Ocean fishing is horribly designed

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Originally Posted by Kisshu

Also really wonder how future random events would be, if they're preventing people from fishing for some time it will be something people would avoid unless the time lost is off-set by a big point bonus. The same problem as people leaving if the first place doesn't spawn a rainbow right now.

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Well random events could maybe trigger between the places which of course would not take away from the timer. Or these events could give a nice amount of points too. Honestly I would have loved it more if those points would just be exchanged into currency.

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Originally Posted by snipski

the whole point of ocean fishing is making it easier to level fishing, it's not meant to be some hardcore ground for hardcore fishers lmao.

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Of course thats why the only rewards this have (next to exp) is locked behind something which you only get as a low level fisher if you get like three rainbows. I mean if it was for leveling only then they could have just increased the amount of exp normal fishing gives you and be done with it. Or put no reward behind it at all because the exp would be enough.

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Originally Posted by spf1200

They have stated this is just the frame of the content and plan on doing a lot more. Can we stop whining about every new thing that comes out?

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Or it will die out because instead of giving them feedback which might help improve future updates they get only silence from us and thus wont even know why people might not like it. And then we might wait forever for no new content for this to come because they dont believe that the time spent for it would be good investment.

Feedback is something which they want. Yoshida himself stated this more than once.

And sorry but seeing how we even lost another dungeon because of time and money I wont stop posting my opinion about new stuff..because if it dies fast then the time and money could have been spend elsewhere.

i think it'd be more fun if combat jobs could come along and defend the boat from aggressive mobs (and get bonuses in doing so)

or provide some manner of bonus, like bards playing sea shanties giving +gp regen or a bonus to gathering/perception, machinists providing sonar equipment/a thresher to throw all your worthless fish into

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Originally Posted by grinkdaboy

i think it'd be more fun if combat jobs could come along and defend the boat from aggressive mobs (and get bonuses in doing so)

or provide some manner of bonus, like bards playing sea shanties giving +gp regen or a bonus to gathering/perception, machinists providing sonar equipment/a thresher to throw all your worthless fish into

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That might just mean that most people would just go there with their combat jobs and would took away from the first new real fishing content. Honestly just install some kind of weapons on the boat or give us some special skills when a fight happens (like using those spears for fishing for fighting) and even a fisher should be able to defend themselves just fine.

It would be interesting to have "battle" style fishing on board the ship using large-scale fishing tools like harpoon cannons and large fishing nets to catch truly massive big fish like krakens or sea serpents and whatnot. The tools would function like the usual weapons we can use in places like Steps of Faith. Each one would have a few different options for attacking the enemy in order to lower their HP, immobilize them, and ultimately catch them and add them to your fishing log, sort of like pokemon, heh. Different tools would be suited for taking down different kinds of beasties. The "damage" you do and the success rate/duration of immobilizing them and chance of capturing them can be related to your gathering and perception stats, with GP being used to activate the abilities.

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Originally Posted by spf1200

They have stated this is just the frame of the content and plan on doing a lot more. Can we stop whining about every new thing that comes out?

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They also said that about Diadem, and we all know how well that went.

All time slots to fish as of 7pm EST Sat are booked through Monday 5pm EST. Booking a game event days in advance is a thing now?

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Originally Posted by Qaaliaa

All time slots to fish as of 7pm EST Sat are booked through Monday 5pm EST. Booking a game event days in advance is a thing now?

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There are no limits on the boats. Not sure what you're looking at but you can get on a boat anytime on every odd hour. I'm on one right now.

Thanks! I figured it out!!

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Originally Posted by Destati

The time gates need to be taken away completely or reduced to something like 30 minutes - 1 hour at the most. It's infuriating enough to fight against RNG, and knowing you have to wait two hours before you can go back in to try again adds insult to injury, especially if you finished the last round with say, 9k points and there's no guarantee that you'll be lucky enough to get triple rainbows next time.

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You don't absolutely need tripple rainbow for the mount, just some good dice rolls. An fc member got a 12k score from a single rainbow run. They lucked out and got three !!! double hooks during the rainbow that brought back 4 HQ fish each.

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Originally Posted by Avidria

I'm still having a hard time even figuring out how you're supposed to trigger the actual spectral current. I've caught a handful of spectral fish, some hq, but had nothing happen. And Google is affording me no useful answers <.<

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The spectral fish or rare intuition fish all seem to have a chance at triggering a rainbow, but no guarantee. The entire event is a ton of dice rolls.

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Originally Posted by DarkMasamune

I personally really enjoy ocean fishing.

That being said, I do think it's a bummer the fish we catch don't have any use to them.
I noticed people trying to sell them at outstanding prices but for what ? The only thing it can be used for, as far as I know, is recycling. It's a shame we can't trade them for rewards or something like that.

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I just vendor them all. Takes too long to desynth them for the returns (one crystal and sand).
I might have had the mount on my last run, but I accidentally skipped three mooch chances.