http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/tags/cross-faction-fishing Discussion about fishing in World of Warcraft. en-US Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:30:07 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/search.php http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/old-ironjaw-the-fishing-diplomat-and-the-horde#post-2016 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:03:53 +0000 donquixote235 2016@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Yesterday I found myself near Elwynn Forest, so I thought it would be a good time to pick up the Stormwind half of the Fishing Diplomat achievement.</p> <p>I've found that ever since they changed the entry guards to be lvl 75 rather than 65, sneaking in through the front door is a no-no; even with +stealth trinkets working overtime, they see right through it. My Vanish only has about a 50% chance of getting them off my back. Instead I've discovered that the best way to get into Stormwind is to come the back way through the new harbor around back. You can swim there from the Westfall/Elwynn border, and the guards are all lvl 65. Keep in mind that fishing from Stormwind Harbor does NOT count toward your Fishing Diplomat achievement; you have to apparently fish from inside the city walls for the achievement to take.</p> <p>I was able to stealth to the canals without much problem and grab my single catch. Since I was already in SW and the Deeprun Tram was not that far from me, I figured I'd take my chances at Old Ironjaw.</p> <p>Stealthing to the tram was not a problem; I think there was a single guard I had to avoid on the way. Once I got into the tram I opted to run the rails rather than take the tram, as I was still flagged and I didn't want to draw unnecessary attention to myself.</p> <p>I came out at Ironforge in Tinkertown, which is very close to the Forelorn Cavern. This was indeed much better than coming through the front door! This way I'd have to deal with at most 5 lvl 75 guards rather than the score or so that I'd have to deal with from the front entry. However 5 guards was about 5 more than I wanted to deal with!</p> <p>I mounted up and started to make a mad dash toward the cavern. Sure enough, the first pair of guards aggroed me. I then rode straight into the middle of the second pair, and picked up their aggro as well. I was almost to the cavern when they dismounted me, so I dropped a Vanish and prayed. I got the message "Leaving Combat" and breathed a sigh of relief.</p> <p>About one second later I encountered the fifth guard, whom I had not counted on. This guard pats the wall directly across from the cavern entrance. If I'd stuck to the south wall there's a very good chance I could have avoided him. I knew I was going to die but I figured I'd at least do it in a good position. So I ran for the water and managed to swim about halfway across the pool before I got killed.</p> <p>After that, it was easy. I did the necessary corpse-run, edged myself against the south wall, did a /sleep command to bring a low profile, and started fishing.</p> <p>At first I had the place entirely to myself. After a couple of minutes a Human Paladin showed up and I started to get worried; I really didn't want to fight anybody, I just wanted a nice pacifist fishing trip. After a few seconds he waved at me and proceeded to fish by my side. Awesome.</p> <p>Every couple of minutes another Alliance character would ride by the pool. Most didn't even see me, but some would stop and look at me for a few seconds and then ride on. I only had one character try to pick on me, a Draenei Shaman. My solution to this was to Vanish and then move to another spot. He tried to locate me again but with no luck, and eventually went away. I then unstealthed and proceeded to start fishing again, and the two people who'd showed up there to fish cheered as I reappeared. What a great thing: cameradery between the factions, and all because of fishing!</p> <p>Finally (after about 150-200 throws) I got my prize - Old Ironjaw. The two other fishermen cheered me again, I took a bow, and I hearthed the heck out of there.</p> <p>In a nutshell, it's very possible and not that hard, as long as you come in through the back door at Stormwind and take the Deeprun Tram. Most people will ignore you (at least they did me) as long as you stick to fishing and don't try to fight anybody. If you are attacked it may even be best to take the blows and not fight back so that when you return the people who witnessed the battle know that you're not interested in fighting, just fishing. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/achievments-after-403a#post-9440 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:03:47 +0000 Babyface 9440@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Hello,<br /> I went to SW yesterday to do the Fishing Diplomat achievment. Even that I'm a rogue the guards killed me 2-3 times, because they are 85lvl and can see me pretty easy in stealth. My questions:<br /> 1) How to catch Old Ironjaw in Ironforge now? SW is easy, because the fishable water is just behind the gates, but the water in IF is far deep inside.<br /> 2) Anyone checked STV for the Tastyfish pools? I'm still not and I wanna try the Extravaganza contest this weekend.<br /> PS. "Old Man Barlowned" is pain now without portals :( atleast thanks to my <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/item=30542" title="Wowhead - Dimensional Ripper - Area 52." class="nocolor">Dimensional Ripper - Area 52</a> and that now I need only one of these quests(I caught the magical crawdad and 2 crocolisks).<br /> Regards! </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/wratgate-and-fate-up-against-your-will#post-2831 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:57:08 +0000 Kahless 2831@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I saw a hint about this mentioned somewhere but I thought I'd start a thread on it here.</p> <p>So I finished the Wrathgate quest line in Dragonblight today and I'm doing the followup quest "Fate, Up Against Your Will"<br /> This quest sends you to Orgrimmar on a diplomatic mission to speak with Warchief Thrall.</p> <p>At first I though I was instanced since there are Guards but they don't attack and there are no other NPCs or players.<br /> Turns out it's the real Orgrimmar, just "filtered" using some new mechanic that Blizz has added to the game.<br /> Other players can't see you and you can't see them unless they are on the same quest.<br /> NPCs that you can see are altered by the quest.</p> <p>The upside is you can fish in Orgrammar as long as you like without guards or players attacking you.<br /> I will not turn in this quest until I have caught Old Crafty.<br /> With a little luck I may catch the really big catfish while I'm at it. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/easiest-way-for-horde-to-get-old-ironjaw-undesturbed#post-2528 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:49:25 +0000 Gandonar 2528@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Having tried for Old Ironjaw a few times in Forlorn Cavern, but being ganked constantly,<br /> I remembered that Old Ironjaw can be fished in the lava too.</p> <p>So I rode in into the great forge, and dropped down into the lava, knowing i would die.<br /> However there is a hidden ledge between the wall and the rotating wheel, which is easy to find as a ghost. (from memory the coords are (50.4, 47.9 or 50.4, 49.7)<br /> basically when you swim underneath the wheel, you get stuck. thats how you know your at the ledge. now simply jump up on is as ghost, and come back to live.</p> <p>You need to set your camera distance to max. Look at your toon, directly from above, and then tilt you camera, so that the wheel is on you left side, and you can only see lava in your buttom right corner. that way you can just see you lure.</p> <p>Allies has to be lucky to see you, or know your there. but more importantly the 2 housr i spend there i got spotted twice, and both times the ally died trying to kill me, as they fell in the lava. </p> <p>I will try to add some screen shots, to this post</p> <p>Happy Fishing<br /> Gand </p>