Forced to buy fish.

Because apparently it never rains in Gridania. Was standing in Gridania for almost 3 hours and not a single rain drop which is a requirement to catch a certain fish for the level 40 fisher class quest.

So thank you SE for making me waste 3 hours because of your bull**** requirements for a level 40 quest yeah 40 and not 50.

you wasted time waiting ? i find this hard to believe.
Nobody stays around to watch it rain. if you did.. LOL
Seriously when the weather man tells you you have 50% chance of rain do you stand outside to confirm this ? Of course you buy your fish if your in a hurry if not... well it's going to rain at some point .. it always does. How you think those fish got in the market board in the 1st place ? Have some cheese with your whine.
No other job Levels as fast as Fishing.. and your complaint is for one set back for 5k gil.

Yeah because buying everything and rushing everything is ALWAYS fun sorry but not everyone plays like you. I played XI so really 3 hours is nothing waiting on something but weather effects never waited 3 hours for it.

Yessss. Keep buying my fishies, keep making me monies...precious.

This is why we can't have an immersive virtual world nowadays anymore. No patience. Everything needs to be provided to you right away or someone gets upset.

FYI I'm currently stuck at the very same quest and I'm totally fine with it. I have other things to do too. At least you can buy the fish and cheat the way through a quest that's supposed to be a test of your fishing skills if you're in an absolute hurry.

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Originally Posted by Moontide

This is why we can't have an immersive virtual world nowadays anymore. No patience. Everything needs to be provided to you right away or someone gets upset.

FYI I'm currently stuck at the very same quest and I'm totally fine with it. I have other things to do too. At least you can buy the fish and cheat the way through a quest that's supposed to be a test of your fishing skills if you're in an absolute hurry.

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Oh I'm sorry guess waiting 3 hours for something in this game is so common that it's frowned upon if you get upset. Please enlighten me on all the other stuff in the game you wait 3 hours for. I wont wait for a response because the correct answer is nothing.

you whine because of that?
I surely hope you play XI

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Originally Posted by Lexin

Oh I'm sorry guess waiting 3 hours for something in this game is so common that it's frowned upon if you get upset. Please enlighten me on all the other stuff in the game you wait 3 hours for. I wont wait for a response because the correct answer is nothing.

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I don't need to wait. I do other things like crafting, farming, fishing something profitable, hopping to an alt, chatting with people or leveling up a combat class. And duty finder as a DPS can sometimes get as far as several hours. That restricts your options quite a lot further than waiting for a rainy weather as a fisher.

Seriously, there's no need to be upset if you take a look at the alternatives. Besides, I'd attribute fishing particularily as a class that's synonymous at least to some patience and persistence. Edit/addition: Fishing things like these seem to be the very last thing we have left of the wonderful weather system we used to have. I'd hate to lose even those tiny scraps because of situations like these.

So good to know what my emotions are thanks for letting me know.

If it was common for something like this then I wouldn't have to post but since nothing takes 3 hours in this game it needs to be brought up. From the 4 50's I have none of the level 40 quests took long to do in fact pretty sure combined they still wouldn't add up to this one quest.

They should have made it so that you couldn't even pass to the next level until you complete the class quest...
So we can hear more of your cries... To fill the wine glass to the brim with your tears.

Oh, how I miss those salty drippings of despair.

Or maybe I can /console with these spare feelings that I have? Hmm... let me check, uhm...
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Ah, I apologize; I am fresh out.

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Originally Posted by Lexin

Yeah because buying everything and rushing everything is ALWAYS fun sorry but not everyone plays like you. I played XI so really 3 hours is nothing waiting on something but weather effects never waited 3 hours for it.

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..What are you talking about? In XI i spent a whole day waiting for earth weather in the most common earth weather zone in FFXI just to complete ONE magian trial.

At least in FFXI there were NPCs to give you an idea of when to expect the weather you wanted. Don't think there's one of those this time.

I agree it would be nice to have weather people but did you actually just wait for 3 hours? You have plenty of low level crafts that could have been easily worked on while you waited. You could have done what I do and studied or done something in RL while waiting. I don't agree that 3 hours for rain is a long time that should not happen as I too played FFXI and remember the amount of time it took to get Fire and Earth weather for just the SMN quest let alone the Trials. If you seriously just stood there and watched your screen for 3 hours that is totally you fault.

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you whine because of that?
I surely hope you play XI

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Obviously not.................... Or we wouldn't have this thread. :P

I remember in EQ camping this guy for my monk epic weapon for 3 hours a night every night for a month. Yeah.. get real man. Having to do something that takes time makes it actually worth something.

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I remember in EQ camping this guy for my monk epic weapon for 3 hours a night every night for a month. Yeah.. get real man. Having to do something that takes time makes it actually worth something.

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Lol.. I remember camping Sirocco for days for that wind dmg knife. He only showed up once a day and only during double wind weather. Then when he was up you needed your linkshell to come out and kill it. .. Fish for three hours? Plz.. thats lightweight stuff =P

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Lol.. I remember camping Sirocco for days for that wind dmg knife. He only showed up once a day and only during double wind weather. Then when he was up you needed your linkshell to come out and kill it. .. Fish for three hours? Plz.. thats lightweight stuff =P

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Or solo him on RDM. ^^

I must i've gotten lucky it didn't rain right away but entered the Inn and left and it was raining!

If you read your posts, you at one point claim that you don't enjoy rushing and so you waited 3 hours for it to rain but at the same time you are complaining that you waited 3 hours for it to rain so you could catch the raincaller fish I believe.

For this quest I would recommend doing other things in the meantime (Real life and ingame) and when it rains, run out there and fish. This is what I did when I got to this quest. If you are indeed in no hurry then this route is the best.

Fishing was stated to be a casual thing. I don't know why you felt compelled to do it now now now. There's so many other things you can do in the game if it just didn't happen to be raining in Gridania that one time you showed up. I sat in Gridania and did some Carpentry waiting for the weather to turn in between dungeon queues.

People like you are what ruin some more of the immersive elements in this game and sometimes influence the devs to capitulate to make things "easier" when they weren't even hard to begin with.

Make friends, ask every 0:00/8:00/16:00 Eorzea time if it's raining in Gridania (or wherever).