Is the folklore system currently broken? (possible WARNING for fishing folklore)

Today I finally got 99 seals to get a folklore book for fishing
And bought abalathia's spine book.

However, i disconnected when using it.
I thought that might have caused me to lose it.

But after searching online, it seems that the books don't actually do anything.

The following people seemed to have used them without any results:
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...athering_lore/

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...re#post3071718

Does anyone know what the problem is here?

And if not,

Could a GM explain if this system is currently broken?
Not implemented?
Or if the instructions (the help says it will add spots to your fishing log) are just incorrect, and we need to do something else.

I don't know if this is a bug, or if the instructions are just badly worded.
(and yes: I am aware the books work for the other 2 gathering classes (and they even have a regional folklore menu) )

Bump / Update #1

I figured that the fish may literally be hidden, and the translation/instructions were just poorly thought out. Went to every fishing spot in sea of clouds during umbral wind and tried using fish eyes.
No luck whatsoever

I realize that fish may be weather dependent / timed, but without any way to confirm the book was actually read, I don't want to spend 3 days fishing for something that I can't get, or for something that isn't actually in the game yet

Does anyone have any ideas at all about this?

Bump # 2

If you go to active help > tombs of regional folklore (after buying a tomb)
it says "use the item to add the locations to your gathering and fishing logs"

I have double checked 3 times
Not a single location has been added to abalathia's spine.

Bump # 3

I still haven't managed to figure this out. Can anyone please help?

Provide some sort of direction?

Anything?

Bump#4


OTHER PLAYERS HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ing_books_for/

Mine disconnected me the second I used it, so I don't know if it added the page to another player or not (like it did for them)

I am pretty worried now :x

Keep bumping til we get a reply. Fishing is gonna be my next lvl 60 so id like to know

whats a fishing folklore book?? been working on fishin almost 56 so curious incase im missin somethin important XD

I bought the dravania book and did not see any change in the log. You should make a bug report and see what the response is.

Spawnie, fishing folklore book is for catching end-game legendary fish (apparently)
It's supposed to ad hidden nodes to your fishing log, but doesn't

And Runez, the bug forum says not to duplicate posts so I'll just keep bumping this and hopefully a mod will notice and move it (if it's a bug)
Or people will explain what's going on if it's not a bug.

Could it just add more spaces on the already existing locations for fishing, like it unlocks legendary fishes in the places you already have.

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Originally Posted by lololink

Could it just add more spaces on the already existing locations for fishing, like it unlocks legendary fishes in the places you already have.

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Nope, no spaces were added (I triple checked)
no new fishing spots were added (I triple checked, and i'm only 3 fish away from getting all fish in abalthia (the area i bought the map for)

Still haven't found a single person that has gotten the book to work ;x would be nice to see some kinda feedback on this

update:
After catching nearly everyfish in the abalathia region (still missing lungfish), I still haven't found any special fish (that weren't listed before I got the book).

Hidden fish (which you unlock with fish eyes) seem to not require the book

Maybe all this is locked just like red scrips and esoterics ?

That would be kinda stupid but maybe it is.

So apparently this has been filed as a bug
And was placed in the "insufficient information" section
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...not-be-working

I'm not sure if SE even realizes this is a problem

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Originally Posted by Azurymber

So apparently this has been filed as a bug
And was placed in the "insufficient information" section
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...not-be-working

I'm not sure if SE even realizes this is a problem

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Whoever goes through the posts in the bug forum has to cull a lot. Posts that blatantly ignore the format they ask for for bug reports are likely to be moved to insufficient information.

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Originally Posted by Azurymber

Spawnie, fishing folklore book is for catching end-game legendary fish (apparently)
It's supposed to ad hidden nodes to your fishing log, but doesn't

And Runez, the bug forum says not to duplicate posts so I'll just keep bumping this and hopefully a mod will notice and move it (if it's a bug)
Or people will explain what's going on if it's not a bug.

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oooo do they only appear once used the book?? cause i found a spot in forelands that had the casting skill light up but when tried to fish it said no fish here o.O

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Originally Posted by Spawnie

oooo do they only appear once used the book?? cause i found a spot in forelands that had the casting skill light up but when tried to fish it said no fish here o.O

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don;t think so.I've found a few spots like that but they didn't seem to be affected by the book

Looks like maint has still has not solved this issue.
But it has been accepted as a bug from one person

I have the same issue, it didn't do anything for me either, contacted a GM, but got an auto message to post to the bug forums, so that's what I've done. I'll be so sad if they make us farm the tokens all over again.

I think the instructions were just unclear. The folklore allows you to fish ilvl 180 fishes at fishing holes we already got, for example the abalanthia book allows u to catch the last fishes at ''the Habisphere'' or ''the Flagship''. I don't think it adds any new fishing holes or new fish.

I saw someone posted a screenshot of a fish in the fishing log that stated it was connected to the local folklore, so it is not broken, but it lets you fish up the fish that you couldn't catch earlier.
POst #18 in this thread: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3092969

Guys, you have to try something before you can call it a bug. The Dusk Leather comes from the Barrel Eye and is locked behind the Abalathian Spine book. It also requires fish eyes, and yes people are catching them now, although you'll need to be fully melded to succeed, and even then nowhere near 100%
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Originally Posted by Mini_Me

Guys, you have to try something before you can call it a bug. The Dusk Leather comes from the Barrel Eye and is locked behind the Abalathian Spine book. It also requires fish eyes, and yes people are catching them now, although you'll need to be fully melded to succeed, and even then nowhere near 100%
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They were calling it a bug because the descriptions for the items is completely wrong and flat out lies. It says that it adds new fishing locations to your log, not it "enhances current locations with new fish when using the Fish Eyes skill". If that's not a bug, then it's a drastic oversight on the dev team/translation team. I haven't built up enough scripts yet to get any of them, (I've been working on other stuff), but if I had and found out that the item just disappeared after use without doing what it says it's supposed to, then I would be quite upset as well.....

So that's how I expected it to be, water couldn't just magically appear when you use the book so that would be the only logical meaning for that book.

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Originally Posted by Mini_Me

Guys, you have to try something before you can call it a bug. The Dusk Leather comes from the Barrel Eye and is locked behind the Abalathian Spine book.
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The dusk leather thing was a hoax.

Ya sounds like it was moreso an issue of copy/pasta with the other gathering nodes which do ADD a new node location as well as show it through regional folklore. With fishing it appears that the (?) that are already preset in fishing holes just become obtainable but since there is no way to tell if a fish is missing or not it was hard to define since there was no proper visual cue for a Fishermen to know the book was actually working.