Improving Fishing (revamped)

AmberLaTerra

I have been fishing a lot having master angler one one character and over half way there on a second. I think that fishing could greatly benefit from some more perks and reason to do it.

Yes I know getting perfect roe is already a perk of fishing, but I could do that just staying in one zone and never going for the title. Not to mention perfect roe is completely at the mercy of the RNG I have had times where I have fileted over 500 uncut fish and only gotten one perfect roe, other times where I have gotten 3 in 100 fish. The RNG makes it to random to be reliably rewarding on it's own.



Skill line ideas:

Ultimate: Slaughterfish Assult: Max Damage and damage per second increases based on the number of slaughterfish you have caught up to a cap.
morphs extend the time of the damaper per second or add debuffs to the target.

Bait Mastery 0/3: Increase your odds of catching a rare fish when using baits that are caught while fishing by 5/10/15%, also randomly not lose a bait when a fish is caught.

Fishery Management 0/3: Increase the number of casts a fishing hole will last by 3/6/9 casts if fishing solo

Fisherman's luck 0/2: Very rare gold improvement items in wet gunny sacs, and extremely rare chance to just catch perfect roe odds slightly increasing with 2 points in line.

Fish Knowledge 0/3: Reduce damage taken from slaughterfish by 2/4/6%

Fishing Hireling 0/3: A hireling will bring you baits and perhaps some fish each day.
level 1: 5 of each basic bait, slim chance of a few uncut fish.
level 2: 10 of each basic bait, 5-10 uncut fish
level 3: 15 of each basic bait, 10+ uncut fish every 12 hours

Filet Master 0/1: You can now filet the rare trophy fish which have increase chances of perfect roe (green fish 20% roe chance, blue fish 35% chance, purple fish 50% chance)

Master Angler 0/1: 10% chance to catch a large fish that has better odds of a perfect roe when upon filet. (Must have master Angler title to unlock this one)

Experience in the skill line can be gained by catching rare fish or bu doing daily quests to catch x type of fish in a fishing guild style activity.

jrgray93

Slaughterfish Assault should just teleport players in Cyrodiil to the middle of a lake / river. We already know teleporting works because charge occasionally teleports me halfway across the map and 1000 feet in the air.

idk

No. Just no. Not another grind that would be more mind numbing that anything else in the game.

Hey, glad you like fishing but there is zero reason to make fishing into a requirement for every plays in the game. Horrible idea.

Nestor

Well, since most of the Achievements and Buffs are Fishing related, they could easily be ignored by non fisher types. The only one is the Slaughterfish one, that would have to be removed or changed as that would be something people who don't fish would chase.

I have to say that the last few game sessions I have done some fishing. Mostly, if I see someone at a hole, I will drop my line as more people increase the chance for rares. Well, I cast my line and sit there while the other person pulls two fish before my line goes taught. I also get white fish trash while they get the Greens and Blues. Heck, I even helped someone get the last Blue fish for a zone by jumping in the hole. But, me, white trash and bait.

Luigi_Vampa

Nestor wrote: »

Well, since most of the Achievements and Buffs are Fishing related, they could easily be ignored by non fisher types. The only one is the Slaughterfish one, that would have to be removed or changed as that would be something people who don't fish would chase.

I have to say that the last few game sessions I have done some fishing. Mostly, if I see someone at a hole, I will drop my line as more people increase the chance for rares. Well, I cast my line and sit there while the other person pulls two fish before my line goes taught. I also get white fish trash while they get the Greens and Blues. Heck, I even helped someone get the last Blue fish for a zone by jumping in the hole. But, me, white trash and bait.

AmberLaTerra

Giles.floydub17_ESO wrote: »

No. Just no. Not another grind that would be more mind numbing that anything else in the game.

Hey, glad you like fishing but there is zero reason to make fishing into a requirement for every plays in the game. Horrible idea.

How does a fishing skill line make it a requirement for everyone who plays the game? There is no requirement that you have to do blacksmith, clothier, woodworking and so forth.

If you are going to claim because a fishing skill like would bring achievements, there already are fishing Achievements in the game so that argument is invalid as well.

As for the ultimate, well there are other ultimates that people ignore. Not everyone goes after the lore books for meteor, not everyone is going to get level 50 in every weapon to unlock every weapon ultimate. If you want to use the ultimate you can fish to unlock it, if you do not want to use it you do not need to bother, nothing about this is forcing anyone to fish.

jrgray93

@Nestor not cool!



* did not actually report you

Nestor

lol

What else am I going to call those things........

AmberLaTerra

you do realize the white fish are the only way in the game to get perfect roe without buying it for 10k gold from another player who got it from those same white fish?

They are far from trash.

Nestor

AmberLaTerra wrote: »

you do realize the white fish are the only way in the game to get perfect roe without buying it for 10k gold from another player who got it from those same white fish?

They are far from trash.

OK, 1 is Golden, the other 99, Trash. And that is if RNG is smiling favorably on me.