http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/tags/skill Discussion about fishing in World of Warcraft. en-US Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:19:43 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/search.php http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/skill-up-change-in-43#post-10635 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:06:39 +0000 donquixote235 10635@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p><strong>El says: For a current skill-up table, see <a href="http://www.elsanglin.com/role_of_skill.html" title="Start: Fishing Skill - Introduces the concept of fishing skill, and explains how your skill will increase with successful catches.">Fishing Skill</a>.</strong> Original topic below:</p> <p>I'm currently grinding fishing on an alt, and I noticed a change in the way the game grants skill-ups now.</p> <p>Under the old method, fishing would take an average of X casts to get a skill-up, e.g. around 10 casts to get from 345 to 346. It appears that now it grants a skill-up after anywhere from 1 to X casts, e.g. to get from 345 to 346 it could still take 10, but you could get it after 5 casts or even 1 cast. And it looks like it's weighted toward less casts, rather than more.</p> <p>To give you an example, here's the past few skill-ups I've gotten:</p> <p>340-341: 2 casts<br /> 341-342: 3 casts<br /> 342-343: 2 casts<br /> 343-344: 4 casts<br /> 344-345: 3 casts<br /> 345-346: 7 casts<br /> 346-347: 5 casts<br /> 347-348: 4 casts<br /> 348-349: 2 casts<br /> 349-350: 1 cast</p> <p>Happy fishing! </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/number-of-fish-to-skill-up#post-10586 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:37:47 +0000 jjuls 10586@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Remember when the top fishing skill was 300? Yes, you would start fishing at level 1 and every single fish would skill you up. Then after a while, it was 2 or 3 fish to skill up. Finally, standing at Steamwheedle Port or wherever your favorite place was and making that final push to 300, it was 10-11 fish to skill up. But you knew you were almost done! And then you hit that wonderful 300 and yay! You were skilled up! You would never ever have to skill up fishing again!</p> <p>Oops.</p> <p>Now fishing's up to 525 and soon to be even more, and every skill still takes 10-11 fish. Sure there's a fishing quest, but that's maybe one point a day. That's a lot o' fish, especially if one has alts.</p> <p>I think they need to prorate it a bit, considering how high fishing skill goes now. I still have about 5 alts with abysmally low fishing skill (actually in the 300 range but that's abysmal now). Make the 10-11 fish stage come starting at 525 to whatever stratospheric level it's going to be in the panda expansion. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/your-fish-got-away#post-10026 Sun, 23 Jan 2011 07:05:50 +0000 dacovale 10026@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>"Your fish got away!"<br /> This little cute message made a comeback for me today when I rerolled and started fishing for the daily.</p> <p>Player lvl: 11<br /> Fishing Skill: 1<br /> Lure: none<br /> Pole: [Fishing Pole]<br /> Location: Goblin Slums, Orgrimmar<br /> Active quest: [No Dumping Allowed]</p> <p>The message is consistent and appears every time I clicked the bobber after the splash, just as it would be if I had tried to fish in a city pond prior to the shift to junk catches instead of missed fishes.</p> <p>I'm curious if anyone else sees this or if I'm missing something here.</p> <p>ah, and yes, I know it's not very efficient to fish in open waters with my skill. I wasn't really bothered by the thought of dipping the bobber a few times extra. Missed catches still doesn't give skillups though, so this bug/change/feature/whatever made my fishing impossible.</p> <p>EDIT: forgot to include <a href="http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/h425/janduin/WoWScrnShot_012311_074705-forEL.jpg">screenshot</a> </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/maximized-fishing-skill#post-3176 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:30:02 +0000 Noodleguitar 3176@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I just got my Eternium Line the last Extravaganza, which was the last thing I needed to max out my fishing skill :D. It's now, with only gear and base skill, 502. I think this is the max that can be achieved with current available gear. </p> <p>To get it I have equipped:<br /> - Arcanite Fishing Pole (+35)<br /> |<br /> ----&gt; Eternium Line (+5)<br /> - Lucky Fishing Hat (+5)<br /> - Nat Pagle's Extreme Anglin' Boots (+5)<br /> - Gloves Enchanted (+2)</p> <p>+ 450 Base Skill.</p> <p>If you count in buffs, you can get to a max of 662:<br /> - Underbelly Elixer -&gt; Tuskarr (+50)<br /> - Captain Rumsey's Lager (+10)<br /> - One of the best lures (+100) </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/33-no-trash-in-fishing-pools#post-7208 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:22:42 +0000 GormanGhaste 7208@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I haven't seen anyone mention this on this site yet, so I'll link the source:</p> <p><a href="http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=11155811788&#038;sid=1&#038;pageNo=1#0" rel="nofollow">http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=11155811788&#038;sid=1&#038;pageNo=1#0</a></p> <p>"Don't forget, in patch 3.3.0 you never catch trash from fishing pools, regardless of skill. "</p> <p>What does this mean? And why would anyone need to skill up fishing, if pool fishing was always successful? </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/barrens-fishing-skill#post-7006 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:05:59 +0000 el 7006@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I noticed that between skill 75 and 100 I was still catching some junk in the Lushwater Oasis, in <a href="http://www.elsanglin.com/fish/the_barrens.html" title="Fish Finder - The Barrens.">The Barrens</a>. The last junk catch was at skill 94. I think the skill required to fish without junk is 100.</p> <p>It was always hard to confirm these low-level skill requirements, and it's been harder since patch 3.1. I wonder if this was always different, or a recent change? And whether some of the other similar zones (currently listed at 75 skill) are slightly higher? </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/fishing-in-wotlk#post-6654 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:44:17 +0000 nonameform 6654@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Looking back at how fishing skill had serious impact on your chance to catch something, I question why Blizzard has included BoP one hour lures that grant you +100 skill (<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=46006" title="Wowhead - Glow Worm." class="nocolor">Glow Worm</a>). Sure they might be very useful for leveling your fishing, but when you're at 450 skill you might as well want to vendor them. At least I did so with some of my lures, but then I decided to save them, in case Blizzard makes them normal lures some time in the future and I will be able to sell them at AH/transfer them to my alts.</p> <p>In vanilla WoW days you had to have maximum fishing skill and had to use best fishing gear and lures available, so you could fish in Bay of Storms for money. In TBC you had to be well geared too to be able to catch fishes in Terokkar's lakes. Now in WotLK you need a maximum skill and a 75 lure to be able to catch all fishes you need for <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43015" title="Wowhead - Fish Feast." class="nocolor">Fish Feast</a>. Zones that require you to have more than 525 skill don't actually provide better fishes. How many of you actually made more than one <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43478" title="Wowhead - Gigantic Feast." class="nocolor">Gigantic Feast</a>?</p> <p>I only need to win STV Extravaganza now for my title (got as close as 39 fishes so far) and I'm wondering what I will do after that. Sure it might be fun for some people to win the contest twice for both the trinket and the pole, but I don't feel like doing it twice and making it harder for other people to get the title. Compared to the Undying title I have, Salty requires much more work and patience, as losing the contest several weeks in a row when you thought that you are about to win it, is really sad. Well, at least I can spend the rest of the contest time to fish for money and possible rare catches (got only one <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=19971" title="Wowhead - High Test Eternium Fishing Line." class="nocolor">High Test Eternium Fishing Line</a> so far, so saving it for an <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=19970" title="Wowhead - Arcanite Fishing Pole." class="nocolor">Arcanite Fishing Pole</a> I hope to win someday).</p> <p>Overall fishing in WotLK seems uninteresting. Yes, I can make money by selling Fish Feast, as I have about 1k+ <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=43007" title="Wowhead - Northern Spices." class="nocolor">Northern Spices</a> on my main char, but I want some excitement from the profession. I got all possible achievements, except for the one mentioned above and I want more. Maybe some really hard stuff like catching all those fishes, that got away. That would keep me busy for some time or catching 100k fishes, which isn't hard, but sure takes more time to get, than 1k for the title. I still have to see fishing rings and some of the rarer TBC fishing drops, such as crocs (make it an achievement too, come on), but all in all every time I think about fishing in WotLK, I get excited and then in a second I tell myself "Wait, there is nothing interesting to do actually."</p> <p>I'm not an angler, just a fisherman, a sissy by someone's standards as I didn't bother to level my fishing skill to maximum until WotLK arrived, but after that it became a way to pass time in game without mindless killing or farming reputation or whatever. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/leveling-fishing#post-5942 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:24:32 +0000 caspian 5942@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I was talking with my Dad today about leveling his fishing. He was saying he was finally going to do it because he had heard that, with the 3.1 patch, if you fish in areas that are "Fishing Skill Appropriate" you will gain skill points faster.</p> <p>So while it would be nice for him to level his fishing so I don't have to catch his Dragon Fin for him anymore I don't think what he heard is correct.</p> <p>I have not been able to find any evidence of this at all. I have been through the patch notes and forums here and on the main WoW boards with nothing close to that being stated. </p> <p>Has anyone here heard of that or, more importantly seen any evidence of it?</p> <p>I think it is likely that he is reading this statement from the patch notes and seeing what he wants to see.</p> <blockquote><p>Every catch has the potential for fishing skill gains</p></blockquote> <p>That in conjunction with the fact that every cast is a catch and the shortened timer is what will speed up leveling fishing but that where you fish has nothing to do with how fast you level. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/get-aways#post-4965 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:36:26 +0000 Talathan 4965@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I've heard that Blizz will be changing the way fishing works in 3.1. This change is supposedly going to change the calculation used to determine get aways.</p> <p>Now, I'm aware that currently it's necessary to have a skill that's 95 higher than the minimum skill required to cast in order to assure that there are no get aways.</p> <p>As I said in a previous post, I spent some time fishing in Grizzly Hills. It has a required skill of 380, and with pole and line I have 473. Granted, it's not the 475 necessary - but awful close. What surprised me was that in about 200 casts I got 18 get aways. That's just under 10%! And I was just 2 skill points away from a guaranteed ZERO.</p> <p>It's not so much that this bothered me (ok, it does... but...), it made me wonder what the current formula that Blizz uses to figure the odds of losing a fish. Does anyone know? </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/no-love-for-the-fisherman-or-fisherworman#post-92 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:49:18 +0000 Torgon 92@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>So a friend had asked me to start a new character with them, and having nothing better to do, I accepted. After the typical starting quests i found myself at lvl 12 in Ratchet with a fishing pole and some time to burn. I used some bait and quickly hit 75, few to Org and trained, flew back and got 150. Rather pleased with myself (and having a few gold from selling oily blackmouth's in the AH when i was in ORG) I hopped on the boat to Booty bay to grab my copy of "The Bass and you"...and was very sad to learn that apparently I could not read... </p> <p>Even though I could cook and bandage above 150 (both which require books to learn) and skin/mine/gather herbs above 150 at my level, I could not fish above 150. Anyone know the reasoning behind this?</p> <p>While i understand the higher the required level to fish, the more dangerous the location, this should be a risk/reward choice I should be able to make on my own. </p> <p>What's your opinion of being forced to level to increase your fishing level cap, while other "secondary" professions (and several primary ones) do not have this restriction? </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/zangarmarsh#post-778 Sun, 04 May 2008 15:42:35 +0000 Fiamma 778@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>On the info page for Zangarmarsh, it states that the skill required to cast is 305... I cast there with 300 base fishing skill, with 95 fishing worth of lures (so 395 fishing) but it can't be the lures enabling me as with this same skill I cannot fish in Terokkar Forest (Requires 355 to cast) Is the page incorrect or is there something I am not taking into account?</p> <p>- Fia </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/new-24-change-no-level-requirement-for-the-bass-and-you#post-291 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:54:47 +0000 Gummo 291@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>The latest PTR patch notes have removed the level 20 requirement to read The Bass And You to raise your maximum fishing to 225.</p> <p>PS: El, I tried to later add the tag "fishing level limits restrictions" to match the tag in an earlier thread about level 20 and The Bass And You, but using the "add tag" field truncated my tag, so it didn't match. I think the field width should be wider, it's about 30 or so right now. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/fishing-skill-req-for-great-sea#post-188 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:47:03 +0000 matty555 188@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Hi im level 12 and my fishing skill is 112 and im fishing at longshore at the moment next to the great sea and i was wondering at what skill level can i fidh there?</p> <p>Thanks. </p>