Thread: Big Fish and You - Patch 2.3

359 gathering is insufficent for frilled shark .. -_-

Can you confirm/deny the reports that a high perception value will make it harder to catch a Big Fish?

The rumor is that if you have a high perception value the big fish you wish to catch will have a greater chance to get away if it was HQ and won't default to just catching a NQ instead.

It sort of makes sense when you think about it, but it's definitely not something I'd like to be true, lol.

Originally Posted by Riko_Futatabi

Can you confirm/deny the reports that a high perception value will make it harder to catch a Big Fish?

The rumor is that if you have a high perception value the big fish you wish to catch will have a greater chance to get away if it was HQ and won't default to just catching a NQ instead.

It sort of makes sense when you think about it, but it's definitely not something I'd like to be true, lol.

You just have to play with your gear. I started to get "fish got away" way too often after upgrading gear but then just put another +1 to both gathering and perception that instantly fixed the issue with big fish getting away.

Originally Posted by Grekumah

Here is some general fishing related information I’d like to share with you:


As this would directly affect the difficulty of Big Fishing, we do not have any plans to make adjustments like this at the moment.


While the time period hasn’t been finalized, we are actually looking into this!


As this would complicate the fishing mechanics we do not have any plans to address this at the moment.
However, we understand that players would like to select a fishing spot without worrying about fishing up maps, so we will be looking into ideas for this, but we can’t make any promises.


We can’t say a specific time period at the moment, but we are looking into making it so you can select from various colors.

*hangs up an air freshener* There… this is really the only reason I came here, the thread started to smell pretty bad.

"We do not have any plans..."
"... hasn't been finalized."
"... do not have any plans..."
"We can't say a specific time..."

Thanks for sharing the valuable information lol

Originally Posted by Grekumah

Here is some general fishing related information I’d like to share with you:


As this would directly affect the difficulty of Big Fishing, we do not have any plans to make adjustments like this at the moment.


While the time period hasn’t been finalized, we are actually looking into this!


As this would complicate the fishing mechanics we do not have any plans to address this at the moment.
However, we understand that players would like to select a fishing spot without worrying about fishing up maps, so we will be looking into ideas for this, but we can’t make any promises.


We can’t say a specific time period at the moment, but we are looking into making it so you can select from various colors.

*hangs up an air freshener* There… this is really the only reason I came here, the thread started to smell pretty bad.

T A C K L E B O X ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Originally Posted by Grekumah

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I love how he addresses all of the crap that doesn't matter.
Really STORE mooches? Your nuts for even thinking they would consider it.
Fishing related furniture? DUH! Of course it's otw...
Release Maps? OMG cause making gil is such a pain in the butt, and that one map you fish up every 18 hours is something that need to be 'released'...
Different color cast light? Yup totally a major problem with fishing...

How about why fishers with endgame gear get increasing worse performance?
How about solving the inventory space problem of bait with a seperate inventory tied to a offhand tool (with or without stats)...
How about increasing the drop rate of clear demimateria cause I don't need X,XXX,XXX fine sand from desynthing fish, and let's face it... fish don't sell all that well anymore...

Thank you so much for your wonderfully informative and on-the-point reply.

*walks away to jump off a cliff*