Nobody fishes. So why not get rid of the bait items in plants and undead mobs?

Audigy

theyancey wrote: »

I fish on occasion. Once we get player housing I have a few trophies to add to my walls.

You don't mind the smell of rotten fish? Ah wait, Argonian right?

kewl

Plenty of people PvF. It just needs to be integrated with provisioning and have some depth added. I'd rater ZOS focus on fixing bugs before touching fishing.

Najah

At this point, the bait is simply taking up valuable inventory space and fishing doesn't have anything to offer: No chance at fishing up treasure, no achievements, & it takes up bag space. Even if they added the fish to provisioning recipes at a later point, there would still be other foods that could be made as an alternative.

It's a nice diversion, fishing is, but I hate looting plants and getting the bait on the side.

Kewljag_66_ESO

Najah wrote: »

At this point, the bait is simply taking up valuable inventory space and fishing doesn't have anything to offer: No chance at fishing up treasure, no achievements, & it takes up bag space. Even if they added the fish to provisioning recipes at a later point, there would still be other foods that could be made as an alternative.

It's a nice diversion, fishing is, but I hate looting plants and getting the bait on the side.

Ummm, yes you do fish up treasure, you pull up loot sacks, I have gotten blue weapons, purple enchanting runes, and even yellow legendary blacksmithing upgrade conponents. You have to use the right bait at the right locactions, and the more you fish, the better you get at it

dannymcgr81b14_ESO

I fish in the game because I enjoy it. Not everything needs to have a loot incentive. Some things can be in the game just because people like to do them.

kewl

Najah wrote: »

It's a nice diversion, fishing is, but I hate looting plants and getting the bait on the side.

I had the same issue till this AMAZING addon, ins:JunkYard

UrQuan

Najah wrote: »

At this point, the bait is simply taking up valuable inventory space and fishing doesn't have anything to offer: No chance at fishing up treasure,

This isn't true. You can fish up a wet gunny sack that you open for treasure.

madfeldoreb17_ESO

Contrabardus wrote: »

I saw a few people try it out in the very first area when the game first launched, since then I've not seen anyone but NPCs fishing -ever-.

I see no reason to believe anyone does it, and the bait items are nothing but useless clutter. They aren't worth a single gold piece and people are constantly leaving them in plant mats so they don't respawn.

Hi, there are already quite many answers but I want to give mine. Believe or not, people do fish:) Like me, I like it sometimes, just to stop by lake or some smaller place of water and start to fish. I have even got some surprisingly interesting fish.
I my opinion though, even if you would see this as a useless thing (or the baits) there's one point also that is: Not all things in this world need to be worth of something to you or anyone else. Think it like "red herring" if nothing else. But then again, you can (of course you know and read from other replies) sell some fish and get gold.
Sorry to hear if you find this useless and even giving you hard time finding plant mats because of baits.
I like it and I really hope they will not remove it. To me it is part of the world. If there are problems with fishing, they could be improved and fixed, but I really hope they do not remove fishing.
Cheers...

PS. Sorry I quoted only short part of your message.

JJDrakken

Fishing should be used in Provisioning & Alchemy. Should be more animal parts drops to use in Provisioning & Alchemy as well.

As is, fishing is to waist time, get rid of a bunch of bait, sell the fish off for some gold. Sometime's you'll find a bag with a rare item in it.

Worstluck

I had to get an addon to destroy all bait that comes into my inventory. It's funny that people are saying they do fish. I've never seen anyone doing it while leveling my characters.

I would fish if it worked with provisioning. I don't think it should be removed, but fixed and returned to it's former glory.

Rosveen

Fishing isn't completely useless, I fished out two Rekuta a while ago. But it's broken, that's a fact. Have they at least fixed achievements? Not only did my rare fish disappear, but I didn't get the achievement. I was so disheartened, I was looking forward to playing my fisherman Argonian, but they need to overhaul fishing first.

Allyah

Right click, delete.

Daethz

Or allow us to sell those worms and stuff for like 1/pc

AlMcFly

I fish a lot. Please don't speak for the entire population like a troll.

Ganacampo

I don't fish very often, but I like it and it would be a shame if it would unnecessarily be removed.

Allyah

Daethz wrote: »

Or allow us to sell those worms and stuff for like 1/pc

It's nice to be able to obtain things that are literally worthless unless used.

Streega

Fishing is the last thing I usually do at the end of my play session, just to cool down and relax. I have a collection of rare fish on my achievements list (yes, it's working), and found some nice stuff in the soggy bags as well. Few gold coins for the fishes is also good, but I would prefer some sushi-recipes
So back off, anti-fish party :P

badmojo

If you people don't want your bait, COD it to me for the cost of shipping.

@badmojo420 on NA

FrauPerchta

Fish should be added to Provisioning as a material. With rare fish giving much higher quality results from cooking. If of course your Provisioning is high enough.

jonal11_ESO

I fish, and certain bait is not useless. Different bait is used for different types of water to catch fish. L2F

RubyTigress

*sigh* you guys have almost convinced me to try fishing again.

michaelpatrickjonesnub18_ESO

I fished. Constantly.

I'm rank 50 standard level, Rank 50 Vet level, Rank 50 Cyrodiil level, Rank 50 whatever-the-hell-other-level they decide to dream up. Rank 50 jambalaya fishing master.

Fate is the only game I've played in my life that nailed fishing. A low budget, ten-year-old game that blows this 200 million dollar game out of the water in the fishing department.

Moon-and-Star

ummm...no how about we keep it. I fish all the time. its nice and relaxing. some of my guildies and i go from one spot to another all fishing together. just cause you dont like it and never see people fishing doesnt mean no one does and therefore should go away.

morashtakb16_ESO

In the other game that won't be named a character with this name has won the fishing derby three years in a row a year a part and has reeled in well over 10k items from fish to junk. It was fun to fish up food and alchemy mats as well as the occasional box of treasure as a bonus. The achievements, all of them in the creel so to speak, were fun to net.
This game... not so much. I tried it but didn't see any point to it except as a time sink as as it's going to take a lot of time to make it past VR9 I'm going to leave fishing for those that enjoy what little content there is to it atm.
Make it fun and useful and I'll be fighting over choice fishing spots. Leave it as is and my bobber will stay dry.
p.s. if these are truly trophy fish where, or when, can I hang them up to show off?

cliveklgb14_ESO

While I disagree that nobody fishes. I would like to see bait just be merchant only and completely out of loot tables for anything.

Hate having to have an add-on, solely for the purpose of automatically deleting those items whenever accidentally picked up. But I have it, because bait is on the loot tables.

yiasemi

Yes I like fishing, as others mentioned it's a nice break, finding nice fishing spots is one of the pleasures of exploring. Total waste of time if levelling is your game but if you do it at quiet server times you'll often come across a load of treasure chests hidden behind boulders, river banks, sea wrecks etc at the same time. Calculating how much space to waste on bait in your inventory is good too, when you won't get rid of the insect parts in your inventory because you just spotted a good stream for river fishing, then you know you're hooked. Line and sinker.

whykillme

I fish, stop complaining.

Aballister

tbh, there's so much else to do, that I haven't given it a thought as yet.

CapuchinSeven

My whole problem with provisioning is it seems pretty random about what I cook, I can't seem to go... Hmm I wanna make this stuff so I'lll go and get this stuff, no it seems if I want some meat I have to wait till I get a random drop in a centuries old barrel in a cave no one has been in for a 100 years.

Makes no sense.

Fishing might help with that if they did something with it.

Era

I rather like fishing every now and then, but as others have said there is little use to doing so but they are addressing this in the future so I look forward to that.

In the meantime I would suggest that we are allowed to use bots as bait, might be able to catch a big sea beastie that likes the taste