Lack of Big Fishing discussion in today's Live Letter

Is it just me, or did they just not even mention this in the slightest? I wasn't able to tune in this morning, but from the QA and what my shell is telling me, they just didn't even say a word about it.

Am I wrong? It's not exactly shocking, Yoshi's treatment of us fishers could never be called stellar (or even decent), but... c'mon. At least a throwaway sentence or two about the thing.

If I'm wrong, please fill me in. I can't find any info at all.

I haven't seen anything. I am guessing that "Big Fishing" is just them adding more 2-star fish that will be useless besides filling out your log. Or maybe 3-star fish that will be useless. Maybe add achievements that don't do us any good. I could be wrong, but I won't get my hopes up for SE giving us fisherman anything cool.

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Originally Posted by Mordermi

I haven't seen anything. I am guessing that "Big Fishing" is just them adding more 2-star fish that will be useless besides filling out your log. Or maybe 3-star fish that will be useless. Maybe add achievements that don't do us any good. I could be wrong, but I won't get my hopes up for SE giving us fisherman anything cool.

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Yeah, after this I'm just not going to get my hopes up. They've ignored us for three years except when they're making things worse, so why start being nice to us now.

Just seeing the previews and the patch notes, it really doesn't seem like there's much to it. Gonna be a while if/when they decide to give some meaningful content like ferry fishing or a contest or something I guess.

Very sad indeed
I'd like to be optimistic but I can't seem to believe anything good is in the horizon judging from what came before, I'd like to be proven wrong though..

I was pretty excited myself but the lack of information has been disappointing. At this point I'm just hopeful it isn't something terribad like triple mooched fish...

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Originally Posted by Laurell

I was pretty excited myself but the lack of information has been disappointing. At this point I'm just hopeful it isn't something terribad like triple mooched fish...

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Triple mooched with two or three interruptor fish (assassin bettas anyone), only catchable during the day time when it's raining.

I'm some what of an achievement whore, so if some new achievements are all we get, then that alone will suffice for me. I know a lot of people don't care about achievements, so for their sake I do hope there's more to it than that.

Big fishing to me appears to be Fishing's equivalent to Quarrying for Mining and Lush Vegetation harvesting for Botany.

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Originally Posted by XanderOlivieri

Big fishing to me appears to be Fishing's equivalent to Quarrying for Mining and Lush Vegetation harvesting for Botany.

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We actually used to have a proper offhand, in 1.0. Spearfishing. Back then it was just having a gig equipped and spearing some random critter (or dye) from some grass. Was a strange thing, but all the gathering classes back then had the proper gathering from mainhand, and a random obtainable from offhand thing.

I wouldn't mind an offhand again. I'm wondering if the new stools will be our offhands, to be honest. Gimme a golden one.

Only change I have seen is we will be able to sit and fish.

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Originally Posted by Shadygrove

Only change I have seen is we will be able to sit and fish.

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And don't get me wrong, I'm happy for this. I've been asking if we could sit down while fishing since Yoshi took over (seriously, check the 1.0 archives. They're in there). It's a tiny little thing and I'm probably betraying my "casualcore" nature by admitting that I'm excited for it, but still.

I wish he had something something about big fishing. If they're the new legendaries, whether we'll get actual actions to interact with them, how and where they'll be fished, whether there's a questline involved. Anything at all. The silence is just weird, and makes me think "big fishing" won't actually be anything different from what we're doing now.

There is a quest involving Sisipu and some monstrous something or other at Brewer's Beacon being added. That's all there is related to "big fishing" in the patch notes so far. Most likely what is going to be the case is that this quest will have you fish up some key item type fish that you bring back to Sisipu, and as a reward you get the fishing bench offhand tool. The tool will naturally give a huge boost to the fisher's stats, and that might be all there is to "big fishing" - ie, nothing at all except making it easier to catch the biggest fish by giving fishers a stat boost. Which isn't needed since a fully geared and overmelded fisher can already catch hq versions of the largest fish in the game without fail anyways. I really hope I'm wrong on this, but there's my take on it....

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Originally Posted by Espritduo

There is a quest involving Sisipu and some monstrous something or other at Brewer's Beacon being added.

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Just seeing this would be a plus for me. Seeing some kind of continuation of the 1.0 storyline involving Sisipu and the Sahagin would be great.

A fun, new fishing system would nice too though.

Looking at the new items added, it looks like we have some new fish. Pretty much no details on what "Big Fishing" actually is though. It's looking more and more like we're just getting some more legendary fish to take up retainer space.

new rod and hat too

http://i.imgur.com/PMR6Hbt.png
http://i.imgur.com/7mgRaxO.png

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Originally Posted by KingZeus

new rod and hat too

http://i.imgur.com/PMR6Hbt.png
http://i.imgur.com/7mgRaxO.png

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Well that is actually kind of exciting. The new items will increase our gathering, and make it easier to catch the worthless fish!

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Originally Posted by Odd

I'm some what of an achievement whore, so if some new achievements are all we get, then that alone will suffice for me. I know a lot of people don't care about achievements, so for their sake I do hope there's more to it than that.

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http://i.imgur.com/bZKtm6D.png

http://i.imgur.com/ciQOdLp.png

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Originally Posted by Shadygrove

Only change I have seen is we will be able to sit and fish.

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you get a cool light too

http://i.imgur.com/PDAGKwf.png

It's all a bit underwhelming. I'm actually worried about the "changed models for the following: Rod of the luminary" too. I absolutely love the current golden rod model, since I've had it for a good year or more. Got attached to my gilded gilded rosewood rod. If they changed it to the oversized, ugly halcyon rod...

I'm glad there's a new rod if that's the case.

All of the "Big Fish" will be caught from level 1-15 areas. I hope there's actually some use for at least some of them.

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Originally Posted by Orophin

All of the "Big Fish" will be caught from level 1-15 areas. I hope there's actually some use for at least some of them.

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Noticed this too. The mystery is further taken away from them when you read their descriptions. The location for each is listed right in there.

RIP Tricorn

you are in the game files but not in the game ; ;

Well, I'm at least intrigued how hard these Big Fish will be to catch. They better be at least as hard to catch as two-stars and have at least a little variability in how they're caught. Ie, they better not all be just "fish until you randomly get it." I want more mooches, double mooches, and weather/time dependents and maybe some new tricks too. Hopefully a few of them will be the new "BiS" for the various fishing area types. Gigantshark 250 ilms? I hope so!

This is the datamined information on the new big fish, the description tells you at what location you can catch the fish. Some of the descriptions link them to being the king of a certain fish, that would lead to an idea of what kind of bait to use. I think it would be the same bait as the smaller fish, just with the needed higher gathering requirement.

http://xivdb.com/?search/!filters/Ik...9EQVRFRF8wOiI=

Now to figure out how to catch these Silver Sovereigns. The item description says they're also called tarpons. Irl tarpons like to eat live bait, apparently, but nothing at Oschon's Torch is moochable. So it's a straight catch, I'm just not sure what from. I'll keep trying these N. krill.

EDIT: Almost got one. Oschon's Torch at 1pm, clear skies, using Yumizunos. Gathering 295 wasn't enough to catch it though, so I lost it.