Fishing RNG... Really!?

[Fynlar]

The classes have completely different expectations of players stats, you realise. If fishing actually expected BTN/MIN tier stats it'd be impossible, but it doesn't - the stat cutoffs for catching fish are based off of what a Fisher can actually get.

1) They aren't actually that much different; highest BTN/MIN items requires 420 gathering, highest FSH item needs something like... 407, 408? It's a LOT less than the difference an offhand would make.
2) As such, BTN/MIN can easily get everything while still far below their stat caps

Not so with fishing. Come back when you have BTN/MINs doing things like taking i70 DoW/DoM accessories and melding those instead simply for the extra one point of gathering/perception each, milking every little stat point they possibly can, and STILL struggling to obtain their items.

[Garlyle]

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You seem to think I'm not intimately familiar with the challenges of Fisher.

And I'll just answer one thing: We don't have to factor GP into anything. Our BiS wrists? Done in one overmeld by using two Grade III materia. Botanist/Miner BiS wrists? Four overmelds. The amount of tier IV materia BTN/MIN have to sink into their gear even before considering offhands is massive compared to what Fisher does, and then there's the massive cost of Offhand overmeld failures.

The cost of pushing FSH towards its caps is drastically less than what it would cost to push BTN/MIN towards its caps. Only recently with the Forager's gear has this changed and even now it's more like it's comparable. Offhands being introduced for Fisher would still come with a soaring of Gathering/Perception expectations to match.