Fishing

Topnet

Hi , is anyone ablt to tell me if the fishing is as fun as it was in FFXI ?

I really enjoyed the fishing in FFXI.

Wolfenpride

It's fun considering it's harvesting, which generally doesn't require much interation. Similar, but not quite like XI's

A little slider goes side to side and you basically need to tire the fish out if one bites your lure, but technically I think it's just about finding the "sweet spot" on the gauge and making sure you land there till you make a catch. I think anyways.

Lot's of videos on youtube of fishing in action, id say check those out.

svann

You definitely need to use the keyboard (or controller) for fishing.  Using the mouse is really really hard.

Wizardry

Personally i did not find it fun in FFXi,especially when the skillups were god awful.It is a much more intense minigame in ffxIV.

it involves 3 items to satart...rod/jig/bait or lure.

involves a line depth and has a slider to make your selection.

Then it involves a meter selection with messages that hint at weather you stopped the meter in a good spot or are close or way off.Basically they figure the meter has two sweet spots at around the 25-33% spot and the 66-75% spot.You have two chances at the meter,you need to be right the second time or lose the catch.

What makes it real annoying ,especially in Beta is that i personally could not stop the meter with any consistency because of lag.Sometimes the meter would stop on the oppsite side of where i tried to stop it,the lag really was that bad.Here is the sticky about Beta,my ping was not that bad,but it is funky,i send at incredible pings of like 30[unrealsitic imo]but receive at anywhere from 300>600+.I doubt any of the lag will change at all come release time,because i played worse pings than those in FFXI.

Imo it really isn't that fun,just another keep everything a secret until people figure it out then it becomes common internet knowledge.