10 Video Game Items That Are Completely Useless (On Purpose!)
4. Fishing Equipment - Path Of Exile
Path of Exile has untold amounts of equipment that gives bonuses to your fishing ability. So many, that you may even prep for your first fishing trip by picking up resources that you hope will help net you something really great.
Hopefully not, though, because these fishing items hide one dark secret: there is no fishing in Path of Exile. It's not a mini game, or in a secret area, or anywhere in the game. The equipment with fishing bonuses, then, is somewhere between a dev in-joke, and a prank played on unaware players.
Really, it's a pretty smart decision to make, as weird as this sounds. It makes what would otherwise be far less interesting items suddenly have a little more something to them - even if that something is fantasy fishing skills.
The only thing it's really missing is a competition of who could get the higher fishing bonus based on their equipment. If you're gonna make a fake stat that doesn't help anything, you may as well go all in, after all.