Then you would make every master angler angry for watering down the effort it takes to get their achievement.

Don't mind this idea though: Can we make Trophy Fish a crafting mat for mounted trophy house items

You would also anger everyone who sells provisioning mats because players would flood the market reducing the already average prices, provisioning stuff sells for.

Provisioning mats are just about everywhere, you just need to take the time to stop and loot containers. As for purple provisioning mats only ever looted them from the occasional heavy stack.

I make over a million in sales consistently each week, without selling any consumable mats or potions/drink/food.

My provisioning/alchemy/enchanting are self sustaining from writs/surveys and hirelings across my alts.

I'm a master angler and could give a crap less if they made it easier for anyone else. Times change. I'd like trophies to show off at my house though and anything ANYTHING at all to make fishing a little more than what it is. Please. Thanks.

You can only flood the market with mats, when mats aren't consumable.
A short time event with an additional chance to get purple provisioning items won't flood the market, since most people aren't going to be bothered by foraging, anyway.
The market isn't flooded, by other gear mats from non-crafting sources, so why would you think there'd be an imbalance?...
Since mats aren't a one & done, like gear upgrades that you keep for an extended period of time, it doesn't make sense to make them rarer than other crafting mats.
You can get gear mats way faster by refining, extracting, gunny sacs, reward containers (like the anniversary event), and hirelings. Consumable mats are way less common through those sources, and once the final product is created, it only lasts for a moment after use. A smaller chance to obtain isn't going to flood the market, since you'd likely use them for yourself.
Those that are worried about market flooding, are those that are taking advantage of other players, that can't/won't self-sustain; and thusly, are worried about not being able to price gouge...

I'm not asking for the world in easy mode, just a tweek to the current grind.

prof-dracko wrote: »

Perhaps they could introduce a special type of bait, hard to get and non-sellable, that guarantees a blue fish. Maybe you have a small chance to fish it up at any fishing hole but its rarer than the blue fish itself.

New alchemy potion!

Molag Bal's Bodacious Bass Bait: clam gall + powdered mother of pearl + perfect roe = 4 baits (with proper passives of course)

We could at least catch an old wagon wheel or rusty sword once in a while. Things you might actually catch a hook on, maybe even the One Ring to Rule Them All but with stats?

Make Hissmir Fish Eye Rye decrease the cast time since it’s a useless recipe now anyway and improve wet gunnysacks to be like a half amount Psijic portal.

Wildberryjack wrote: »

Can the caught baits actually do something different? Like give you a % chance of catching two fish on one cast? Something? Anything? Otherwise why do they exist when they do nothing different from the gathered bait?

always wondered if that was the initial idea