http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/tags/308-1 Discussion about fishing in World of Warcraft. en-US Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:54:45 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/search.php http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/308-changes-to-fishing-daily-quests#post-4765 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:22:49 +0000 Ceraina 4765@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>The crafty bug has been fixed. I did the achievement the "old-fashioned way" on my main, but really didn't want to spend another 400+ casts for an alt. I did the Wrath Gate achievement in Dragonblight, got the follow-up that phases you to non-hostile in Ogrimmar, took the portal, and headed to the pools in the valley to fish. (Alliance if you hadn't already guessed). I had the crocs in the city daily, tried the "bug" option, and it obviously didn't work. I had a total of 377 casts for him and twice ignored the croc catch for the daily within the first 50 or so catches. I finally accepted the croc on the third fish-up and still took nearly 300 more casts to get Crafty. Happy it's done. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/308-changes-to-fishing-daily-quests#post-4456 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:34:45 +0000 Pilwei 4456@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I caught Old Crafty twice this week. These were my first two catches of the shark-like swimmer. On 2/16/09 and 2/19/09. In both cases I was on Old Man Barlo's Daily quest of "Crocolisks in the Sewers" and had decided to keep fishing after catching the Baby Crocolisk to raise my fishing skill. I had raised my skill 2-3 points and bang there was the Crafty one. Same situation on the second day. </p> <p>Picture of the two Old Crafty's in my Bank at: <a href="http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&#38;friendID=182010917&#38;albumID=1874347&#38;imageID=30851884">Screen Shot of Pilwei Bank with 2 Old Craftys</a> </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/308-changes-to-fishing-daily-quests#post-4274 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:23:15 +0000 woxingma 4274@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Sounds like they've reverted the dailies to back what they used to be. I remember when all of teh sudden the quest drops were first cast and getting really excited, then I realized after a couple of days something had changed...... </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/308-changes-to-fishing-daily-quests#post-4102 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:37:11 +0000 Talathan 4102@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I did the Shrimping Ain't Easy today, and I got a bloated on ALMOST every cast. Seven casts and the quest was done. Four bloated had 2 a piece, two bloated had 1 each... and the seventh cast that wasn't a bloated (not in that order, of course). </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/308-changes-to-fishing-daily-quests#post-4075 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:07:44 +0000 Al 4075@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I ,luckily, got the hat during the previous patch. But, since 3.0.8, the dailies take a lot longer. I used to get the baby crockolisk on first cast in the mage pool at IF every time. Last try, however, I had numerous casts in IF with no luck and finally went off to Stormwind (where the quest actually says to go, LOL!) and got one there on the second cast. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/308-changes-to-fishing-daily-quests#post-4065 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:57:49 +0000 Norrinir 4065@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I can confirm One that got away and Bait bandits. Both required more casts than one.</p> <p>Technically, it's just a bug fix, but we got pretty much used to it. I miss it already, fishing dailies drive me mad, 5 months of trying and still no hat and I doubt this will help it. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/no-frill-catches-since-308#post-4064 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:38:20 +0000 Azaguth 4064@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>5k casts in Elwynn forest:</p> <p>0x 15 pound mud snapper<br /> 15x 12 pound mud snapper<br /> 29x 10 pound mud snapper<br /> 22x minor mana potion<br /> 21x minor health potion<br /> 6x random BOE greens<br /> 8x random unbound white items<br /> 4x grey shield type items<br /> boat loads of mud snappers and raw brilliant smallfish (smallfish outnumbered snappers about 2:1)</p> <p>15 pound mud snappers are supposed to be about 1:2k casts, I went 5k before I gave up.<br /> The following Sunday I won STV and got the Rockhide Strongfish within an hour of each other for the salty title.</p> <p>Long story short, this one will happen when it happens, it's a tough one to force (this is after 2200 casts for crafty out of 1/1000 odds, 1200 for ironjaw out of 1/1000 odds [during which time I caught the 1 ring], and over 4k casts for coin master).</p> <p>The only two that I was really lucky in were Mr Pinchy (caught him after only 11 casts in highland schools, then got the pet on the first try) and the giant sewer rat (only about 670 casts, 1/1000 odds). </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/308-changes-to-fishing-daily-quests#post-4058 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:25:30 +0000 rakoth 4058@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I did Shrimpin' Ain't Easy today and, as it was prior to the patch, I do NOT get Bloated Barbed Gill Trout with every catch.</p> <p>The dailies are now as they should be IMHO. Getting the quest item on the first cast was just silly.</p> <p>As for the Old Crafty bug, I'm hoping it's fixed. The quest is intended to be hard (and I say that without having caught Old Crafty or Ironjaw). </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/308-changes-to-fishing-daily-quests#post-4046 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:15:56 +0000 Kelemeth 4046@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>[Crocolisks in the city] has changed a bit in 3.0.8, and could annoy many.</p> <p>First off, as with the other fishing dailies, it takes multiple casts to reel in the quest fish. It took me 12 casts to get my Baby croc. I was fishing in Orgrimmar for Old crafty since I heard his drop rate increases to an almost guarentee. However, in those 12 casts. Old crafty did not appear once. It seems Blizzard have fixed this "bug" so having the quest will no longer drop Old crafty at an increased rate. This means, as far as I can see, people will have to go back to grinding for the Elusive fish of The Capital cities.</p> <p>The [Shrimpin' Ain't Easy] quest, against my first impression, does not drop on every catch now. It will use the drop rate of Barbed Gill Trout as it replaces that fish on the catch table.</p> <p>The [Felblood Fillet] quest now requires multiple casts. Caught one in 15 casts.</p> <p>The [Bait Bandits] quest also requires multiple casts. Caught on in 7 casts (Confirmed by "Salty" Norrinir)</p> <p>The quest [The one that got away] requires multiple casts. (Posted by Norrinir)</p> <p>Seems the only quest really effected is [crocolisks in the city] in relation to Old crafty. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/no-frill-catches-since-308#post-4045 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:17:32 +0000 Pokeit 4045@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Well I just picked up my 15 Pound Mud Snapper!</p> <p>2700+ for Ironjaw<br /> 470+ for Crafty (till I learned of the Crock bug)<br /> 600+ for 15 lb (50% of that was going for Dark Herring) </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/no-frill-catches-since-308#post-4028 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:03:09 +0000 GormanGhaste 4028@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I was at Wellspring Lake in Teldrassil last night, and with 113 catches, I had 2 mana potions and one 10 pounder. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/no-frill-catches-since-308#post-4024 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:51:05 +0000 Pokeit 4024@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I spent about an hour in Shadowglen fishing for the last component of my title (and here I thought that STV Tourney would be the prob... easy 2 tries).</p> <p>With over 230 casts I caught nothing only raw brilliant smallfish and raw longjaw mud snapper with 1 exception of one (1) minor mana potion. Normally every 60 or so casts I see some sort of frill such as 10 and 12 lb off hand frill fish. In fact just prior to the patch I had about 400 casts with 2x 12 lbs, 4x10 lbs, and 1 of each potion type.</p> <p>Do you think now a bad time to work on the one that didn't get away?</p> <p>(Also, I swear some accounts have luck modifiers based on RNG + account ID or something.)</p> <p>[Edit]<br /> Ok, well I made 2 more casts just after posting this and finally caught a 12lb mud snapper.<br /> But I still feel that the drop rate is down a good bit. </p>