We completed the detailed analysis on the sport fishing changes and can tell you the following:
Our prof bonus we added as a custom change is still in place. If player has doubts in it, he can easily check it. How to do it: You catch a fish and check a pack cost with your prof, then you place it on the ground and your friend with a different prof level picks it up and checks the cost. You will see the difference then.
Basic cost of some fish indeed changed – it became 10-30% cheaper depending on the size and reduced HP it received with this patch. But, that is compensated by other factors as:
Fishing Rods are now permanent, not 30 days temp anymore. You buy it once and don’t spend gold on it again and again. So, you are saving here.
All skills now give damage.
The number of active fish spots increased significantly – almost twice more active spots now! What that means for a fisher: he can find a spot faster, so spending the same time for fishing daily, will now catch more fish!
So, mainly, with all these changes, it results into the same amount of gold (if not more) during the same amount of time spent.