I just want to see if I'm alone in having extremely bad luck with the rewards.
I do the fishing daily in Dalaran every day, haven't missed a single day since they were introduced. Have yet to see Crawler, either of the fishing poles, gems, tiny lockbox or even porcelain bell. I did, however, get the new age painting 5 days in a row once.
So anyone else in the same boat? I am getting a bit discouraged.
el <Nat Pagle's Love Child>, 4 months ago:I have not missed one daily. Both as me, and as "my other me". 2 characters, 9 weeks. I've still not seen any of the fishing poles. Nor gems.
Wowhead shows that the drop rate on those items is very low: 1 in 200 for each pole. Looks like "bad luck" is intended.
(The true chance may be slightly higher, assuming the pole does not appear once you have one, since it is unique. But it is still pretty rare.)
I have had 2 characters doing the fishing from the start and two more for much of the time. The one that was 450 the whole time got the jeweled pole quite early while two others both got a crab pet over the many weeks.
Just this past week I got the sewer rat pet on the second char at 450. She is the "most" lucky by far as she had the crab and also got the 2 ring.
I have not seen a turtle mount.
I feel that the drop rate for all these rare items was higher early on and has since been lowered a lot. I would say that in the first month I got the jeweled pole, at least 3 gems, multiple hats, multiple fishing lines and multiple bells.
Lately the bells are very rare and I had to buy a runed gem.
Both my toons have the crawler. I've seen 1 lockbox, with a gem in it (strength...go figure, neither toon wants that). No poles on either one.
That said, I have gotten the bell the last 2 days in a row on my main, and quite a few paintings in the days leading up to it.
Aside from the jewels, I'm really only looking for a pole for my alt, since I probably won't run her through the extravaganza. But like a good fisherman, I'll keep doing them anyway ;-)
Well, I think my QQ actually worked. After almost 2.5 months of doing the quest every day the fishing bag contained a jeweled fishing pole - first notable reward. Now for crawler, the bone pole and maybe gems/line/lockbox. And btw yet another new age painting, I haven't actually counted but I would venture to say that I've gotten it at LEAST 10 times since the quests were introduced.
Missed about a week due to travel, but still no crawler to date. Combine that with over 11k catches for no turtle and that's my fishing life right now ;D
I've done the daily every day since it came out and I too have had nothing of note.
I think I had the New Age Painting twice.
Similarly, I spend a lot of time each day hunting pools in Northrend and have yet to get a turtle.
The worst part is I know people who got a turtle on the first and don't even care, they hate it!
Ahh, luck.
hello,
just joined this site today....my first post....
i love wow fishing...i'm my guilds fisherman...
yes...i'm a nerd...
i'm suffering the same...no good drops...
but it may be that i have gotten many of the unique ones and obviously they no longer drop so it seems worse, if you get my meaning.
i suppose if i removed poles and pets and such i already got during my first weeks it would be similar to my recent experience.
having said that....
i agree i'm increasingly disappointed in the fishing quest drops too...
yossarian
I did get the bone fishing pole. And I have the master kaluak. I just got my 1st High Test Eternium Fishing Line. Problem is the bone fishing pole doesn't show a line, so I have to wait to see the bobber appear. The master kaluak shows the line so I can recast if it falls outside a school. Does the High Test line add line to the pole to observe the cast? If not it's going on the kaluak.
Cherel <Angler>, 4 months ago:I've had mixed luck. No poles, but I got the crawler, two fishing lines, the new age painting at least once and the porcelain bell twice.
I seem to have week at a time streaks. One week I got the weather beaten hat, bone and jeweled fishing pole, and Mr. Pinchy. Next two weeks absolutely nothing worthwhile. Then another bell-filled week & won the tourney. Hang in there. as they say, randomness is random. :)
I had been having bad luck too, having fished the daily almost every day, I too was getting, disappointed with my lack of fortune, but then I opened my latest bag and found the Jewelled fishing pole. I was quite happy after that :) However, there was better to come, within a week I got a real lucky bag, in it was:
Strand Crawler
Fishing Hat
Poison Vial (the one that starts a quest)
Tower Key (worth 16.66 gold)
2x trash items
Can’t remember what the trash items were, I was too excited with all the other stuff ;)
Keep fishing, the next bag could be the lucky one :)
Daimoth <Angler>, 4 months ago:First post!
I got the glow worm, that's the most valuable thing I've gotten so far. I expect the odds were set this low so that we'd still have things to fish out by the time the next expansion comes out... Haha. How dismal is that?
Leny <Salty>, 4 months ago:On the first day the dailys came out 5mins after my realm got up I got one of the gems. After a while I got the crawler. Still no pole but I did get all the other good rewards, still no croc though
Charmuffin <Angler>, 4 months ago:Well, I've done only a few Dalaran fishing dailies.
My first try, I got a strand crawler.
I named him Barnaby.
8D
I just got the small lock box tonight. Was full of gems one epic that i had just paid 1000g for. So I have 2 now. The rest were blues and one green necklace. Not a bad reward. still looking for one of the poles.
Been having a major cold streak on my 2 fishers for the last month or so. Junk drops weren't too bad, but mostly worthless glass and deviates.
This weekend, we had the crocs come up. No, I didn't get a croc. I did the Dalaran daily and got the jeweled fishing pole, and when I went to do the Shat daily, I got the 2 ring!
Decided to press my luck the next day, and started farming for the turtle. ~30 minutes later, he dropped for me!
I'm expecting several months of bad luck to now make up for all that ;-)
I've been very lucky with my fishing daily rewards. Rigid stormjewel, solid stormjewel, bone fishing pole, the crawler, the fishing hat. Also got Porcelain Bell twice, which vendors for 100g. Battered junglehat also twice, 100g on AH.
Also have the turtle and the sewer rat pet. BUT I do fish a lot so it's not like I got any of those on my first try.
Good luck to all of you!
I've picked up the pet, but no gems or poles for me. Granted, the only thing I'd really like is an overhaul to the Arcanite fishing rod. :)
I guess I've been pretty lucky really. The second time I did 'Corroded Jewelery' I got The Giant Sewer Rat. That was actually only the second time I'd fished anywhere in Dalaran.
I also got the jeweled pole and the strand crawler in the same bag. I've gotten the bell twice, the painting 3 or 4 times and Red Stormjewel. The rep is nice too, the KT have a head enchant I'm after, along with the pet. What I'm really after though is the 5 ring. +55 stam, +55 hit & +55 crit strike rating will be a nice add. At this point I'm not really interested in the turtle mount, which means the way my luck goes I'll get it long before the 5 ring.
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