
Just pound that circle button and the skill isn’t necessary but it’s useful when you weren’t expecting to catch a great fish. Bigger fish start an quicktime event where you need to press the circle button (PS4) repeatedly and shift the analog stick. There is a fishing skill, Mast Fisher, it has one level and makes catching bigger fish easier. Similarly a person who knows fishing spots can find items for quick healing or to make sharpening your weapon quicker - useful for those that lose sharpness quickly. While people will farm might seeds to get an extra 2500z per trip (useful if you just bounce around the expedition map to multiply it fast) the fisher can come back with like 50 scales from a trip to be sold for 1000z each and keep their farm making items necessary for hunting. The fish drop items useful to hunting and crafting as well as items for selling to make money. There are several reasons to take up fishing. It’s written as if you don’t care about spoilers or have finished the game and not touched fishing yet. Monster Hunter World Fishing Guide by RobotWizardZetaįirst this guide contains spoilers.
