Grandmaster fishing

[GuiardoTuneweaver]

I think the T-map fished rate for high-end fishing needs some rebalancing. I got my fishing skill up to 244 +6 (3 +fishing items), and thinking I then had the skill to fish moderate tmaps went back to SoS. 4 bags (800 bait later), I had 2 simple maps to show for it. I went back and finished skilling up fishing to 250, then went back to SoS, used another 4 bags of bait, and got no more tmaps.

Each fishing attempts seem to take about 11 seconds. Using a delay of 115 in the button macros seems to be the minimum to reliably fish most attempts. So my 1600 took an absolute minimum of a little over 5 hours of fishing, not including attempts that don't catch anything (which are still significant at max skill), or any delay at all in pressing the button as soon as it is available, and I have 2 simple maps that I can't use to show for it.

This is after spending many, many, MANY hours in PoT and WW to get through the high end skillups. In these 2 zones, skillups averaged about 1 skillup per 2 bags of bait (an absolute minimum of over 1:15 of fishing, again not including no-catch attempts).

For the time involved in getting to GM fishing, I think T-maps should be much more common. Knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have bothered skilling up.

 

[SoDPlayer]

All of that time, and the patience, I hope you see a compairable reward.

 

[Wiz]

Chance of fishing tmaps looked at and upped.

 

[GuiardoTuneweaver]

Chance of fishing tmaps looked at and upped.

Awesome, thanks!

 

[Zhak]

nice post btw, was easy to read and your request was precise and had backing with details ( time spent, calculations, etc ).. too bad more posts don't model this one

 

[GuiardoTuneweaver]

Chance of fishing tmaps looked at and upped.

Has this been implemented yet? Just went through another 4 bags (800 bait) and not a single tmap.

 

[Wiz]

Yeah, I doubled the chances. I'll review it more later if needed.

 

[GuiardoTuneweaver]

Yeah, I doubled the chances. I'll review it more later if needed.

I just went through another 2 bags of bait for a total of 6 (1200 bait) since the change, with no maps fished.

I also used data from the last 4 bags to see how many times "You didn't catch anything" occurred; 221 times for 800 bait, or conservatively 20% of the time (1 for every 4 bait used).

1200 bait + 300 no-catches = 1500 tries x 11 secs/try = over 4.5 hours minimum.

Would you mind giving a rough idea of about what you want the average fish rate for maps to be in general? Am I unlucky, does it need tweaking some more, or do I have unrealistic expectations?

 

[Wiz]

I'll do some indepth number crunching on it later.