[Fishing] Achievements and/or Feats of Strength Past 1000 Fish

  1. Lyps <Salty>, 3 years ago:

    It seems kind of silly that there are no achievements and/or feats of strength past the 1000 fish mark. It will likely take mostly people 10k+ casts to get all the current fishing achievements, and even then some people just like to fish for fun and/or money.

    Most other achievements that track your progress on an unending count (i.e. honorable kills) max out at much higher levels (100k kills), and it's really cool to still have something to aim for once you've completed all the other achievements related to a specific skill or subarea of the game.

    It just seems that 1000 fish is such a silly mark, and since they track your fish caught in the statistics tab anyway, why not implement achievements at the 5k, 10k, 25k, and maybe even 100k mark? Surely some people will hit those numbers over time, so why not give them some recognition for doing so?

    Hopefully Blizz is planning to do this already and just hasn't prioritized it since not many people are over the 10k mark yet anyway.

    What do you guys think? How many fish (and other things) have you caught so far?

    Me, I'm only at the 6k mark, but I still have a couple rare fish to catch and just haven't had the time to sit down and grind them out.

    Hey El, how about a poll that asks people which of the above marks they've reached (1k, 5k, 10k, 25k, etc)? I'd be curious to know where most other anglers stand at this point.

  2. Leny <Salty>, 3 years ago:

    Im at ~12k catches, I think this would be a good idea, the only fishing achivment I have to look for is the turtle, and it loves to taunt me...3 guild members have got it on there 1st cast

  3. nonameform <Angler>, 3 years ago:

    Last time I checked I had 10k+ fishes/15k+ items. 100k fishes achievement seems OK for me, though it will take more time to get than 100k HK in my opinion.

  4. el <Nat Pagle's Love Child>, 3 years ago:

    Interesting topic.

    I've never seen Blizzard justify this, but my guess is that the fish-catch achievements are supposed to be easy: 25...50...100 fish are the "entry-level" achievements that get you started. Something anyone can get fairly quickly. Once you've caught 1,000 fish, you're ready to try some of the more specialist fishing achievements.

    Beyond that, however high the bar is set, someone will want to reach it and go higher. 10,000 leads to 100,000, leads to a million, leads to... And when you started, 1,000 might have seemed a lot. It's Tuskarrmageddon!

    There are a few of questions that arise:

    1. Is catching a lot of fish an achievement to be proud of, or are others worth more to you? What? why? I know some people set their own goals, like Marlburo catching every fish in the sea.
    2. Must it be possible to complete all the achievements - Zoltan's approach? Or can individual achievements scale up towards infinity - for example, every time you reach a new catch achievement, a new aim appears 2 or 10 times higher?
    3. Ethically, what's reasonable? How many marriages or childhoods would a million-catch achievement destroy? [I originally wrote billion, but that would take more than a lifetime to complete.]

  5. Lyps <Salty>, 3 years ago:

    All valid points El, and I am sure they are exactly what Blizz considers when discussing new achievements.

    The main reason I feel like there is room to expand with the X Fish Caught achievements is because of how silly the 1k cap is in comparison to the 100k HKs cap.

    There definitely needs to be a limit as to how high the achievements go, for exactly the reasons you outlined, but I'm not convinced 1k is the right cap.

    Perhaps though, given the fact that 1k is built into the Salty meta-achievement, larger milestones should be feats of strength. It would also remove the issue of enticing people to chase them since feats are visible on your list of achievements you haven't completed yet and would only be nice little reminders that you have achieved a whole new level of fishing craziness.

  6. Lyps <Salty>, 3 years ago:

    That Tuskarrmageddon thing is hilarious, by the way. I hadn't heard of that before. I'm guessing it never made it out of beta, lol.

  7. nonameform <Angler>, 3 years ago:

    First of all Blizzard needs to correct those fish achievements that are already in the game, if 1000 by they standards is the cap. I have been leveling fishing on my alt and catching all the junk in the Undercity. All those junk catches did count for fish achievements, which doesn't make much sense, as Blizzard has the way to tell if item was a fish or not (check your statistics for secondary professions). By the time I get 1000 fish achievement, I won't be even at 450 skill, so I don't see how exactly 1000 is the cap.

    I believe that several months ago Blizzard said that they're going to add some new achievements for professions (at least for main professions). Hope they will find time to add something interesting for secondary professions too. I want all those fishes that got away actually caught. Make it a feat of strength, as it's too much to ask from anyone to actually achieve, but at least make it trackable and I will be happy.

  8. GormanGhaste <Low Sodium>, 3 years ago:

    I think 10k as the top achievement is much more reasonable than 1k. I did over 1k catches just fishing up my sewer rat.

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