About the FISH

[razoredge]

Personally, I don't like the suggestion of doubling it's weight.

Weights in comparison:

Red Potion -> 7
Guppy -> 5

Orange Potion -> 10
grape -> 2
Trout -> 15

Yellow Potion -> 13
grape juice -> 4
Bass = 20

White potion -> 15
Blue potion -> 15
Salmon -> 30

(those are just the base fish don't feel like doing the others atm)

Now I'm going by purely a leveling stand point. If you double the weight of the fish then you're essentially making us levelers have to hold 2 white pots instead of 1 for 1 fish. This doesn't help us at all since while leveling you get drops that add to your weight quickly and that means we'd have to run to the kafra more often to dump stuff off and hold less healing items which would greaten the chance of a user dying and losing experience.

As far as your comment of alchemist not being needed, unless pandora chose to remove the feature I do believe alchemists on the alchemist ranking get more healing for the pots they make depending on their rank. If a made pot heals more than a fish I don't see why having the fish would be better aside from it's capacity to heal sp too... but wait... if a salmon = the same as 1 white pot AND 1 blue pot then technically there's no reason for it to be a fish other than the "no animation". The same complaint could be said about ygg seeds. Berries have an animation and seeds don't (last I checked anyways).

Now from a woe standpoint...

If you're wailing on someone for a long period of time and they obviously aren't dying then there's two things that immediately come to mind... 1) they have a ghostring and your damage sucks if does anything to them at all, or 2) they're spamming either ygg seeds or fish. Obviously the thing to do then would be do more damage. I don't agree that fish's weight should be increased during woe either for the reason stated above in the leveling post. I find nothing wrong with it since it's part of the game and adds to the challenge. As you said woe is strategic, one thing you should include in your strategy is the fact that people are going to have fish and then include how to counter-act that. Not really complain that it's unfair <.< when it really isn't.

Also, it should be noted that when thinking about a change like this you should think of all aspects of the game leveling/pvp/woe instead of just one area when adding a change, unless the GM team can make it to where fish "magically" double their weight in woe castles only.

So in conclusion, I'm all for adding an animation, if it isn't too much work, but doubling their weight when it's pretty much the same thing as holding the pots I don't agree with.