http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/confirm-fishy-count-bug Discussion about fishing in World of Warcraft. en-US Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:02:34 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/search.php http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/confirm-fishy-count-bug#post-1794 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:56:15 +0000 Snickersnack 1794@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Hunter pets will not eat Firefin Snappers or Oily Blackmouths. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/confirm-fishy-count-bug#post-1765 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:16:42 +0000 Micha 1765@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p><cite>el <a href="http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/confirm-fishy-count-bug#post-1759" title="View original post.">wrote</a>:</cite></p> <blockquote><p>As far as I know, the "fish count" achievements only count items that a Hunter's pet would consider "fish". Broadly, anything that can be cooked. Alchemy fish, trunks, junk, and similar do not count. If you fish a lot of Azeroth's pools, it is possible to make no progress towards this achievement at all.</p></blockquote> <p>That's what I thought at first as well. Alchemy ingredients not counting as fish was the intuitive answer, and I thought I specifically checked for that possibility. Apparently, my eyes were either deceiving me or there was some kind of display lag at play, for you seem to be right now that I've checked again while fishing in a different area.</p> <p>I'm fishing for the Crushfish on Menethil Harbor (surprisingly easy to fish there as a Horde without grabbing guard aggro), and it appears that my Firefin Snapper and Oily Blackmouth do not count. I don't think the hunter pet litmus test is really a good one, though. I got into fishing to feed my kitty, myself. Hunter pets that eat fish will eat almost anything remotely fishlike. They even eat the toxic "Do Not Eat" fish from fel pools. I just tried to feed both Oily Blackmouth and Firefin Snapper to my cat, and in both cases, I got the "That food's level is not high enough for your pet." message. If it's something your pet never would have eaten, you instead get, "Your pet doesn't like that food."</p> <p>I think it's just an oversight, that they're excluding the alchemy fish because they're considered part of a different profession. Or they might be excluding inedible fish. I'm going to try this in some different areas later. I'm curious as to how it will perform with "questionable" fish of other kinds. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/confirm-fishy-count-bug#post-1759 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:12:51 +0000 el 1759@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>As far as I know, the "fish count" achievements only count items that a Hunter's pet would consider "fish". Broadly, anything that can be cooked. Alchemy fish, trunks, junk, and similar do not count. If you fish a lot of Azeroth's pools, it is possible to make no progress towards this achievement at all. </p> http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/confirm-fishy-count-bug#post-1757 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:18:09 +0000 Micha 1757@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <p>Yo. Like a ton of people here, I left the two most annoying fishing achievements for last: 1k fish and catching a rare. I'm sure most of the readers here have done both already several times over, so we're just looking for a quick way to get it out of the way.</p> <p>Anyway, the achievement interface lets you monitor progress on achievements. I turned it on for my fish count, since I was noticing it was going a bit slow. Lo and behold, I'm getting around half of my fish counted. I thought it might be that alchemy reagent fish weren't get counted, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It's just indiscriminately ignoring half of what I pull up, and all fish seem to be affected.</p> <p>Is it just me or is anybody else getting this?</p> <p>Oh, and I'm not experiencing any particular lag on my realm at the moment. </p>