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Northrend Daily Fishing Quests

Strand Crawler

5 new daily fishing quests start from Marcia Chase (Fishing Trainer), by the Eventide Fountain in Dalaran.

Like the old Outland daily, each Northrend daily requires you to catch 1 or more quest-only fish from different waters around Northrend. 2 of the quests are slightly different: One requires you to cover yourself in blood, then jump into the water to create a pool to fish from. Another needs you to use the quest fish you caught.

Each daily rewards a Bag of Fishing Treasures and 250 Kirin Tor reputation.

Each bag contains random items: From valuable junk that sells for gold, through consumables such as +100 lures, to rare items. Rare rewards include epic quality gems, a minipet (illustrated left), fishing poles (read on), and novelty items like the Unusual Compass (which changes the direction you are facing).

Detailed guide to Northrend daily fishing quests and rewards »

Fishing Poles

Nat's Lucky Fishing Pole

New fishing poles:

Nat's Lucky Fishing Pole

Nat's Lucky Fishing Pole is a new reward for completing the quest, Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme. Anglers that have already completed the quest can return to Nat Pagle to claim the new pole. The pole binds to the angler when picked up.

2 fishing poles can be found in the Bag of Fishing Treasures, from the new Northrend daily quests. Both these poles bind to the angler when picked up. They only require fishing skill 1 to use, but higher skill is likely to be needed to complete the daily fishing quests:

Bone Fishing Pole
Jeweled Fishing Pole

You can view these new pole designs here, including a third "Twig" pole design that has not been found yet ((models are from data files)).

Changes have been made to existing poles:

Sea Turtle

Sea Turtle
Sea Turtle
  • Sea Turtle
  • Teaches: Sea Turtle mount. Increases swim speed by 60%.
  • Requires Riding Skill 75. Binds when caught.
  • Source: Rarely from Northrend pools. More details »

A rare Sea Turtle can be caught from any pool in Northrend. This turtle can be mounted, and ridden. Over water the Sea Turtle gives a 60% increase in speed. It runs at normal speed on land.

For detailed strategies for catching the Sea Turtle, read Catching the Sea Turtle Mount »

Wintergrasp

Fish can now be caught in the lakes of Wintergrasp. Your faction does not need to control the zone to fish there. However, Wintergrasp is a battlefield, contested even where the factions are normally at peace ((PvE realms)). Fishing here will be genuinely dangerous!

Wintergrasp requires 525 skill to fish without junk.

The following fish were caught from open water (sample of 371 catches):

Giant Darkwater Clam are like Darkwater Clam, but bigger! They contain 3-5 Succulent Clam Meat. Tentatively, there is a better chance of gaining a Northsea Pearl or Siren's Tear.

Wintergrasp is unusual because all the fish caught can be cooked into valuable buff food. If you are trying to prepare Fish Feast, Wintergrasp is perfect, because all 3 raw fish are caught in one place, in about the right amount.

Icecrown, Storm Peaks, Ulduar, and Zul'Drak

In a late change, fish appeared in 3 existing zones, and the new Ulduar raid dungeon:

No new fish have been discovered, and none of these zones make a previously valuable fish easier to catch.

Role of Skill

The formula that determines the skill required to fish in each location has changed. In summary: Now you do not require a certain skill just to cast. With skill 1 you can cast anywhere. Junk items replace fish that "got away". Fish that "got away" did not improve your skill, but junk items do improve skill. So you can also now skill-up anywhere.

You can now fish anywhere with fishing skill 1. Each area still requires a certain fishing skill to catch regular fish. If your effective fishing skill is below this value, a proportion of your casts will catch "junk" items. These junk catches replace the message "your fish got away".

There are 5 common junk items (Driftwood, Sickly Fish, Tangled Fishing Line, Tattered Cloth, and Weeds) and 5 rare junk items (Empty Rum Bottle, Old Boot, Rock, Tree Branch, and Water Snail). All junk items sell to vendors for 18c each, except Tattered Cloth and Rock, which sell for 1s. The average income from fishing junk is 35c per catch.

The percentage chance of catching a worthwhile fish when your fishing skill is below the skill required to fish without junk = (current fishing skill as % of area's no-junk skill) ^ 2. The "no-junk skill" was formerly known as the skill required to stop get-aways.

Before patch 3.1, 400 skill would not allow you to cast in The Frozen Sea. The change makes gear and skill less important when fishing in Northrend.

Fishing skill-ups can be gained by catching junk. This may change the way we improve our fishing skill. It should be possible to skill-up anywhere...

For a basic introduction to junk, with video, see (Not) Catching Junk »
For full analysis, read The Role of Skill (Revised) »

Cooked Fish

Black Jelly

A cooking recipe has finally been developed to use Borean Man O' War: Black Jelly does not taste as good as some Northrend dishes (no buff), but it does restore 18,000 health and 15,000 mana. Each Black Jelly uses 3 Borean Man O' War.

The recipe can be trained at cooking skill 400 - the highest skilled recipe not to require Dalaran Cooking Awards.

Overall, leveling cooking above skill 400 has become slightly easier: In addition to the new Black Jelly recipe, several other fish-based recipes that use Northern Spices are now "green" at 450 cooking skill (small chance of a skill-up). They were previously turned "grey" at skill 450 (no chance of a skill-up).

Feasts are no longer soulbound (thanks ashyni). They can be traded and auctioned. Level 70 and cooking skill is still needed to use feasts - 425 for Fish Feast, 375 for Gigantic and Small Feasts.

Training

All fishing trainers now teach Expert and Artisan fishing skill ranks. Juno Duffrain in Zangarmarsh also teaches Master rank. The Expert and Master rank books are no longer sold. New trained requirements are:

Only character level 10 is required to train fishing all the way to 450.

Cooks also no longer need to read books or complete an Artisan quest: All cooking ranks are taught by trainers.

An unusual Scryers Fishing Trainer appeared in Shattrath - a bookcase! Unfortunately, these bookcases only teach secondary skills to Artisan level. Primarily skill bookcases train Master level.

Bobbers

New Fishing Bobbers in Patch 3.1

Designs for 5 new bobbers have been uncovered, which can be viewed here. There is no known source for these yet. ((Images are taken from the data files.))

Minor Changes

Known minor changes:

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