more fish nerfs

[sudo]

well in the latest patch alot of fish have been devalued at the NPC's to where things are now almost half price of where they used to be.

Catch rates have been just brutal lately and for some reasons I've been loosing a lot of lures lately cause my lines keep breaking. I don't remember ever loosing so many sinking minnows before the patch.

Switching to bait though, I get good results but bait is damn expensive. To make sliced sardines it uses a wind crystal. That raises the cost to like 200 automatically unless I go farm the crystal or something. 200 gil per cast is more than I can afford. Espically since catch rates are as low as ever and now fish are like 500- 600 gil instead of 1k.

Have anyone else noticed these things or am I just halucinating again?

If this keeps up, I might just quit fishing all together. I think I actually lost money fishing since the patch. Is that even possible???

[tracert]

after you logged i killed Aquarious and got a cloth =p

[Grizzlebeard]

Bite rates and skill-ups have dropped right off the scale for me. Granted I'm only level 23 but fishing almost a day straight for 0.2 and getting 80% lost catches to 19% monster catching really doesn't make up for the 1% when I catch something. :sweat:

[Gman]

Hmm, my fishing is only level 20, but I got there really fast. I fished on a full moon this weekend, and got from 18.6-20.1 in less than 2 hours, while catching 6 giant catfish, 3 red terrapins, and almost a stack of black bass. Also, 3 moat carps but I ran out of insect paste, and went back to frog lure. This was at the La Theine small pond in the little valley. I also killed a few Water elementals and got 6 water clusters ^^

I guess what I'm saying is that I havent been affected negatively by the patch, but I can understand why high level fishermen are po'ed at the NPC buying prices. I think it was just a bit of bad luck for both of you though... fishing is very streaky, as you know.

[Frumply]

Hmm?

I've fished @ seaserpent post-patch for an hour or two, catch seemed just the same, though I felt a little sad every time i caught a bream. Mobs get fished out here like no tomorrow anyway, so I couldn't tell the difference.

I had to fish in E. Saruta a few days ago for the last few thousand points in the guild for my apron (which I've obtained now), and did notice that i was getting buckets like crazy and no fish. Then again, bots still roam this area with mobkilling abilities, so I'd assume that was the reason. I just would like to beat the bejesus out of the idiots @ S-E that left certain parts of Buburimu open to bot fishing (despite notes that said otherwise on their announcement). Hopefully the maintenance will fix this.

BTW Sudo, I'm assuming you're going for Breams; if you're getting lots of linebreaks i'm also going to assume you're using a composite (I haven't had a problem at all post-patch with my lu shang and shrimp lure); why not just use shrimp balls? costs maybe 500 odd gil @ windy, or you can easily make your own.