mello wrote:
My honest question to you is.... why would you go through the fishing leveling process on two characters only being able to use 1 at a time? That seems horribly inefficient. You will benefit more from dedicating a character more towards content and the other to auxiliary tasks such as healing/support/PLing, mining, fishing, crafting, getting ToDs/claims, etc.etc... You're progress much faster and more efficiently that way.
I have a number of reasons. First of which is that I just have an affection for my main and I've already put quite a bit of work into her: SAM51/NIN40/WHM30/WAR25/BLM19/THF17, owns Peacock Amulet, LB1 complete, Rank 6, deep into CoP missions, etc.
Seeing as how it will probably only take a couple of weeks to lvl fishing to 96, and that I already have the cash I need to grind out SAM to 75, I don't think I would be out of commission very long doing so in the grand scheme of things. Plus, if I decide to focus on my alt at any point in the future I can just alternate if I choose.
When I first started fishing I was confined to an old 2011 work laptop and dual-boxing wasn't really an option. So, at the time I didn't really consider starting fishing on my alt. Since then, I've bought myself a new computer and can dual box without issues.
Edit: Also, Thanks Seliox for the answer!