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El's Extreme Anglin' - WoW Fishing Guide » Recent Topics http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Discussion about fishing in World of Warcraft. en-US Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:41:03 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/search.php Kemzow on "What cool fishing ideas do you think Blizz should implent in a furture patch?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/what-cool-fishing-ideas-do-you-think-blizz-should-implent-in-a-furture-patch#post-7133 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:10:42 +0000 Kemzow 7133@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Just wondering what people would like to see implented in a future patch that would improve fishing or make it more fun. Personally I would love to see Blizzard come up with a way to customize your fishing. Two good ideas I thought of was, either: being able to customize your cast action instead of everyone having the same cast action, or being able to actually customize your bobber. Pubcrawler on "Kalu'ak Fishing Derby" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/kaluak-fishing-derby#post-7169 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:09:43 +0000 Pubcrawler 7169@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ El says: For a contest summary and guide, see <a href="http://www.elsanglin.com/kaluak_fishing_derby.html" title="Contests: Kalu'ak Fishing Derby - When and where the Kalu'ak Fishing Derby takes places, what you have to do to compete, and what rewards you can gain.">Kalu'ak Fishing Derby</a>. Original post: Posted on the MMO-Champion website "The Kalu'ak hold a fishing derby every few days in Northrend. Be the first to catch a Blacktip Shark and win respect with the Kalu'ak, and an amazing prize!" Wondering if anyone can confirm that this is on the PTR for testing. Pub Stafford on "New Fishing Outfit." http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/new-fishing-outfit-1#post-7264 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:11:03 +0000 Stafford 7264@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Because I hate overalls (specially blue, I dug arround wowhead and found a new fishing outfit (And easier to get IMO, got mine at AH in less than one day. Anyway, here it is. Hope y'all like it. <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=15304" title="Wowhead - Grizzly Jerkin." class="nocolor">Grizzly Jerkin</a> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=5107" title="Wowhead - Deckhand's Shirt." class="nocolor">Deckhand's Shirt</a> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=24795" title="Wowhead - Expedition Pants." class="nocolor">Expedition Pants</a> <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=15300" title="Wowhead - Grizzly Gloves." class="nocolor">Grizzly Gloves</a> Just add your hat, boots and pole and you're in business! :) <a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?compare=24795:19969:15304:5107:33820:45858:15300">Here's a link to the whole set, if you want to see it on 3D.</a> fredje222 on "Biggest concentration of pools for turtle mount?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/biggest-concentration-of-pools-for-turtle-mount#post-5137 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:43:07 +0000 fredje222 5137@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ So the new turtle mount will be fishable from any pool in northrend, completly random... Like evry good fisher i'm gonna fish like hell till i get it :p but i was wondering where the biggest concentration of pools is for fishing it... So what do you think? Kovlish on "Skill Up Data 235-250" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/skill-up-data-235-250#post-7258 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:15:34 +0000 Kovlish 7258@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Skill Up Rate Data Date: Thursday, 11/5/09 Zone: Bay of Storms Fishing: Open Water Loc: 63.31 - 61.81 Casting: NW MOD: 120 (Iron Pole 20 + Aquadynamic Lure 100) 235 * Lure Time * Total Casts * Junk * Time * Server Time 236 * * 6 * 4 * :01 * 15:12 237 * * 8 * 2 * :03 * 15:14 238 * * 6 * 2 * :01 * 15:24 239 * * 8 * 4 * :02 * 15:30 240 * 10 * 6 * 0 * :01 * 15:35 241 * 8 * 7 * 1 * :02 * 15:37 242 * 6 * 6 * 1 * :02 * 15:39 243 * 3 * 7 * 2 * :02 * 15:42 244 * 10 * 8 * 3 * :02 * 15:45 245 * 8 * 6 * 1 * :01 * 15:48 246 * 6 * 6 * 1 * :01 * 15:50 247 * 4 * 7 * 3 * :02 * 15:51 248 * 2 * 6 * 0 * :01 * 15:54 249 * 10 * 6 * 2 * :02 * 15:56 250 * 8 * 8 * 1 * :02 * 15:58 Total Casts: 101 Average Casts per Point: 6.73 Junk Rate: 26.73% No statistically significant variance in age of lure to junk rate. Server Time & Lure Time Left based on when fishing started for that point. Fishing was continuous per point but there were gaps between starting times for each point (data entry time, etc) Iannah on "One That Didn't Get Away - achievement" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/one-that-didnt-get-away-achievement#post-1624 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:40:33 +0000 Iannah 1624@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ El says: For new readers, I recommend <a href="http://www.elsanglin.com/away.html" title="Guide to the rarest fish you will ever catch...">the summary guide to the One That Didn't Get Away</a>. Original post: While most fishing achievements will not be possible to do before the 3.0 patch, or even the expansion itself, there are a few that you can do before that time. Fish Don't Leave Footprints - learn the ability to find fish Master Angler of Stranglethorn - win the Booty Bay fishing contest Mr. Pinchy's Magical Crawdad Box - fish your way to Mr. Pinchy's Magical Crawdad Box Old Crafty - fish up Old Crafty in Orgrimmar Old Ironjaw - fish up Old Ironjaw in Ironforge And finally: One That Didn't Get Away - fish up one of the rare fish Those first 5 are pretty straightforward. I'm not saying that they're all easy, but it's clear what you have to do. But I'm wondering about the last achievement, get one of the rare fish. Now, if you're like me, you don't want to buy one at the auction house, even if they're available. Which one of the rare fishes would you think is the easiest to get? Should we fish in a starter area for a chance of a big Mudsnapper or Catfish? Should we head to Azshara for a Lobster or Mightfish? Should we try to get the Rockhide Strongfish during the tournament? Triseult on "STV Extravaganza Support Group" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/stv-extravaganza-support-group#post-3154 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:08:59 +0000 Triseult 3154@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Thought I'd start a topic for all those of us who are trying desperately to win the Tournament, so we can commiserate and share tips... I've been trying to win the Tournament for 5 weeks now. Every Sunday, I mumble an excuse to my girlfriend to become intensely busy for 60 minutes (including prep time.) Each time so far, I've had to stone to BB and then do the "walk of shame" of going back to Grom'gol, taking the Zeppelin to Org, then the Zep to Warsong Hold, then the long Flightpath to Dalaran... Sigh. Anyway, what's even more frustrating/exciting is that I'm getting REALLY close now. Over the last 3 weeks, I've scored 37, 37 and 38 when the winner was announced. What a pulse-pounding finish... Last week, I tweaked my strategy a bit: - Tried to go to the island at the northwest... Found it already taken by 2 people, decided against it. - As a result, I went to the west coast of STV (I previously fished at the east side.) - I also decided NOT to fight others for the pools... When someone came by my pool, I finished fishing, fished another one if I had just started, then moved on. This was to avoid having 2 people run together looking for pools. - I also avoided fishing in someone else's pool. My 38 doesn't tell the whole story... I was actually very unlucky with my catches, AND fought too long with a pool that was poorly placed... Also, near Grom'gol, I had a LOT more people than down east, and still pulled in 38, which is amazing. I feel that with a little luck, I would have gotten this. So, my advice: - Make sure you set your Hearthstone to BB (just in case this wasn't painfully obvious by now.) - I don't think either the east or west side is better... Both seemed relatively similar. - DON'T fight for pools. Just move on when someone gets to yours, so you can get the next pool by yourself. Still, I'm not a winner... yet! Spackler on "3.3 and fishing, our Salty title just got MORE exclusive..." http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/33-and-fishing-our-salty-title-just-got-more-exclusive#post-7219 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:10:02 +0000 Spackler 7219@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Sorry to those thinking you were going to finish an already hard achievement, but it just got HARDER to get your title, NOT easier. Think about for a second: "Elder Clearwater sits in Dalaran for one hour awaiting the return of the quickest, most experienced fisher to bring him the first catch of the night." Dalaran - the most populated overvisited city in ALL of Azeroth. "Don't forget, in patch 3.3.0 you never catch trash from fishing pools, regardless of skill." EVERYONE will see this tourney announcement, and EVERYONE can win it, regardless of skill. The award for doing so, a BOA +5% exp Heirloom item. What is there to stop EVERYONE from trying to win this, regardless of a meta-achievement? The Northrend tournament just got FULL folks. How many alt-playing people have you come across in your time? These people will flood the tournament with no regard for how hard the title is to get, and with little or no consideration for the meta-achievement, just to win the ring for their alts. There will not be 104 Salty's a year now, for awhile it probably won't go much higher then 52. At least the STV tournament is out of the way, and limits the competition by fishing skill. fredje222 on "Extravaganza in Salty achievement?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/extravaganza-in-salty-achievement#post-2373 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:13:51 +0000 fredje222 2373@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ There are a lot of posts about this on offical wow-forums so i thought i'd make one here too. A lot of people want the STV-achievement deleted from the Salty-title because its totally not what fishing is all about. And they are totally right in my opinion And no, i'm not lazy. I have caught Ironjaw, Crafty, Mr Pinchy twice and doing the [The One That Didn't Get Away] now. But the thing is: 52 sundays a year, let's say about 40 times that you can actually join and about 50-100 people joining every week (on my server). That means if you join every week you should win after about 2 years and all fishers that caught one or more rare fish know that you can be lucky which can make you win in one try or very unlucky which could make you fish for 4 years without ever wining. Other people have to work on sunday-afternoons and can never win the Salty title, and dont give me that shit: 'yea but people that want raid-achievements have to be online on raid-times too' because if you dont like the raiding-hours of your guild, just join another one that has good times. And NO (again) the problem is NOT that these people dont want to use a lot of time for the achievements. All other fishing achievements can be done by just fishing alot and in prolly a month (thats a long time) you can catch all the other rare fish(wotlk not included, dont know the catch rates). My idea's are: Make the Stv-tournament happen more then once per week, because its just silly that it's only on one hour and only 52 times per year. or Delete the stv-tournament from the Salty-title and make a seperate title like: Master Angler, or something. If people say that it's too easy now: add Crafty, Ironjaw, Giant Rat. No, i didn't win the tournament yet. Please, tell me your opinion about this. Ps: all the threads on official forums have been totally ignored, just as my gm post about it. GormanGhaste on "3.3--no trash in fishing pools?" 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/ I haven't seen anyone mention this on this site yet, so I'll link the source: <a href="http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=11155811788&sid=1&pageNo=1#0" rel="nofollow">http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=11155811788&sid=1&pageNo=1#0</a> "Don't forget, in patch 3.3.0 you never catch trash from fishing pools, regardless of skill. " What does this mean? And why would anyone need to skill up fishing, if pool fishing was always successful? fredje222 on "Turtle, in how many catches did you (not) get it?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/turtle-in-how-many-catches-did-you-get-it#post-5265 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:04:42 +0000 fredje222 5265@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Thought i just made this topic because the other topic isnt really about cathing it :p so post all stuff you fished here while looking for turtle and where you fished it :) Almost fished non-stop since patch released, 2500 catches done and still no bloody mount, this will be a tough one... Fished in the Frozen Sea just south of Boreans... Btw all my catches are fish caught (that includes pygmy suckerfish/crystallized water/reinforced crate) no junk catches (well a couple, because of missed pools)... Edit: 3000, still no mount Edit: 3500, still no mount Edit: 4000, still no mount Edit: 4500, still no mount Edit: 5000, still no mount Edit: 5500, still no mount Edit: 6000, still no mount Edit: 6500, still no mount -> changed the title :p Edit: 7000, still no mount Edit: 7500, still no mount Edit: 8000, still no mount Edit: 8500, still no mount Edit: 9000, still no mount -> changed my place from Frozen Sea too Grizzly Hills... lots more money to be made here Edit: 9500, still no mount Edit: 10,000, still no mount -> whopteefreakingdoo Gradiago on "Gold coins in the Dalaran fountain" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/gold-coins-in-the-dalaran-fountain#post-7204 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:40:39 +0000 Gradiago 7204@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Did the drop chance change for gold coins? Or does the chance for gold coins increase once you have collected all the silver and copper ones? Last night I got the achievement in 15 min, I was missing 2 coins. Two other people got the achievement during that time. I was catching 3 or 4 gold coins every 2 minutes, this never happened before. I was used to have the "lucky" buff up only part of the time fishing there, now I was catching more gold coins than I could use! onimyst on "Am I just incredibly lucky?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/am-i-just-incredibly-lucky#post-7183 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:26:07 +0000 onimyst 7183@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ So I started fishing like last week - I was about 17 skill then so I leveled to 150-ish. So I decided to go to Orgrimmar as an Alliance to go for Old Crafty and got him within 50 casts :o. A couple days later I caught the one in Ironforge and caught him in about 100-150 casts... Just now on my very first Northrend daily I looted a Jeweled Fishing Pole. :O All this in about 5 days. Anyway I'm just gonna go catch a sea turtle mount on my first cast bai. (I'm fishing skill 250-ish now) Ty on "Just won first attempt, my strategy" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/just-won-first-attempt-my-strategy#post-6718 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:40:17 +0000 Ty 6718@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Won the contest today on my first attempt. Took about 18 minutes. I helped someone out last week and we lost by about 30 seconds. Here's what I did: -Set hearth to BB. -Had 2 friends with me plus I dual boxed with my shammy for water walking. -Started just south of Grom'gol, I never had to travel far, there was almost always a pool up on my minimap. -One friend went north and the other south, they'd find someone and start attacking while the other came to help. -They bounced back and forth between groups of horde, 4 groups total. -I found getting in position then spinning the camera to a side view helped immensely with judging if I was in the pool or not. -I got jumped once by an 80 ret pally but given that I arena as prot and had Outfitter setup with keybinds to re-equip my sword and shield I was able to wait 20 seconds while my friends came back. -The mammoth is great at blocking friendly-faction bobbers, this scared away a couple of Alliance. -I'm a low-pop server (Underbog-US) 8) Overall it was really fun and got my adrenaline pumping more than progression raiding. Gave my 2 friends 150g each for helping me out. They had a lot of fun too and managed to get a 300 honor to top it off. Zargoth on "Fishing Spot for a RP event." http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/fishing-spot-for-a-rp-event#post-6642 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:36:42 +0000 Zargoth 6642@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Greatings, I am trying to get a Event goin but i need to find some "outdoor" fishing location that not used much but still easy to get and whit low change of getting chased by mobs. and well ya they got to look nice to. last time we did it in grizzly hills at one of those lake's Can anyone help me whit this Z GormanGhaste on "increased drop rate for croc minipets?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/increased-drop-rate-for-croc-minipets#post-6819 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:24:23 +0000 GormanGhaste 6819@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ On warcraftpets.com, the news section suggests an undocumented 3.2 change is an increased drop rate of the croc minipets. Has anyone had better luck? Marlburo on "Ultimate fishing video?" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/ultimate-fishing-video#post-7095 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:40:34 +0000 Marlburo 7095@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0tLiTOf20E" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0tLiTOf20E</a> Anglin Man on "North Rend Fishing Dailies - Crummy rewards" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/north-rend-fishing-dailies-crummy-rewards#post-6883 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:34:33 +0000 Anglin Man 6883@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Marcia Chase is just cheap. I do the fishing dailies without fail. And almost every day, it's just grey junk as my reward. I still haven't gotten the Strand Crawler pet, or the jeweled fishing pole. I got the Bone pole back when 3.1 went live, then....nothing. I know it's the RNG, but I'm curious: are others having the same luck with trash rewards, and or has your luck been much better, dropping all the cool items in a short time? demonette on "turn off specular lighting" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/turn-off-specular-lighting#post-7148 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:46:02 +0000 demonette 7148@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ It's under effects in the video settings, if you turn it off the glare on the water that makes it hard to see schools is gone. ClemSnide on "Fishing poles as weapons" http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/topic/fishing-poles-as-weapons#post-7089 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:46:48 +0000 ClemSnide 7089@http://www.elsanglin.com/forums/ Couldn't find anything using Search, so I suspect this topic has not been beaten to death. (Pun intended.) But I've been thinking about fishing poles as weapons. Now, it's firmly established that your "weapon skill" for wielding a rod and reel is equal to your Fishing skill. It's even possible that you can get a bonus by attaching a lure, which is just insane. And I would imagine that most of us have beaten a monster to death with a pole, either by accident or on purpose. (Last year on the July 2nd Independence day celebration-- check your American history, gang-- I started the sport of Fish Fencing, which has caught on in a modest way.) But what about using a pole as your main weapon? My Feral Druid uses the Bone Fishing Pole. It has that very nice shadow protection, which translates; and it has a +1603 Attack Power when in a transformed state. I mean, whoa. +1603? The rep reward staff from the Kirin Tor (requiring Exalted and level 80) only has +1601. Admittedly, it also has some stat bonuses and can be enchanted (poles can't, I've tried) but this pole you could theoretically get at level 70. (You'll need a cold-weather flying mount to get into Dalaran, but if you have a level 80 you can buy up several copies of an accountbound book which teaches that. Otherwise, you need to be 74, or 73 as a Mage.) Flutterby Dahner, my Druidess, was level 77 when she got it, and it trashes other weapons of her current level. I haven't yet gotten the Sailor Moon fishing pole (the Jeweled one), so I can't compare it, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.