Petition for the Fishermen, Join the Fight!

[CrashingWaves]

Great idea... but I feel that the timing isn't right for. There are many other priorities that should also be addressed before expanding on utility for fishing.

[Issac]

It disheartens me to see so little interest in this glorious cause! Will my fellow fishmongers not hear me out?!

[charlemagne]

I know little about fishing but I did hear at least one recipe that is great for crafters requires mahi mahi, perhaps there are others. I imagine the crafting food recipe will be quite profitable once people find out where/how to get the fish.

[Shiyo]

I don't fish much because it's not very useful. Fish make the best food for gatherers, but I don't gather, and that's all fish is used for. I can't level up my cooking on fish alone, I need botany, but I don't enjoy botany.

I wish cooking and fishing went together perfectly again, it was my favorite combo. I want fish to be more useful and make better food and consumables. What is wrong with RMT/bots fishing, but not with RMT/bots farming mobs, botany, or mining? Why does fishing get punished?

[Gobbya]

Yes please make more recipes with fishies. I love fishing. But it saddens me to see theres so little gain for selling fishies. If fishing just for relax, then delete the fisher job, cos now its f? useless. I was miner and goldsmither in 1.0. But i didn't like it.

Make more fishcontaining recipes.
Aquarium fishies nice idea .
The biggest HQ ones make into that thing we have in real life. Dont know the name but i ones had a fish on a plate which could dance and sing. That we can make those plates and put in on our walls in housing.
Make a fate for fishing.
Maybe setup fishing concours with a setup amount of time say 1 rl hour for fishers and get prices for biggest fish or amount or species!
Delete some fishies in npc lists so we have more fishies to sell to players.
Make some fishies direct food for partying, with some stats for 30m.
Make a smoke oven which we can buy and smoke our own eels! And mackerel of course. Smoked we can sell which have some nice stats!

[tuseroni]

Or fishing up mini pets--who wants a pet lobster, seasnail, or baby seal?

this little guy can be fished up in the salt strand in lower la noscea a cute little minion...

as for fishing, i like fishing in 1.0 but i don't care for it in 2.0...just...boring....like real fishing...cast line, wait, get something, repeat...kinda like spear fishing in 1.0
as an alchemist though i liked making shards and would always fish on the boat ride from limsa to thanalan.
don't know what was wrong with shard synth. you needed fish and a crystal to make the shards...but you could provide shards to people who need them.

[Quesse]

Fishing is like minions. Pointless, but everyone does it anyway.

Unless you want to run back and forth between fishing points like miner/botanist does, fishing is staying like it is forever -- that's the trade off of being able to fish for a long time in one location.

[Aliana]

I love fishing (still just starting out), but I am very disappointed that there's no use for it! It's nice that it is fun, but it should have an economical use as well. I like the aquarium suggestions, of course using it for crafting would be nice too. Just give us something!

[Zer0]

The little interest is because most people have issues getting into the game itself and playing anything. Once things are sorted out and in order you'll see changes being made when people start noticing.

[Aerin92]

I always assumed fishing would have a lot to do with the housing patch in terms of decoration, but I feel it could have a little more usefulness beyond that. Give it a few more recipes for cooking, or like others said have a potential to get a new minion or something. I understand it's supposed to be a hobby-type class with no real monetary reward, but if you want to make it worthwhile enough to even be in the game then reward the players in more areas besides just potential housing decorations. Otherwise there's just not enough incentive to even bother.

I would also prefer some sort of control mechanic when reeling the fish in so that players can feel like they earned it. Everything is a guaranteed catch as long as you have the right materials.