Make Ebisu Quest Repeatable

[Kari]

This morning I accidentally dropped my Ebisu Fishing Rod.
I'm in the process of having a GM restore it, because this quest is not repeatable.

The quest should be repeatable in the case you drop your rod, accident or otherwise.
I wouldn't mind getting the fish again to make up for my mistake.
Another option would be to have the NPC refund it for you if you have the quest done but aren't carrying one.

[Zarchery]

If I got an Ebisu Rod and accidentially dropped it, I think suicide might be the easier option than repeating the quest.

[Frankbrodie]

That was one quest that I never intended doing. Until a linkshell mate just mentioned in passing that he had obtained both the Key Items needed for the quest. And was just waiting for the new conquest tally to get his rod.

Well... I was jealous as hell. Being a fisherman for profit for many years. Though never bothering to get the Ebisu.
Did the Lu Shang in 25 straight days fishing on 2 characters at once. And buying up loads of fish.

He was unfortunate enough to flag the quest with most of the conquest week still to go.
I beat him to picking up my Ebisu the same week by spamming the Selbina guild for bazaar fish for 5-6 straight days.
Think I was just under 10 million gil down by the end. I was prepared to go 40 million under at a push. Was well pleased.

Probably never used it since. And that was maybe a year ago. Figures lol.

[dasva]

I threw it away is kinda a poor reason for making something repeatible. I doubt they would at this time when they are at skeleton crew size would go thru and change a quest instead of just tell you to not throw away things you want to keep

[Dragonlord]

I threw it away is kinda a poor reason for making something repeatible. I doubt they would at this time when they are at skeleton crew size would go thru and change a quest instead of just tell you to not throw away things you want to keep

Because accidents/lag/odd inventory loading blips never happen, right? I really don't think making a quest repeatable is going to drain resources, that's just an excuse. An item that's as important as this is to fishing should always have some way to re-obtain it (being it is r/ex so purchasing isn't an option). The lack of a re-aquisition option is just bad design.

[Lithera]

But the game asks you if you want to reaaaly toss anything that has those tags on it. It's also normally set to no. So unless Ebisu doesn't have the double yes/no bit and it's set to yes then I'm not sure how even with lag you accidentally toss it. Though they did change bomb cores from being able to be thrown away to not so who knows if they will allow this to be repeated or not.

[Demonjustin]

But the game asks you if you want to reaaaly toss anything that has those tags on it. It's also normally set to no.

This applies to anything and everything in the game with the Rare tag on it. I doubt I'm the only one who throws these kinds of items away frequently every time I clear out my inventory, seeing as almost all items in the game that pop NMs have a Rare tag, as well as most quest related items, and so on. I mean given, yes, it does ask, and yes, it does give you the extra choice as well as starting you on no, but with the amount of items that do that already it's not really a safe blocker, if anything they should add a 3rd option for items of true honest rarity, things like Relics, Mythics, Empyreans, and other things like Ebisu that are actually hard or very time taking to obtain.

The 'Rare' tag is so completely miss-/over-used that it hardly means something is rare, it simply means you can carry only 1 of that item, and since it's so over used, the system they made you are talking about does nothing to prevent these accidents.

[dasva]

Because accidents/lag/odd inventory loading blips never happen, right? I really don't think making a quest repeatable is going to drain resources, that's just an excuse. An item that's as important as this is to fishing should always have some way to re-obtain it (being it is r/ex so purchasing isn't an option). The lack of a re-aquisition option is just bad design.

Look at it from SEs point. They can either waste resources to reprogram a quest (which they would then have people saying do that for all the quests) or they could just tell you to not be stupid and throw out your own item if you want to keep it. From their point of view saying there was some kind of lag is just an excuse. I mean that's the whole reason why there is an extra confirmation on rare gear. From their standpoint they gave you everything necessary to keep your gear and throwing it out is completely your fault. But just in case they can look into it and sometimes return items.

tl;dr actually pay attention to what you are doing and don't throw away your ebisus. It's not that hard

[Dragonlord]

There's literally thousands of items in game that ask the confirmation to toss them. Perfect example is dynamis where you could be tossing 50+ items in a single run. Whether you like it or not, accidents happen. I feel like some one shouldn't be penalized for a 2 second mistake on something that can take 100+ hours to obtain, when fixing it would really take minimal effort. And no, not everything should have this option, but the big things like R/E/M and ebisu's should.

[Mirage]

I think you should be able to just pick up things you have dropped for as long as you stay in the zone. Or at least the last 10 items.