Quote Originally Posted by SidRheingold View Post
Honestly, I feel okay with how Fishing will work. Makes me want to level it too.

I can understand most of the previous posts, but Fishing should not be anyone's major task in an MMORPG after all.
That's the thing, fishing won't work. There won't be any work at all. Who are you to tell us how to play the game? I'm really tired of everyone picking on gatherers just because "lol you aren't fighting." I found combat boring. The only combat class I cared about was Pugilist/Monk, but given the chance I'd choose fishing every time. It was something I was good at, it was relaxing, it helped my friends a lot with shards and cooking and, later, hamlets, and it made me really enjoy the game. Thanks to fishing I was able to play the game from open beta all the way to when they turned off the servers without ever being bored. I'm not sure I could have ever said the same for combat.

I chose fishing to be my major task in this MMO. A lot of fellow gatherers feel the same. It's what we enjoyed doing, and it's what we all hoped to continue enjoying in ARR. Now it looks like fishing has been removed from the roster completely, because I can assure you anyone who actually enjoyed fishing in 1.0, or even XI, will not like this new "system." It's the old XI system, so I'm told. A system that even the old FFXI game thinks is outdated. Who in their right mind would ever think this is a good idea for a "global standard MMO" from 2013?