Fishing in ARR

[Nuinn]

I think it can be worse. If the system truly doesn't need any input at all from the players, other than "Ok, pick your rod. Ok, pick your bait. Right, now click here. Ok, wait... wait... wait... yay you got a fish. WASN'T THAT FUN?!", then it's a lot worse than it used to be. At least before you could tell it what to do.

I can't imagine it being all that simple, although I gotta admit that Yoshi's info so far about fishing is puzzling. Just don't believe he's make it that simple, but who knows. . . . I guess in 3 more days we can find out(?)

[LlenCoram]

I can't imagine it being all that simple, although I gotta admit that Yoshi's info so far about fishing is puzzling. Just don't believe he's make it that simple, but who knows. . . . I guess in 3 more days we can find out(?)

Fishing won't be included until beta phase 3. That fact actually fuels my depression. If it really is a completely brand new system, then he should want as many people as possible testing it before launch. The fact that he's only going to give it to us in phase 3 tells me that there's no complexity to test.

[Nuinn]

Fishing won't be included until beta phase 3. That fact actually fuels my depression. If it really is a completely brand new system, then he should want as many people as possible testing it before launch. The fact that he's only going to give it to us in phase 3 tells me that there's no complexity to test.

:O I need better glasses (or any glasses to begin with) Phase 3??? Boo!

[Rustyhagun]

I think fishing will still be valid. I mean how are alchemist going to get the oils needed to craft their items?

[Celia]

I think fishing will still be valid. I mean how are alchemist going to get the oils needed to craft their items?

Well I mean Alchemist does take a lot of their ingredients from Botany, and you can extract oil from plants. Perhaps they'll simply modify recipes.

[Pandemonium]

Well I mean Alchemist does take a lot of their ingredients from Botany, and you can extract oil from plants. Perhaps they'll simply modify recipes.

I used Fishing/Alchemy to fund my crystals for other crafts.

[reefo]

Sounds awesome to me, mini games are for chumps. (lv50 fisher here and I hated every minute of it)

[jesseleewelch]

Sounds awesome to me, mini games are for chumps. (lv50 fisher here and I hated every minute of it)

If you hated every minute of it, why did you do it?

[Punainen]

Sounds awesome to me, mini games are for chumps. (lv50 fisher here and I hated every minute of it)

And they should design classes to accommodate the people who aren't interested in them....why?

[Huh]

What I don't understand is how it is acceptable to completely change the purpose of the class in a way so vastly different from what the gathering class was in 1.0. If it no longer has any purpose besides "achievements" (which every other class already does) I feel like I spent countless hours on something that is now for nothing.

Plus who asked for this? -_- I don't understand who they think they are catering to. If they thought fishing was boring or they saw how many players were uninterested... This was the perfect chance to make the class more engaging. Not even more stale.

This to me seems like such an after thought. Like hey who cares its just fishing, lets cut costs and make this easy to do.

Really hope you thread lurkers respond and voice your opinions on this, I don't think there are many people who care enough about fishing when you compare the FFXIV community as a whole and I don't want the game to launch with the DEVs not knowing their small fishing fan-base is about to be nonexistent.