Fishing is suffering too. Not just I but many others from the posts I have read on various sights are leading me to believe that somehow you broke fishing. People with maxed out stats and supra rods failing more then ever on fish they used to not fail on, the lack of use for fish...the 99% fine sand you get from every fish of every level, which is worth less then npcing the fish in the first place (ignoring shards, if you get any)...I will give you credit for giving us shards for desynthesis, however I still feel that fishing+desynth is still slower generation then other options. Not to mention getting water except for a few instances where i know you can get earth (sand fishing) wind (sky fishing) and thunder (specific fish and not guarenteed to get everytime)...there may be ice and fire but i havent gotten around to those locations (assuming the exist). I know a lot of people feel shafted on the fact that culinarian cant produce fieldcraft or mastercraft demimateria.