Fishing Is Borrrrriiiiinnnnngggg!

FixedBlade123

So I just heard that I can get a special recipe (supposedly good for Stam builds) by fishing in Summerset. It's a "gold" recipe that can be found in some sort of water logged bag that can be snagged in Summerset's waterways. I also have a food or drink that I can take that's supposed to help me find rare fish and fishing sites, etc. Anyway, I tried to farm rare and unique fish a couple of years ago and soon realized that it would take my character an entire lifetime to reach the "Master Angler" achievement so I gave up on that because of how incredibly boring it was coupled with the fact that I only caught a rare fish about once every two months.

So I decided to bite the bullet today and give it another shot. I created some of that special recipe (Hissmir's Fish-Eye Rye); took some; headed to Summerset; pulled out my fishing gear; and spent a couple of hours fishing in the ocean and in a river. I caught nothing but white fish. Not a single rare fish and not one instance of "Perfect Roe" after cleaning all of my white fish. So I'm retiring my fishing pole and tackle box and going back to PvE where I belong.

Jem_Kindheart

Uhhh lol. Well, the Waterlogged Psijic Satchel drops in the waters in Artaeum (it's saltwater even though it's called Mystic water). If farming it isn't for you, you can buy the Satchels in guild traders The recipe is bind on pickup so unfortunately one cannot just buy the recipe. This may mean buying a lot of Satchels. Alternatively, you can just buy the food and save some headaches if you don't care about collecting the recipes.

For Master Angler, I got it a few months ago, it took a couple months of strong dedication and a long movie playlist on the other monitor lol. But no need to do what ya don't like, friendo!

nafensoriel

It could be worse. It could be a JRPG where fishing suddenly becomes super serious business with game-changing effects.

One day someone needs to explain to me why Japanese games have hardcore fishing.

robpr

Hissmir is wrong food. It just keen eye on fishing spots, somewhat useable before Elsweyr where you had to google what bait goes to what type. Correct food is Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl - adds a "extra person" when fishing, so greater chances for rare fish.

I_killed_Vivec

That's why "Master Angler" is the most prized award!

Also, you can't just stay in PvE or PvP zones, you gotta do 'em all. So it takes some serious travelling.

ArchMikem

nafensoriel wrote: »

It could be worse. It could be a JRPG where fishing suddenly becomes super serious business with game-changing effects.

One day someone needs to explain to me why Japanese games have hardcore fishing.

Is it like one day your hook gets caught on the enchanted necklace of a Princess of a distant land and touching it places a curse on you forcing you on a long journey of fright and peril to return the charm to its rightful owner?

Chaos2088

I came here to read people argue.....---pokes people with a stick--- come on......

Royaji

Chaos2088 wrote: »

I came here to read people argue.....---pokes people with a stick--- come on......

Why would anyone argue that fishing is not boring though?

SeaGtGruff

FixedBlade123 wrote: »

So I'm retiring my fishing pole and tackle box and going back to PvE where I belong.

PvF is what PvE is all about! So much more relaxing than PvD.

idk

Guild traders is another source for recipes.

Shadow_Akula

idk wrote: »

Guild traders is another source for recipes.

Pretty sure the recipe in question is bind on pickup...

Acrolas

I got both recipes from Artaeum by myself in about 30 minutes. So it shouldn't be a long or complicated ordeal.

It's acquiring the clam gall or mother of pearl (depending on which recipe you want to use) that will take quite a bit longer.

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO

would love a minigame but I finished my master angler and all other fishing achivs so idk I would do it as a side activity if it was more interactable than just afk E simulator </3

Varana

Of course it's boring.
It's fishing, what did you expect?

Anotherone773

nafensoriel wrote: »

It could be worse. It could be a JRPG where fishing suddenly becomes super serious business with game-changing effects.

One day someone needs to explain to me why Japanese games have hardcore fishing.

They live on a chain of islands that is also pretty much the peaks of an underwater mountain range. Not a lot of room to grow or raise food. So fish is very important to their diet.

regime211

FixedBlade123 wrote: »

So I just heard that I can get a special recipe (supposedly good for Stam builds) by fishing in Summerset. It's a "gold" recipe that can be found in some sort of water logged bag that can be snagged in Summerset's waterways. I also have a food or drink that I can take that's supposed to help me find rare fish and fishing sites, etc. Anyway, I tried to farm rare and unique fish a couple of years ago and soon realized that it would take my character an entire lifetime to reach the "Master Angler" achievement so I gave up on that because of how incredibly boring it was coupled with the fact that I only caught a rare fish about once every two months.

So I decided to bite the bullet today and give it another shot. I created some of that special recipe (Hissmir's Fish-Eye Rye); took some; headed to Summerset; pulled out my fishing gear; and spent a couple of hours fishing in the ocean and in a river. I caught nothing but white fish. Not a single rare fish and not one instance of "Perfect Roe" after cleaning all of my white fish. So I'm retiring my fishing pole and tackle box and going back to PvE where I belong.

FixedBlade123 wrote: »

So I just heard that I can get a special recipe (supposedly good for Stam builds) by fishing in Summerset. It's a "gold" recipe that can be found in some sort of water logged bag that can be snagged in Summerset's waterways. I also have a food or drink that I can take that's supposed to help me find rare fish and fishing sites, etc. Anyway, I tried to farm rare and unique fish a couple of years ago and soon realized that it would take my character an entire lifetime to reach the "Master Angler" achievement so I gave up on that because of how incredibly boring it was coupled with the fact that I only caught a rare fish about once every two months.

So I decided to bite the bullet today and give it another shot. I created some of that special recipe (Hissmir's Fish-Eye Rye); took some; headed to Summerset; pulled out my fishing gear; and spent a couple of hours fishing in the ocean and in a river. I caught nothing but white fish. Not a single rare fish and not one instance of "Perfect Roe" after cleaning all of my white fish. So I'm retiring my fishing pole and tackle box and going back to PvE where I belong.

Then don't finish if issa BORING!

cheeseaddict

fishing.....nothing more boring in this game.

D0PAMINE

Shadow_Akula wrote: »

idk wrote: »

Guild traders is another source for recipes.

Pretty sure the recipe in question is bind on pickup...

It is BoP iirc

Dirtybyrd

FixedBlade123 wrote: »

So I just heard that I can get a special recipe (supposedly good for Stam builds) by fishing in Summerset. It's a "gold" recipe that can be found in some sort of water logged bag that can be snagged in Summerset's waterways. I also have a food or drink that I can take that's supposed to help me find rare fish and fishing sites, etc. Anyway, I tried to farm rare and unique fish a couple of years ago and soon realized that it would take my character an entire lifetime to reach the "Master Angler" achievement so I gave up on that because of how incredibly boring it was coupled with the fact that I only caught a rare fish about once every two months.

So I decided to bite the bullet today and give it another shot. I created some of that special recipe (Hissmir's Fish-Eye Rye); took some; headed to Summerset; pulled out my fishing gear; and spent a couple of hours fishing in the ocean and in a river. I caught nothing but white fish. Not a single rare fish and not one instance of "Perfect Roe" after cleaning all of my white fish. So I'm retiring my fishing pole and tackle box and going back to PvE where I belong.

You just need a fishing buddy!!

FixedBlade123

idk wrote: »

Guild traders is another source for recipes.

Apparently ... this particular recipe cannot be purchased. Once it is found by someone ... it's bound to that character and cannot be sold.

FixedBlade123

Well ... I guess I have to eat my words. I just went to Artaeum (based on another member's suggestion) and had a streak of good luck. I caught all three rare fish which earned me the "Artaeum Master Angler." I also snagged a couple of the Psijic waterlogged satchels and got two new recipes: Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl & Artaeum Takeaway Broth (which is the one I was looking for). It only took about 30 minutes. Yahoo!

shimm

I got the “takeaway broth” recipe after fishing for a few hours so that’s not too bad... as someone else mentioned, the real problem is the powdered mother of Pearl. It’s worse than getting the recipe by far because you need 5 for each batch and the most you’ll get at once is 1 or 2, and that’s every half hour or more of geysers or fishing.

bearbelly

Patient: "Doc, it hurts when I do this."

Doc: "Well... don't do that."

Morgha_Kul

The thing is fishing in reality IS boring. It's a downtime activity. I actually kind of like it as it is.

ZarkingFrued

They should make fishing fun like it is in many games. Even N64 Zelda had better fishing in it

Path

I kinda like fishing. I do it when my bounty is high, while sipping coffee, and reading chat.

Jeremy

FixedBlade123 wrote: »

So I just heard that I can get a special recipe (supposedly good for Stam builds) by fishing in Summerset. It's a "gold" recipe that can be found in some sort of water logged bag that can be snagged in Summerset's waterways. I also have a food or drink that I can take that's supposed to help me find rare fish and fishing sites, etc. Anyway, I tried to farm rare and unique fish a couple of years ago and soon realized that it would take my character an entire lifetime to reach the "Master Angler" achievement so I gave up on that because of how incredibly boring it was coupled with the fact that I only caught a rare fish about once every two months.

So I decided to bite the bullet today and give it another shot. I created some of that special recipe (Hissmir's Fish-Eye Rye); took some; headed to Summerset; pulled out my fishing gear; and spent a couple of hours fishing in the ocean and in a river. I caught nothing but white fish. Not a single rare fish and not one instance of "Perfect Roe" after cleaning all of my white fish. So I'm retiring my fishing pole and tackle box and going back to PvE where I belong.

Eating an Artaeum Pickled Fish Bown helps, a lot - when catching rare fish. I doubt I would have ever been able to get my Master Angler achievement without it. Because as you say, fishing is not exactly the most exciting of activities. What I ended up doing was taking screen shots of the scenery while I fished. Trying to get the best looking photos helped to break the tedium a bit.

Tigerseye

It's certainly a great cure for insomnia.

I'm not fishing in PVP territory, so I don't bother trying to get the achieve.

Jeremy

Tigerseye wrote: »

It's certainly a great cure for insomnia.

I'm not fishing in PVP territory, so I don't bother trying to get the achieve.

To be honest, I had more problems dealing with the piranhas in Cyrodil than I did other players.

So I wouldn't let the threat of other players keep you from getting the achievement. It's not as bad to fish in there as one may think.

TempPlayer

nafensoriel wrote: »

One day someone needs to explain to me why Japanese games have hardcore fishing.

Let's see. We are a small island country that is surrounded by sea water, which are mostly clear cause we don't have someone like BP drilling ocean bed and leaking all over the place. The only worst accident we have an nuclear meltdown which contaminated the sea a bit but we put it under control and regular monitor it, unlike some neighbour country which keep the policy of everything is fine cause we control the news.

We have like zillion fish name, because we name the same fish by different name base on their age.

Also we have a lot of fresh water river, fresh as in it is natural water you can see through.

So, all in all, the reason is, sushi. Plan and simple.

RavenSworn

TempPlayer wrote: »

nafensoriel wrote: »

One day someone needs to explain to me why Japanese games have hardcore fishing.

Let's see. We are a small island country that is surrounded by sea water, which are mostly clear cause we don't have someone like BP drilling ocean bed and leaking all over the place. The only worst accident we have an nuclear meltdown which contaminated the sea a bit but we put it under control and regular monitor it, unlike some neighbour country which keep the policy of everything is fine cause we control the news.

We have like zillion fish name, because we name the same fish by different name base on their age.

Also we have a lot of fresh water river, fresh as in it is natural water you can see through.

So, all in all, the reason is, sushi. Plan and simple.

Sashimi, sashimi is where it's at.