"..." Sometimes I hate S-E (FFXI bitching)

[thistlechaser]

While I can understand wanting to drive people back to less popular game activities, in this case it pisses me off because it was S-E's doing that made it unpopular.

From POL.com:

Navigational charts will be added in the October version update. Each chart displays the location of a secret point where adventurers will find a surprise awaiting! Charts may be obtained by completing the quest "Inside the Belly."

So we'll have to fish up some fish to do the "Inside the Belly" quest. Bets on how high of a level fish it will be? Will the "surprise" be something good enough that people will actually level fishing to be able to catch the fish to do the quest?

And if you don't have a sand charm yet, you better darned well get it now. Know how hard they'll be to get after the update?

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Dear S-E,

I had loved fishing! I spent many many many hours a day doing it! Then you ruined it by changing the system! I even sold my LSR because of the system change! Now you want to force people back to it? That's pretty low, even for you.

With no love,
Thistle

Comments

[linmayu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, seriously. x.x I used to fish lots before they changed the system. Now they've made it so that *only* bots can fish without hurting themselves. WTG Squeenix. ~.~

[kelen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I dread this too, for you KNOW it will never be easy. Oh no, you'll have to turn in hundreds and hundreds of fish at great cost to yourself to get something small and likely shitty.

[pomr.livejournal.com]

Yay! Another event to avoid like the plague! =*.*=

Hold the rocks plz ::P

[draymor.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Fishing is actually Okay for me...Started after the stamina patch actually. It fits my stupid 30 minutes-at-a-time schedule perfectly.

I mean, at lvl 21 I skill up from Nebs on the ferry. Sure sometimes the bite-rate blows but there's always something happening on the ferry now. NIN AF? Beat it. Sea Horror? Died from it. Silverhook? Raised the aftermath.

As for "Inside the Belly", I got about 4.5 stacks of dark bass while leveling fishing from 1-15 in bastok. It's not as hard as it seems. If you're using lures the only cost you'll incur is broken rods, which is easy enough to avoid if you play it smart.

[gbeans.livejournal.com]

Who was it the other day I was talking to... I think it was actually Ead, but you were the inspiration. I was going to write up a post of Beanie's 20 best quests. It'd point out various quests I thought worth doing for one reason or another and tell you a bit of what's involved with them. Like, the "A Timely Visit" would definitely be there as a must do. But I was going to put the Oswald quest sequence in there under the 'category' of "Best quest with useless reward" or something phrased like that ^^;