Uncap Big Fishing, Please!

[HakuroDK]

Hey there! So... I've been spending the downtime before 3.1 doing my Big Fishing. Aaaaand... even with double the former maximum amount of Gathering and Perception one could have pre-3.0, I still find myself seeing countless Big Fish get away.

Could there be a possibility of improving the catch rates for these fish based on modern 3.0 stats? Thanks!

NOTE: I am not saying to improve the hooking rate of these fish. Just make them easier to catch when they ARE hooked. =D

[Ashkendor]

Dude, tell me about it. Nepto Dragon got away from me 25 times before I finally landed it.

So friggin frustrating. >.<

[HakuroDK]

Yeah, it is super frustrating!

I mean, I don't mind if it takes forever for a big fish to bite, but when it does bite, I want my current stats to give me a considerably higher shot at a fish.

Like... case and point, there is an infamous fish known as a Cupfish. Really ugly little thing. It only comes out 5PM-7PM Eorzea Time and it has a really low chance of being hooked and a really low chance of being caught. It's really annoying to catch. I've hooked it maybe... 6 times so far? And despite having 550 Gathering on my Fisher, it just goes away like nothing.

[Tint]

why everyone wants to nerf fishing? D:

catching all the fish and getting all the items from fish desynthesis was one of the best experiences i made in this game o.o/

[HakuroDK]

why everyone wants to nerf fishing? D:

catching all the fish and getting all the items from fish desynthesis was one of the best experiences i made in this game o.o/

It's less of a nerf and more along the lines of trying to scale the catch rate reasonably to higher leveled fishers. It's always frustrating when a fish gets away. Especially when that same fish gets away 20 or 30 times.

[Jinglybell]

I dont mind if they keep it capped like that. I do however wish we could get a higher chance then what is probably 15% cap to snag a hq low level fish. (without our gp buffs) Also id like it if they either increased the windows for the level 60 aetherial reduction fish or made it so tupuxuara and the Thaliak caiman were on different fishing windows and I could lower the purity on the ones I managed to catch. SO much useless Seaborne Aethersand when all I want is the clusters. Botany/Mining are easier to spam clusters since you can force 2 purity every time, but with fishing its a crap shoot and our windows for the level 60 ones are only 4 game hours a day with both the ice/water reducible fish sharing a spot.

[VirusChris]

I prefer that being a higher level Fisher should give you a more higher dang chance to catch more elusive from pre-HW at least. I don't have a lot time in the world and I have errands to run and jobs to do so I can't sit around all the time waiting to catch one fish due to weather, time windows, and mooching at times.

This is not fun, I mean I don't plan to catch ALL fishes, but for the ones that are needed for some Quests... make them more manageable to snag. Seriously I dislike how Fisher is the "weakest" DoL class in the game and how often it fails where MIN and BTN are more relaxing and more fun to use than Fisher.

[Moonleg]

why everyone wants to nerf fishing? D:

catching all the fish and getting all the items from fish desynthesis was one of the best experiences i made in this game o.o/

Why be forced to get more levels if having more levels doesn't actually make you better at the job?

[VirusChris]

Why be forced to get more levels if having more levels doesn't actually make you better at the job?

Exactly! It makes no sense, there's really no difference from Lv50 to 60 with the Fisher class. There's like no progress at all and not worth it.

[Ashkendor]

Why be forced to get more levels if having more levels doesn't actually make you better at the job?

Pretty much this, I felt like the extra stats I got from leveling were pretty useless.

Patience has been a godsend, though.