I've been trying to compile some fishing data before 3.1 comes out. I want to be able to tell if Blizzard has changed the catch rate at my favorite fishing spot.
While doing so, I also wondered exactly what the Achievement tracker counts as a fish. Specifically, i wanted to know whether or not Pygmy Suckerfish was included among them. I strongly suspected it wasn't - but my fish eating pet will eat them, while my meat eating pet won't. I also wondered whether the crate was counted as 1 "other thing" (if at all), or if it was the contents ("other things" being 3 if I got three Frostweave Cloth for example)
So, before I started today's session I jotted down the Achievement tracker's data (Statistics tab)
Fish caught: 8001
Fish and other things caught: 9266
Here is what I caught in Grizzly Hills open water (coordinates 29,57 - near Amberpine Lodge)
Bonescale Snapper: 231
Fangtooth Herring: 72
Glacial Salmon: 57
Pygmy Suckerfish: 40
Reinforced Crate: 9
Dark Herring: 1
(Yes, they CAN be caught in open water! It took nearly 5000 casts here to get it though)
One would think that the first three would be considered "Fish", right? That would mean I caught 360 fish.
Here is what the tracker says after today's session:
Fish caught: 8255 (an increase of only 254!)
Fish and other things caught: 9553: (an increase of a mere 287!!)
No matter how you mess with the numbers... the tracker is off - by a LOT!
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UPDATE:
While composing the original post, Blizzard did a rolling restart of the servers. Here is what the tracker says NOW:
Fish caught: 8234
Fish and other things caught: 9529
The numbers went down for both of them - and I hadn't even done a thing!
