http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/tags/horde Discussion about fishing in World of Warcraft. en-US Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:27:03 +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/quickest-way-for-horde-to-get-to-stormwind#post-4072 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:37:49 +0000 Gorih 4072@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Not mentioned in the Cross-faction pages are a great way to reach Stormwind. All it takes is a fast mount and a shaman(since shamans have the water-walking ability) or a water-walking potion.</p> <p>Fly to Zoram'gar outpost (that's in Ashenvale, Kalimdor). Once there, travel north along the beach and when you reach the end of the beach, apply the water-walking potion and hop on that mount and ride further north on the water (alternatively, apply the potion when you land and travel north out in the water from the beginning). When you come to Auberdine (Alliance territory), swing out so that you are waiting for the Stormwind boat. Thats the southern one, the only boat w/ guards on it. Position yourself a good bit ahead of the boat and when it starts to take of, run ahead of it so that you will reach its teleportation point at the same time as the boat does. This will let you go along for the ride, and voila: You are outside of Stormwind Harbour. Since I've only done this once, I don't have the coordinates for the teleportation point yet, but I'll try to get them the next time I make a fishing trip to Stormwind. </p>