Macros for Fishing?

I play on PS4 with keyboard and have found fishing to be quite enjoyable. However, it does get tedious at times and I was wondering if there was macros that would alleviate this. Or would that be considered botting? Hell, I've never used macros so I'm not quite sure how they even work lol.

Short answer - no there aren't any that would be useful as far as I can see. I'm guessing you were looking for something that would automatically reel in once the fish is hooked and then re-cast and start it all over again?

We can't have this feature because bots would abuse it far too easily. While there is still bot abuse, this was at least foreseen as an issue and thus we can't have the feature.

As a side note, I would love to just press one button as a BTN and gather the items from a node, instead of having to click each time to "swing" at the tree.

I hear ya there lol. Ok, well it doesn't hurt to ask. Thx.

There is one useful fishing macro that I use all the time.

/macroicon "Hook"
/ac "Hook" <me>
/wait 11
/ac "Mooch" <me>
/wait 1
/ac "Cast" <me>

Hit this when you hook a fish....11 seconds is long enough for any hooking animation. It will then mooch if possible, wait one second for lag, then cast for your next opportunity. One button fishing.

every fish has a time window of x to y seconds after casting when it can bite

if you want to catch a specific fish which bites between 7-9 secs you can use a macro which reels at 9 seconds, so you wont get fish which bites after
9+ seconds

its extremely usefull to nearly always get mooch fish like cloudcutter, silverfish etc.

I just count the rod bounces with mooch fish. XD

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Originally Posted by Highwilds

I just count the rod bounces with mooch fish. XD

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Rod bounces?

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Originally Posted by Caoihmin

Rod bounces?

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Oh, sorry. I didn't think of adding quotes, so I replied to the timing of fishing fishies up that I want. More cancelled fishing for unwanted fish means more chances for the actual mooch fish. Which comes to my point that I just count the rod swings/bounces up and down to time the reeling in if it bites.

The above macro is handy if you have vibration on and watch TV at the same time. All you do is click one button when you get all shaky! So yes, it works if you don't care what you're fishing, like example the Luminary rod achievement. :)

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Originally Posted by luckystrikes

There is one useful fishing macro that I use all the time.

/macroicon "Hook"
/ac "Hook" <me>
/wait 11
/ac "Mooch" <me>
/wait 1
/ac "Cast" <me>

Hit this when you hook a fish....11 seconds is long enough for any hooking animation. It will then mooch if possible, wait one second for lag, then cast for your next opportunity. One button fishing.

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This is really nice for leveling...thanks :)

Ok...real noob question here. I play on PS4 but have a keyboard. How do I go about using macros? Do you just type them in the chat bar?

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Originally Posted by Highwilds

Oh, sorry. I didn't think of adding quotes, so I replied to the timing of fishing fishies up that I want. More cancelled fishing for unwanted fish means more chances for the actual mooch fish. Which comes to my point that I just count the rod swings/bounces up and down to time the reeling in if it bites.

The above macro is handy if you have vibration on and watch TV at the same time. All you do is click one button when you get all shaky! So yes, it works if you don't care what you're fishing, like example the Luminary rod achievement. :)

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So you can determine what kind of fish you catch by hooking on a certain "rod bounce"?

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Originally Posted by Caoihmin

Ok...real noob question here. I play on PS4 but have a keyboard. How do I go about using macros? Do you just type them in the chat bar?

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Create them in the main menu "user macros" section. You can then link them to your cross hotbar on the PS4, so you just press the assigned button and the series of moves you created in the macro will trigger.

Ty! Will try this macro thing out!

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Originally Posted by luckystrikes

There is one useful fishing macro that I use all the time.

/macroicon "Hook"
/ac "Hook" <me>
/wait 11
/ac "Mooch" <me>
/wait 1
/ac "Cast" <me>

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One button instead of three - on a class that doesnt need more then 6 skills on hotbar - why dont i get it when all i need to fish is 1(fish) 2(hook) 3(mooch)? >.>

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Originally Posted by Caoihmin

I play on PS4 with keyboard and have found fishing to be quite enjoyable. However, it does get tedious at times and I was wondering if there was macros that would alleviate this. Or would that be considered botting? Hell, I've never used macros so I'm not quite sure how they even work lol.

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Try using the controller, it vibrates when you hook a fish. X hook, O fish, Square: Mooch

that way you can fish while doing w/e, vibration -> X - wait because time doesnt matter anyways - Square -> Circle -> rinse/repeat

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Originally Posted by Caoihmin

So you can determine what kind of fish you catch by hooking on a certain "rod bounce"?

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Pretty much yeah, like ServerCollaps mentioned, but it depends also how big of a fish pool it is. When I fished for Imperial Goldfish, if it took longer than X amount of bounces I cancelled as it would not be the fish I wanted. That left me with 3 fish instead of 4. A fish like Fullmoon Sardine and Cloudcutter bites very quickly, so if it goes past just a few seconds/bounces, can cancel and try again. And so on. Baits and lures have different rod animations also so gotta count and test a lot too! :cool:

Personally, I just use:

/macroicon "Cast"
/ac "Hook" <me>
/ac "Cast" <me>

because I'm lazy and only want to hit one button when fishing - I just wait for my controller to vibrate and hit it.

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Originally Posted by Magistrella

One button instead of three - on a class that doesnt need more then 6 skills on hotbar - why dont i get it when all i need to fish is 1(fish) 2(hook) 3(mooch)? >.>

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Mostly because I'm super lazy. Also it's a nice sleep aid...the swishing of the rod, the rolling waves...... yep.