http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/tags/wrath-of-the-lich-king Discussion about fishing in World of Warcraft. en-US Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:34:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/search.php http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/wotlk-fishing-and-achievements#post-1136 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:47:37 +0000 Itty 1136@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>As mentioned on the "Achievements" page here at El's Anglin, several (seventeen, to be exact) fishing-related achievements are so far planned for Wrath of the Lich King. Many are not yet finished but will be fleshed out as Beta unfolds.</p> <p>I was fortunate enough to be invited to Beta recently and, like any good (obsessed) angler, one of my first acts was to try fishing. Sadly, there are no new "fishable" fish yet in the game. There is a "northern barb fish", which is the objective of a two-part quest where the first part involves literally banging on stuff that looks like seaweed until one of three things pops out: an undead spy, a crab, or the barbed fish. You then get pulled into combat with whatever popped out. It's reminiscent of the Terokkar "Taken in the Night" quest where you have to free people from spider cocoons. In other words, not very fun. It took me a while to do the two-part series and there wasn't even a fun item reward. It was just around 4 or 5 gold per stage.</p> <p>As also indicated here on El's Anglin', there's also a Northern Salmon quest fish, but I haven't done that quest yet.</p> <p>Going back to achievements, some of the most interesting achievements tie into Burning Crusade. There are two Mr. Pinchy achievements: one for getting his pet, the other for fishing him (or one of thirteen other rare fish). Oddly, the "Mr. Pinchy's Magical Crawdad Box" achievement does not automatically light up the "The Deadliest Catch" achievement, although you obviously need to catch Mr. Pinchy to get his box. I submitted a "bug" suggestion regarding this.</p> <p>There is also an achievement relating to the Old Man Barlo fishing quests. If you've done all five of them, this achievement lights up. This achievement was lit up for me immediately upon entering Beta without having to do them all again.</p> <p>The most interest achivement of all, though, is connected to the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza. There is a "Master Angler of Stranglethorn" achievement but, frustratingly, it does not currently check to see if you've already won the tournament. It did not light up for me, despite me having in my possession and using both of the rewards available from the tournament. There are other achievements in the game that check for possessed items, though. For example, I got a "Feat of Strength" achievement because I have a really old, no longer available, epic mount in my bank. If the game can look for such an item, it can clearly look for others like bind-on-pickup tournament victory items. Hopefully, this will be fixed as Beta progresses. I submitted a suggestion on this, too.</p> <p>That's about all there is to report on fishing in WotLK so far. I haven't even found a Grand Master fishing trainer yet, and I don't expect to see one soon. As we all know, fishing is never near the top of the developers' to-do lists, so it will likely be a while before fishing pools and new fish make it into Beta.</p> <p>As they do, though, I'll keep you updated.</p> <p>Happy fishing!<br /> Itty, Stormreaver </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/epic-fishing-pole#post-1402 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:50:09 +0000 Melchizedek 1402@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Firstly i want to say hi, this is my first time posting, although i've been a frequent visiter for some time, especially recently with all the WotLK info coming out.</p> <p>I;'ve just visited MMO-Champion and found soemthing of interest for my fellow fishers, it seems that the Kalu'ak faction has a an epic fishing pole as a reputation award for exhalted the link to it is here<br /> <a href="http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/september/8962/tk_4_01.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/september/8962/tk_4_01.jpg</a></p> <p>Keep up the good work. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/stock-up-on-a-few-fish-for-wotlk#post-1682 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:07:04 +0000 Gummo 1682@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>If you don't need to use/sell all the fish you catch, save some <a href="/fish/?s=Huge Spotted Feltail" title="Fish Finder - Huge Spotted Feltail.">Huge Spotted Feltail</a>,<a href="/fish/?s=Enormous Barbed Gill Trout" title="Fish Finder - Enormous Barbed Gill Trout.">Enormous Barbed Gill Trout</a>, or (best) <a href="/fish/?s=Furious Crawdad" title="Fish Finder - Furious Crawdad.">Furious Crawdad</a> for Wrath cooking, as the first two fish recipes go gray at 385 and crawdad at 390. You can get your cooking up a few points right off the bat. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/wotlk-fishing-is-in#post-1222 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:41:12 +0000 Thalen 1222@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Very preliminary, but I discovered today that you can fish in the sewers in Dalaran, first place I've seen in there that didn't tell me there were no fish there.</p> <p>I've seen 3 fish so far (pygmy suckerfish, glassfin minnow, and bonescale snapper). They're all white text, so you can't eat these for health or anything, but they're probably cookable at some point.</p> <p>Looks like my leveling is on hold, I'm off to find more!</p> <p>(got quite a few 'fish got away' wearing just my arc pole and the hat/boots, but with the hat lure applied, I was getting pretty much 0 misses, and the fish were coming up 2 at a time). </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-you-would-like-to-see-for-fishing-in-wotlk#post-888 Thu, 15 May 2008 13:30:29 +0000 Tythor 888@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>I would like to see a chance of pulling out a epic weapon thats fishing only obtained relevant to your character IE: for my pally it would be an epic 2h Frozen Tuna or say for a caster it would be a Staff that looks like a Stone scale Eel or hunters Lightening eel Arrows lol (ok that ones a little farfetched) </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/wolk-speculation#post-776 Sun, 04 May 2008 08:41:25 +0000 Zhivago 776@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>So, fellow anglers, time to speculate on WoLK fishing stuff. As I am totally freaked by the benefits of fishing, I can't wait for the expansion.</p> <p>1) The 3 Ring -- you know we want it, you know it will drop.</p> <p>2) Spell Inscription -- squid ink, pearls, and maybe some Incriptions themselves for our fishing equipment (like casting speed increase - more fish, more faster).</p> <p>3) Pets -- I don't have Mr. Pinchy (yet!!!), but maybe his brother, or wierd uncle, Mr. Pinchy Pants.</p> <p>4) I know guild or player housing has oft been discussed and tabled, but if it ever comes out, I want to be able to make Fishing Trophies and hang them on my walls.</p> <p>5) Fishing Boats -- forget those Elixirs of Water Walking. I wanna get in my boat, row out to my favorite spot, down a couple of Captain Rumsey's Lagers, and fish the sfternoon way.</p> <p>That's all I have for know. Put on those fishing caps and think of some more fun. </p>