determined when the fish comes out of the water, which means the system probably doesn't track where it came from or what bait was used. This would be an extra layer of tags in the programming, where items already have a complex tagging system...it would be really inefficient coding to do it that way.

    My friend is big on fishing. He says the drop rate is approx. 1 in 200, but that it also seems to fluctuate quite a lot. His theory is that the RNG isn't just a straight odds of getting one, but that there's also some sort of "traffic control" mechanism that only allows so many roe into the game. So if more people are fishing, the drop rate goes down to prevent massive amounts from flooding the market. He also thinks this mechanism prevents any one player from receiving too many by decreasing the odds of a roe the more you've recently earned.

    This is difficult to prove, but his system is to stock up on fish then start filleting. If he gets none in the first 200 he puts the fish away for another time. If he gets one he calls it his "daily allowance" and puts the fish away for another time. If he gets 2+ he assumes there's a shortage the system is compensating for and continues on.

    I don't know if his theories are correct, but he has 27 Roe in his bank I'm supposed to help him sell, so something about his system works.
  • craftycarper73
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    before recent patches i was getting 4 or 5 roe for every 250 - 300 fish gutted, only today i gutted 600 fish for 3 roe, the drop rate is most certainly down.
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  • Danikat
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    I think it's completely random.

    I don't fish much but the only perfect roe I've ever received came from a salmon (a very common fish) I caught on a low level (about level 20) character in Auridon. I don't remember what bait I was using but it was either worms, crawlers or insect parts since those are the only ones I ever get. (I had some of the fish roe bait once, but I sold it.)

    Admittedly 1 roe is an appalling sample size but I would have thought if there was anything other than pure RNG affecting your chances that fish would not have resulted in perfect roe.
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  • DaveMoeDee
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    Anecdote is not going to contribute much to understanding drop rates.
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