Ocean fishing is horribly designed

[Erendis]

I think the main problem is that it's too difficult to trigger spectral currents if the specific time/weather conditions that increase the appearance of spectral fish are not available.

If none of those spawn, the only thing you can really do is pray that some intuition fish spawn so you can at least get some white scrips out of the trip.

I've caught 4 spectral fish in one zone and got exactly 0 spectral currents...

[Gula]

Colour me surprised, they took away 1 dungeon and gave us this pointless feature that will be more dead than eureka or squadrons.

Majority wanted dungeon taken away and given this fishing content, so here we got enjoy.

"I don't like it therefore by fact it is the worst thing in the world" The post.

Also, do tell what more another dungeon could offer besides lore? Hallway, boss, hallway, boss, cinematic hallway and then a boss. Unbelievable! Could you imagine the step, it's genius!

[Avidria]

I think the main problem is that it's too difficult to trigger spectral currents if the specific time/weather conditions that increase the appearance of spectral fish are not available.

If none of those spawn, the only thing you can really do is pray that some intuition fish spawn so you can at least get some white scrips out of the trip.

I'm still having a hard time even figuring out how you're supposed to trigger the actual spectral current. I've caught a handful of spectral fish, some hq, but had nothing happen. And Google is affording me no useful answers <.<

[Destati]

The time gates need to be taken away completely or reduced to something like 30 minutes - 1 hour at the most. It's infuriating enough to fight against RNG, and knowing you have to wait two hours before you can go back in to try again adds insult to injury, especially if you finished the last round with say, 9k points and there's no guarantee that you'll be lucky enough to get triple rainbows next time.

[LalafellDown]

Needs more rainbows

[Iscah]

I was able to determine for myself why this is the case.
Since leveling was so quick, I wanted to do the level 40 job quest where you have to catch a fish at Jadeite Thick in Noth Shroud that you can only catch during rainy weather.
I tried about 60 times and never caught a single one of those needed fish, and you have to catch five of them for the quest.
Seriously. This is the most....Job in the game.

I'm not sure that you can catch them in North Central Shroud actually. I remember fishing from the other side of the Jadeite Flood, in Gridania near the Carline Canopy.

[Azurymber]

As for making it actually fun, how about adding a giant sea-monster at the conclusion of the duty where players get a duty action to throw all the fish they'd caught at the monster to slap it into submission. Add cross-hairs to toss it at strategic parts of the monster's body and have it recover if fish reach its mouth so it can eat the fish, rather than take damage from it. Rewards could include gathering scrips, scrip bait, possibly unique bait that helps to capture the big fish out in the open world, you name it.
It's just a thought that occurred to me, but something that might improve the overall experience and helps to keep the content relevant in the long run.

This is the coolest idea ever.

[Moonlite]

"I don't like it therefore by fact it is the worst thing in the world" The post.

Also, do tell what more another dungeon could offer besides lore? Hallway, boss, hallway, boss, cinematic hallway and then a boss. Unbelievable! Could you imagine the step, it's genius!

Besides attacking them. Do you believe the content will be relevant all the way to even the next patch without an overhaul? They shouldn't have called it pointless. If the content is doomed to be dead down the road, then a dungeon is better. It at least gives you a different thing to stair at during a roulette.



The dev team has "clearly" painted a limited resources picture. Side content needs to be either good on drop. Or they need to be more committed to balancing it for global markets in a more timely manor. They have not had the best track record for side content. All that is happening is they are creating an atmosphere of resentment as demonstrated by the person you quoted. Extra dungeons just create boredom.



But maybe they have a plan and they already have balance fixes prepped. But maybe some of the vaunted communication would go a long way to diffuse threads like these. I am not a mount collector so doesn't bother me either way about the actual content.

[Glenfiddich]

I'm not sure that you can catch them in North Central Shroud actually. I remember fishing from the other side of the Jadeite Flood, in Gridania near the Carline Canopy.

Thank you for the hint. I've watched a video of the Quest on youtube and it shows a whole different location.
This is weird. I'm playing with German language settings (I'm not a native English speaker) and the description clearly says " can only be found at Jadeite Thick during rainy weather".
Thanks again. Will try it again at the required time.

[Doru_Nintendan]

Honestly, i do like the concept of Ocean Fishing, i just wish we would have more than 6 amd a half minutes in each zone. We get a 7 min timer for each, and we are forced to stop at the last 30 second mark, and it's not enough time for anyone, especially if you get the larger fish that take 10-30 secs just to bite. We have a 60 min timer for the whole duty, yet we dont even use half of it. If we had a 10 min timer, at the very least, it would help us get more out of this content.