Hey, I've read on other places that your fishing skill is equal to your weapon skill with a fishing pole however I just started a semi-pacifist hunter (In that she's only allowed to attack with pet and fishing pole) and although my crit rating with a fishing pole equipped goes down when I level it doesn't go up again when I raise fishing skill.
Fishing skill in the 40s now at level 9 so it should have a 5% crit chance but it's only around 2% was what i read false (It DID come from thottbott ^^) or does it only kick in at a certain level?
[Fishing] Fishing Pole Beatdown
Pipre <Deadly Salty>, 5 years ago:
It's probable that the information you got is wrong, though I wouldn't know never having tried to play a 'semi'-pacifist character. I would assume that the information in your character frame is accurate however.
Thanks, I'm just curious about how it works mainly. Was intending to make a pacifist character but I just found it far too hard to get past level 6 so I bought a fishing pole ^^
I'm going to get the dwarven fishing pole later on and use that until 70 (its more of a themed character now I suppose) so I'll see if fishing pole skill might be the average of all your skills.I’d be interested in reading what you find out. I’ve read the same thing about one’s fishing skill equaling one’s weapon skill with a fishing pole, but I never knew if it was more than a rumor.
Kahless <Herring Addict>, 5 years ago:
If you equip a fishing pole, you'll notice your weapon skill is equal to your fishing skill.
As to how it effects your crit rate I can't say.Edit: At least it used to be that way. Now the Melee tool-tip doesn't show your equipped weapon skill.
I think they changed how weapon skill effects crit rate a patch or two ago.At skill 425 my crtit chance is shown as 7.11%
WIth a +100 lure added crtit chance goes up to 11.11%
Another +10 from Captain Rumsey's Lager takes it to 11.51%Hah! Never mind! The fishing skill is equal to weapon skill. I didn't notice that the character sheet defaults to ranged stats on a hunter. Level 12 hunter, leveled fishing 37->38 and melee crit went up 0.04 as expected.
Going to go cap fishing now ^^Now I'm a level 12 hunter with 225 fishing skill and 10.95% melee crit chance!
Goes up 3% with the +75 lures I'm using.
If I could find the darkwood fishing pole as a weapon the crit would probably make me quite powerful as a twink.Kahless <Herring Addict>, 5 years ago:
You may be upping your crit rate but remember a fishing pole doesn't qualify as a melee weapon so most special abilities don't work with it.
All you can do is simple auto-attack.Pipre <Deadly Salty>, 5 years ago:
some abilities can be used, but as you say no skills that require weapons. Fury warriors for example can use bloodthirst without a weapon since it does straight damage. I had fun a couple months back doing AB with my fishing pole as fury. Made some people angry, but I got some good footage for a video.
I've only got Raptor strike at the moment as a hunter anyway for damaging. Of course I should be using a gun really but the humiliation of being beaten up with a fishing outfit is worth it.
Longhunter <Angler>, 5 years ago:
not sure but i have killed the Birds in Skettis before in just my fishing outfit i am a Pally so the seals do help
Hey guys. I felt like testing this myself just to make sure for some reason, hope you don't mind. ^^"
I tested this on a Level 7 Shaman started at Fishing 1.
Skill : Crit % 01 : 3.19% 02 : 3.23% 03 : 3.27% 04 : 3.31% 05 : 3.35% 06 : 3.39% 07 : 3.43% 08 : 3.47% 09 : 3.51% 10 : 3.55%Of course it behaved as expected, 0.04% per rank.
I find this very neat.
Kushtengri <Salty>, 2 years ago:
What about 4.0.1? Now weapon skills is off, we have already cap of weapon mastery, not?
Then, is fishing skill equal to weapon skill?)PS: Sorry for bad English, I`m Russian wow-fish-blogger (http://nat-pagle.blogspot.com/ ). Welcome :)
PS2: When I had started my blog I didn`t know about your site, El. Respect for you.
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