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Under the Sea  

Submitted by:Stephen Trawnik
Realm:Other
Start Area: Selbina
Start NPC:Yaya
Type:General
Min Level:1
Max Level:75
Rating
*****
(Average from 11 ratings)
Items Required:Fat Greedie
Title Obtained:Li'l Cupid
Items Granted:Amber Earring
Last Updated: Tue Feb 1 19:28:53 2011

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First talk to Yaya, who is near the Fishing guild, she tells you to go talk to Oswald. Oswald is found inside the Hotel.

Oswald has lost his favorite ring while at the pier one day. Unfortunately for Oswald, he knows where it went. Oswald's poor ring fell into the water, now lost forever. Or is it? A greedie fish, you see, has a penchant for swallowing shiny things, maybe one little greedie came along and swallowed it up. If that's the case, then fishing up the greedie will lead to retrieving the ring.

Indeed, that's all you have to do. However, it's not as easy as it seems. The greedie in particular you have to fish up is a Rare Ex fish called a Fat Greedie. Although Jimaida (inside the Fishing Guild) will offer to cut open any greedies you find looking for the ring, no greedie will contain the ring except the Fat Greedie. It has been my experience that you won't catch the Fat Greedie until level 10-11 fishing skill (you may get one at lower skills, but you won't catch many until 10 or 11), so the best bet is to raise your skill level somewhere where there is ample bait and a place to turn in fish for a decent sum until then. When finally fishing for the Fat Greedie, rarely do greedies bite on anything but lugworms, but ou'll want a Mid-Level (a very durable small fish fishing) Rod to catch it, as the Fat Greedie seems to seems classified as a large fish even if still caught with lugworms and a small catch rod.

Trade Zeldon the fat greedie for him to cut it open, he hands you an etched ring back.

Give the ring to Oswald for your reward.

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Be at the PIER
# Oct 01 2005 at 9:30 AM Rating: Decent
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!!!! IMPORTANT !!!!

It is crucial that you are at the PIER when fishing for fat greedie. I have just caught 3 stacks of normal greedies while standing in Selbina by the water... never knew that you wouldn't catch a Fat Greedie here, but I moved to the pier and imideatly caught a Fat one ^^
So you have to pay 100 gil to get it ;)

Good Luck

PS Luckily the greedie was guild item of the day but else it would have been a waste of time

Edited, Sat Oct 1 10:37:57 2005
RE: Be at the PIER
# Jan 08 2006 at 11:32 AM Rating: Decent
You do not have to be on the peir. I was no where near it and caught it after onl 8 geedies. By the way greedies love sinkin minnow fishing lure.
Just caught Fat Greedie
# Sep 11 2005 at 3:27 PM Rating: Default
Windsday, 10:39 Waning Crescent (40%) with a Tarutaru Fishing Rod and Minnow Bait. Fishing Skill 9.

Don't know if won't have ring, but this one did.

Hope this info is helpful in figuring when best to catch one.
lvl 0
# Aug 10 2005 at 10:16 AM Rating: Good
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I remember getting this about 1-2 months back when I started FFXI. Got to Selbina for dunes with my WAR and on the way back, while waiting for the boat, fished and caught this. ^^ fishing skill was 0. Not sure what I used or what day/time/moonphase it was, but I still caught it :)
Tested it today, worked a treat
# Jun 17 2005 at 8:11 AM Rating: Decent
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808 posts
Glass Fiber Rod + Lugworm.

3.5 fishing skill at the time, caught the fat greedie and got a nice 0.2 skillup from it.
first fishy got the ring
# Jun 10 2005 at 8:46 AM Rating: Decent
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197 posts
really bored waiting for a party so i decided to try fishing
0 fishing level, composite rod using lugworms without any fishing gear

3 casts
1st line breaks, 2nd line breaks, 3rd = fat greedie
:D
My story
# May 15 2005 at 10:24 PM Rating: Default
well.. here's my story
lvl 0 fishing skill
no fishing clothes
carbon fishing rod
lugworm
(1) cast line out by the pier
(2) fishing rod breaks
(3) i give up and exp
Fat Greedie
# Apr 26 2005 at 9:13 AM Rating: Decent
Last night i was trying out my Hubbys new Hume fishing rod waiting for a Pty to fom. On the first cast I caught a fat greedie. i had no fishing skills what so ever. All i was using was lugworms right out in front of the guy that i bought them from. Caught about 5 more last night in the span of about 30 minutes.
booyea!!
# Apr 11 2005 at 6:30 AM Rating: Decent
well i just got it and i'm only lvl 6 in fishing i can't believe i did a quest with out knowing it lol well you can get this fish around the time to can get the normal ones well happy fishing
Bamboo rod + Lugworm
# Mar 16 2005 at 6:27 PM Rating: Decent
I just caught a fat greedie with a bamboo fishing rod and a lugworm cause fishermanrods.net listed that as a valid combination. I had level 1 fishing skill and full fishing gear. Caught it with the second cast on the pier.

Edited, Thu Mar 17 04:05:30 2005
lvl0
# Jan 28 2005 at 12:35 AM Rating: Decent
I caught this fish at level 0, yes level 0...
RE: lvl0
# Feb 13 2005 at 3:03 AM Rating: Decent
33 posts
I also caught a Fat greedie at level0
Caught Fat Greedie
# Dec 14 2004 at 4:44 PM Rating: Decent
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4,681 posts
I caught Fat Greedie while lfp for my THF. I was using a Tarutaru Fishing Rod with lugworms, hoping to break the rod for synthing skill. Took only about 10 casts to pull it in.

Darksday, 6 am, 21% waning crescent. Level 3 fishing without any of my fishing gear on.

Edited, Tue Dec 14 16:45:53 2004
Jimaida
# Nov 25 2004 at 1:11 AM Rating: Excellent
25 posts
After talking to Oswald inside of the hotel, you must talk to Jimaida, who is NOT located in the fishing guild (he's outside standing near a table). He says something about Zaldon being able to help. Zaldon is the one who cuts the fish open, not Jimaida, as the OP stated.
RE: Jimaida
# Jan 27 2005 at 5:18 PM Rating: Excellent
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RANK UP^^^

You must speak to Jimaida after Oswald or quest will not work...

And all this for an amber earring ;-(

Good fame I hope!!!
hmm...
# Oct 16 2004 at 10:14 AM Rating: Decent
I caught the fat greedie just by chance so I figured hey, I can do this quest and then do the others for a free glass fiber rod.

Problem: I can't activate this quest for some reason. Yaya says nothing of interest to me when I talk to her. Oswald tells me about the ring but the quest is not activated. I have fairly high fame in all three nations and I've done many quests for Selbina too (including all the monument ones to get the map of crawler's nest)

What am I overlooking?
RE: hmm...
# Oct 22 2004 at 12:05 PM Rating: Decent
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109 posts
Try talking to Jimaida in the Guild shop. I think the quest shows up in the log only after he offers to cut open any Greedies you catch.
Fat Greedie
# Oct 12 2004 at 11:21 AM Rating: Decent
i caught a fat greedie w/ comp fish rod w/ a Robber Rig (fishing skill 31)
Fish at the pier for the boat..
# Sep 26 2004 at 5:15 PM Rating: Decent
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810 posts
I had been fishing in {Selbina} for a when I decided to catch the boat to {Mhaura}... While I was waiting on the pier to board the ship, I caught 3 fat greedies (only lets you keep one) in about as many minutes. I'm only level 5 fishing, and I wasn't wearing fishing clothes. Used carbon rod and lugworm. The pier seems to be the best place to catch one of these in my experience..
Pure Luck
# Sep 09 2004 at 8:13 AM Rating: Decent
I am a lvl 2 fisherman i was fishing while i was waiting for ship to mhaura and caught a fat greedie. It was a rare/exclusive so i kept it and punched it into item search. needless to say i'd rather be lucky than good.
Getting the quest
# Sep 03 2004 at 1:22 AM Rating: Excellent
It took me less than 30 minutes to get the fat greedie. I'm Lv 10.8 using a Mithran rod and a minnow. However, I could not get Zaldon to slice the fish and give me the ring until I talked to Jimaida. He's the galka standing close to Yaya. He says something about Zaldon knowing something about the ring. Once I talked to Jimaida, Zaldon offered to slice the fish, and I got the ring.

I figured I mention this because it is not in the quest instructions. Good luck.

Edited, Fri Sep 17 06:35:29 2004
wont give me quest
# Aug 31 2004 at 5:44 PM Rating: Decent
I can't get this quest activated from the NPC Yaya. I don't see anything regarding fame needed to do this quest. I just can't get this quest. Can I just try and fish for the greedy anyway?
Plz Help me out.
Fattie
# Aug 29 2004 at 10:13 PM Rating: Decent
Wound up doin this quest LV 0 Fishing skill Carbon Fibre Rod, and Lugworms took about 15 mins of solid fishing, and 3/4 stack of lugworms
fat greedie
# Aug 26 2004 at 7:51 AM Rating: Decent
34 posts
Did this quest this past weekend

lvl 7 fishing skill
no fishing clothes
carbon rod
lug worms
i stood on the pier to the left of the npc that tells you the ferry arrival times...

i caught the fat greedie in about 30 min..
hehe: Nice
# Aug 19 2004 at 7:21 PM Rating: Good
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177 posts
Second Cast from the Pier

Composite Fishing Rod
Sliced Sardines

Skill 30+(4)
Composite Rod/bad luck
# Aug 12 2004 at 12:06 AM Rating: Decent
To those attempting this quest, use one of the smaller fish catching rods, the composite rod seems to be able to, but not worth your time with the considering how much of the bait is lost to "this fish was too small" odds are more then a few were the fat greedie you wanted :S
bad luck w/fat greedie
# Aug 11 2004 at 9:35 PM Rating: Decent
My fat greedie horror story:

Lv. 5 skill
full Lv. 1 fishing gear
Carbon fishing rod
Lugworm

around 17:00 (not sure what day)

I catch a fat greedie, but didn't realize my inventory was full, so it went back into the sea. 2 casts later, my rod breaks... ><
2 Fat Greedies!
# Aug 09 2004 at 3:40 AM Rating: Decent
I was waiting on the boat and decided to lvl my fishing skill (1). First I caught some jellyfishies and then I got 2 Fat Greedies in a row! ^^ But you can only hold one so I threw the second one back into the sea! =(

Equipment: Glassfiber rod + Minnow
Luck? hmmm
# Aug 04 2004 at 1:33 AM Rating: Decent
I just spent about an hour fishing by the npc that gives the sub-job quest and got nothing. I then decided to move to the pier and in under 5 minutes I got that fatty:)

btw I was using carbon rod+lugworm
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