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[Fishing] Darkwood Fishing Pole sighting?

  1. By blouled <Angler> 1 month ago

    Hello !

    Just fished one today on the french server "Les Sentinelles", while fishing there to get catfish to raise my cooking skill.

    it dropped after a long while (an half-hour) juste south of the waterfall, in the river east of southshore.

    Character is druid level 70 night elf, 330 skill at the time (+23 for BIFP and truesilver line), no bait.

    I came here to check how common was it, since i had never found it before.

    Quite pretty, golden fixtures even if not as good as the BIFP.

    btw, keep on the great work, this site rocks !

  2. By Aiea <Angler> 2 weeks ago

    I found this pole in Hillsbrad Foothills in a floating debris node near Southshore on Garona.

  3. By LucyInTheSky <Angler> 2 weeks ago

    Fished for ~3 hours tonight at the lake south of Tarren Mill, catching exactly:

    200 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
    100 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
    1 Bloated Catfish (Moss Agate Inside)

    Those numbers aren't approximate. I really did get precisely those numbers. Thought it'd have been a nice place to stop & report my findings.

    Anyway, no joy with the Darkwood pole. I already have Big Iron and Seth's Graphite. Frankly, I don't know why I'm even bothering.

  4. By LucyInTheSky <Angler> 2 weeks ago

    Fished for an additional ~2 hours at the same lake, catching:

    120 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
    76 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
    1 19 Pound Catfish
    2 22 Pound Catfish
    1 Mana Potion

    That's a total of 501 catches so far, not a single Darkwood Fishing pole. Combine these results with the posts on wowehead, which show the pole being caught in the river to the east of Tarren Mill, and I am beginning to believe that the information we've got right now, that the pole was caught in the lake south of Tarren Mill, is not accurate. I believe it's catchable in the river, only. I will be moving to the river now: Not wasting any more time fishing up crap that's not even good for skilling up cooking.

  5. By el <Nat Pagle's Love Child> 1 week ago

    Given this is still a very rare catch (by all accounts, somewhere between Mr. Pinchy and The 1 Ring), proving it cannot be caught in one body of water is very tricky indeed. If the drop rate is down below 0.1%, you'd have to cast many thousands of times in each location.

    Generally Azeroth's fish catches follow a very simple pattern. In fact, with a few exceptions, there are only 6 variations in the whole of Azeroth. These 6 geographic variations are multiplied by an inland/coastal split, and in 2 of the 6, a further 4-option variation by time of day. This is the genius of the original design: They managed to create apparent complexity while retaining a very simple design. It's a very old-skool Elite-style approach to game design, but I guess works well here because it allows the game to be rebalanced very easily.

    Now there are several location-specific variations - mostly obviously in The Barrens. However, Hillsbrad Foothills and Ashenvale never traditionally had any such variations. So, while it is possible they specifically divided an area like Hillsbrad up into local areas just to add the Darkwood Fishing Pole, I doubt this. More likely, the pole has simply been added to the "catch table" for all the inland open water in set of zones. I'm still not sure about the reports of catches from pools: It is impossible to verify the source (this is not shown in the combat log), which means that catches that appear to be from pools may not be (bobber actually just missed, lag delayed the disappearance of the pole, etc), which means lots of reports are needed. It would also completely inconsistent with the way pools generate loot: All the random items are in trunks, not floating about in the water.

    But then, until reading this thread, I never knew about the Broken Wine Bottle (thanks Calabar). So keep on looking, and see what you find.

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