Prof Blocks 007
Steampunker
would you mind verbally responding to me? i can't always load these links.
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would you mind verbally responding to me? i can't always load these links.
I also ended up doing 88 fishing quests before I got the High Test Fishing line.
"better potions" "HUGE boost" - It's an average boost to some stats.
"lots of mounts" - Exactly 4 of the 11 mounts in the game.
"but the cell phone requiring it is just ridiculous" - Saves 3 inventory slots.
"relying on patience, luck, and wasting time" - 'luck' aspect is influenced by fishing power and potions. It isn't a waste of time if you get "tons of things" is it?
"technically, you can play all the way to the end without killing the eye of cthulhu, queen bee, king slime, skeletron, and duke fishron, but it's much harder" - If you're going that far, fishing isn't also a requirement. You can play the entire game without fishing.
"making it be a requirement for tons of things" - Loot that may not have dropped in your Corruption/Crimson or spawned in your Dungeon/Jungle/Sky Islands/Surface chests, Potions (see above) and a "great accessory" of which 25% of the information shown is related to fishing.
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It takes literally 4 minutes to go fish up about 50+ of those fish.
Here are a few ways around this annoyance. They work with ocean toolfish overflow too.The Purple Clubberfish spam is my one true gripe with fishing for potion fish.
yes. or at the very least, it shouldn't be required for things like good potions, mounts, weapons, cell phones, and anything else re-logic thinks up.
Here are a few ways around this annoyance. They work with ocean toolfish overflow too.
- Use a Piggy Bank or Safe to hold extras. Carry them to your base and sell them. Think of each Clubberfish as a potential gold piece.
- Make your fishing hut valid housing, then (temporarily or not) move an NPC with a shop into the hut. When too many Purple Clubberfish accumulate, sell them then and theere.
- Sonar Potion can help if you're low on bait. I avoid them because they strike me as wasteful of limited time and I almost always have plenty of bait. I'd rather make every bite into a catch and sell what I don't need.
rage/wrath potion: 10% extra damage or critical strike chance, the equivalent of (and stacking with) 3 accessories with damage or critical strike chance
summoning potion: +1 minion, almost mandatory for summoners
ammo reservation potion: extremely helpful for rangers
warmth potion: almost mandatory for frost moon
Seeing that it takes so many hours to get the bait required to do a fishing spree like this I think the rewards are fair.
Here are a few ways around this annoyance. They work with ocean toolfish overflow too.
- Use a Piggy Bank or Safe to hold extras. Carry them to your base and sell them. Think of each Clubberfish as a potential gold piece.
- Make your fishing hut valid housing, then (temporarily or not) move an NPC with a shop into the hut. When too many Purple Clubberfish accumulate, sell them then and theere.
- Sonar Potion can help if you're low on bait. I avoid them because they strike me as wasteful of limited time and I almost always have plenty of bait. I'd rather make every bite into a catch and sell what I don't need.
That is odd. Based on my previous experiences with online forums, the game's own forums are less likely to have rabid fans and are more likely to have the people who felt strongly enough about a certain game mechanic they didn't like that they made an account and sought to complain about it. Considering the majority of people here were either perfectly fine with fishing or enjoyed it as I had -- not a complaint to be found -- the only conclusion I could extrapolate is that people who outright hate fishing are a minority.In fairness, anyone criticizing a game (or game mechanic) on the game's own forums will usually be met by an army of loyal defenders.
I'm no proficient fisher, but you can get stupid amounts just by mining the jungle shrubs and getting the bait from there. In a co-op game, my companion got well over 200 bait just from mining the shrubs that grew back every now and then.
Optimally, set your base at a Jungle of which has a flat strip of shrubs and happy catching.
Considering the majority of people here were either perfectly fine with fishing or enjoyed it as I had -- not a complaint to be found -- the only conclusion I could extrapolate is that people who outright hate fishing are a minority.