Finished the Fisher role quest. They reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally nerfed fishing this time around.
The final lvl.80 quest? Just stand in a river spot on a normal map with a lvl.73 bait and you'll pretty much catch it on the first try.
Like Shadowbringers was already weird in that normally there is new bait every couple levels, but shadowbringers only has merchants selling lvl.70-73 bait and then it jumps to lvl.80 scrip bait.
But you can catch basically everything outside of the legendary fish with the lvl.70-73 bait.
And all that stuff about snagging and mooch and double mooch, fish eyes, and weather and time of day? Doesn't seem to matter at all anymore. The whole unspoiled node system they added to fisher in Stormblood with the trident spearfishing...there wasn't even one spearfish quest in the fisher quest line this time! And there were a few spearfish points in the maps.
I remember the Heavensward quests would even require you to get the legendary tomes/master recipe books and get stuff out of there.
idk, fishing is cool to chill but there's still like no point to it in FF. None of the fish sell for anything on the MB outside the fish that fishers use to turn in for leves. Just selling to other fishers lol.
And don't get me on desynthing fish, the jump between ilvl 320 fish and ilvl 390 fish at the start of shadowbringers really fucked up desynth.
I feel like Fisher needs a reboot in FF14. Min/Bot are always useful for mats, FSH really should start being more useful for something.
Shit, I just ran across this reddit comment from a month ago:
Just a quick note that this whole guide [on desynth] is going to be irrelevant soon. Apparently desynth is changing to something that won't be leveled and the success rate will always be 100%.
So if you were planning on pushing some desynth levels, I'd highly suggest waiting to see if we get further confirmation about the changes.
Oh man, they're gonna make easy desynth?? That's gonna be game changer for raiders to desynth raid gear they don't use and get $$ mats.