Fishing: Overhaul Feast of Famine

[Alenonimo]

You know what? No. The quest should be revamped.


That quest is sitting on my journal for more than 3 years already. I read about all of the fishes. I know what to do to catch every single one. I go to the right places when the window is open. I put the right baits. The fishes never bite. The windows close. Rinse and repeat.


Like, you have to stop everything to go to a window that it's at least as rare as a S Rank window and TWELVE FORBID you're doing something else. Only to come back with empty hands and a basket full of useless fishes.

Is that supposed to be fun?

I looked last week and I realized that the half of the fishes that I have were all HQ because that's a thing that existed at the time. I'm a goddamned Lv 90 fisher with Lv 90 equipment, and I still can't catch a dumb fish that was added before Heavensward was even a thing?

No. I won't stand it anymore. Redo the quest NOW.

Or redo the job, I dunno. Add a button where you spend some of the new buff points to signal that you're going for the big fishes and to make the crappy ones to stop baiting for a goddamned minute. Or make the baits more useful, like, baits from higher levels catch very specific fishes from the spot or tackles that only entice certain sizes or shapes or even times.

Give me something to end my misery!

[PrinceNaoto]

the fish have actual uptimes and at the very end of the day it's still heavily rng. sometimes you won't get anything during the window and sometimes you get everything. i've done the questline three times and i think nepto is the only one i sorta have issues with cause its lower uptime. but also at the same time someone mentioned above, there are big fish much more unforgiving to try to catch with even smaller windows of opening. if you don't find it fun, then you don't have to do it. big fishing is optional. but it's also not supposed to be easy. it's a challenge. cinder surprise is harder to catch than anything in feast of famine and it spawns so sporadically and with 0.1% uptime. but fishing is still rng and luck even if you do everything right. that's just how it is. the quest doesn't need to be revamped to be some simple and easy thing. big fishing isn't supposed to be easy. and if you don't enjoy it simply because of the rng aspects that go into, then i don't know what to tell you. i would honestly be annoyed if they changed how the quest works. there's lots of skills that can help you especially at level 90, while doing the quest. it took me a month to finish it when i did it the first time, but that that was fine cause i knew it wasn't going to be as simple. fishing, most ironically, takes patience. you won't always get the fish the first try and have to just try and it's fine to just leave it then try again later i do that with a lot of the harder fish to catch. fisher doesn't need to be redone either.

if the quest annoys you just don't do it. because it's not supposed to be simple and it's not supposed to be easy. it's still rng and luck. i don't know why people want skills to cheese getting big fish when we already have skills that do legit help with it. but it doesn't remove the rng factor. the fish have uptimes and sometimes just don't bite. there's a good portion of them that have time and weather conditions too. and the fishing community has a tracker with all big fish in the game and tells you their bait, weather, and time conditions. its a great tool and helped me a lot when i did feast of famine the first time. but just because the quest is a challenge doesn't mean it should be dumbed down to nothingness. cause in real life too, sometimes fish just don't bite.

[Jojoya]

Give me something to end my misery!

Open your Quest Journal, select the quest then hit the Abandon button and confirm you wish to abandon the quest.

Your misery is over. I did the exact same thing a few years ago and I've never regretted it. Big game fishing isn't for me unless I'm extremely bored and out of other things to do.

The last thing you should ever do is force yourself to complete content you do not enjoy. You're not helping yourself, and you're sending a message to the developers that you're okay with that type of content because all they're going to know is that you did it. They're not going to know how you felt while you were doing it.