Quote Originally Posted by Fruity_Snacks View Post
I may have not clearly stated what I meant to.

With normal fishing, we can also confidently predict what will bite when we cast out. With Spearfishing, it's a toss up. You poke the bubbles and get some random fish. With Veteran Trade you poke the bubbles and get some random fish minus one. There's far less control over the pool with your suggestions, and far less RNG control. You may get MORE of a fish, but you won't know for sure what it is. You have, much, much less of an idea of what you're going to get when you spearfish, compared to rod fishing.
Depending on the location, anyway. Worst ones I've seen you've taken the odds from 25% to 33% (not that different from regular fishing). Best cases there's only 2 fish so your odds go from 50% to 100% of collecting the fish you want. While you can know what you'll get ahead of time with regular fishing, you're having to use a guide outside of the game just to figure out the conditions, weather, everything just to collect your fish (including the timer on pulls). You're also wasting bait every time the fish you want doesn't pull on the line, resulting in the loss of tens of thousands of gil. I prefer a system to where it's random, but I don't have to consult a guide, compared to one where I have to look up a guide just to find out I have to catch a fish in the middle of June at night in a monsoon during a blue moon with a bait I can only get from using X amount of scrips that have a weekly cap. A gross exaggeration, but you can get the frustration.