Shaper's Shawl - Why?

[Phafi]

How would YOU have made this shawl available?

Make it easier to get Drill Calamary and Dwarf Pugils so that you haven't used 2/3 of your fish for the day before you even get to attempt Matsya..?

[Godofgods]

Who cares it's found by high level fishing.

Crafters like me that hate fishing.

[Sarick]

And it doesn't even matter much either.. crafting is mostly dead barring a few consumables.. It's just a requirement for synergy now.

Dead? Are you serious?

Expert 110 > Master 120 > Grandmaster 130 > Legend 140 > Transcender 150.

Enough with this, the game levels where increased from 75 too 99. What makes you think crafts will stay at 110? It's obvious there are items that we can't craft yet that are in the game now as temps. When/if these crafts are increased this item could mean the difference of a few million gil to raise a skill 1 point.

Come on, do you seriously think they'll leave the craft levels at expert 110? Synergy still needs people with high skills to work. If those skills are increased you can bet new synergy recipes will become available for them. The higher requirements will need players to hit their crafts and reach higher skill levels to make them. Any serious crafter skilling up at higher levels will need this item.

The devs made a statement in the interview about the expansion private zones to farm special items. Some of these items could be used to create things we only dream about outside limited events/zones.

This cape is going to be very very popular in the near future MARK MY WORDS disbeliever.
Let's see if a rep says "we have no plans to increase crafting, They can't announce that they are YET but, they can say they aren't.

[wish12oz]

It's not even the Ebisu part that is a problem. Ebsiu and fishing is easy, lots of people have them and do it. The problem comes from the fact that Matsuya are overly obnoxious to catch. If you spend all day with your Ebisu catching fish to hand in for bait to catch Matsuya with, then the next day go fish Matsuya, you'll catch maybe 5 of them. So you lose 2 days of fishing, which would of netted you between 3 and 9 mil very easily, for somewhere between 5 and 10 of the fish that the cape comes from. If Matsuya don't sell for 1mil+ each, no one will catch them, unless they themselves want the cape.

Fishing is already the easiest craft to make gil with, adding a new high profile fish is perfectly fine with me (since it doesn't require minnows or sinking minnows.) But lets be honest, no one is going to bother with this fish unless it nets more income than what fishers are already making, since its such a giant pain in the butt compared to the current fish you can catch for way less effort. This is the real problem, the fact that for fishers to break even you're going to have to pay 1m+ per fish, and the item is probably 1% drop rate, if that.

If anyone on Odin wants some Matsuya, feel free to send me a tell. Just know I won't be catching them unless I have a buyer lined up for every fish I pull out of the water before I pull them up, and I'm sure most other fishers feel the same way.

[Sotek]

This should have been a GPs item. Oh look, that was hard.

Honestly, I imagine the only reason its fishing is because the devs took a look at the census data and went "People don't have 110 crafting yet, but they have 110 fishing", and that was all the broken logic they needed to do this.

On the plus side at least this is a Lv.1 item, so you don't need to level your mules to 70 just to equip it like those (still incomplete) crafting torques they added.

[Kristal]

In the future, perhaps... but that gives us plenty of time to level up fishing and get the cape

[Okipuit]

Good morning fishers,

The Shaper’s Shawl was set to be a difficult to obtain reward on par with the rewards that could be obtained by defeating a powerful notorious monster and we do not have any plans of easing the difficulty. For that reason, there are no plans to obtain this item through any content other than "Inside the Belly".

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Good morning fishers,

The Shaper’s Shawl was set to be a difficult to obtain reward on par with the rewards that could be obtained by defeating a powerful notorious monster and we do not have any plans of easing the difficulty. For that reason, there are no plans to obtain this item through any content other than "Inside the Belly".

Powerful NM's require simply claiming and beating them, this requires getting fishing to 110, an ebisu rod, rare/ex bait in the bucket loads and a LOAD of luck... How is that even close?

[Ragni]

Fishers finally got something good and you ppl complaining? Stop and go farm damn gils and buy Matsya or skill up fishing! There was only gugs and liks and now they got Matsya ^^

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Fishers finally got something good and you ppl complaining? Stop and go farm damn gils and buy Matsya or skill up fishing! There was only gugs and liks and now they got Matsya ^^

The fish are 400k+, Fishing is the hardest skill to level (mine is 110 so I know), You also need an Ebisu rod so anyone that levelled fishing or spent millions of gil (instead of spending it on the items needed for 100~110) in order to level another craft 100~110 is an idiot, as is SE for doing this.

PS. fishers have had something good for ages, Fishing is probably the most profitable craft other than goldsmithing. I'd sooner they made other crafts profitable.