Fishing in New World

[Agnostos]

Hi!

I would like to discuss Fishing in New World. I want to take the opportunity and invite you to share your opinions and suggestions on the subject.

First of all, I think the New World fishing system is very good. However, there are points that could/need to be refined to improve the experience.

I - Luck in Fishing

During my 2k5 hours of play, I performed several tests with fishing and noticed an inconvenience related to luck. Apparently, the higher your luck, the greater the chance of getting rare items in the water, whether that item is a fish or not. This behavior partially ignores the perks offered in my fishing kit - Lucky Waters and Fishing Colossus - where their description clearly points to “Better Fish” and “Biggest Fish”. In other words, FISH.

So, apparently, the greater your luck, the greater your chance of catching rare ITEMS. That is, most of the time, treasure chests. I like chests, I think they are valuable and important, but there are several moments when we are looking for resources offered ONLY by fish. Below I am linking two quick clips. One using my best luck and the other removing parts of the fishing set. The result was consistent in all the other tests I performed. That is, with my best luck, I rarely get a number less than 7 treasure chests and 10 attempts.

Full Luck

New World - Exemplo de Sorte na Pesca I

Incomplete Luck

New World - Exemplo de Sorte na Pesca II

I wish I had more control over WHAT I’m fishing, which brings me to the second point.

II - Fishing Fish or Fishing Items?

This is a quick point, a suggestion to solve the problem pointed out above. Who knows, there could be, together with the choice of baits, also a selection of types of hooks. A certain type of hook could favor the capture of fish, while another one improves your chances of getting items such as treasure chests, materials composed of iron, wood, etc… that can be scrapped. This would create autonomy when fishing, allowing you to choose the resource you want, while keeping your luck intact.

An illustrative image follows.

III - Advantages of the Fishing Set

Among the collections offered in New World, Fishing is the only one that doesn’t have items aimed at applying advantages in a set. I would like to make a set with strength, for example, while still retaining the fishing advantages. Sometimes, to reach a fishing spot, it is necessary to fight some enemies and animals on the way - having an effective set not only in fishing, but also in fighting would be a dream. Maybe in the future!

An illustrative image follows.

What do you think about it, what are your suggestions and opinions. Share too!

[Theocritus]

I haven’t gotten into fishing too much yet, but I do play Stardew Valley, and I totally understand where you are coming from.

There NEEDS to be mechanics built into the game to allow you control whether you are fishing for fish or fishing for other stuff. Stardew Accomplishes this by using special bait. This would work in New World, but iirc bait is used on every single cast, so that makes it problematic.

Here’s my suggestion to this situation:

1. If you are using any of the baits currently available you are guaranteed fish and fish only - no loot.

2. Add tradeskill recipes for “Loot” bait via Engineering - tweak the mats/quantity crafted to balance the loot gained for the mats used (like maybe an orichalcum bar can make anywhere from 1 to 100 bait depending on what is needed for balance)

• This could be taken a step further by requiring a certain fishing skill level to use certain tiers of bait and therefore shoot for better loot.

3. Finally - fishing without bait could go a couple different ways

• Get rid of fishing without bait completely and add some cooking recipes for bait that provide enough bait so it’s not a huge resource/time sink for fishing

• Fishing without bait would be kinda like it is now where you get a mixture of fish and loot.

[The_Laze]

Oh i have waited a long time for this.

There is ways to get certain items out of fishing holes and using the luck and size info helps a little, If you are targeting say more legendary fish. You want all the luck in the 3* hotspots, pop a drink and have at it.

Also if i wanted say more pearls i know i need to drop some luck and go from there, Somewhere in the forums someone broke down all the luck and i forget who it was, But using the info from someone like Dynomega is good. You need to use more resources to refine the fish or chests that you are after.

Trust me, as one of the highest levelled fishermen about, there is almost no love in the hearts of ags to fix all the issues with fishing.

Don’t forget to fish long and bait hard.

The Laze
Delos A 344 and counting

[Thatsecret]

Now more then ever with the new cooking recipe that require fish roe. We need something to be able to catch said fish.

[Agnostos]

I just checked out the new fishing spots. I got these items (For a moment I dreamed it would be about the last trophy lol). Perhaps in the next territories baits are planned to make it easier to catch Sturgeon and Paddlefish, just as Garlic and Tarragon have become very easy to obtain now.

Let’s wait and hope!

[Hmmm_bob]

Sell me fish roe if in delos lol

[The_Laze]

name in Delos?

[Hmmm_bob]

Same hmmm_bob