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Fishing Party / Skiff Association is Frustrating & Unfun, Thoughts and Suggestions


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Some changes really need to be bade to this mechanic. It really drains the fun from fishing:

 

*The buff is absolutely essential to fishing and getting good fish (or in some areas just being able to fish at all) so much of your fishing power is tied up in that buff, which especially if you're playing solo takes a very long time to stack up.

 

*It's so easy to lose the buff. 15 seconds after you leave the skiff or it's destroyed? That's insane. It's so easy for the skiff to get destroyed because the thing's a massive aggro magnet, and then you can easily get stuck in combat unable to resummon your skiff. Then you lose an hour's worth of fishing stacks in the blink of an eye.

 

*The buff essentially locks players in to one style of fishing - lengthy fishing sessions on skiffs. Anything else is heavily penalised. Want to just fish for five minutes? Not gonna work. Want to fish to pass time until an event? You're going to be heavily penalised for stopping your fishing session and set back to zero. Want to mix in a little fishing with other gameplay? Nope. Want to offer someone some help who asks for it in map chat? Can't do it unless you want to lose all your stacks. Want to just stand at a dock/by the coast and fish? Nope.

 

Suggestions:

 

*The buff shouldn't be contingent on the skiff association thing. Being chained to your skiff eternally while fishing completely prevents players from interacting with any other part of the game. Put the stacks on the player, and if you want to also solve the very frustrating issue of maps closing and other such things, have them persist between map changes. Give them a reasonable duration so people can maintain them if they wish and still engage in other content.

 

*There should be a way to gain more personal fishing power not based on buffs. Personally I suggest that much like how the fractal god achievements buff you in fractals, each title of the fishing god meta-achievements should give a buff to your personal fishing power. If each tier gives +50 power then by the time you have Cod Swimming Amongst Mere Minnows you'll have 300 extra personal fishing power which would be equivalent to the skiff stacks. Presumably there would need to be a hard cap on fishing power (900?) to prevent the system from breaking like with Magic Find, but this would allow players who have worked hard on their fishing to actually be better at fishing, and mean that they can catch fish in harder locations more easily, mean they can hit the fishing cap without every single fishing buff in the game etc.

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