Strategy Guide (Rings)

A basic guide on how to best integrate rings into your fishing. \*Quest points\* are essential to a fisher as it allows one to purchase bait. One source of obtaining quest points is via cards from drops, the only way to obtain such drops is via rings.

## When to buy

See rings for price lists. Equipment should always take buying priority as it is a guaranteed boost to your ability to catch fish or make more money (aquarium upgrades). Besides your first one, rings should only be bought with excess money. This is not to say all excess money should be spent on rings because there is still benefit to saving money.

A good strategy for when to buy rings is to split up the gap between price increases for premium rings in half. The gap between ring scaling is always 20 levels, so one strategy is to spend the first half of the 20 levels buying as many rings as your excess coins can afford, and then spend the second half saving excess money. For example, once one hits level 60, that player would proceed to max their equipment and spend their excess coins on premium ring packs (unless they are satisfied with current rings) up until reaching level 70. From then on that player will continue maxing their equipment and saving extra coins until reaching level 80. This strategy is good for a variety of reasons

* The player has a use for extra coins
* Setting a time period of 10 levels allows the player to buy more packs and increases the overall odds of pulling a good ring
* Saving for the final 10 levels of the ring scaling gap will allow the player to buy 1 or more premium ring packs the instant they scale to the the next quality

## When to sell

Selling rings is a rare occurrence, since besides the Diamond Ring, you always lose money by selling rings (if you only buy premium as you should). Unless you have strictly better rings, you should hang on to them as you can trade them with other players or possibly gift them to lower level friends or clan members in need. Unless of course you were greedy and cannot afford equipment with your poor spending habits and must sell something. While there is no system in place yet, with enough trust in another player you can trade via the “/give” command, being able to gift rings or other cards.

## When/What to use

There is no single best ring, even an overall strong ring like Diamond gets bested in certain scenarios. A rings usefulness is not limited to its average chance and average multiplier, that is simply there to give a general idea of its strength and really should only be used when comparing two rings of the same type. The following are some ideas to keep in mind when equipping rings.

* Using bait like crayfish or liver? Focus on rings like Tungsten or Alexandrite that have boosted chances at obtaining cards from Larges and Extra Larges. Why even bother with rings that have good small/medium odds if the bait you use cannot target them.
* Similar idea to above but with peas or crickets. Why bother with Tungsten or Alexandrite when an Iron or Peral ring targets those sized fish better?
* Pay attention to weather, especially if you are using no bait, if its sunny, partly cloudy, or even just cloudy, the amount of small and medium fish you get will far surpass larges and extra larges. Equip your ring that best targets those classes.
* Rainy or Legendary will net you more larges and extra larges even without bait, but sometimes its best to just use a generally good ring like Gold or Diamond since you are likely to get higher tier fish, getting any card would be good.
* Perhaps you need specific grades of cards for your clan boats, although these types of rings are generally looked down upon for their poor average chances, Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald rings can help you get exactly what you need.