There are not enough fish.

At lvl 50 fishing comes swordfish. Thats good, heals 14 health. But the next fish, shark, doesn't come untill lvl 76! And even then you need 80 cooking to cook it! Sure you can get Karambwan at lvl 65, but those are too much of a hassle to be worthwhile, what with getting the karambwanji as bait ant all.

So here's my proposal: add 2 new fish.

At lvl 60 fishing you can catch Halibut. These would heal 16.

At lvl 70 you can catch Squid, which would heal 18.

Both of these would be harpoon fishing, and have the same fishing spot as sharks.

What do you think?

I like the idea.

I understand that you feel there's a lack of "plateaus" in the fishing levels, but adding the fish you propose would greatly devalue sharks. These changes have to be implemented extremely carefully. Something new at 70, fine, but not 60. That's really not a hard level to achieve.

lpinkus

I made a post about this too, not that long ago. Your ideas are good, and I think they'd be better if one (or both) of the fish was limited purely to the fishing guild, making it actually useful.

Halibut could be level 60, but heal the same as Swordfish, unless you went through a long, involved cooking process to make them heal 1 or maybe 2 more, a la Baked Potatoes with Cheese.

The same goes for Squid, they could be 68-70 to catch, heal 15, but special cooking treatment would make them heal 16.

BTW halibut are caught in nets, they would have to be Net or Big Net fished; squid are caught using a technique called jigging, which involves dragging a special kind of bait on a hook attached to a line held in the fisherman's hands - a pole is not suitable because you can't get the bait to move correctly. This would involve some extra additions/changes to fishing as a whole, to give it the relative level of "realism" rs fishing currently tries to seem to have (see my post in the whales thread :P ).

i'l smack a fish against you're head.

i'l smack a fish against you're head.

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That wasn't very helpful, not to mention spelled wrong ("your," not "you're").

I still think level 60 is too low for any sort of new fish, even with a longer cooking process. Besides, a longer cooking process actually offers MORE xp. I have level 66 fishing, and I hate fishing :) So, someone who likes it will shoot for higher levels and earn the rewards.

lpinkus