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

This pages summarises the fish that can be caught in Molten Core.

Molten Core

• History: 3.1: First catch reported.

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• 3.1 Changes - Patch 3.1's changes to fishing, including new fishing poles and Wintergrasp.

Comments about Molten Core

Below are readers' comments about "Molten Core":

Scholomance

1. Moth, December 2010:

   Just tried to fish for Bloated Salmon but it seems that something changed in the zone, since I only could get the usual Western Plaguelands catch (Raw Mithril Head Trout, etc.) in the water around scholomance. Could it be that the zone Scholomance doesn't exist anymore in fishing terms?

2. el, December 2010:

   The entry for Scholomance refers to water inside the dungeon itself. Pre-Cataclysm there was a small area of water around one of the bosses that could be fished (I forget which, probably one of the final bosses). This dungeon (along with Stratholme and Molten Core) hasn't been re-checked yet, but all the other dungeons I checked had no changes to their fish catch, even where the waters around the outside of dungeon had changed. If anyone wants to check these unchecked locations, it would be appreciated.

3. Ashnagarr, December 2010:

   Yeah, its still possible after patch 4.0.3a to fish in the rooms of two bosses (end of the instance, go down the stairs and head right to the "Ravenier"-room or go straigt to the room of one of the Barovs, there are pools of water in both rooms where you can fish in).

   However, it seems that the "Plated Armorfish" can't be catched there anymore (or I just had really bad luck).

   I catched the following today while trying to get the "Plated Armorfish":
   26x Raw Redgill
   1x 18 Pound Salmon
   3x Major Healing Potion
   12x Lightning Eel
   77x Raw Whitescale Salmon
   63x Raw Sunscale Salmon

   172 catches and no Plated Armorfish, although its chance is somewhere between 5% and 35%

1. Druidmoon, December 2010:

   Ashnagarr wrote:

   However, it seems that the "Plated Armorfish" can't be catched there anymore (or I just had really bad luck).
   I catched the following today while trying to get the "Plated Armorfish":
   26x Raw Redgill
   1x 18 Pound Salmon
   3x Major Healing Potion
   12x Lightning Eel
   77x Raw Whitescale Salmon
   63x Raw Sunscale Salmon
   172 catches and no Plated Armorfish, although its chance is somewhere between 5% and 35%

   What time were you fishing just to be sure?

   Highest catch rate 00:00-06:00. Rarely caught 12:00-18:00.

2. Druidmoon, December 2010:

   el wrote:

   This dungeon (along with Stratholme and Molten Core) hasn't been re-checked yet, but all the other dungeons I checked had no changes to their fish catch, even where the waters around the outside of dungeon had changed. If anyone wants to check these unchecked locations, it would be appreciated.

   Went to check this evening;

   Location: The Molten Core
   Type: Lava
   Fishing Skill: 485
   Total Casts: 200

   Old Skull (junk) 121 - 60.5%
   Coal 74 - 37.0%
   Essence of Fire 5 - 2.5%

   So no change here. Off to check Stratholme.

3. el, December 2010:

   Thanks for all the checks and data.

   I'm surprised about the Plated Armorfish. When I last looked at this there was a small (~5%) chance of a catch between 12:00-18:00. However that was a few years ago - nobody was bothered about catching the fish until just recently - so it might have changed, or you may have been unlucky. You should have no trouble catching it at other times.

4. Druidmoon, December 2010:

   Location: Stratholme - The Gauntlet, Ziggurat of Baroness Anastari
   Type: Green Pool
   Fishing Skill: 493
   Total Casts: 225
   Server Time: 22:00 - 23:15

   90 Whitescale Salmon - 40.0%
   32 Ligntning Eel - 14.2%
   32 Nightfin Snapper - 14.2%
   31 Plated Armorfish - 13.8%
   27 Sunscale Salmon - 12.0%
   8 Redgill - 3.6%
   3 Superior Mana Potion - 1.3%
   2 Major Healing Potion - 0.9%

   Much as expected.

5. Druidmoon, December 2010:

   Location: Dire Maul - Warpwood Quarter, Hydraspawn Pool
   Type: Hydraspawn Pool
   Fishing Skill: 485
   Server Time: 23:15 - 00:00
   Total Casts: 100

   44 Whitescale Salmon - 44.0%
   16 Sunscale Salmon - 16.0%
   15 Nightfin Snapper - 15.0%
   13 Plated Armorfish - 13.0%
   6 Redgill - 6.0%
   5 Ligntning Eel - 5.0%
   1 Superior Mana Potion - 1.0%

   Did not see any other data for Dire Maul to compare. Same catches as Stratholme/ Scholomance.

6. Druidmoon, December 2010:

   Location: Scholomance - Vault of the Ravenian
   Type: Pool of water
   Fishing Skill: 493
   Server Time: 23:15 - 01:10
   Total Casts: 326

   121 Whitescale Salmon - 37.1%
   92 Nightfin Snapper - 28.2%
   83 Plated Armorfish - 25.5%
   21 Redgill - 6.4%
   5 Ligntning Eel - 1.5%
   2 Sunscale Salmon - 0.6%
   1 Elegant Circlet of the Owl 0.3%
   1 15 Pound Salmon 0.3%

   Notes: Caught 7 Plated Armorfish before 00:00.

7. el, December 2010:

   Great work Moonraker. I wonder when fish started appearing in Dire Maul?

8. Druidmoon, December 2010:

   el wrote:

   Great work Moonraker. I wonder when fish started appearing in Dire Maul?

   No idea I'm afraid. I was visiting the new sub-zone of The Steam Pools and decided to just pop in and try the pool as I was passing. No sure what other fishable parts there may be.

   As a word of advice the Crescent Key is no longer in your key bag but the Dire Maul East back door still requires it. In fact you can get out using the torch on the wall (not obvious) and you can't enter in that way as it requires the key , which you don't have and I killed Pusillin twice to try and get it. It was in loot window but did not go to key bag. I think it is either removed for some reason or a bug. Just a pain.

9. plinky, May 2011:

   You can still catch the Plated Armorfish in Scholomance in the Barov Family Crypt at the end of the instance. I guess I was lucky because I hooked it in less than 10 casts.

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Lava outside BRD, Burning Steppes

1. Arthonias, April 2009:

   A friend of mine just fished up Essence of Fire, I've never heard of this. Just wanted to share it. :)

2. el, April 2009:

   Thanks. The lava in the Burning Steppes mostly contains Old Skull and Coal - just like Fire Plume Ridge in Un'Goro Crater. It is possible Essence of Fire is a rare catch [update] just caught it. I suspect this is a recent change. Perhaps other areas are fishable now to? [update] Blackrock Mountain's lava is fishable (same catches). Change may be related to removing fish from the forge in Ironforge.

3. Gummo, April 2009:

   Noor noticed the new(ish) trinket High-powered Flashlight and decided to make one (just so she can make a free Elune spotlight once an hour) and decided to fish up the 6 essence of fire needed behind Blackrock Stronghold. Here's the catch:

   109 Old Skulls
   47 Coal
   6 Essence of FIre

1. el, April 2009:

   I noticed Wowhead lists Essence of Fire as fishable in The Obsidian Sanctum - which almost makes sense. Perhaps this means dungeons like Molten Core are now fishable to? Although, I tried the Maw of Neltharion (in Dragonblight) and while the lava there is fishable, it contains regular Dragonblight inland open-water catches. Bonescale Snapper are evidently rather resilient!

2. Gummo, April 2009:

   Blackrock Depths lava is not fishable (at least the area near the Black Forge), I get the "no fish here" message and can't even cast.

   However, Molten Core lava is fishable, and is the same as Burning Steppes:
   29 old skulls
   18 coal
   1 essence of fire

   pic here

3. Moth, December 2010:

   Just was in the cave on east side of Dreadmaul Rock to try for Bloated Salmon but caught only skulls, coal and essence of fire from the waters inside.

4. el, December 2010:

   Good find, Moth. The cave has been renamed to "The Skull Warren", and in spite of containing water, the catch is the same as lava.

5. Marlburo, August 2011:

   Just noticed that you didnt have The Great Divide (On the border of North/South Barrens) as a fishable open lava spot.....just fished a few minutes but pretty much the same old skull/coal as everywhere else

6. achaput, January 2013:

   I spent a while fishing in the Skull Warrens, and this is what I caught:
   74 Old Skull
   40 Coal
   3 Essence of Fire
   2 Raw Whitescale Salmon
   1 Raw Redgill
   1 Raw Nightfin Snapper

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Molten Core Fishing

1. Lilyana, October 2010:

   There's no info posted on the Fishing Locations page about Molten Core fishing. I wasn't sure if this was due to the lack of fish in the lava (all I've caught so far is Coal, Essences of Fire and "Old Skull"s) or for some other reason, but I feel it would be better for the information about lava fishing to be presented there too if possible.
   ~Lilyana of Lightninghoof

2. el, October 2010:

   Thanks. It looks like it's not listed outside of the Fish Finder, because the no-junk skill isn't known. I shall fix it in due course... [Should now be fixed.]

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