I like it in small doses-- except you're not really allowed small doses if you're not going to be a mostly-ruined-fishing-hole-abandoning jerk. It takes too long to use up a fishing hole-- ten minutes or more. I like short breaks in the game, say three to five minutes. Enough time to enjoy the beautiful scenery and finish one of the zone's musical pieces. Any longer and it becomes tedious and a bit of a chore.

kamimark wrote: »

It only helps you get more rare fish. If you just need plain fish for roe, it can be a detriment, and the fishing spot runs out faster.

I don't ask first, but if someone says they want to solo the spot I move on.

I didn't think of that. Good point. Thought most were doing it for the trophies, but I guess someone could grind at fishing to get perfect roe. [Shudder] How boring.

Fishing is boring in ESO. It's not interactive, and doesn't require much thought. Every other game that has fishing has done it better than this game (i.e. Monster Hunter, Zelda, Far Cry, Final Fantasy 15, etc.)

I enjoy fishing in other games, but not in ESO.

the achievement seems daunting and when you realize it only counts if you do it all on one character it feels like your doing nothing while fishing on the characters you have that haven't caught of the rare fish on.

Personally I dunno why its so boring for others. I find it super relaxing and quite fun to fish on my own and see how long it takes me to get my next Master Angler title.

I do a, fun for me, self challenge where I don't allow myself to filet a single fish until I have the title then I see how many normal fish I collected and then finally how many Roe that big pile of fish nets me.

My current records are:
9,365 fish - 107 Perfect Roe (Ma'at the Just)
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8,541 fish - 90 Perfect Roe (Imarae Aelsonius)
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8,174 fish - 73 Perfect Roe (Gabriel Dumont)

I didn't record my other three because I only started doing my self challenge with the last three, soon to be four alts. OwO

I even sometimes delete alts with the title just so I can do it again. xD But then my friends all tell me I'm a weirdo. >-<

summitxho wrote: »

I think it needs to have a chance to hook something evil lurking in the water and pull out a random world boss who kicks your butt and chases you all over the map until you get some allies to take it down, drops perfect roe in defeat. Would add a bit of excitement.

Agree !!
I suddenly got an image of the fisherman on the dock when Godzilla landed in the big apple.
That would add some excitement

It's also difficult to fish in the dlc zones when you know for a fact no rare fish will count towards the fishing achievement I think that's a bummer

Too boring and too unrewarding

i'm convinced that anyone with the master angler achievement is a serial killer

xilfxlegion wrote: »

i'm convinced that anyone with the master angler achievement is a serial killer

I only kill beers.

I finished my Master Angler recently, took me about 2 weeks of fishing (with food buff only on DC area as I had poor poor luck there, mostly solo - have been helped in 3 zones only). I can understand why people think it is boring, while I did fish my achiev I made beforehand a huge playlist of songs I love and know and while I did go fishing I was singing all of them - no matter what voice you have it lets you keep being sane (or so voices in my head said so...). Fishing takes a lot of patience and dedication - not all players have that, on my days off I managed to fish 4-8h per day with breaks for toilet, food and stuff.

Also whoever claims it is not worth it - I bought whole Telvanni furnishing blueprints (every single one) for gold from Perfect Roe selling so it can give you steady flow of income if you are lucky with filleting.

TBH I do not want to make it more popular - I like to have a fishhole ready wherever I go, I find it annoying a fishhole dries after 12-15 pulls, and I think that is the worst enemy of it being interesting - 2 ocean holes for the whole cyrodil is insane for example, other example is how I could pull some achiev fishes 17 times each before I could finally pull the blue quality achiev fish I needed... Take a look at my fishing idea for housing, you may find it interesting and it would be nice solution.

Its very of boring, I only ever fish when Im waiting for something in-game related like a dungeon or battleground for example, I once tried farming perfect roe for a week and just got 2, i have never gotten another one. Its a time-consuming and boring activity, I think fishing need to be more profitable in terms of in game gold if you wanna make it more popular.