FFXI: Fishing

[thistlechaser]

I made my last post before reading my flist, wandering FFXI boards, or really seeing anyone else's opinion on the new stuff. Now that I have seen what others have been saying, I can pinpoint those who like the new changes:

People with no attention span. People who hadn't been willing to put the time/effort into fishing before. "Thank you, SE! I gained 58482750257023 skill in negative time! I like fishing now!" That really pisses me off. Fishing had been something where your massive amount of time invested paid off, and now? New fishers can flood the market and get fast skillups with little time invested. The children have been catered to.

Everyone who had put major time/money/effort into fishing before the patch? Well, maybe now the fishing guild can join the leathercrafting guild in using the motto "Bend over and enjoy it, bitch".

Ha ha. I feel so disgruntled. I need to stop caring about fishing, really.

Comments

[kawaru.livejournal.com]

Well, it wasn't so much the time issue as what happened during all that time with no skill gains. I would fish for hours at a time(zoning every hour or so just in case), and even during the first hour each day I would have around 30 "you didn't catch anything" messages before I would get even one bite. And this always happened, so it frustrated me to the point where I completely gave up.

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

I only started to get "no bite" messages after 2-3 hours of fishing last night. I think they're really increased the "fatigue" if that's any indication, but I'll accept that if the 2-3 hours leading up to it are almost constant bites that I can reasonably land. (Which is what I was doing last night.)