El's Extreme Anglin' - World of Warcraft Fishing Guide // Fish Finder // Dalaran

This pages summarises the fish that can be caught in Dalaran. Parts of this zone vary (for example, contain different fish or have different skill requirements), so be sure to scan the whole page before casting a line.

Dalaran

Detailed mapping of hard to find areas within the zone is shown below.

Notes: Dalaran floats above Crystalsong Forest. Waters outside the prison (The Violet Hold) can be fished. The waters in the sewers (The Underbelly) and the fountain (The Eventide) contain different fish. For a full guide read Dalaran Fishing.

Skill: 525 to fish without junk.

Quests: 5 different Northrend Daily Fishing Quests start from Marcia Chase (Fishing Trainer), by the Eventide Fountain.

Related Achievements:

• Chasing Marcia: Complete each of Marcia Chase's 5 Northrend Daily Fishing Quests. For a full walkthrough, read Northrend Daily Fishing Quests.
• The Coin Master: Complete these fishing achievements: A Penny For Your Thoughts, Silver in the City, and There's Gold In That There Fountain. Awards the "Titanium Seal of Dalaran". Full guide to Dalaran Fishing.
• I Smell A Giant Rat: Fish up the Giant Sewer Rat from The Underbelly in Dalaran. Full guide to Dalaran Fishing.
• A Penny For Your Thoughts: Fish up all the Copper Coins from the Dalaran fountain. Full guide to Dalaran Fishing.
• Silver in the City: Fish up all the Silver Coins from the Dalaran fountain. Full guide to Dalaran Fishing.
• There's Gold In That There Fountain: Fish up all the Gold Coins from the Dalaran fountain. Full guide to Dalaran Fishing.

History:

• Wrath of the Lich King: Northrend opened.
• 3.1: Corroded Jewelry caught in the Underbelly. Northrend Daily Fishing Quests available from Marcia Chase (Fishing Trainer).

• [*] % of Catch is the approximate proportion of all catches in this area/water, that are the named fish.

Dalaran (The Underbelly)

Notes: The Underbelly is the name of the sewers beneath Dalaran.

Quests: Jewel of the Sewers requires Corroded Jewelry to be caught from the Underbelly. 1 of 5 possible Northrend Daily Fishing Quests.

• [*] % of Catch is the approximate proportion of all catches in this area/water, that are the named fish.

Dalaran (The Eventide)

Notes: The fountain behind the fishing trainer contains fishable water. Casts that land at the edge of the water (on the bricks or rocks) catch a fish from Dalaran's Underbelly (forum topic).

• [*] % of Catch is the approximate proportion of all catches in this area/water, that are the named fish.

Detailed Mapping

Other Tomes

• WoWWiki (recommended for travel and background information)
• Thottbot
• Wowhead
• Allakhazam

Learn More

• Wrath of the Lich King - Fishing changes in Wrath of the Lich King, the second expansion to World of Warcraft.
• Dalaran Fishing - Complete guide to fishing in Dalaran. Including Giant Sewer Rats, Rusty Prison Keys and fountain coins.
• Fishing Achievements - Introduction to fishing-related personal achievements.
• Dalaran Cooking Quests - How to complete the Dalaran daily cooking quests.
• Northrend Daily Fishing Quests - Guide to daily fishing quests that start in Dalaran.
• 3.1 Changes - Patch 3.1's changes to fishing, including new fishing poles and Wintergrasp.

Below are anglers' comments about Dalaran.

Dalaran fishing >580 to stop junk

1. Speeddymon, June 2009:

   Just was doing the fishing daily 'Jewel of the Sewers' today and I caught junk with a +100 lure and my Mastercraft Kalu'Ak Fishing Pole, with stock skill of 450.

   With just those on, my fishing is 580, so it seems that to completely stop junk catches you may need 590, not 525 as the guide states. At any rate, I have not managed to bag the Giant Sewer Rat yet and I'm thinking that the junk I caught today was just that :-(

   Anyone else experience this?

2. X-Rok, June 2009:

   the trash you got, it was the Drowned Rat, yes? I'm pretty sure that's a normal loot item for the sewers, i see it on a regular basis when i'm fishing for that daily...

3. Azaguth, June 2009:

   ditto.

   Having fished the sewers before 3.1 and the "junk", I was catching the drowned rat without getaways.

1. Speeddymon, June 2009:

   Actually, this was weeds that I caught.. I knew the drowned rat was part of the loot table as I had caught that in the sewers when trying for the Giant Rat as well..

2. Noodleguitar, June 2009:

   Strange. I fished those sewers for 1000+ casts with 527 fishing skill and never caught any junk (unless I forgot to re-apply my +25 lure) apart from the greys which are only fished up from there.

3. gotkevin, June 2009:

   I use +75 lures trying to hook the rat... Fishing is @ 558 (568 with Lager). Got about 4.5 hours logged, close to 1k casts... no Giant Rat. Had three others hook em around me :(

   UPDATE
   9 Hours fished
   2k + casts
   NO RAT! Uggg

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Dangerous in Dalaran?

1. Gummo, September 2008:

   The WotLK fishing section says this about the fishing trainers:
   "However, all the Northrend trainers are safe to visit at low level, except Marcia Chase in Dalaran."

   I assume she's safe to visit at a low level, since you'd need a portal/summon, just not easy until there are more level 74+ mages. Or are the large rats hostile?

2. el, September 2008:

   Dalaran isn't dangerous once you are there. It's just dangerous to reach without a summon/portal. In contrast the arrival "ports" can be soloed at any level - just don't go outside. I've updated the text, thanks.

3. Gummo, September 2008:

   Actually, this made me think that ALL capital cities should have hostile rats about level 5. Real players could deal with them, and they'd eat the gold spammers.

1. Bekkabakoo, September 2008:

   Dalaran was very dangerous when the beta was first opened up, and there were invisible holes you could step into and fall to your death down on the ground from a thousand feet up. But that was before you could actually catch fish anywhere.

2. heraklen, September 2008:

   Gummo wrote:

   Actually, this made me think that ALL capital cities should have hostile rats about level 5. Real players could deal with them, and they'd eat the gold spammers.

   HAHA thats an awsome idea , please post it as a suggestion for blizz , could help us against those lvl 1 spammers in the big cities.

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Slightly OT: Getting to Dalaran

1. Gummo, September 2008:

   While the obvious/easiest way would be to ask a level 74+ mage for a portal, a level 71 mage (who can teleport to Dalaran) or any player in Dalaran (seen with /who dalaran) can get you there, assuming Blizzard doesn't change this:

   1. Group
   2. Have the person in Dalaran queue up as a group in all battlegrounds with the Dalaran battlemaster
   3. Enter first BG that comes up
   4. /afk out of the BG (or play it out) and you come back out at the Dalaran battlemaster.

2. LinkyKeram, September 2008:

   Hopefully yes, that a mage can yust teleport you there, as pepol did this in BC's Shattrath :D

3. el, September 2008:

   I believe the battleground "trick" requires you to be at least 70, since you need to be in the correct bracket (but I'm not sure what the lowest level is for AV now). I still don't understand why Blizzard insist on a level 74 quest for personal entry, but yet allow level 1s to portal/summon in.

4. Gummo, September 2008:

   Right, the BG invite trick requires that you all be in the same level bracket, presumably 70-79 (or in some BGs 71-80?), similar to the current brackets.

   I bring it up because you'll see level 71 mages a lot sooner than level 74 mages after the WotLK launch; once level 74 mages are common, portals will be the usual method again. But there should be level 71 mages after a couple of days or so, while you won't see 74s much until a couple of weeks have gone by. And there's fishin' in Dalaran!

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Underbelly Shark

1. el, January 2009:

   On the 3.0.8 Public Test Realm (and I assume, on live), there is a new angler fishing in Dalaran's Underbelly - Sebastian Bower. He says:

   I know, I know... "fishing in a sewer?" But you'd be surprised what you can catch down here. I've even heard stories of sharks, if you can believe it.

   Well, there is a large shark in the rogue area - but you cannot catch it. I've tried to confirm these "stories of sharks you can catch" during testing, but I did not catch anything new in over a thousand catches.

   But I'm still curious... Is there anything new lurking in the water?

2. TheTacoMan, January 2009:

   In the WOTLK beta there was info for a 'baby shark' minipet, that you could only summon in the water. I assume that this was removed due to awkwardness. While a cool idea, a mini-pet tat you could only use underwater would be mostly useless.

   If they made it a 'magic shark' that could fly through the air, that would be cool (Come on people, dalaran IS the city of mages, it could happen)

3. justicehand, April 2009:

   The name of the shark in the sewers is Segacedi i just swam down and killed him in the waters of the Black Market. He didn't drop anything for me. I was told this is a reference to the sega cd game "Sewer Shark".

4. Leny, April 2009:

   Another idea is that the shark could be in a fish tank on wheels, this would be wheird but would explain how it could be used above water.

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Giant Sewer Rat in the Dalaran Fountain?

1. Extreme Angler Velen, April 2009:

   So i was fishing for the coins today in the Dakaran Fountain when i came across our furry little friend at first i was happy because i finally caught the rat, but then a friend of mine and a fellow fisherman pointed out that i shouldn't of been able to catch the rat in the Fountain. So i decided to post it here to see if this happened to anyone else..

   -Velen

   P.s I'll post up a screen shot as soon as i find it in my SS folder >.<

2. Extreme Angler Velen, April 2009:

   Screen Shot Inc....

   http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/9261/wowscrnshot041909223946.jpg

3. Antonine, April 2009:

   The edges of the fountain count as the Underbelly. Don't worry, it wasn't a glitch. We've always known that you could catch a rat there in theory, it's just unlikely. Congrats, I've been wanting to see that happen in awhile!

   On another note, I wouldn't recommend showing the screen shot on the WoW forums. You could have easily caught it in the underbelly before heading up to the fountain to take the screenshot (as there's a significant amount of time between the catch and the shot)

4. Gazsvyaz, April 2009:

   Yep. If youll notice sometimes you catch other underbelly fish in the fountain edges. sewer carp and picked clean bones, etc.

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Giant Sewer Rat

1. Detoxxfett, April 2009:

   I haven't seen or heard of this before so I thought I would post it: I caught a Giant Sewer Rat in the fountain of Dal and it gave me the achievement even thought it says to fish it up in the Underbelly. I use fishing buddy and have cast into the fountain 861 times (those coin achievements are a pain). Is this new to the patch?

2. C Rage, April 2009:

   I think you got very luck on the fountain bug.

   The fountain, has rather poor detection of fishing status. If your lure lands in the wall of it, or along the very back of it, lure no longer registers as being in the fountain at all. Instead, the server thinks it is down in the sewer.

3. SlugSalter, April 2009:

   I just got it from Cantrips & Crows. Thank gawd for that, now I can get out of this stinking sewer.

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Dalaran really 525?

1. Kemtgor, November 2008:

   Just curious if this is really the skill to avoid getaways... I'm sitting ~515, but I got all of 12 catches fishing for 10 minutes chain-casting. Even if each took 20 seconds, which it didn't, that's still 20% while only 10 skill short. Was I just having awful luck, or is it higher?

2. Jbz, November 2008:

   Yep, its 525.

   Thats pretty terrible luck.

   :D

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Update the Dalaran Fishing guide! (found "new" item)

1. Strife, May 2009:

   I fished the "Reinforced Crate" and "Crystallized Water" from the Dalaran Underbelly, which is not listed as a fishable item from the following page:

   http://www.elsanglin.com/dalaran_fishing.html

   Just wanted to let you know!

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Gold coins in the Dalaran fountain

1. Gradiago, October 2009:

   Did the drop chance change for gold coins? Or does the chance for gold coins increase once you have collected all the silver and copper ones? Last night I got the achievement in 15 min, I was missing 2 coins. Two other people got the achievement during that time. I was catching 3 or 4 gold coins every 2 minutes, this never happened before. I was used to have the "lucky" buff up only part of the time fishing there, now I was catching more gold coins than I could use!

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