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Sooo,

I'm approaching 50 Goldsmithing, and I'm looking at endgame gear to create to make a little gil from. One of the nice looking items that is in the mix is the Gilded Rosewood Fishing Rod, which looks like the endgame choice of Rod (at the moment). My problem is, I'm not a fisherman at all, and it looks like stats affect fishing a little differently to mining. So, I've come here looking for advice...

Primary stat: DEX Does DEX make a difference? (The primary Mining stat VIT is all but useless for Mining unless you're way below the level of the point you're mining)

Secondary Stat: PIE (increases yield) Does this help? (again, the secondary Mining stat MND is pretty useless as well, because nearly everything worth mining can only now yield one item per attempt)

Gathering: Useful? (for mining seems pretty useless, most things extract first hit, and you can tell which item you have by the remainder)
Output: Useful? (probably my first choice for mining, mainly because nothing else does much!)
Perception: Useful? (sounds good for mining, but everything mined is pretty common)

I guess what I'm looking for is advice as to what materia I should put onto an endgame rod so that it would most attract a buyer (both a single materia rod and a dual materia rod).

Thanks for the reply,

I have seen the lists of stats and their effects, but I guess what I'm looking for is which stats are actually useful.

eg Primary stat for Mining is VIT. VIT makes it easier to hit the right spot on the gauge to extract an mineral. It sounds useful, (hey, extracting minerals is the whole idea of mining, right!) but in practice, with just basic stats you can extract everything pretty much first go anyway, because each item has a fixed position on the gauge, and you can get a pretty good idea which item you're targetting right away from the remainder bar. So, in theory, VIT good, in practice, VIT pretty much useless and it would be a bit of a waste to have a VIT materia on your pick. Possibly only someone who spends a lot of time mining would know this.

I guess I'm looking for which stats (if any!) actually make a difference when you're out there fishing.

Do you need to pile on DEX to consistently catch fish at 50(ish) or is the base DEX plenty? Does PIE let you catch more of the fish you want, or are they all limited to 1 fish per cast too? That sort of thing...