Rod Guide

You’re standing in the Lower Deep, and the water around you is wrong. Not cold — the opposite. Steam curls off the rocks, your screen heat-hazes at the edges, and somewhere above you a player’s rod whips forward and something on the other end of their line glows orange, like a brand pulled out of a furnace. They reel once, twice, and the catch bar pulses. The sell price that pops off their fish is nine times what that species is worth. You check their loadout. Scalding Hook. ...

You’re standing on the seafloor of The Deep, watching another player hook something enormous. Their rod bends. The progress bar crawls forward, then a chunk of it jumps on its own — auto-slash firing. They reel in a fish the size of a small truck, and the sell price pops at nine times its base value. You check their loadout. Titanium Rod. The Titanium Rod is one of four craftable rods added in Fisch’s The Deep update (v1.96.0, dropped August 8, 2026). It is not the most expensive rod in the game — that’s the Cusk Purger at 750,000 C$. It is not free like the Luminous Rod, either. It sits right in the middle: 200,000 C$, a Level 250 requirement, and two separate quest chains feeding it its two named parts. ...

You’re drifting through the Gloomy Crevice, watching a player reel in fish after Monstrous-tier fish like it’s nothing. Every cast triggers a hunt fish spawn. Every catch has a chance to roll Monstrous mutation — that 9x value multiplier that turns a 20k catch into 180k. You check their gear. It’s not the Titanium Rod. It’s something else. Something that hums with abyssal energy. The Cusk Purger. The Cusk Purger is the crown jewel of Fisch’s The Deep Update (v1.96, released August 8, 2026). It’s the most expensive craftable rod in the game and the single best tool for hunt fish farming ever introduced. This guide walks you through every step: the prerequisites, the full material list, how to beat the Monstrous Cusk, and whether you should actually spend 750,000 C$ on it. ...