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[Fishing] Fishing changes in 2.4 - The Dailies

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  1. Gummo <The Pacifist>, 1 year ago:

    The general thought is that waiting for clicking has NO effect whatsoever. It seems inconsistent with how fishing works in WoW.

  2. Kahless <Salty>, 1 year ago:

    I did that quest again today and just fished like I normally do.
    Click on the bobber as soon as it splashes.

    I caught the blackfin on the 5th cast in the middle of the timer.

  3. el <Nat Pagle's Love Child>, 1 year ago:

    Waiting to click does make a difference: You'll spend 10-20% longer fishing.

    So far on PTRs I've completed 59 single-fish daily fishing quests using a traditional fishing method (plus 21 Shrimpin' dailies, which are more predictable). I've recorded the number of catches required to get the quest fish. These are listed below:

    Quest / Average / Maximum / Sample

    Bait / 13.3 / 33 / 9
    Nagrand / 8.7 / 26 / 23
    Crocs / 7.6 / 35 / 16
    Felblood / 6.1 / 23 / 11

    Overall a mathematical average of 8.6 catches to get the quest fish. But that ranges from 1 to 35. This is a seriously random.

    The wild card at the moment is the Bait Bandits quest, which seems to take a fair bit longer. But I've only completed it 9 times, so I may have just been unlucky. If that quest is a bit harder, it may explain why these new methods are emerging specifically for that quest - players have longer to think about it...

    The main reason for putting up that data is to demonstrate how difficult it is to prove a pattern here. Even if waiting a few seconds doubles the chance of catching a quest fish, that would still be less convincing that arguing that Monstrous Felblood Snapper take half as long as Blackfin Darter to catch.... and I'm not at all sure about that.

    I don't like to dismiss the idea, because that's just what used to happen with variations by time of day. But it wouldn't match the design of fishing up till now (it has never been a "twitch" game). Plus I don't think Blizzard would devote development time to such a specific niche change**.

    (** Off-topic tangent: The behaviour/code being used for these quests is different from the Azeroth fishing quests. The dailies all replace an existing catch with a quest fish, while most of the Azeroth quests add the quest fish to an existing catch. TBC originally didn't have any quest fish, merely two messy implementations that looked like they had been designed for fishing, but for some reason couldn't be coded for fishing: Seth's pole and the Red Snappers. So the theory goes that whoever coded the original fishing quests had left by the time TBC came along, whoever did TBC didn't, and whoever is coding dailies now has developed an entirely new method.)

  4. Oberweiss <Moderator>, 1 year ago:

    I just wanted to follow up on my post from page 3 regarding the Blackfin Darter.

    I was not able to replicate that error message, clicking the bobber immediately on all 3 of the characters I did that daily quest on. It's likely that the reason I originally got the error message was lag, or maybe even a change with the most recent build.

    I wish I could provide more in-depth information for you regarding the # of catches it takes to get a certain quest fish (unfortunately, I haven't been tracking that). However, I can confirm that one day on one character it took me 14 minutes to catch the Nagrand quest fish. I'm sure it wasn't a zone problem, as I didn't move while I was fishing. I'd guess this is an anomaly, but it's probably more than the maximum you've listed of 23.

    That being said, I hope those sorts of anomalies don't happen often. It makes these fishing quests quite a bit more frustrating.

    Here's a completely unproven theory: maybe the further you have to travel for the quest, the less time they want it to take to catch the fish? You could argue that you have to travel the furthest to catch the Monstrous Felblood Snapper because you can take the portal to Orgrimmar. Just a thought. :)

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