Has anyone seen one of the elusive small fish schools yet?
I believe the Schools of Magical Fish refer to the small magical fish we have had for years (Prized, Wonderous, Truly Rare, and Highly Peculiar Fish), not any of the newer Big Fish types. If have noticed a significant decrease in the number of the magical fish I catch while sailing between ports filling orders. They must have decreased their chance to be caught, but implemented this system to allow them to be sought out. Here is the publish notes regarding the fish:Those were stated as 'magical' fish schools. I suppose the magical in it relates to the pools and not to the fishes.
Since they are in more localized schools, you would have to stop your ship and actively search/fish the area for them (once catch one). If you keep sailing you will have passed the school by the next cast (assuming 8x8 resource grid), so you would never notice the higher concentration of them in the school. Now if only those fish were stackable and could be used in addition to Bless and potions, then they maybe more desireable.
- Schools of Magical fish: The Order of the Dragonfish has discovered that most magical fish travel in schools. If you start catching a large number of magical fish in one area, it is likely you have found a school. After several fish are caught from a school it will move a short distance away. There is no known way to predict how to find these locations, you just have to get lucky and then pursue the school.
My fisher friend has caught fire fish in that spot as well! Quite a few at a time so we assumed that it was a "school"..it would be nice if the dev's clarified this.My experience is that i sometimes can catch 3-4 fire fishes from one spot in shame. Even with the known streakiness of the rng thats a bit too much to be a random experience. Since this happened first after the latest pub, I was assuming that I have met one of those magical fishing schools. (And no ... this happens regularly for me. Maybe its becourse there are not that many water spots in shame. For the records: I fish in shame lvl 2 around the bridge at the portal from lvl 1.)