The timer for ocean fishing is ridiculous!

[Duskane]

Atleast it gives the alarm command a use for me

[Liale]

One main reason, balance.
Second reason? So you dont spend 48 hours after patch doing it all the time and suddenly you never need to do it again. Ocean Fishing in its current state is a framework, the devs dont want you burning out on it before they've added anything interesting to it down the line.




Agreed. Every 2 hours is a few in-game days, that basically simulates a ship leaving every few in-game days. Its not like you can turn up to a port IRL and expect to be taken out fishing on the spot simply because you want to, things like trips out to sea take time.
That being said, i would of preferred if the ship actually MOVED rather than just being an instance, as that means it would have more of a gameplay reason to be timed outside of balance.

Except I'm already burned out on it having done it for 3 days and no mount because of a completely rng based system.

[Seraphor]

I wouldn't mind it if they had it every hour and reduced the exp. Most of your exp is still coming from actually catching fish anyway.
And yeah, I hope they release more routes eventually.

[Miu-Tiiu]

I wouldn't mind it if they had it every hour and reduced the exp. Most of your exp is still coming from actually catching fish anyway.
And yeah, I hope they release more routes eventually.

This I like!

I haven't tried it yet however I've already heard complaints from my FC about it.

[Eriane_Elis]

The timer is fine as-is but you just can't queue. Try as you might, the chances of you getting in is like winning the lottery. Sure, this will change in months to come when nobody does it maybe but they need more than one boat every 2hrs. What's worse is I think you can server hop to a less populated server and jump on their server. Whatever the case is, they need to allow for more people to participate. Add more instances please!

Edit:
They should make it so you can only do it once every 2 hours but you can queue in an instance, guarantee every time.

[Seraphor]

The timer is fine as-is but you just can't queue. Try as you might, the chances of you getting in is like winning the lottery. Sure, this will change in months to come when nobody does it maybe but they need more than one boat every 2hrs. What's worse is I think you can server hop to a less populated server and jump on their server. Whatever the case is, they need to allow for more people to participate. Add more instances please!

Edit:
They should make it so you can only do it once every 2 hours but you can queue in an instance, guarantee every time.

They're cross-world instances, so server hopping does nothing.

[Alleo]

The timer is fine as-is but you just can't queue. Try as you might, the chances of you getting in is like winning the lottery. Sure, this will change in months to come when nobody does it maybe but they need more than one boat every 2hrs. What's worse is I think you can server hop to a less populated server and jump on their server. Whatever the case is, they need to allow for more people to participate. Add more instances please!

Edit:
They should make it so you can only do it once every 2 hours but you can queue in an instance, guarantee every time.

Whats with so many people believing that there is only one boat? The NPC is active for 15 minutes and in this time they create many boats. The last one will just start even if it is not full.