This is awful. I’m maxed out fishing skill, using a perception vial with a Khaz’gorite Fisherfriend and I’m fishing in a Rich fishing hole and I’ve been here 30 minutes with no Ominous conch. What burns my britches even more is that I used 5 to spawn a lunker for the Forbidden Reach daily and it only dropped 2 of the three needed morsels. Every other time it drops the three.
Please up the drop rate.
Agreed. I think the drop rate must have been lowered. It took me forever to do the Forbidden Reach lunker daily since I wasn’t fishing any up and also looted only two morsels from the conchs I had in my bag. Thankfully, I managed to tag a random person’s spawn even though it was mostly a deserted area.
I don’t even try to fish them up at this point. If I don’t have enough from the WQs, I consider it a lost cause.
They definitely changed the droprate. These used to drop all the time in the beginning of the expansion. Today I fished for over 2 hours in open water and didn’t get any.
I also have encountered this issue while trying to work on fishing gear upgrades/achievements. Out of 100s of casts, alongside other people yesterday, I only obtained a single conch one time in the open waters of the Waking Shores fishing hole. I opened several dozen tackleboxes, nothing. I have killed close to a dozen lunkers, nothing. I am not even seeing a daily quest to spawn lunkers at the Tyrhold fishing hole. The only way to reliably get a conch atm is the single daily quest from the goblin in waking shores, yet that gives 1 conch…not even enough to summon 1 lunker.
Does this need to be in the bug report section for game devs to see it? I have not noticed any fix so far.
Just coming here to say as of Dec 2023, the drop rate is still atrocious.
Still no luck on fishing up a single conch out of hundreds of casts in open water.
I know conchs were out of control in the beginning of DF, but that was the main draw that made fishing parties so fun to be a part of! The group efficiency of having either random conchs spawning and chaining into others, or utilizing reservoirs of conchs when they weren’t active meant that fishing was an engaging activity.
To a certain extent I can understand that they may have wanted to adjust the fishing economy a little, but I think nerfing the amount of time people want to spend together because of the results is definitely a “no fun allowed” style change.
Drop rate still horrible. Have khaz’gorite fisherfriend, perception potion, and rich lava area. I got 4-5 special fishing upgrade items though… Tried fishing in open water too and nothing. Wish i had time at the beginning of the x-pac to do the cheevos…looks like they will never be completed lol