Unrealistic Fishing Results Make Fishing Boring

[Lennytw]

As a player with 8+ years FFXI experience, I am very disappointed in the way fishing has become a complete snooze-fest. I would like to see a more realistic fishing experience. For example, if I fish in one spot for an hour, I should not be pulling up 20 rusty buckets, or rusty leggings (no fishing moghancement, btw). If there were truly that many items in the waters, there would be no room for fish. The commonality of catching these items makes it extremely annoying! Also, I have fished in real-life many times. I never throw out my line and after 5 seconds determine I am not going to catch anything. We should be able to leave the line in the water until we give up and reel it in.

These two major annoyances will cause players to lose interest in fishing very quickly and it becomes more of a chore than fun. Add these annoyances to the slow fishing skill-ups and I am hanging up my fishing pole for good. I just spent the entire 2-hour crafting enhancement period and I got .2 skill ups (I am level 27 fishing), caught around 12 black eels, 16 rusty buckets, 10 rusty leggings, and 36 times was told that I did not catch anything.

I realize some changes had to be made because of fishing bots, etc., but its should never come to making the activity a major annoyance.

Wake up, developers! This game is supposed to be enjoyed, not feel like a dinner with unlovable in-laws!

[Wesper]

I did not see your post before I made my own post regarding this but, I totally agree. Fishing is a punishment. And I just came back to the game.. Fished for 45 mins, Caught 10 black sole, the rest was all items, and became fatigued in less than an hour. Or atleast it seemed that way, I started not being able to fish up anything for several attempts in a row.
I think Fishing, like the other crafting/gathering systems, need a complete overhaul and a major increase in skill gains =(

[Olor]

yeah I'd love for fishing to be fun in XI, but it isn't.

[Draylo]

Fishing isn't fun in any game.

[Wesper]

Fishing isn't fun in any game.

I actually enjoyed leveling Fishing XIV. But mind you it was for relaxation. Just point and click and listen to some music ^_^; I liked that. I miss that about the old way of fishing before SE made all the changes.

[Draylo]

That is even more boring than the way it is now though... At least now there is a mini-game lol

[Wesper]

I think the difference between old XI fishing and New XIV fishing is that it takes less time to reach max level in XIV. That might be why I found it fun.
But even if SE cant figure out a good way to make it fun, they could atleast make it simpler to level. Maybe increase the rate of skill gains at the very least?

[dasva]

I miss the old way of fishing where you could just make a maccro of /fish. /wait XXX (forget the exact amount) /fish /wait XXX /fish and afk for a couple minutes. Or if you even wanted to you could play solely by sound

As far as skillup goes... with a single ring I generally get from 0 to 80 in 3-4 weeks sometimes less if lucky so really wouldn't consider it that bad

[Wesper]

As far as skillup goes... with a single ring I generally get from 0 to 80 in 3-4 weeks sometimes less if lucky so really wouldn't consider it that bad

The problem I have with this is you have to win a ring in the contest first. Something I never had any luck with. Perhaps now there is less people online, I might win. I guess I'll see in 2 weeks lol.
Also, it took me less than 1 week to cap fishing from 0-50 in XIV.

[dasva]

The key to winning is picking which contest to bother with and which ones to ignore. If it's a fish with a decent bite rate that is easy to get to with little aggro... say jungle catfish good luck. I litterally fished for a full week nothing but that picking the best and still lost. On the other hand if it's something annoying to get say sea zombie there might not even be 20 entries total lol