Now I remember why fishing sucks.

[Shiyo]

Because you're fishing wrong. It's been stated in every post I've made. Fishing wrong results in massively worse RNG on catching things. You use proper rod/bait at a proper location to make your RNG good.

Fishing properly isn't stupid, sorry you think it is.

[Aysha]

Because you're fishing wrong. It's been stated in every post I've made. Fishing wrong results in massively worse RNG on catching things. You use proper rod/bait at a proper location to make your RNG good.

Fishing properly isn't stupid, sorry you think it is.

So again we're down to "You must fish at only one location for each fish, with only one bait/rod combination" and you don't see a problem with this? That Moat Carp, which exist in nearly every freshwater zone in old areas, you are limited to going to 1-and-only-1 location? And uh, last time I fished at Knightwell (which was years ago but still), I didn't see where it was any better than fishing in town, other than the fact you remove the possibility of monster catches. Also tried the river in Jugner, same thing (only more Gold Carp which is even worse), I came to the conclusion that any town zone works better because you remove monster catches from the list.

So... you don't see the problem with wasting several minutes at a time, Escaping out of Junk and Monster hooks? Where you have to hit escape 2, 3, 4, 5+ times in a row because you keep hooking monsters and items? It doesn't matter WHERE you fish, you're going to have this problem.

I don't know why you seem to think Knightwell is somehow magically better than any other zone, lol. I bet you $5 I could go to Knightwell right now, with a stack of bait and it won't really be statistically better. See, I used to fish way back when, Pre-Abyssea. Actually, I leveled my fishing to 60 back during the days of Zilart and Promathia. Family member and I did no less than three Lu Shang quests on various mules. I know where and how to catch Moat Carp, thanks.

It just seems either worse, or maybe the same at best, but still. All the 'you didn't catch anything', the zoning, etc is just a load of BS that really doesn't need to be there when gil is nigh-worthless and there are no RMTs here. Back then, it was needed because fishing bot RMTs were destroying the economy. Nowadays? It's not needed so let's get rid of it and make fishing actually fun again.

And no, hitting Escape to get out of Monster/Item catches 3 out of 5 times is not fun.