Guild Wars 2

when your 80 and your not gear grinding or helping a guildie/another player, what do you do. your 100% done with the map and your bored. what they should do is add some extracorectuliar activity that anyone could do, for example, fishing. it would be a good time killer and relaxer, so you should add more endgame level 80 things to do

I loved fishing in WoW. I wouldn’t mind having fishing in this game either. =D

It is dangerous to say you want something cause you liked it in WoW. Just a warning.
I do not see any harm in fishing being added though, we do have fishermen around the world, but we cannot get fish meat or cook anything with fish ourselves?

Personally I would actually be happy if fishies killed would drop fish meat like we get poultry and red meat. Also why do we have crab meat but all we can do with is sell it as junk?

Wether it is killing them fishies when we swim around and get meat that way or fishing is more or less irrellevant for me.

As I mentioned in all the other fishing threads (there’s lots of them if you perform a simple search) I could see fishing working, as long as it’s a mini-game, not something you do AFK.

They already have some fish models. So those could be used.
Maybetalk to some Consortium NPC to unlock the fishing rod, have scanvenger huts to unlock better rods, and for the consumable to get it, instead tools it’ll be bait you can purchase on any NPC that sells the other tools.

Then you use a ‘fishing spot’ node, and the minigame starts, and you get fishing skills you have to use to fish, and each time you successfully catch a fish, you get items like meat, fish meat, crab meat, jellyfish meat, pearls, coral, etc, and the ‘quota’ for that fishing spot is reduced. When the quota reaches 0, you have to find a new fishing spot.

Of course, fish, crabs (and other shelled creatures) and jellyfish (and jellyfish-like creatures like Riders) around the world would also drop their meat sometimes when killed, and new dishes would be added for them.

Nice idea MithranArkanere.

I so want fishing for this game there are QUITE a large number of places to fish in the world

This would be an absolute gem of an addition to the game.

I would like items that one could fish up that have a use (not just fish eels etc) like a parasol and picnic basket or a tent and campfire. I would love to see item drops from fishing like crates from old ships and items from sacks of booty. It would be awesome to see gear drop as well like accessories but I’m not demanding, just would love to see this in this title.

Anxiously waiting.

and then we combine all the ideas posted in this thread and we got ourselves post 80 things to do

This has been requested countless times. I would like to see it!

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Search function works great, what this search function does is dis allows repeat threads from coming up when used properly.

With that said I would love to see fishing done in this game.

+1

Vote Yes on Prop 359

love fishing in lot of MMO, will be appreciate if we can enjoy it at GW2 too, sure as gathering (no need to pickup) skill.

Vote: YES

Fishing shouldn’t be boring like in WoW. I want to catch some River Monsters like the TV show.

We should be have lot of options on how to fish.

• different riggings, lures, bate
  *poles: bamboo, Fly rods, iron wood
• nets, traps, chum, dynamite

• dynamite

poaching is not fishing

I want to be able to catch a fish with my bare hands! For my Ranger, I want her bear to be able to catch fish!

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robinsiebler.3801:

I want to be able to catch a fish with my bare hands! For my Ranger, I want her bear to be able to catch fish!

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I probably shouldn’t tell you this but this is already possible you were just excluded form the party on this one

LOTRO had fishing. It was boring and nobody I knew did it. Twas a waste of resources to create the thing. There are a lot of more important things to add to this game then something like fishing that I would guess less then 1% of the population will do.

Fishing would be a very awesome idea to add to the game… I found myself in Guild Wars 1 on a few occasions bored and caught up in the beautiful oceanic animals swimming around and a desire to catch a couple ^-^ would be awesome to chill on the piers of Lions Arch and toss out a line or two while waiting for events.

Kaimick.5109:

• dynamite

poaching is not fishing

Charr would disagree with that, but well, they tend to overdo things.

Ualtar.5047:

LOTRO had fishing. It was boring and nobody I knew did it. Twas a waste of resources to create the thing. There are a lot of more important things to add to this game then something like fishing that I would guess less then 1% of the population will do.

Hear me out on this,

Is it feasible to say you know at least 75% of the player base?

or

Is it feasible to say you know about 2% of the player base ?

In MMO’s most players only know about 2 – 5% of the player base, and that is not even true some times. So to say that everyone you knew never did it in another MMO doesn’t mean that 1% or less did it. I am just saying take into consideration that most games have a very large player base this one has 400k congruent player base, to say you know all that player base and that all would never do something like that is a gross abuse of words am I correct. The same goes for other MMO’s out there, to say that all the players you knew never did the fishing part of the game, therefor only 1% would ever do it, ergo it being a waste of resources. When in fact you probably only knew 1% of the player base.

I think a fishing profession, rather gathering skill would be cool

I’m for this. Could open room for some new food recipes that work only underwater or something new and inviting. Plus why shouldn’t we be able to do what npcs do?

And a side note, why does everyone in these forums compare the devlopers of ArenaNet to others? They are different people, so I’m sure they would approach these suggestions very differently specifically so they continue to be the fresh game of 2012 and not some copy.