Fisher needs more love? I think so

[Liam_Harper]

It feels like they want Fishing to be the "hardcore" DoH, riddled with RNG and with most information hidden so you need to research and utilize third party sites. Which is fine. But then at the same time, they don't want players to feel "forced" to do something aimed towards a small target group, so they deliberately give it much fewer marketable fish and items than the other DoL classes. It's not in a terrible spot, but it could be better if they weren't trying to please both non-fishers and fishers at once.

[Tint]

It feels like they want Fishing to be the "hardcore" DoH, riddled with RNG and with most information hidden so you need to research and utilize third party sites. Which is fine. But then at the same time, they don't want players to feel "forced" to do something aimed towards a small target group, so they deliberately give it much fewer marketable fish and items than the other DoL classes. It's not in a terrible spot, but it could be better if they weren't trying to please both non-fishers and fishers at once.

They have added spearfishing, wich is not hardcore at all. There is like 1 fish with a time restriction and that's it. Informations about the gig heads are hidden, but there are only 3 options so not too difficult to figue out the right one.

Spearfishing is the perfect oppurtunity to actually please both non-fishers and fishers. Spearfishing gets the marketable fish and fishing with the rod can keep it's hardcore status. And in fact they were on the right way with it in SB, but then they forgot to bring new spearfish additions in the patches...

And another problem are fisher retainers. Those retainers flood the market with the few usefull fish and the price drops to a level where it's not worth anymore to spend the time and fish it by hand. For example the price of the Sweetflesh Oyster dropped from 8k to 800 gil on my server, when the retainers reached level 80.