FFXIV: ARR's fishing system changes

[Griffster]

Seriously, with them nuking fishing because they can't develop a way to combat RMT, then adding in the supposed ability for your retainers to gather for you, what is the point and or purpose of DoL?

I mean ARR is becoming far less a FF MMORPG.

Maybe Yoshi feel compelled to mimic WoW in hopes SE pulls in more subscribers.

I am a 1.0 CE owner who is legacy and was going to order the 2.0 CE just for a show of support for SE.

Since I get early access I feel there is no reason to shell out $$ to SE for the CE.

I'm pretty pissed about this the more I consider it. It's a casual MMORPG without much of the casual attraction for longevity.

[Mjollnir]

I hope fish-ranking is server-wide or cross-server rather than just personal, so that I can prove to y'all how much better than you I am at RNG!

[LlenCoram]

Here you go NM. I realised after watching it a few more times... Yoshi does press another button to reel in the fish. I still think the way they've taken the class is garbage, but sweet Llymlaen, two whole button presses? We're practically a class again.

[Mjollnir]

Here you go NM. I realised after watching it a few more times... Yoshi does press another button to reel in the fish. I still think the way they've taken the class is garbage, but sweet Llymlaen, two whole button presses? We're practically a class again.

Yeah that's about as many presses you need to run a dungeon on MRD...

Slightly better news then? It's quite possible that the ability you need to use to reel in may change dependent on the circumstance.

And I'm interested to see if fish are stored as items in your pack and will hence list weight separately, or if there'll be a Fishing Chest to hold them. And if they're remaining as ingredients for ALC/CUL recipes, how they can have zero effect on the economy.

Find out in 7 days, eh?

[Orophin]

Yeah, I don't see it possible that you'll be able to purchase every possible fish from a vendor to use for crafting. I'm pretty sure that fishermen will still supply the markets with fish for cooking/alchemy. But stranger things have happened I suppose.

[SmokeyTheSequel]

I had a huge amount of fish in my inventory from 1.0 and they were still there during the last beta. Better be able to do something with them. I spent a shitload of time catching them all.

[Mjollnir]

I started Beta with thousands of crystals I didn't have at shutdown. I presumed they'd been automatically converted from any fish I had in my inv. There certainly weren't any there in B3, just Tarantulas and Scorpions.

[SmokeyTheSequel]

I started Beta with thousands of crystals I didn't have at shutdown. I presumed they'd been automatically converted from any fish I had in my inv. There certainly weren't any there in B3, just Tarantulas and Scorpions.

I would look harder or put in a ticket or something because I had all of mine. Only thing that wasn't there was spearfishing stuff.

[Mjollnir]

I would look harder or put in a ticket or something because I had all of mine. Only thing that wasn't there was spearfishing stuff.

I was quite happy with what I thought was a trade-off. I started with 3k-8k of each shard. I guess I must have actually sold all my fish pre-shutdown without remembering - unlike me, but it was an intense time.

I certainly shouldn't have had that many shards though. I had a large amount of gil too. I'm sure I read somewhere that some items were to be converted to gil automatically and by that rationale I thought fish had gone to crystals (like, tenfold though).

If I have the same amounts at Beta 4, I'll raise a ticket. It'd be nice, if it is true that some items were auto-converted, if we could get a list of them. Anyone else experience something similar, or am I going insane?

[JillyBean]

I was quite happy with what I thought was a trade-off. I started with 3k-8k of each shard. I guess I must have actually sold all my fish pre-shutdown without remembering - unlike me, but it was an intense time.

I certainly shouldn't have had that many shards though. I had a large amount of gil too. I'm sure I read somewhere that some items were to be converted to gil automatically and by that rationale I thought fish had gone to crystals (like, tenfold though).

If I have the same amounts at Beta 4, I'll raise a ticket. It'd be nice, if it is true that some items were auto-converted, if we could get a list of them. Anyone else experience something similar, or am I going insane?

I definitely think I had more gil than I expected, but I did have a lot of convertible items (like bait, arrows, etc.) I also had a ton of xtals and I think they were all still there. I don't think anything would be converted into xtals. You probably just didn't realize how many you had. I didn't take any inventory either or write anything down. I had no way to take screenshots with menus up. I didn't feel like obsessing. My inventory seemed ok in Phase 3.