Fishing Brainstorming: New Ideas & Additions

[Vesper]

Regional Ferries: I would love to see regional Ferries. A ferry in every Major Zone (La Noscea, Thanalan, Black Shroud, Mor Dhona, Coerthas). My thoughts on this is you would go to a dock area in the region and talk to the Ferrymaster. At this point they would offer you the chance to go on a regional 'cruise' down rivers, out into the ocean, on lakes.. You know a different area based on region. There would be a small fee and you could choose length of trip. Basically you would then be sailed down the instance.

I am thinking 100gil per 10 minutes. There would be the option of 10, 30, 60 minute fishing trips. Each of these ferries would have 8 fish types total. 6 Fish from other areas and 2 exclusive to fishing off that specific regional ferry. Each time a new zone is added a new fish would be added.

Net Fishing: Fishing parties would be excellent. I know there are tons of things that could be done for this, but specifically I am thinking ocean fishing where you get several fisher players holding a net, jigging this way and that to not lose control of the net. That could be fun.

Ice Fishing: I really can't wait to see a snow/winter area added to the game. I think ice fishing would be an excellent addition to that.

NM Monster Baiting: How awesome would it be if they added Ultros as a NM to the ocean? You would need several fishers on the boat of appropriate rank to attract him. Fishers would get some sort of skill specific to assisting in the battle with the NM, or maybe just make Rock Throw target certain areas of the body so that fishers would be useful during the battle as well. The rock throw could be used to disable a devastating AOE.