http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/tags/fishing-contest Discussion about fishing in World of Warcraft. en-US Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:51:45 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/search.php http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/new-fishing-contest#post-10669 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:38:42 +0000 el 10669@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Great find. Needless to say, I never spotted a fishing contest. Unless it refers to the <a href="http://www.elsanglin.com/fish/sea_pony.html" title="Fish Finder: Sea Pony." class="nocolor" rel="item=73953">Sea Pony</a>, which isn't really a contest, more of a challenge? Or maybe a dropped feature, like all the Darkmoon "professions recipes" in the preview? </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/new-fishing-contest#post-10665 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:52:50 +0000 GormanGhaste 10665@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Have not been able to find a mention of this here, so forgive me if it's already been discussed.</p> <p>The Darkmoon Faire Greeters have this dialogue:</p> <blockquote><p>The Darkmoon Faire is filled with all sorts of amazing attractions, we have a fortune teller, a concert, <strong>a fishing contest</strong> and a lot of games.</p></blockquote> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/stranglethorn-fishing-contest-cheating#post-7583 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:16:21 +0000 Jabberwoky 7583@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I had a discussion with a former player that tried this once. He thought for sure the GMs couldn't remove the title and could only take away the fishing pole. Two days after the win they rolled back his character to the state in which it transferred. I laughed my butt off! Yeah he quit shortly after that incident. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/stranglethorn-fishing-contest-cheating#post-7569 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:16:08 +0000 Ninkosen 7569@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p><cite>Aqua <a href="http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/stranglethorn-fishing-contest-cheating#post-7536" title="View original post.">wrote</a>:</cite></p> <blockquote><p>Thanks<br /> I am not complaining about the GM...I am complaining about the person who would cheat to win! It is just unfair :(</p></blockquote> <p>Who cares, you can kill two birds with one stone, the GM, will either get fired or will be close to, and the player will be banned, warned, for same reason...there is no way you can win in 5 minutes...But nothing proove the GM really was in play, he could have used any other cheat...when you see you can still use teleport hack, and such, the servers are so vulnerable, even after 5 years... </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/stranglethorn-fishing-contest-cheating#post-7568 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:11:55 +0000 Ninkosen 7568@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p><cite>Gummo <a href="http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/stranglethorn-fishing-contest-cheating#post-7528" title="View original post.">wrote</a>:</cite></p> <blockquote><p>Another way to cheat (I think it's been mentioned here) is to fish up 40 tastyfish, then immediately start a paid transfer to a server where the server time is hours earlier. If your transfer happens in time, you'll be on your new realm before the contest starts, with 40 fish.</p></blockquote> <p>this sounds odd to me, did you at least try, or is is just hypthetical?...you might be able to do that eventually in US, but not in EU, every single server have the same server time, en, es, russian, all.. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/stranglethorn-fishing-contest-cheating#post-7536 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:19:02 +0000 Aqua 7536@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Thanks </p> <p>I am not complaining about the GM...I am complaining about the person who would cheat to win! It is just unfair :( </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/stranglethorn-fishing-contest-cheating#post-7530 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:31:37 +0000 el 7530@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p><strong>If you have a complaint or issue with a Blizzard GM, you must take the problem to Blizzard, not here</strong>. I have no way judge what are fairly serious allegations, and there's no way for GMs to defend themselves here. For the US, you can find contacts <a href="http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=9679802928">here</a>.</p> <p>As Gummo says, transfers have been used in the past for quick wins, although some other "exploit" might have appeared. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/stranglethorn-fishing-contest-cheating#post-7528 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:56:18 +0000 Gummo 7528@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Another way to cheat (I think it's been mentioned here) is to fish up 40 tastyfish, then immediately start a paid transfer to a server where the server time is hours earlier. If your transfer happens in time, you'll be on your new realm before the contest starts, with 40 fish. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/stranglethorn-fishing-contest-cheating#post-7526 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:49:57 +0000 Aqua 7526@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I agree but how else would he win in less than 5 mins? Oh and also he was a lvl 19 twink on a PvP server so there is no possible way to get 40 fish that fast!! </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/stranglethorn-fishing-contest-cheating#post-7524 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:30:15 +0000 Shreda 7524@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>That'd need to be a pretty stupid GM to believe that, considering that tastyfish disappear within 4 hours. I'm not sure I believe that guy. He probably made it up so that you'd stop asking. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/stranglethorn-fishing-contest-cheating#post-7522 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:12:41 +0000 Aqua 7522@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Today was the day of the STV fishing contest and I was really excited and pumped up about it. I really wanted to win. So I did as many things as I could to get prepared including buying a lot of health potions, and switching my glyphs to help me escape the evil horde that killed me a few times. </p> <p>The contest just began, and about 5 minutes later, the winner was announced!! I was shocked. How could somebody win this fast. Luckily the winner was Alliance, so I deiced to whisper him. At first, he wouldn't tell me what he did to win, but after a while I gained his trust. He told me that earlier that day he contacted a GM and told him that he accidentally deleted 40 Speckled Tastyfish. The GM then gave him 40 and he handed them in right at the beginning. </p> <p>I was very disappointed with this and hopefully he didn't tell anymore people and give them ideas about cheating in this way! :( </p> <p>-Well at least I got my lucky fishing hat :) </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/my-strategy-for-winning#post-6423 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:42:36 +0000 Celwinde 6423@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I won the Tournament last week and I wanted to share with others my strategy for winning. </p> <p>First off, my husband and I both wanted to win this contest because we both wanted the "Salty" title. So we took turns competing. One Sunday, I'd fish while he ran around looking for pools, keeping the opposite faction off my back, and fishing in other peoples' pools if they were close by. The next Sunday, he'd fish while I ran around doing what he'd done the previous Sunday. </p> <p>My husband won the tournament on Mother's Day. Everyone figures he won because it was a holiday and everyone was spending time with their family, but I'm sure we still had a lot of competition. I don't think winning it on a holiday makes it any less of a feat than winning it on any other day. You still have to beat everyone that's competing back to the quest giver.</p> <p>After he won, I was able to compete in the tournament every Sunday and he'd run around scouting for pools and keeping the opposite faction off my back while I fished. Two weeks after he won, I won! It was a very busy Sunday for STV, or so it seemed since I had at least five other people fishing on Yojamba Isle with me when we normally just had one or two. This just goes to show you can fish in a busy location and still win. </p> <p>Remember that everyone else is fishing near other people, too. There are no "hidden locations" in STV for fishing in this tournament. You want to find the area that has the fewest number of people to pools that you can. Remember it's the number of people to pool that is important, not just the number of people. If you are fishing in an area with 10 people and 20 pools, that's 2 pools per competitor, and you'll be better off there than you would be in an area where three people are fishing, but only two pools spawn.</p> <p>Our chosen location every Sunday was Yojamba Isle and the beach just north of there. We had a nice circular route that we'd follow. There are usually few people fishing in this spot and little to no one from the opposite faction. We found that more often than not, people would start on Yojamba Isle, but they'd then follow the beach south to Grom'Gol Base Camp and Booty Bay rather than double back for respawned pools. So after the first 3-4 minutes, we usually had Yojamba Isle to ourselves.</p> <p>The biggest key things to our strategy was 1) having someone scout ahead for the next pool so the one competing knew right where to go next, and 2) because of our watery location, Elixirs of Water Walking! These made it much easier to get around and enabled us to reach pools north of Yojamba Isle before other people. I always brought a stack of 20 with me every Sunday, but I usually only used 2-3 of them.</p> <p>Good luck! </p>