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Xardon

Dalayan Beginner
Has anyone else had issues with fishing / max level fishing for tmaps, etc?

Jaxelthorpe noticed significant decreased changes since the Harpoon from water was changed. Details from him are as follows:

24 stacks of bait (480)
Average consumption of 480 bait ~4+ hours
4 hours of fishing yields 2-4 maps (at best 1 per hour, MOSTLY simple maps <~50%>) best he has gotten is 5 in 4 hours. (1/3rd as many as he use to)
Since change only 1 VD map fished, 0 ED maps
Fishes approx. 4-5 days a week, 17-21 hours during the daytime EST
 
I'll send a couple guildies this way that *do* fish, because yes, there have been complaints in /gu about the map rate. To the point that one fisherman decided it was more profitable to spend his time mining to help me gear the guild rather than fish, because he wasn't catching any maps.
 
I've as you know xard fished on jax for quite some time. I average a simple map in 2 to 4 hours a night of fishing.

I haven't seen anything above a simple map since the patch
 
I'm probably the biggest fisher in SoD by quite a bit, logging maybe 30-45? hours a week on average. From what I can tell over the past 1.5 weeks of fishing, something has changed. Fished for 5 hours after my raid last night and caught nothing (not that unusual), but when paired with my other observations, something might be up (or im just paranoid now that you guys mentioned something). My other observations [over the past 1.5 weeks] are as follows: No maps above Moderate, increased proportion of Mod maps, fewer maps in general (but this varies a LOT), and less bot-checking.

Like I said I'm not stating I believe anything changed, but here are my observations. I don't keep track of exact numbers but I have pretty much pulled up something mod+ every week, so that is the most striking difference, along with the decreased map rate in general.

I recently saw the PoW fishing mod drop, and yes it was changed from 15 to 1 iirc. I don't use this mod as I can't use it, so I don't see any correlation between the changes.

These are all MY observations, if you think im lying, I don't care. I'm not asking for anything in my post, I'm just throwing this out there as info from a bigtime fisherman. Hopefully others will post as well. Thank you for your time.

edit:: Btw I fish on druid Island in SoS, yes, its mine, stay off :)
 
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First of all, Xardon posted on my behalf because I was having problems originally getting access to the forums to even make a post about the fishing issue.

Secondly, ever since fishing was modified, it has been drastically different. As far as I know, I'm the only fisher who was using the Harpoon of the Deep. I could be wrong though. Once the Harpoon was changed from a +15 to +1 fishing mod and something was tweaked with ED maps, the map difficulty and consistency has been heavily altered. It seems like Simple maps are more common than every other difficulty combined. I would say I fish over 50% simple maps, with the highest fishing mod possible, which used to be +21, but is now +7.

Thirdly, drop rate is about 25% of what it used to be, if I had to make an estimation. I usually travel to Sea of Swords with ~24 stacks of bait, and it isn't even uncommon for me to leave with 0 maps now. Besides one random occurance where I came back with 5 maps, I tend to end up with 0-2 maps. I've caught one VD map since the changes, and until then, I was thinking those were even unfishable.

Lastly, I'd appreciate if the coding or something else that was modified previously could be looked at and possibly changed to something more along the lines of the way it used to be coded. I've spent a lot of time fishing, and I feel like this is not how it was intended to be. I appreciate anything that will be looked at.

Thanks in Advance, Jaxelthorpe.
 
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