Fishing needs more value

[LlenCoram]

The ease of which fishing would be to bot instantly says that this will never happen. Working as intended, do other gathering stuff. Fishing will not be more than it is now.

"Because of the possibility of something bad happening, this has been reduced to being absolutely mindless and 100% worse than it ever was in 1.0. Suck it up, stop playing the class you enjoy, and do other stuff. Enjoy the fact that you're being forced to not play a class you once found fun."

That about sum it up? The risk of something being botted should not affect the gameplay, nor should it dictate the way something is played. BTN and MNRs can be as easily botted, and they collect important materials. Why weren't there as neutered as we were? As it is, the current mechanics punish the players, not the bots.

In 1.0 we were useful. Fish became shards and crystals, dark matter could be fished up, and more fish did more things. We've been neutered, and we're to just suck it up because, "Oh no, bots might do bad stuff!"? In case you haven't been playing recently, bots are already doing bad stuff. I think the possibility of a bunch of bots making shards is far outweighed by people actively hacking logged in accounts to steal millions of gil.

The simple fact is Yoshi and his crew were and are still being lazy with this class. We were more in 1.0. We were more in XI. Now we're nothing. This class absolutely needs more value, because right now everything about it screams lazy.