At launch fishing was thought to be a “no-lifer” tradeskill. After all, no one really liked fishing on a game with a lot of entertaining content. Why would you fish if you can do dungeons, pvp, quests, even craft and gather ores?
However, treasure chests were something worth looking. 20-50g each, no “nodes” needed (at first we didnt even pay that much of attention to hotspots, most treasure chests were caught on WW river). So bots came and it was their way of farming tons and tons of coin. Therefore, instead of preventing bots from doing this, AGS removed coins from treasure chests.
In the other hand, legendary fishes were expensive too, but now we know that more than half of those legendary fishes are worthless. Even so, Albenaja, Abaia Serpe and Glowing Gnufish dont sell for enough coin considering how rare and hard to find some of them are. 700g for a fish that can only be caught on First Light tier 1 hotspots (wich let you catch 30 fish each, but the legendary pool % is 1% if not lower). I know some people selling 20-50 Albenajas or Abaia Serpe, but that must take months of regular farming (im not considering a 24hrs no sleep farm on the same hotspot as something healthy)
Please, improve fishing. Make fishing worth it. Add new legendary fishes that when salvaged, have end game crafting materials worth it. Add bigger fishes that are used to even make scale armors, or weapons (a sword made out of a legendary swordfish “horn”, or a full armor set made out of the scales of a legendary dragon-fish). Fishing has the potential to be one of the best gathering skill, its our only “hunting” trade skill.
We must have had very different server experiences. Fishing was very popular at launch on Eden, the Windsward spots were one of the first big social hubs.
I leave my chests sitting in storage collecting dust. Someday they’ll have more purpose… …someday.
Luterally have full set of fishermens and 3 major fiahing trophies. I’m sad ive spent the money on them at this point. I thought it’d be worthwhile to using fishing as a money maker… It’s not, hell hitting T1 trees will net you more gold per hour.
It does seem like lately that 30% of a Hot Spot is chest. At least make the chest have different tiers of chest depending on the zone they are caught in.
Theres a youtube video made by 5head survivor that shows a build to catch 9/10 chests on secret hotspots, its way easier to catch chests than legendary fish. Its also useful to speedlevel fishing and get aptitute points fast. However, thats the only use i see since you dont seem to be able to catch many legendary fishes