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[Fishing] Addon Question

  1. By Dinde <Angler> 1 month ago

    I was wondering if there is an addon that records the location of a pool of fish for later referances such as the Gatherer addon if anyone has any info on this please post a reply

    Thanks, Dinde

  2. By el <Nat Pagle's Love Child> 1 month ago

    From memory, this was a feature within Gatherer at one time, but did not work terribly well.

    The problem is technical: When you catch a fish from a pool, only the game server (realm) knows it came from a pool. Your game client (the part installed on your computer) only gets the information that you caught a fish - it doesn't know where the fish came from.

    An addon might be able to analyse the colour of pixels on the screen, but the differences between pools and the surrounding water are so subtle, that it would need to be exceptionally clever. So in practice the only pools that can be tracked are those that contain a completely unique fish, such as Zulian Mudskunk, since those always come from pools.

    I imagine the inability to spot and track pools automatically is partly historic accident (there were no pools for the first year of WoW's release), partly an anti-bot feature (since you cannot easily automate farming what you cannot record electronically).

  3. By Oberweiss <Moderator> 1 month ago

    IIRC, I use the Gatherer plugin for Cartographer, which does track fishing schools. How it identifies schools is flawed, but it works fairly well for me. I think watches for pool names in your mouseover when you catch something via fishing. I have only had it mis-label open water as a pool once (I was curious as to how it worked, so I was actively trying to make it mis-label at the time), and it usually only takes one catch from the pool to record the school location.

    After installing this mod, you may have to manually enable the fishing part. Let me know if you're having trouble getting it to work. I'll be able to check into my mods and settings more once I get home, if that'll help you.

  4. By Dinde <Angler> 1 month ago

    Thank you very much for your information on this subject i will try out the Cartographer and see how it treats me.

    Thanks, Dinde

  5. By Oberweiss <Moderator> 1 month ago

    I just checked, and the addon I use is Cartographer Fishing. Here's an example of what it looks like. You can filter the kind of nodes that show, as well as adjust the opacity and size of the symbols. There's also an option to show/hide the icons on your minimap.

  6. By Barkeater <Angler> 1 month ago

    Pools are in the same place every time!

  7. By el <Nat Pagle's Love Child> 1 month ago

    There is a fixed list of possible pool locations, but in most cases not all those pools will be fishable. This explains the pattern (and this provides more evidence).

  8. By Petre <Angler> 1 month ago

    Between memorization, an epic flying mount, and the fish-tracking ability I found the tracking addon to be completely useless. The pools don't always spawn, so you have to fly the whole route and stare at your minimap or the water anyway.

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