T’was the day before Storm Legion…and Starseeker grabbed her fishing pole and went fishing.
I love fishing in real life, I hate fishing in RIFT. I will just get that out of the way to start off. When it first came out, I was very excited about it, until I realized that the skill ups are agonizingly slow.
With Storm Legion coming out, well today, I had wanted to get all of my harvesting skills maxed…including fishing.
Fishing was my big issue, short of being a sleep aid, I just couldn’t stand there and click my mouse over and over and over for a very small pay off.
I was determined to get maxed in this skill however, so at 9:30 AM server time, I took off for Gloamwood and my measely 48 skill in fishing.
This is the time line of my adventure:
- 9am-11:30am – Fishing in Gloamwood.
- 11:30- 1:30pm – Fishing in Scarlet Gorge.
- 1:30pm – 3:30pm – Fishing in Lake Solace
- 3:30-4:38pm- Fishing in Moonshade Highlands.
Do the math. That is 7 1/2 hours give or take. Guess where I left off on my fishing after I couldn’t take it anymore?
Skill level 162.
In the total of 7 1/2 hours of fishing I gained 114 skill points. That is an average of 1 skill point every 4 minutes. 4 minutes of throwing my stupid lure in waiting, and clicking a button.
I really hope some day they look at this, because I have never spent 7 1/2 hours doing anything one thing in the game. It is NOT fun. It is NOT entertaining. It is rather boring, and while I was bound and determined to get it maxed, I couldn’t take it anymore and I had to do something that was more entertaining like sorting my bank slots for the expansion.
This freakin funny
Not sure what took you so long doing this. I was getting skillups like crazy all the way to 175 or so. Then it became every 8 casts or so. At 250+ it was 1 per minute at worst.
er 1 per 3mins i mean at 250+
not sure either, but it was painful. I even hit all the nodes I could find and still was this slow.
Well, I guess, boring it is if you do it all at once… I skilled my fishing every once in a while and I didn’t get the impression that it took a lot of time. Also, I always had a look for the swarms which let you level up a bit faster and get you extra items, too.
I can’t do anything but agree! Fishing IS boring. It’s less boring than some of the other games I’ve played. I love that you can make/buy lures and make great stat food. However, the act of having to fish for hours to skill up even slightly OR find enough fish to do the daily quests isn’t right at all.
Yes, there are planned time (and money) sinks in the game. This is obviously one of them. Yet I bet if they tried, they could think of many ways to make fishing less boring and tedious. Maybe if we can think of some of those ways we can bring it to the dev team?
Now there’s an idea!