5.1 Crafting Feedback Thread

[tdb]

One of few things they seem incapable of doing is distinguishing tugs because every FSH bot I've seen just reels in literally everything they hook instead of gauging tug time/strength to increase the odds of hooking something desirable.

What would be the benefit of not reeling it in? I mean, won't you lose your bait anyway and have to cast again if you don't respond to the tug? I guess you might save a few seconds of catching animation.

[Callinon]

What would be the benefit of not reeling it in? I mean, won't you lose your bait anyway and have to cast again if you don't respond to the tug? I guess you might save a few seconds of catching animation.

The benefit is not wasting GP on hookset abilities on the wrong catch. If you're just doing cast/hook/cast/hook/cast/hook then yeah, it doesn't matter.. go nuts. But if you're going for something specific, you're using patience and you're using hooksets and that costs GP.

[tdb]

The benefit is not wasting GP on hookset abilities on the wrong catch. If you're just doing cast/hook/cast/hook/cast/hook then yeah, it doesn't matter.. go nuts. But if you're going for something specific, you're using patience and you're using hooksets and that costs GP.

Right, yes, those. But if a fishing bot is using patience, wouldn't it be doubly bad to not recognize the tug since the wrong hookset just wastes GP without providing any benefit? I've always used patience just for the HQ boost, but I guess the "increases the likelihood of catching larger fish" on patience II counts for something. I don't even remember when I last needed to use mooching to catch something outside of quests, so catching HQ fishes hasn't been hugely important to me.