Vana'diel Bestiary: Cheval Pugil  

I'm glad to see Square-Enix doing something about fishing bots, but they didn't do these to all the areas I wished they could have. Such as Buburimu Peninsula, I notice the fishing bots in full action there still. I love sending them a greeting tell and watch them stop fishing and logout, lol.

I believe the following should be done to stop fishing bots:

1. Anywhere you fish you can catch monster even with the rock behind you trick, including inside towns.
2. The monster should be based off the player’s level. Easy for the player to kill, but needs to use an appropriate technique to kill it efficiently, easy, but not too easy. Exceptions should apply for areas where you get quest items from fished up monsters.
3. Monster doesn’t do area attacks and will only attack the player who fished up the monster. Monster should disappear after 10 minutes if it has killed the player(Fishing Bot) and no one else engages it.
4. Remove the requirement to zone every hour.
5. Compensate fisherman by increasing the skill up rate according to the average time they would have to spend fighting monsters.

Let me know if you agree or you think I’m completely crasy?

SE did told us that there will be more zones where you can catch a monster while fishing. I guess fishing will be harder for low level people.