Talk:Fishing/@comment-104.247.57.90-20191017133851/@comment-28861372-20191115104941

I can't tell if any of you three anon would have liked the old system better, but consider this :

to craft the tier 4 amps from the Quills you need the Seram Beetle that you could only get from the rarest fish which spawns only with the last craftable bait... to get that bait, in total you needed first to fish :
 * 20 Goopolla
 * 5 Mortus
 * 5 Karkina
 * 5 Sharrac
 * 5 Tralok
 * 5 Murkray
 * 5 Norg
 * 5 Cuthol

the last 3 requiring also their own mandatory bait (contrary to rare servofish on venus, rare PoE fish don't spawn on their own)... add to that the random fails or the fish not spawning or the hot spot moving away (as OP mentionned). It really made me think twice before throwing in that last bait

It's not hard, I did all that (a lot of players did) ... but I'm not that much into fishing, and 400 standing is nothing in comparison (4 small mortus lungfish)

Also, indeed the Thumpers were introduced along with the PoE economy change, but if you prefer to rely on that to get your fish products, that is also bypassing fishing ^^