(also posted in the big thread)
I don't know if devs look at these posts or not (probably not), but i feel alone in Vana'diel. Fishing used to be a very popular hobby, but changes to the game have ruined it. The actual act of fishing is still fun, but it is no longer profitable and fish are no longer desirable (for example nebs don't sell on the AH anymore because you can just get the shihei a vendor). That combined with the nerf to vendor prices, people have seemingly abandoned the hobby.
I propose the following changes to help it back to greatness;
- Raise vendor prices for fish (this would make sense given the time investment and the fact that the most common way to make gil is with sparks, this makes sense)
- Nobody likes fishing up monsters, a cool change would be to give fishers a buff upon defeating a fished up monster. The buff could be something like an increase to bites for 3 minutes.
- add some easy to make Cooking recipes with fish in each difficulty tier that are actually REALLY good.
- add gold carp, tricolored carp to acceptable fish for Lu Shang quest
- Make the Key Item for the Lu Shang quest provide a buff to fishing, perhaps doubling or alltogether removing the fishing fatigue. This will add incentive to complete the quest itself (rather than just buying the rod on the AH).
Edit (thought of another):
- It'd be really cool if there were unique NMs that could be fished up too, they could drop fishing related goods