In all seriousness if someone can explain why is it that when I had 353 gather and 286 perception I was able to catch 8 out of the 10 clam bites and get at least 2 HQ's out of that. To now going to 385 gather and 306 perception to where I'm catching 2 out of 10 clam bites and the rest are getting away or the lure is lost. What sense does that make? How is increasing your stats making RNG work all the more against you? There has to be some hidden tier cap that I hit that made me worse off than what I was at catching these things because it's been a week now and it's the same thing every freak'n time.

Another case was before big fishing even came out I went to help a friend fish up some HQ fish for their leves. I was in full HQ gear max melded. And yet I did worse in catching HQ fish, meanwhile my friend i was helping was in lvl35-40 NQ gear with no melds and they were fishing up HQ's without any problems. Seriously stats mean nothing when it comes to fishing. The only stat that matters is you have the gathering required to fish it up. As long as you have that nothing else matters because it's all up to RNG.

What's the point of increasing your stats if they don't ever seem to play a role due to RNG. =\