Fishing suppose to be casual right? WRONG!!!!!

[Gilthas]

Fishing in ARR has never been fun.

It has always been another thing to do for the completionist in me, but it was never really fun because there's no interaction and too much of it is luck based. I'm usually reading stuff online while I fish.

[Nukocafe]

just supply skimpy vanity swimwear to girl players and guys that like to oogle their female hyur or cat girl.

I like to oogle at my male cat boy in the south seas talisman tho. :P
But in all seriousness I actually tried to catch the 2.3 big fish for the achievements. Something about "go big or go home" makes me happy so I've followed the fishing sites, made a spreadsheet and just park myself on a map and "rotate around" based on time & weather. While waiting, I just go play psp/psvita games or watch some streaming vids.

It's frustrating, especially seeing a fish "get away" when you only had a 2 hour window. But I'll probably keep doing it.
I wish we got a mount or a title or something for catching all these big fish though.

P.S. Don't know if this is intentional or a bug but when you fish in one of the new swimsuits you lose your pants:

[Shougun]

Come on, it was an obvious joke about the retainers...
Did i seriously need to use joke tags or something?

Sorry, that went right over my head. I'm a little too bitter about the whole affair I guess.

You have to understand Assirra, that sounds like a legitmate response after what SE did in beta.. XD

"Your class, that was a class is now just a casual hobby, please look forward to it"

Us since then:

(In their defence there are a few items that if you're --lucky-- enough to get, can sell.. but yeah imo since 1.0 it hasn't felt like a real gatherer)

[Desidious]

Can't tell how much anime I've finished on Hulu while fishing. It's is what it is but there's definitely been a change towards a bad direction in my eyes.

But this is nothing slight changes won't fix like:

-better ways to tell what the weather is in other areas, even with lore I'm sure they can find a way to do this in Eorza.

-Increase the time frame it takes to catch big fish if it actually is two hours of Eorza time.

-Give is an easier way to store our bait in an offhand tool.

-Make GP meaningful and have it help against the RNG.

-Let the records we catch mean something more.

-Fish mounting on a wall of our home? It can be a desynth material.

-Build a better fishing community.

The devs have potential to do something more here and keep a certain playerbase I'm sure (because all player types should matter to them). I just hope one day they hear us.

[Desidious]

Caught 6 new 2.3 patch big fish today so my spirits are pretty high. This brings me up to 10 2.3 fish and this is without the supra, not letting my perception pass 300, and keeping my gathering around 361-379. I still have a few misses but so far I've caught as many as I've missed.. almost.

[Thegide]

The 8 layers of Swimsuit Fishing RNG:

weather -> time -> fish rng -> hq/nq -> big fish rng -> pass/fail - > desynthesis success/fail -> swimsuit or sand

I am all for working hard to get something, but about a 2 weeks after 2.3 started I've done nothing but fishing (and coil), and so far, I haven't had any luck with the rare swimsuits (not the blue ones). I've been playing MMOs since I was a kid, and I've never seen that many layers of conditions and RNG for a reward.

The rarity of these items due to this RNG has deterred all but about 5 hardcore fishers on my server. There are no items on the MB and there is no sales history, because they are next to no items being produced, because they are nearly impossible to get. If people fishing 12+ hours a day can't get these items, they may as well not even exist.

I have no issue with how difficult the fish are to catch, but it's excessive how much RNG is in place for obtaining the special items.

[TheRogueX]

I don't understand. I'm not complaining that they're hard to get, and I'm not asking that they just be handed to me, but c'mon. I've said it once and I'll continue to say it, the current game smacks of lazy game design. Outside of the somewhat interesting dungeon designs, the game is lazy.

It's ridiculous, really. 95% of vanity items should be easy to get and inexpensive. The other 5% should consist of expensive, difficult to craft, or otherwise hard to acquire 'unique'/'elite' vanity gear.

[ServerCollaps]

It's ridiculous, really. 95% of vanity items should be easy to get and inexpensive. The other 5% should consist of expensive, difficult to craft, or otherwise hard to acquire 'unique'/'elite' vanity gear.

uhm, isnt that actually happening? there are tons of cheap vanity items and swimsuits for below 100 gil at several npcs ig and you still complain about 1 set of coeurl swimsuit and some sandals?

[Thegide]

Things like crescent moon sleepwear, spring dress gear, and highland winter gear are expensive and/or hard to acquire. The red and coeurl swimsuits, sandals, and hats are an entirely different level of ridiculous to get. Why bother introducing gear that nobody can realistically get?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Things like crescent moon sleepwear, spring dress gear, and highland winter gear are expensive and/or hard to acquire. The red and coeurl swimsuits, sandals, and hats are an entirely different level of ridiculous to get. Why bother introducing gear that nobody can realistically get?

Same reason Atma and the Rainbow Skittles unicorns are stupidly hard to get; so you can brag that you got it.