Petition for the Fishermen, Join the Fight!

[Issac]

Hear me now, fishmongers Eorzea 'round!

I ask of you, what good is your glorious catch if there is no market for it?! No maki to roll, no sushi to pad on rice, and no sashimi to slice n' serve?! I have seen the various stews, the various baits to mush for landing even more useless catches!

How are we to make a living?! What fun is fishing if the bounty is dust? Oh sure my log fills up, my records grow ever higher, but are YOU satisfied with a bunch of squibbles on parchment? NO! You want to SELL your bounty! You want to cook delicious, useful food to share with your fellow man and guildmates!

I stand here upon my rocky shoreline, my pebbled river, my shrubbed lakeside and shake my head in dismay. For I cast my line, I reel my catch, I stare down at my scalekin and WEEP! What will I even do with you, little fishie? Sell you to some soul-less sort in the markets, for they apparently love to pay us pittance for our bounty?! Shall I preserve you with my retainer to sit and rot until the 8th Umbral Era?! No, I will not accept such fates!

Therefore I petition all of my fellow fishermen! Lay your hand to ink and pen this parchment! Let them know we will NOT abide this! Join with me, brothers! Let's make change, aye?!

(TL;DR: I'm FSH50 and CUL50. Honestly the options are pathetic. I feel like my inventory is being spammed with useless crap. Please fix this.)

[LordSideKicks]

I am doing fishing while waiting for fates so not an issue here.

[Issac]

I am doing fishing while waiting for fates so not an issue here.

Aye, the light is dim in your eyes! The bigger picture eludes you, and I even suspect you may not be fit to call yourself a true fishmonger! Away from here, you poison the good intentions of many!

[LyleVertigo]

As a lover of fish and cats, I too would like a lil' play before I reel in the prize. However, Yoshey made it clear that he wants it this way and it is his baby so he gets to drop it if he wants to. lol

[Issac]

As a lover of fish and cats, I too would like a lil' play before I reel in the prize. However, Yoshey made it clear that he wants it this way and it is his baby so he gets to drop it if he wants to. lol

Read more carefully, brother! This is not for the challenge in the catch but the use of it!

[Speebump86]

If we cant get fish as a material for cooking or potion making a different use would be that player homes could have an aquarium and you could sell the fish you catch to players so they can fill them. You could make it so that each fish you put in the aquarium acts as another actual fish. so you could put 5 carp and 1 clam and it would actually show. HQ fish would be bigger and you could even get different size tanks that could hold more or bigger fish.

[Vesper]

Coming as a fisher from 1.0 (Perhaps you remember) I am very upset, not with fishing mechanics, I enjoy those, but with the lack of useful fish overall. Fisher was my first 50 and I brought Culinarian up to 50 as well so they would complement each other back in 1.0. Now I understand the reason for taking the whole crystal synth away, but it seems when all was said and done fisher was left with almost nothing synth wise. Once server issues are done I am hopeful that we can press them for some more information and get some more recipes as well.

[Arriko]

*scribbles name on parchment* Every time i cast my line, its for you Issac and all of Eorzea's fishermen (and fisherwomen). It never fails to excite me when i catch a fish and set a whole new record though

[WellFooled]

I completely agree Issac (wonderfully fun post too!) It is kind of mind boggling that fishing doesn't really -do- anything for you. I very much wanted to be a fisher as I enjoyed it in other MMOs, but once I learned that it doesn't have any usefulness beyond itself I gave up on the idea. I would love for it to be given some kind of use, even if not exactly like the other field trades.

[ShirKirakira]

If we cant get fish as a material for cooking or potion making a different use would be that player homes could have an aquarium and you could sell the fish you catch to players so they can fill them..

This. I remember FF11 you could make an aquarium for your mog house using various fish from holiday events. I'd love this for the FF14 houses.

But let's not stop at aquariums. There is no reason you shouldn't be able to have a record catch stuffed and mounted on a wall as decoration. Or make weapons out of the parts of certain fish. (One MMO I played allowed to your to turn certain fish you caught into hand weapons. Nothing funnier than going into PVP and slapping someone to death with a fish). Or fishing up mini pets--who wants a pet lobster, seasnail, or baby seal?

If we can't make money off the catches, at least let us fish up cosmetic items for even more fun.