Fishing has too much RNG

[Reika]

Taking mining and botany, remove the ability to select what you want, and make it so you cant get some items without first HQ gatheriging a completely different item in order to get another item to HQ so you can obtain it. Sound fair? no. And this isn't real life. Sometime you log out and return to real life. Fishing should NEVER have been reduced to some achievement bs. You can go onto farmville or some other crap for that nonsense. Fishing should be a supplier, just like Miner and botanist.

And the over-randomness of fisher is still there.

[Riot55]

You guys who are complaining must be doing something wrong. There aren't that many fish that are valuable, but the ones that are you can use the right bait and catch them 100% of the time, no trash fish involved for the most part. Fishing IS a supplier, albeit only of about 5 fish that have any demand at all. I would love to see it expanded as I consider it my main job in the whole game, but I've made over a million just fishing so far and "randomness" is never a factor.

[Reika]

You mean the whole 3 fish that actually have to be caught that are used in crafts that are worth a damn? yea, I caught those. Razor clam, Mahi Mahi, Silver shark. Thats it. You should check some vendors for the rest of the relevant fish.

[Kalien]

I recently just go my Miner to 50, and took up fishing for fun. I'm only level 8 so I can't speak to catching high level fish. I will say though that even at this level fishing is a much more interesting and entertaining class to play compared to Miner.

[Shiyo]

It's weird how fishing in FFXIV is a direct downgrade to FFXI fishing in every way possible. How does that even happen?

[Riot55]

You mean the whole 3 fish that actually have to be caught that are used in crafts that are worth a damn? yea, I caught those. Razor clam, Mahi Mahi, Silver shark. Thats it. You should check some vendors for the rest of the relevant fish.

Uh, no. None of those three are any of the ones I've made a mil off of.

[fr33lancr]

Fishing is fine, the only thing that needs to be done is adding a tackle box so we can keep all our bait/lures without eating up our slots!! If that were the case this post might almost be complete moot?

Also, add a tab for field gear vs battle gear

[Meimei]

Let us cut up the fish we catch to give us random crystals, materia catalysts and even dark matter. It's silly that FSH is the only DoL that can't get these, while they literally rain from the sky for the other two.

Also GP is absolutely meaningless for Fishers, which seems like a huge design oversight. We can't even make use of the only crossclass skills we can inherit. Namely, the Wards, because we can't get crystals.

"Fisher is fine" - are you serious? Do you even play it?

There's no use denying it's in need of a serious patch.

I won't complain about mooching tho, it's kind of fun. So is the fishing log. But please let us fishers actually contribute to the economy. @.@

[Zareth]

Riot55: You know your trade well. I haven't even seriously started fishing and I have a fair idea on which ones I can sell for money and which ones I can just NPC. Mostly through trying out other crafts.

Shiyo: FFXI fishing started similarly like this before stuff like fatigue and such were put in. Now they put it back to how it was but with better animations and less complexity among the bait choices.

Meimei: If you're asking fr33lancr is they fish, their comment suggests they do. They seem to know the biggest problem (in my opinion) with fishing...space. Space needed for bait/lures and space needed for fish caught. I'll admit there are other problems (like the useless GP or cross skills) but catching the fish is currently ok. It can be tweaked to offer better performance as more bait/lure is brought out I think but the catching of the fish is working as intended. It needs patching but it doesn't need a serious patch.

[Shiyo]

Shiyo: FFXI fishing started similarly like this before stuff like fatigue and such were put in. Now they put it back to how it was but with better animations and less complexity among the bait choices.
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I know, I still think it's weird they would've gone from the current FFXI fishing to what we have as FF14 fishing, a direct downgrade in every way.