The Thing I Would like To See Most: Fishing

fishing would be the shiat.
only now when im bored i can use observer mode, which is more useful than fishing.
BUT if the fishes could be used as weapons, then i would be all for this.
imagine smacking the lich king upside his head with a good-sized halibut.
lol freaking hilarious.

GO FISH STORM!!

now that observer mode is out, if you get bored you can just watch some people play and watch some retards talk consistently for the whole battle

I haven't tried observer mode yet. It doesn't sound fun but I can't judge it until I try it.

Love it!

I'm wielding a Flopping Trout of Destruction.

at its current state, I think othe recreational activities other than killing monsters would be a good idea as a gold sink or time waster. However, Fishing is too over done. Thus I would like to see other activities, just not fishing....

An alternative of fishing.
Mini games for different profession.

Warrior - Beat your track records. (running)
Ranger - Try to interupt as much as you can with the skills you already have.
Elementalist - How many enemies can you kill.
Necro - How many minions can you raise and have it survive.
Mesmer - How much Energy you can steal.
Monk - How long can you keep an ally alive.

More can be added of course but just thought it would be fun and original.

Oh god.

Anet never should have put PvE in this game.

It just started us on a slippery slope toward mining/fishing/whateverstupidthing.

Go play some other game to "how i mine for fish??"

PvE = RPG Guild Wars is MMORPG... why put PvE out?
btw people only asked for something easy to do while waiting for favor, not something to go full time like mining...

This is not the kind of game that has stuff like that. In GW, you are in a World where everything is fighting. There is no place for stuff like this. And besides, of all the skills in the world, why fishing? Its in every MMO.

This game is about War, not Fishing/Mining/Crafting.

lol omg just go play Runescape.....it's time consuming and u get all your mining/fishing/noobpwning/baking/quests/jerks/peiceofsh!tgraphics......

Kind of funny how the PvP psychos always find and bring down the PvE threads and the PvE psychos find and bring down the PvP threads, yet somehow a PvP pyscho can't find a PvP thread and a PvE psycho can't find a PvE thread.

Yeah, I think fishing might be sort of fun. I'de say its just about as boring as the GvG observer mode. I mean, who wants to sit through a 45 minute battle of some guys who don't know how to ranger-spike vs some guys who are too afraid to come anywhere near the guys who can't pull off a ranger spike?

"its a world consumed by war!" they keep saying. Most of the time you are fighting bog scales and aaxtes and whatever kind of little animal. PvE isn't really about war at all, there are no guilds warring, the guild wars ended.

PvE is about a bunch of people trying to hunt down monsters and fight and farm and stuff. Sam in Lord of The Rings fished and they were being hunted by giant shadowy undead guys riding horses :P

i agree to this statement. GUILD WARS= WAR. if you want things like fishing. and farming, and mining and what not. go spend hours chopping wood on runescape. Dont ask for something that has no link to the game. to be put into the game .

I think you people who reply negatively in this thread just like to argue.

yeah sure you say it's a world world my ass if it was a world you could do all these things guild wars is nothing but a pointless freaking fight and when your tired of fighting go fight some more cause thats the only thing to do

The third chapter is not just more PvP arenas, but also a new set of PvE areas and missions. Peace PvP'ers! GW is also PvE, and long term, it is the PvE side that keeps the monthly new game sales rolling in. And you have to keep the monthly new game sales rolling to keep revenues coming in, or the "free forever, no monthly fee" will come to a screeching halt. The business model is, new game sales pay our monthly fees. Read the fine print closely.

Fishing? I can see this working if it were not too time consuming, and if the benefits were limited to the PvE world, and in no way unbalanced the PvP side. Pretty easy to implement too, I think. Certain fish would be worth gold, others would give you a couple percent boost, others would be like the xp scrolls, there would be rare fish that eliminated the death penalty for a party, and there would be a chance of pulling out a box of something nice!

I play WOW too, with high level characters. I do not want to turn GW into WOW, with all of the tedium, hard work, and grinding of professions that goes on there. ANet doesn't either, we can be sure of that. But the third chapter might see some fun features added to the PvE, I hope fishing is one of them.

If Guild Wars becomes Runescape I'll kill all Anet then myself. Twice. One reason I left Runescape is because of Guild Wars. I don't want anotherbetter-graphics runescape.

PvE junkie here, and even I don't want to see this. There are a million other games out there with silly things like this. Guild Wars isn't meant to be like that, and I'd rather have it never be that way.

If you are bored, type /dance and then go find something else to do like play Halo2 or Battlefield2.

then we can mine! and pwn n33bs in the wildy! wo0tz0rs! And maybe we canhave a skill that allows you to make a fire 0_0

Maybe they would put in fishing and then you could fish out a rune of superior boot hooking or an ugrade compontent called hook of tire catching.

if you guys haven't noticed guild wars is losing players due to the lack of fun things to do. you can only do so much battling befor it getings boring and repetitive .you could have millions of skills and still sooner or later everyone will have their builds and it will become repetitive again.

this post is basicly asking for something to do other than the repetitive and supposedly skillful battling

if you ask me once you get your build set up it is no longer based on skills it's based on timing and luck

if anything, i would rather be my own blacksmith. create my own weapons instead of having to go to collectors or buying from other players everytime.

Since my previous post was deleted for too much PvE hate, I will repeat: Guild Wars is not an MMORPG, it is a Competitive Online RPG. Emphasis on Competitive (aka PvP).

you happend to get a word wrong it's not a competitive online RPG it's a cooperative online RPG you DF

Here, I'll quote the Guildwars website (the official website of the game, if that wasn't clear) for your reading pleasure:
http://www.guildwars.com/faq/default.html#details

How embarassing for you.

Owned...

... wondering when this will be closed...

now thurs an idea for summat to be added, not sure how but the guys of anet are crafty, i see an opporotunity

That was pretty slick. And you are correct in saying that this is not WoW. But I feel that Guild Wars is still a pve game even if some of you refuse to believe it. There are alot of people who aren't big fans of PvP, and besides killing monsters, there isn't much for those people to do. I don't understand why people are opposed to this idea. For all you PvPers, if you don't want to fish, then don't. I just think many people out there would appreciate some new recreational activities.

Why are you people complaining about these add ins? If you don't like it DON'T DO IT its not really that hard. If you dont' like it you don't have to mine or fish. Just leave people that want variety alone. Also if you read that paragraph a bit more Obberius you'll find it says this:

Mission-based... think about it.

AMEN BROTHER!!!(or sister)

if your bored, fishing is kewl and everything, but lets incorporate 1 v 1 arena. no one will ever get bored.

Errr... I hit my level cap for a PvE character months ago, and I'm still not finished with the story aspect of the game. Guild Wars PvE isn't about leveling to max. It isn't about hunting for better weapons and armor either. Rather, the game is about fighting with skill. It's like playing sports. It's not really about hunting for the best shoes or the best gloves. It's about how well you play, and having fun while doing it. As such, PvP is a large aspect of the game, and if you plan on avoiding it, you'll be missing out. Whether you like it or not, Guild Wars is about competition against others. (It's called Guild Wars, and not Ascalon Nights: Hordes of the Charr for a reason.) =D

I agree, trade skills don't really belong in Guild Wars. It's meant to be an accessible, fun online game that tests a player's skills in combat. The level cap is so low for a reason - you are not meant to invest endless amounts of time in order to achieve something. While I love the idea of trade skills, professions, and essentially an online life, this does not belong in Guild Wars. A game cannot strive to do everything, and should maintain a proper focus. (There's a reason you don't see real time strategy games let you customize the faces, hair, and sizes of the units.) The focus of Guild Wars is on skill-based fighting. All the weapons, armor, and items you need are provided by NPCs or given to you. Having players craft the exact same things is at the least needlessly redundant, and at the worst grind-intensive and completely against the spirit of the game.

Now, I understand many have expressed the opinion that crafting and other trade skills would provide a useful diversion, though it may be completely optional. This could be done, for example, by allowing people to craft items that are utterly mediocre and useless, no matter how much practice one puts into crafting. The question, then: What do you do with mediocre and useless items? Sell them? Selling them would be a source of steady, undisruptable income that can be considered a kind of grinding, much like farming. (Farming, however, at least requires some semblance of fighting skill and knowledge of the proper usage of one's build.) If not sell them, what do you do with them? Trash them? If you eliminate any source of material gain, it becomes little more than a time-intensive emote.

On the subject of emotes, I see no problem with having a fishing emote. Hell, if you can dance mindlessly for hours on end, why not fish? It's a nice diversion for the easily amused. The second you give fishing a material gain and make it a trade skill, however, you've introduced an element of grinding into the game. If the fish you got gave you health when you ate it, then all of a sudden it would be a competition to see who can get the most fish and who fishes the longest, rather than who plays the best. Putting up a large catch on display in a guild hall, however, seems perfectly harmless. It's customization, and an inevitable part of an RPG is customization.

On the topic of customization, the idea of crafting jewelry and other purely-for-display trinkets has come up. While nice, it should be a skill every character should have equally with the same minimal amount of time commitment. This would mean, however, that everyone can craft the same things, and there would be no incentive whatsoever to buy from someone else. In other words, it pretty much boils down to what everyone does right now with their armor: they gather materials for it and have a piece of armor made out of it. The only difference is technically the NPC crafter is crafting the armor for you, and he charges a hefty sum of gold doing so. Otherwise, you can think of getting armor as crafting! The moment you give people the ability to make a higher quality product with more time invested, you open the game up to grinding, which is what Guild Wars is NOT about.

God Dammit Ppl Just Go Play Runescape Or Eq

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yeah well Banin Galori the same could be said about all those rare weapons and black dyes y buy them when you could just go out and get them yourself it's cause ppl are lazy plan and simple

What is with you ppl? I mean it doesn't take much to figure out that if you don't like it, YOU DON'T HAVE TO FISH. People just want more variety, it won't affect you then don't complain, simple. If it were something that was going to majorly affect the gameplay for everyone it would be ok.

Something I would like to see is like a hunting feature. I mean it allows us to kill animals, but what if they dropped some kinda food that you could use in a pinch for like a quick health boost you know. Something while fighting and you get low on life you can just click up your inventory and duoble click on it per say and it would give you a boost. Also, with this fishing ordeal, lets say they do the same thing to it. You catch a fish, put it in your inventory, and when you need a quick boost click on it and gives you a bit of life. Now thats what i call quality entertainment there,lol.

people need something to bitch about dude. No matter how good or bad an idea is, someone is going to bitch about it. It's a fact of life, you just gotta look past it and ignoore the opinions that you dont like.

I thought GW was a 'Competitive Online Role-Playing Game'. Why not extend the role-playing aspect by adding fishing, crafting, etc? As long as it's optional and doesn't affect PvP.

There are plenty of pve centered (grind) MMOs on the market which have pvp as red headed stepchild afterthought. There are only a couple of pvp centered MMOs on the market where pvp is the primary focus. GW is one. Please stop trying to change the focus of GW into something that is already done over and over in other games. No game can be all games to all players. Sorry to be blunt but adding fishing and crafting, etc to GW is a stupid idea.

If they threw-in fishing, I'd try it out... or anything else, really (hunting, blacksmithing, w/e).... nothing wrong with a little diversity, and if the powers that be decide to toss in something new from time to time, why complain about it? If it doesn't affect you, why throw a hissy-fit? It's not like you're going to see people fishing in guild battles, or hunting in HoH....