El's Extreme Anglin' - WoW Fishing Guide » Topic: What Counts as a Fish?

El's Extreme Anglin' - WoW Fishing Guide » Topic: What Counts as a Fish? http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-counts-as-a-fish Discussion about fishing in World of Warcraft. en-US Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:31:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/search.php Axal on "What Counts as a Fish?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-counts-as-a-fish#post-1957 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:33:23 +0000 Axal 1957@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Tigole - Is there anything he can't do ? Anozireth on "What Counts as a Fish?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-counts-as-a-fish#post-1936 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:14:17 +0000 Anozireth 1936@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <cite>Tigole <a href="http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-counts-as-a-fish#post-1929" title="View original post.">wrote</a>:</cite> <blockquote><cite>el <a href="http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-counts-as-a-fish#post-1813" title="View original post.">wrote</a>:</cite> <blockquote>The <a href="http://www.elsanglin.com/achievements.html">fishing archievements</a> require catching a certain number of fish. Unfortunately, not everything you catch is counted as "a fish": The achievement does not count "other items". It is becoming clear that some things we thought were fish are not fish. I think it would be helpful if we could gather information about what is counted as a fish, and what is not. So if you watch your catches carefully, please use this thread to post what you find is counted as a fish and what is not counted as a fish. Hopefully we will quickly see a pattern, without having to "test" every catch.</blockquote> The way this is currently working on the live realms is that it counts as a fish if it falls under the "Trade Good" category with a "Meat" sub-category. Unfortunately, this leaves out a lot of fish. In patch 3.0.3 *anything* that is caught via the fishing profession will count towards the criteria. In patch 3.1.0 the wording on the achievement gets changed to "Fish up 25 items" rather than "Catch 25 fish". Hope this clears things up.</blockquote> Currently the achievements summary shows a count of all items caught, not just fish. I wonder if this will be set as the count toward achievement progress? Tigole on "What Counts as a Fish?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-counts-as-a-fish#post-1929 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:59:31 +0000 Tigole 1929@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <cite>el <a href="http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-counts-as-a-fish#post-1813" title="View original post.">wrote</a>:</cite> <blockquote>The <a href="http://www.elsanglin.com/achievements.html">fishing archievements</a> require catching a certain number of fish. Unfortunately, not everything you catch is counted as "a fish": The achievement does not count "other items". It is becoming clear that some things we thought were fish are not fish. I think it would be helpful if we could gather information about what is counted as a fish, and what is not. So if you watch your catches carefully, please use this thread to post what you find is counted as a fish and what is not counted as a fish. Hopefully we will quickly see a pattern, without having to "test" every catch.</blockquote> The way this is currently working on the live realms is that it counts as a fish if it falls under the "Trade Good" category with a "Meat" sub-category. Unfortunately, this leaves out a lot of fish. In patch 3.0.3 *anything* that is caught via the fishing profession will count towards the criteria. In patch 3.1.0 the wording on the achievement gets changed to "Fish up 25 items" rather than "Catch 25 fish". Hope this clears things up. Vanyalosswen on "What Counts as a Fish?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-counts-as-a-fish#post-1927 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:29:24 +0000 Vanyalosswen 1927@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Sickly looking fish caught from Tirisfal Glades also do not count as fish. In addition, in order to have a fish count you need to properly loot it and put it into your inventory. "Catching and releasing" will give you skillups but it won't trigger the fish counter. Axal on "What Counts as a Fish?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-counts-as-a-fish#post-1916 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:40:32 +0000 Axal 1916@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Deviate fish also are not counting towards fish caught ... Deathxtreme on "What Counts as a Fish?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-counts-as-a-fish#post-1882 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:55:56 +0000 Deathxtreme 1882@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ From my experience yesterday, I would like to say that I think the "Fish Counter" is quite buggy in that sometimes it works, other times it does not. For example, this past weekend I was fishing in Azshara trying to complete "The One that didn't get away" (as awful as that achievement is). When I decided to take a break, my fish counter had gone from 500 to 590 catches. Later that night, when I logged back in and went to Dun Morogh instead (since I think the 15 lb Mud Snapper may be easier to catch - at least I CAUGHT several 10 & 12 lb Mud Snappers unlike my time in Azshara where I caught only 1 9 lb Lobster), my fish counter said I only had 500 catches! Furthermore, after catching several fish there (Raw Brilliant Smallfish & Raw Longjaw Mud Snappers mainly), my fish counter didn't move at all. After getting booted from the server (probably because I then went to go make dinner and didn't log out), I continued to fish in Dun Morogh and the same fish started to register on the fish counter. Lesson from this Post: The Fishing Counter is buggy so make sure you're getting some fish that register before you rule them off as not counting as a fish. (Besides, we'll all need to catch a zillion things in Dalaran anyways to achieve several achievements on the way to the "Salty" Title so an inaccurate fish counter here or there isn't really a big deal as long as they get it to work sometime.) Jolt on "What Counts as a Fish?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-counts-as-a-fish#post-1881 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:46:43 +0000 Jolt 1881@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Like Zahana said, Basically everything you catch during the fishing derby does not count as a fish Tasty Fish, Eels, Firefin Snappers, Oily Blackmouths, and of course the lovely Kelp that gets fished up instead of tastyfish. Augos-RH on "What Counts as a Fish?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-counts-as-a-fish#post-1878 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:02:38 +0000 Augos-RH 1878@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Unless it was bugged last night, Felblood Snappers do not add to your "caught" count Zahana on "What Counts as a Fish?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-counts-as-a-fish#post-1874 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:40:43 +0000 Zahana 1874@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ After doing the Extrazaganze yesterday, despite my 30+ catches (the fun of a pvp server) I had a grand total of 2 catches. Is it a bug, or do fish caught in pools not count towards the total number of fish caught? Kahless on "What Counts as a Fish?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-counts-as-a-fish#post-1841 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:46:04 +0000 Kahless 1841@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ I can tell you from Fishing in the Bay of Storms These Do Not add to my Fish Caught Winter Squid Stonescale Eeel Large Raw Mightfish Bigmouth Clam The only fish there that will count are Darkclaw Lobster and Raw Spotted Yellowtail Jolt on "What Counts as a Fish?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-counts-as-a-fish#post-1819 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:01:48 +0000 Jolt 1819@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Like I mentioned in another post, isome of my fish counts disappear after logging. I noticed the bug one time while I was tracking my 500 fish achievement. I had 450 fish. Logged Off. When I logged back on I was at 365. I opened a ticket. Fished it back up to 450. Logged off, and it had dropped to 375. For fun, logged off, and logged on quickly. And the count dropped by one to 374? Bloated Barbed Gill Trout do not count as fish for me by the way. Guess Hungry Trout are not fish. :-P el on "What Counts as a Fish?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-counts-as-a-fish#post-1813 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:45:47 +0000 el 1813@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ The <a href="http://www.elsanglin.com/achievements.html">fishing archievements</a> require catching a certain number of fish. Unfortunately, not everything you catch is counted as "a fish": The achievement does not count "other items". It is becoming clear that some things we thought were fish are not fish. I think it would be helpful if we could gather information about what is counted as a fish, and what is not. So if you watch your catches carefully, please use this thread to post what you find is counted as a fish and what is not counted as a fish. Hopefully we will quickly see a pattern, without having to "test" every catch.