Overview[1]
The Castbound is a Stage Fishing Rod obtained from a set of quests at the Underground Music Venue after the player reaches Level 1000.
The Castbound is a high-tier rod with infinite, extremely high, along with moderate and. The rod offers a great mutation passive which gives it a 50% chance after every catch for an extra fish with a random 8-11x mutation, making it good for grinding. It has a passive that is similar to Ruinous Oath and Luminescent Oath, which also provides stat buffs that increases along with the perfect catch time while the difficulty of maintaining a perfect catch becoming harder and harder. Overall, the Castbound is a great rod with very high stats and a strong passive which reduces the difficulty of catching hunt fishes via extra catch.
How to get it
Where to get it: Underground Music Venue.
Stats
- Luck
- 390
- Lure Speed
- inf
- Control
- 0.14 Control
- Resilience
- 32
- Max Weight
- inf
- Stage
- 9
- Where to get
- Underground Music Venue
- Level required
- 1000
- Line distance
- 180
- Quest
- The Guide
Obtainment
Player needs to be level 1000 or above to claim the questline The rod can be obtained via completing The Guide's quests: BoxStyle| BoxStyle
1st Quest
Reward: Castbound (Restricted, -50% Stats), Recommendations: Use either Pinion's Aria or Seraphic Rod with Blessed + Glittered enchantment and fish in Above The Clouds during a Shiny Surge and /Rainbow. BoxStyle
2nd Quest
Reward: Castbound (Restricted, -25% Stats) Recommendations: Use either Garbage or Neuro Slug for higher while not catching any high-difficulty fishes for efficiency. BoxStyle
3rd Quest
=== Own Flimsy Rod, Carbon Rod, Steady Rod, Arctic Rod, Mythical Rod, Trident Rod, Rod Of The Depths, Rod Of The Forgotten Fang, Heaven's Rod, Tempest Rod, Zeus Rod, Ethereal Prism Rod, Free Spirit Rod, Great Rod Of Oscar, and Ruinous Oath === Reward: Castbound (Unrestricted)
Passive
+15% XP from all fish Every catch, a 50% chance that the Stardust Guardian grants a random extra fish of that place with either of these 4 mutations: Energy (8.55x) Nebula (9.2x) Cosmos (10.85x) Fury (11.7x) During a perfect catch: 100% chance to slash for 5% progress every 0.8s, with each slash reducing the interval by 0.1s down to a minimum of 0.1s. Slash progress also gradually decreases to a minimum 1% per slash at max speed (scales per slash interval). The will continuously reduce over time until it reaches -0.16. If a perfect catch is failed: Slash passive is removed The base is instantly set to -0.16 Grants user forced +30% progress speed
Notes
The slash effect from passive DOES NOT stun the fish. The 2nd Passive (Stardust Guardian) can grant the player with Passive-Blocked (type 1) fish (e.g., etc.) Failing in a perfect catch sets to the ”base ” which can be affected by any external sources (i.e. Enchantments, Baits, Shells). The 2nd passive cannot catch fish that are Passive-Blocked (type 2) (e.g ) Aether, is the place referred to as "Shimmer" by The Guide
Trivia
This rod is based off of the Zenith and Stardust Guardian from Terraria. Similarly to Rod Of The Depths' Ghost, The Stardust Guardian also has catch quips when you catch or lose a fish: Catch: "Hmph.", "Can you feel the essence?" Fail: "Pitiful.", "Do it again.", "Weakling."
