El's Extreme Anglin' - World of Warcraft Fishing Guide // Fish Finder // Isle of Quel'Danas

This pages summarises the fish that can be caught in Isle of Quel'Danas.

Isle of Quel'Danas

Notes: Also known as Sunwell Isle. The isle is intended for those who have reached level 70.

Commentary: I really don't understand why this Isle is called "Sunwell": It rains continually! To fly to the island you will need to have reached level 70, at which point flight points can be found in Silvermoon City (Horde) and Ironforge (Alliance).

Skill Required: 355 to cast, 450 to stop fish getting away.

History: 2.4: Isle of Quel'Danas opened.

The catch rate is the approximate proportion of all catches from the water/pool type that are the named fish.

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Comments

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Topic: Just a note for the faq

1. By moongleam, on 04 April 2008:

   Sunwell island is fishable by characters lower than level 70 if they are summoned there by a warlock. There are a number of agressive enemys running around tho, so I suggest staying on the boat if you do go over at an earlier level.

   You may want to adjust the 2.4 faq with this note if you get a chance.

   -Moon

2. By Petre, on 04 April 2008:

   Aren't all areas fishable by under 70 characters as long as they have the required skill? I think that El has the minimum skill to fish there at 355.

3. By el, on 05 April 2008:

   Yes. The issue was getting a character under level 70 to the isle. Blizzard went to a lot of effort to stop lower level characters flying/swimming in. I've updated the text, thanks.

   Personally my experiences are from PvP realms... where standing on the boat fishing reduces life expectancy to seconds. Thus far the only "quiet" spot I have found is at the bottom of the cliffs, east on Magister's Terrace.

4. By Petre, on 06 April 2008:

   Aye, and even that will become difficult once the Phase 2 and especially 3 quests open up where you have to kill the naga near that area.

5. By Oberweiss, on 07 April 2008:

   Personally my experiences are from PvP realms... where standing on the boat fishing reduces life expectancy to seconds. Thus far the only "quiet" spot I have found is at the bottom of the cliffs, east on Magister's Terrace.

   I'm on a PVP server, too. I did some fishing on the new island yesterday, and I recommend fishing next to the flight path. On my server at least, people are less likely to try to gank you if they'll immediately take a durability death from level 70 elite NPCs.

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Topic: 2.4.2 Changes

1. By el, on 23 April 2008:

   I thought Isle of Quel'Danas' fishing was worthless already, but the latest 2.4.2 Public Test Realm has nerfed the catches even further. Based on a sample of 347:

   • 77% Giant Sunfish
   • 15% Jaggal Clams
   • 7% Bloated Giant Sunfish

   Bloated Giant Sunfish now contain 1-4 Lightning Eel, 1-2 Luminous Bluetail, 3-5 Seaweed, "Mostly Digested Fish" (grey fish-bones), plus odd herb, ore and scroll as before (but less commonly, because of the new drops).

   This means Luminous Bluetail are no longer caught directly by fishing - they can only be found within Bloated Giant Sunfish. However, Luminous Bluetail now share cooldown with 'lock healthstones (and I guess everything else on that timer) and not mana/healing potions.

   I wonder if there is anything else lurking in the patch?

2. By Calabar, on 24 April 2008:

   There seem to be some odd changes in this patch, many of which could be considered nerfs. It makes me wonder what the powers that be at Blizzard are intending by it. Maybe if they nerf things bad enough they can “fix” them in the expansion and make it all the more popular. *shrugs* I don’t know what’s up. Unlike most patch notes these have left me scratching my head. So I can’t say I’m all that surprised fishing is getting whacked by the nerf bat as well.

3. By Petre, on 24 April 2008:

   If you remember back to the pre-BC mini patches they did mess with things. I think Blizzard uses this time between expansions to experiment with mechanics that they might be implementing in the next expansion. Most of the really odd mechanics will probably not make it into the live patch, but instead into the expansion. I would be surprised if some of the changes make it in.

4. By Oberweiss, on 24 April 2008:

   Thank you for the update.

   I wonder if this means they'll come out with a recipe to cook the Luminous Bluetail into something more useful. I'll probably do some stocking up now, since they seem to be easier to catch pre-2.4.2.

5. By Lilyana, on 26 April 2008:

   I may be wrong... but I have been fishing outside ZA all day (where I previously have been able to fish up Lightning Eels, Crescent-Tail Skullfish, Barbed Gill Trout, and Bloodfin Catfish) but have only managed to lure in Raw Bristlewhisker Catfish and Raw Longjaw Mudsnappers. Perhaps they changed the catches avaliable in this area? It's either that or I am having really bad luck =P Hope someone else has time to confirm this.

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Topic: Isle of Quel'Danas

1. By mattaio, on 26 April 2008:

   I spent 20 minutes this morning (8 am server time) fishing off the main dock at Isle of Quel'Danas. Could not find any pools, so I thought this was good a spot as any.

   Totaled skill at 500.
   18 - Giant Sunfish
   13 - Jaggal Clam = 13 clam meat
   8 - Seaweed
   8 - Luminous Bluetail
   8 - Lightening Eel
   6 - Mote of Water
   3 - Bloated giant sunfish = 4 darkclaw lobster, 3 terocone

   All in all not bad. I'm going to try the same spot later in the afternoon time frame to see if I have a higher eel count.

2. By Petre, on 27 April 2008:

   Lightning Eel... interesting.

   Why are Terocone dropping in Azeroth?

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