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    Caoihmin's Avatar
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    Macros for Fishing?

    I play on PS4 with keyboard and have found fishing to be quite enjoyable. However, it does get tedious at times and I was wondering if there was macros that would alleviate this. Or would that be considered botting? Hell, I've never used macros so I'm not quite sure how they even work lol.
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    Short answer - no there aren't any that would be useful as far as I can see. I'm guessing you were looking for something that would automatically reel in once the fish is hooked and then re-cast and start it all over again?

    We can't have this feature because bots would abuse it far too easily. While there is still bot abuse, this was at least foreseen as an issue and thus we can't have the feature.

    As a side note, I would love to just press one button as a BTN and gather the items from a node, instead of having to click each time to "swing" at the tree.
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    I hear ya there lol. Ok, well it doesn't hurt to ask. Thx.
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    One useful fishing macro

    There is one useful fishing macro that I use all the time.

    /macroicon "Hook"
    /ac "Hook" <me>
    /wait 11
    /ac "Mooch" <me>
    /wait 1
    /ac "Cast" <me>

    Hit this when you hook a fish....11 seconds is long enough for any hooking animation. It will then mooch if possible, wait one second for lag, then cast for your next opportunity. One button fishing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by luckystrikes View Post
    There is one useful fishing macro that I use all the time.

    /macroicon "Hook"
    /ac "Hook" <me>
    /wait 11
    /ac "Mooch" <me>
    /wait 1
    /ac "Cast" <me>

    Hit this when you hook a fish....11 seconds is long enough for any hooking animation. It will then mooch if possible, wait one second for lag, then cast for your next opportunity. One button fishing.
    This is really nice for leveling...thanks
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    Quote Originally Posted by luckystrikes View Post
    There is one useful fishing macro that I use all the time.

    /macroicon "Hook"
    /ac "Hook" <me>
    /wait 11
    /ac "Mooch" <me>
    /wait 1
    /ac "Cast" <me>
    One button instead of three - on a class that doesnt need more then 6 skills on hotbar - why dont i get it when all i need to fish is 1(fish) 2(hook) 3(mooch)? >.>

    Quote Originally Posted by Caoihmin View Post
    I play on PS4 with keyboard and have found fishing to be quite enjoyable. However, it does get tedious at times and I was wondering if there was macros that would alleviate this. Or would that be considered botting? Hell, I've never used macros so I'm not quite sure how they even work lol.
    Try using the controller, it vibrates when you hook a fish. X hook, O fish, Square: Mooch

    that way you can fish while doing w/e, vibration -> X - wait because time doesnt matter anyways - Square -> Circle -> rinse/repeat
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    Last edited by Magistrella; 05-06-2015 at 03:37 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magistrella View Post
    One button instead of three - on a class that doesnt need more then 6 skills on hotbar - why dont i get it when all i need to fish is 1(fish) 2(hook) 3(mooch)? >.>
    Mostly because I'm super lazy. Also it's a nice sleep aid...the swishing of the rod, the rolling waves...... yep.
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    every fish has a time window of x to y seconds after casting when it can bite

    if you want to catch a specific fish which bites between 7-9 secs you can use a macro which reels at 9 seconds, so you wont get fish which bites after
    9+ seconds

    its extremely usefull to nearly always get mooch fish like cloudcutter, silverfish etc.
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    I just count the rod bounces with mooch fish. XD
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    Quote Originally Posted by Highwilds View Post
    I just count the rod bounces with mooch fish. XD
    Rod bounces?
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