Fishing needs a total overhaul

[Hinalover]

So my 4 suggestions are mostly focused at big fish

1) A more controlled way of triggering big fish conditions. Some way to more consistantly trigger a big fish spawn than spend half-a-dozen or more windows up to chance. Maybe some rework to surface slap would help a long way here.

2) Allow a higher chance of landing a big fish based on either your gathering or perception stats. Working on ARR fish, having landed a big fish, only it gets away sucks, especially if you out-gear the area by 3 expansions worth of gear. I'm just saying to allow you to more easily capture fish if you out-gear it's fishing hole.

3) Allow Mooched fish to be surface slapped. There are quite a few big fish that are tied to a mooched fish; who share the same base fish.

4) Adjust the cost of abilities. Some of these abilities are way too expensive. Particularly Patient, Patient II, Precision and Powerful Hookshot. In areas that require a mooch, these get REALLY expensive on the GP. Combine that with Surface Slap, and you are just chugging Cordials on cooldown.

[Dzian]

4) Adjust the cost of abilities. Some of these abilities are way too expensive. Particularly Patient, Patient II, Precision and Powerful Hookshot. In areas that require a mooch, these get REALLY expensive on the GP. Combine that with Surface Slap, and you are just chugging Cordials on cooldown.

Patience isn't that bad if you know what fish your after as you can conserve a ton of GP on the btes.. if the fish you need to mooch is an ! then you can use hooksets on any ! bites you get and just hook any !! bites normally to save your gp.

they did change it recently aswell so you can pop patience then chug a cordial.which when combined with the above means you can essentially keep patience up almost continuosly. especially if you use the hq watered cordials as they have basically the same recast as patience.

a lot of the time you can even ignore ! bites as well.. for example doing my skysung fishing rod i needed alagan hunters. and bullwhips shared the same bite. however allagan hunters only ever bite after 9 seconds so again you can safely just hook any bites that occur sooner than that.. pretty simple macro.
/ac cast <wait.9>
/echo <se.1>.
so if it bites before the sound hook it normally. if it bites after use hookset.

there's alot of fish you can do similar things with and it's much more efficient than just using hooksets on every single cast.

i will agree that surface slap and identical cast are too expensive gp wise though. at least for there dutraton. (1 cast basically) if surface slap stopped you catching those fish for 2 minutes then it'd be cool and worth the gp cost imo. as it stands though i never use it.

[TaleraRistain]

So my 4 suggestions are mostly focused at big fish

1) A more controlled way of triggering big fish conditions. Some way to more consistantly trigger a big fish spawn than spend half-a-dozen or more windows up to chance. Maybe some rework to surface slap would help a long way here.

2) Allow a higher chance of landing a big fish based on either your gathering or perception stats. Working on ARR fish, having landed a big fish, only it gets away sucks, especially if you out-gear the area by 3 expansions worth of gear. I'm just saying to allow you to more easily capture fish if you out-gear it's fishing hole.

3) Allow Mooched fish to be surface slapped. There are quite a few big fish that are tied to a mooched fish; who share the same base fish.

4) Adjust the cost of abilities. Some of these abilities are way too expensive. Particularly Patient, Patient II, Precision and Powerful Hookshot. In areas that require a mooch, these get REALLY expensive on the GP. Combine that with Surface Slap, and you are just chugging Cordials on cooldown.

Sorry to necro a semi-older thread but ALL OF THESE

I just spent another night working on Feast of Famine and I'm reminded of why I still don't have this done after years of it in my quest log. All of these would be a huge help with all the fish for that quest, especially things like having Nepto get away over and over and over and over and over and over and over again when you're level 80 with endgame stats and there's nothing you can do to help your catch rate.

[Faafetai]

I am kind of disheartened after getting my crafters and gatherers to 80. I spend the entire time struggling to get there to acquire abilities that make everything a million times easier. My fisher is 76 at the moment, and I honestly have given up on the class quests for the moment. The versatile lure seems to give me the most equal amount of fish and streaks less painfully than the rest of the baits. Something I have noticed, and it could just be correlation, but when I have a leve or a class quest I seem to have a worse time actually catching the fish I need. When abandoning the quest, suddenly I am able to catch the fish perfectly fine. I may just be cursed. I am sorry as well for the necro. Also thank you Talera for the imagery I received when seeing this term for bringing a thread back to life. I have just been having a hard time and found this post and had a laugh others were becoming angry at the fishing.