Make FSHing more like FISHing

[Gesser]

Off-hand Reels (different looks, actually display on the rod)

Cast

Control Depth - Drop Line/Reel Back?

Depth Meter (different fish based on depth)

Set the Hook - Weak/Strong?

Tension Meter (manipulate drag to keep the fish hooked)

Increase/Decrease Drag

Respond to Tugs (sound cues prompting when to pause/reel)


It could be a bit more like Crafting in that you could have a Distance measure (opposite to progress, when a fish hooks you want to reel it back in…it’ll fight you increasing distance away, if it reaches max you lose the fish)… and utilize techniques to help your odds of baiting HQ fish (chum, drift, jig, troll, & etc… perhaps differentiate it from crafting in that you couldn’t 100% HQ, maybe cap at 50% with the remaining 50% left to chance).

As it is currently, FSHing is pretty lame... there's a ton of potential currently built into the game to make FSHing amazing & honestly... it wouldn't be too difficult. I just handed you the tools, now: make a few reel-models/icons, create a few simple abilities plus their animations, a couple UI elements, & you're done.

[LlenCoram]

Cast

Control Depth - Drop Line/Reel Back?

Depth Meter (different fish based on depth)

Set the Hook - Weak/Strong?

Tension Meter (manipulate drag to keep the fish hooked)

Increase/Decrease Drag

Respond to Tugs (sound cues prompting when to pause/reel)

This is how fishing was in 1.0. You'd cast and be prompted to choose your depth, one of 11 slots (0, +1 to +5, -1 to -5). After you set your depth, you'd wait. A fish would either then nibble, where you'd wait, or bite, where you'd jig. On jigging you were given a pie slice chart thingy, with a ball moving left and right over it. It was essentially cut into five zones, and jigging in one zone would give you a result. If you were close to where you'd reel in the fish, it would say that you're pulling on the line. If it was off, the fish would be pulling on the line. Sometimes it would say that you had it right but couldn't quite reel it yet, at which point you'd jig at the same spot again.

It was really easy once you got it, and at level 50 the pattern never changed anywhere, so you always knew what you were going to get. But the system relied on you paying attention, and if you ever lost a fish it was entirely your fault.

I miss it still.

[Azurymber]

I personally don't mind how fishing is now. I just wish you could make -some- gil off it. Or that it had some nice endgame stuff to do (like 10,000 moat carps for lu-shangs)

[Mhaeric]

I personally don't mind how fishing is now. I just wish you could make -some- gil off it. Or that it had some nice endgame stuff to do (like 10,000 moat carps for lu-shangs)

Good news for you then. Fish several thousand times at various locations throughout Eorzea and you can obtain a Luminary Rod.

[Gesser]

I don't think the way I laid it out is asking for much... a few of those things could be scrapped even.

I just want more than a wait for it... wait for it... wait for it... single button press.

[NyneAlexander]

I don't mind it so much except for two things:

1.) the insane inventory aggro.

Unlike other gathering classes (but akin to fishing in real life) you cannot control which items you gather. With 8+ types of fish at each location, plus their HQ counterparts, that gives a chance for 16+ item slot clogging types of fish. Not to mention different types of bait. Just give us a tacklebox, SE!

2.) Sandfishing and Skyfishing

Cause there isn't enough water in eorzea? forreals?

[Kieren-Dohla]

Yeah, a bait or tacklebox is a must.

When I'm out and about doing other stuff I might not even be thinking of fishing at first. But then I end up near water and think I'll do a little fishing. Well carrying all the baits is a nightmare. Some told me at higher levels you don't need the lower ones.

But if you decide you want to get a certain type of fish/coral, there are certain baits that are the best, the higher level baits just bring other things in.

Even the level one ocean bait lugworms has it's uses at much higher levels. Wanna catch Silver Sharks? One of the best places is Cape Westwind (time of day maybe important). The only low level fish there that take that bait are goby. Get an hq goby and mooch. You then you either get a Sliver Shark or a Wahoo.

I don't necessarily go out just to fish at a certain spot, I like to roam and not be restricted to carrying a small subset of bait some I how room for stuff I catch. But carrying all of it takes up almost an entire precious page of inventory lol.

Other times I need specific fish/coral for crafting. I do plant that ahead of time and can limit the bait I carry for those circumstances...

[Kieren-Dohla]

GP isn't used by fishers, at least not yet. But they have it. Hopefully in the future it will have some use that adds a little more depth fishing.

I'm not a lvl 50 fisher yet, but I crafted all my lvl 50 gear ahead of time. Nome of it has GP added, except the gloves which add three. Probably an accident lol.

[Felis]

New Fishing content is coming with 2.2

- new fishing challenges

http://cdn2.dualshockers.com/wp-cont...4-13_57_27.jpg

Maybe something with Leviathan?

And yes, OP wishes sound a bit like the fishing during 1.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...eGfvqOrg#t=652

2.) Sandfishing and Skyfishing

Cause there isn't enough water in eorzea? forreals?

Never heard about flying fishes? ^^

[Nuinn]

Also, more use for fish.... most of them aren't even used as crafting mats and/or GC turn-in :/ And what's with the silliness that aquariums (for housing) are hard to design, while we're on topic of fish? >.>

EDIT: Dunefishing and skyfishing make a splashing watery sound when you reel fish in -_-