Does anyone else really hate this quest?
It’s in the middle of a quest-line, one of the ones needed for Sojourner: Azure Span, and it requires you to use fishing before you can carry on the story.
Unlike every other story quest in the zone, it requires the actual fishing skill, which I refuse to learn on my main. I know a lot of people like fishing, and I’m okay missing out on fishing related quests and reputation activities, but I truly hate WoW fishing and I think it’s a bad idea to mandate it for a story quest line.
But I suspect I may be the only person who cares about this.
…May I ask why? I mean I don’t have Fishing learned either but it’s sounding like fishing is a personal insult by this wording…
I think you’re not the only one.
It takes like 2 minutes.
Do you have some kind of childhood trauma of fishing that has led you to scorn it?
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You aren’t going to like every aspect of an mmorpg but you will have to deal with thsoe parts of the game that you don’t enjoy if you plan to progress in the area you are wanting to progress through.
As a secondary profession, you cannot un-learn fishing. And once you know it, you’re flagged for all the quests and activities related to fishing.
I don’t like fishing, and it’s more seemly to passively ignore it by not learning it than to actively ignore the quests and dailies for it forever.
Granted wow fishing mechanics have always been complete garbage compared to other MMO’s. But at least it’s not archeology! LOL!
I think that’s a relatively minor cost if getting all the quests is your goal myself, but sorry that’s causing quite an issue for you!
I will say Fishing needs a big overwork. It is so clunky and bad, and just about every MMO has done it much better.
I’m sure we can innovate it beyond ‘wait for bobble to wobble’…
That’s perfectly fine, and what I’ve been doing for years, but this quest sets a bad precedent. It’s an aspect of an MMO that I don’t like interfering with an aspect I do like, and overriding the long-term precedent of keeping these activities separate.
Imagine if a major story quest line can’t continue unless you learn archeology instead of just clicking on some relics in the dirt.
Step 1: Create your own problem.
Step 2: Complain about it.
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You’re just going to have to deal with it.
I don’t know I am ilvl 371 and I haven’t finished azure span or even started it yet. Just don’t do the campaign if you don’t want to.
Blizzard should actually give us a good reason to do the campaign like they did in Shadowlands (where we got to pick our covenant after doing the campaign) but since there’s no reason to do the campaign at all, why bother?
I have this exact same gripe with the fact that Dragonriding is mandated in the MCQ.
Why an optional system is Kramering on into the main questline I have no idea, but here we are.