Because no beer. Fishing is all about the beer.

icontrive wrote: »

It's boring with little reward. I wish they made fishing require more skill rather than pushing one button. I would love to see fishing turn into somewhat of a mini game that allowed players to upgrade poles and lines. Also the ability to actually see a fish and mount it in your house would be cool.

Your post reminded me of my childhood game animal crossing. I loved collecting specimens to add to the museum. I'd go fishing if it means I can have an aquarium showing off my fishes!

Because youngins don't appreciate serenity - not really. They like the *idea* of zen, but the genuine article they are simply too caffinated for.

You have to turn off the music of the game, turn the sound effects to the lowest audible setting, turn ambient sounds to 100% so you are surrounded by the sound of waves/flowing water....turn on some jazz music. Prop your feet up.

And decompress from having to herd amped up goobers all day long who are so insecure they simply HAVE to fill every single moment of silence with sad, ego driven noise.

It really is top notch. When you lead an "always on", decision making life full of real responsability that you yearn for that peace. And there are many, many *many* truly lovely vistas and spots in this game to just *be* in rather than just backdrop to mashing mobs.

It may be a very tired and cliche idea, but in this case the fishing really is its own reward. And the zen remarks aren't tongue in cheek. A truth - there are few things as valuable in this world as a quiet mind at peace. It is a power, it makes you resilient...the calm in a storm, gravitas, etc. It isn't just a tree hugger thing. Think samurai.

Fishing does not really help anything else in the game aside from getting perfect roe for Psijic Ambrosia. I do it occasionally, like when I am queued for dungeons or cannot think of anything else to do. The Master Angler achievement interests me a little but not as much as everything else in the game.

Baits will not sell well while the supply is so readily available and the craft bag is available. I have about 8k of bait pieces that I will never use but I do not need to get rid of them due to the craft bag.

if they made fish part of crafting potions/food, and they potions were worth it for pve/pvp, I might would start doing it, but right now the reward of doing it, for me personally is non existence

Fishing would be more popular if the fish could kill you.

For me it is quite honestly because after fifteen minutes to half hour I am asleep. So I do not fish because fishing = sleeping. If I want to sleep I would rather be in bed rather then having the indention marks of various keys from my keyboard.

Fishing isn't popular because it's a boring waste of time.

If they want to make it more popular - easy solution is to make it less boring and more productive.

Fishing is what it is, I've done all the related achievements and had moments of joy and anger. The funnest memory was fishing in PvP areas like Cyro and IC, the worst was trying to get the rares from a zone that only had 3-4 pool locations (Alki'r Desert's Foul pools for one).

That said ZOS should not make it easier to catch the rare fish, a lot of people spent their precious time in game working it the way its currently set up. I agree the Roe drop is depressingly low but I was still able to make over $1 million gold from it by the time I acquired Master Angler, (not including the $$$ I made from doing the DLC zones) and that was after they made Roe rarer.

2 things I think would make it more attractive: Better loot, like a rare mount or costume, something that can be fished up in each of the pool types and entice more people to try fishing out. The second would be ZOS incorporating the add-ons (I can't imagine fishing on console without them) that track what fish you still need in each zone and auto-fillet them. I know the gold food from New Life Festival tells you what type of bait to use and where nearby pools are so that's a start, but not nearly enough.

Fishing is so boring. When I see the master angler title I die a little inside for that person. I'm not impressed by it.. it's more like why?? Lol

I always fished with a friend, it makes it way way better. Fishing alone for the achievement is horrible. If they increased the drop rate of blue and green fish when fishing with a friend it would be nice, don't increase it when solo fishing. Also some areas have like two or three lake spots or whatever, increase the number of spots in areas like this, put foul water fish in dashaan in the foul water or remove the foul water from dashaan completely. Areas that lack something like ocean are fine, just continue to filter the extra fish through the other water types. Introduce a few more varieties of purple fish to different areas besides just wrothgar with a 1k value instead of 750.
Allow fileting of green, blue, and purple fish with a slightly higher chance of roe per level up.
Trophy fish you filet give a little higher quality fish meat, so for instance a green fish meat makes recipes using fish, 4% better, blue 6% better and purple 8% better.
Add a legendary (gold) fish that can be randomly caught anywhere that is especially rare and guarantees a perfect roe.

PurifedBladez wrote: »

Fishing is so boring. When I see the master angler title I die a little inside for that person. I'm not impressed by it.. it's more like why?? Lol

You might, just might, not have things all figured out.

I remember back in college reading that retired Roman generals and emperors used to raise cabbages. It sounded sad and perplexing to me then.

Now 20 some years later I not only understand it I appreciate it.

Anyway, some of you dudes who say with such finality and implied machismo how useless it is really ought to try what I mentioned up above. Turn the in game music off. Turn the sound effects slider all the way down. Turn the ambient sounds to 100%. Turn master volume up. Find a nice spot in the mountains or the jungle. Do it a while. Adjust to it.

Or hey, have another red bull and crank up the music, brah!