Fishing needs a Fp syatem

[MorbolvampireQueen6]

ever since zelda and dark cloud fishing has been a nice break from the game however that was when it had a point.

In xiv fishing is near pointless out of all the fish only about 40-45 are of any use and most can be bought for 45gil tbh.

We need a fishing point system which grants Fp based on how much a fish we donate weighs. This could be used 2 buy emotes,outfits, fun toys, and so on.

[Nalien]

Fishing deserves a Leaderboard and top 100 more than Feast does, in all honesty.

[JowyAtreides]

aaaaand now you've made me want to play Breath of Fire 3 and 4. The fishing in them games were amazing and rewarded the effort perfectly.

[MorbolvampireQueen6]

aaaaand now you've made me want to play Breath of Fire 3 and 4. The fishing in them games were amazing and rewarded the effort perfectly.

i forgot those had fishing been a bit but ya its funny how classic games knew how to make fishing worth doing unlike modern ones lol

[disturbedcobra]

Just imagine. A big TT/Feast-like event heald over the course of 30-45 days where you are tasked to catch fish in 3 catagories. the first 2 would be Largest Fish/Smallest Fish, the 3rd would be catching the most of a specific fish. Each of these three catagories gives a reward for up to 3 places from either minions, gear, mounts, gil pouches and MGP tokens.

[xJimmehx]

Fishing does indeed need some love. I agree that turn ins for gil/prizes would be nice. Id rather them find a way to make it more useful as a DoL though. Like fishing up sea monsters for scales to make a sea monster scale armor set.

Alternatively they could add more random drops to fishing. Such as chests with randomized loot. It could have as much as 100k gil inside, but obviously that would be extremely rare. I could also see them throwing in other things such as shards, or maybe rare materials that can be used on other jobs. Like the materials you get only from retainers or dropped very rarely in duties.

[xJimmehx]

Just imagine. A big TT/Feast-like event heald over the course of 30-45 days where you are tasked to catch fish in 3 catagories. the first 2 would be Largest Fish/Smallest Fish, the 3rd would be catching the most of a specific fish. Each of these three catagories gives a reward for up to 3 places from either minions, gear, mounts, gil pouches and MGP tokens.

Sounds fun XD

[Kemiko]

Wasn't fishing in XIV tuned based on how lucrative it was in XI? I vaguely recall development not wanting fishing to be seen as an easy method, or consequently the only method, to gil farming and that coloring the direction of their choices for the gathering class.

This is something I'm just barely remembering from ARR launch 5 or so years ago, so take it with a grain of salt. Anyone who remembers more clearly or remembers with letter from the producer it is please correct me.

[Dhaid]

Right now fishing is less of a gathering class and more of a support to cooking class.. some extra reasons to use fish or get fish would be nice.

[Vrankyl]

While Fishing could indeed use some love, come on actually do something with Spearfishing instead of forgetting it completely after the initial expac leveling, it is hardly in a bad place for making gil. Using just fishing I can easily make several million gil a week. At the beginning of the expansion I could easily net 10+ mil from just farming up the sands crafters needed.