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"I was struck in the early Ultima Online days by how many people were engaged in the profession of fishing, despite the fact that the simulation was a mere 50/50 dice roll with each use of the fishing pole." - Richard Garriott.
"No matter what you do, players will decode every formula, statistic, and algorithm in your world via experimentation." - Raph Koster.
Credits
These pages were written by El's "alter ego", Tim Howgego, copyright © 2006-8, unless otherwise stated. He has written about quite a lot of other games over the years, and really should have grown out of it by now. El could often be found fishing on Ravenholdt (EU) realm. El is now semi-retired, and "her book" is increasingly ghost-written by other gnomes.
Errors, suggestions and comments should be sent to el at elsanglin.com.
I'm always interested to hear about new changes in the game. Please put "WoW" somewhere in the email subject field - it will help your email bypass my junk-mail filter. Before writing with a game query, please search through the text carefully. You may also wish to post on the forums.
The guide draws on both personal experiences and experiments, and the work of others. Sources are given where appropriate. Named sources are generally forum postings. I have not linked to forum posts, since most are not archived. Most item and quest links now point at Wowhead. Thottbot still has by far the best coverage of fish, and is the only source I'd recommend for detailed catch rates. However fish item links now all point to the Fish Finder. Wowhead's fish catch rates are inaccurate, but for other items, quests and people, their interface and organisation of information is more user friendly. I have also used WoWWiki, Allakhazam and WorldofWar.Net for research. Most experimentation was done with patch 1.10 and 1.11 on live EU servers, during the middle of 2006. Inevitably the game will change over time, so I can make no guarantees as to the accuracy of the information presented here.
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This guide is intended for educational purposes only. All game concepts, certain images, and in game-text are copyright Blizzard Entertainment. The limited use of copyrighted material is believed to constitute fair use. World of Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment are registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment. The author is not affiliated to Blizzard Entertainment. No fish were harmed during the making of this guide.
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I will consider offers for other products or types of advertising. Please contact me for further discussion. Rates vary, but typically advertising space on the site will cost $1 (US) per thousand impressions.
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El's Extreme Anglin' is now one of the most popular fishing websites on the internet (the most popular appears to be FishBase). It has over 7,000 visitors each day (based on March/April 2007), almost 120,000 unique visitors each month. Half of readers live in the United States, with most of the remainder in Northern Europe, Canada and Oceania. I estimate that as many as one in four English-speaking World of Warcraft players will read this guide during their "careers". Further analysis of who reads El's Extreme Anglin' can be found on the author's 'blog. Quantcast also audit site traffic.
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Privacy policy for El's Extreme Anglin':
- Information collected:
- From guests: IP address, time, and content viewed is recorded for each visitor.
- From registered users: As guests, plus password, profile information entered, and forum contributions.
- Use of information: Analysis of overall website usage, which may be published in aggregate form. Used to reduce abuse of polls, ban abusive forum users. Information is not used to identify individuals, nor will be passed (in raw form) to third parties, except if required by law.
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- Affliate links: Some advertisements comprise affliate links. These links record this site as the referrer. These are clearly marked in the link title - such as "Advertisement".
- Security: Every precaution is taken to protect users' information, however I cannot be held liable for accidental release, or the malicious actions of third parties.
Technology
The author is grateful for the following third-party web services and technologies, which are used on parts of this website:
- Google Custom Search (search results)
- Powered by Wowhead (non-fish tooltips) and WoWDigger (site tooltips).
- BBPress (forums).
