Fishing in ARR

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Having fished in ffxi for all those years and being a mod on a dol site since 14 came out.. it is really just a meh moment reading all this fishing info for ARR.

I thought 1.0 was lame for fishing. Gear didn't matter, fish were all easy to catch.. there was nothing going on with the guild except the worthless marks. Basically nothing like they had in 11. I wanted them to improve upon 11 and 1.0 and take it even further to something that would make us dol players very happy.

To me it sounds more like actual fishing is going to be an automated snooze fest and they'll have some contest or tournaments for the "sport" part of it like it's a freakin Bassmasters Classic now.

I wanted that part though badly. It's like taking the Selbina contest a huge step further but don't do away with the enjoyment of fishing. What is this select a fishing pole stuff for specific water? That has the sound of an automated list where we'll choose from a pole they offer us for that specific water or are they expecting us to have multiple poles on hand? C'mon man..

If they don't want us to think the worst then don't give out details like this. I know it's hard to fathom but there are countless players who love DoL. who love fishing, botany,mining but especially fishing. Here is hoping for the best but a little anger doesn't hurt anything in fact I think it helps because maybe they'll realize they need to make things more clear or maybe the direction they are going in isn't the right one.

I want contests, I want end game rods to work towards like the ebisu and not the lame and useless Luminary, I want fishing gear/armor, goals to work towards like we had in 11 with guild points and then take all that and go a huge step further with things we never imagined and make us say oh wow this is gonna be awesome not wtf are they thinking?

We shall see..