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[Fishing] Incredible Luck

  1. saltydog9 <Angler>, 2 years ago:

    Today when fishing the Outland daily quest(World's Largest Mudfish) I had terrible luck. I fished it with five different characters.

    434 fishing skill - 12 catches to complete
    505 fishing skill - 31 catches to complete
    505 fishing skill - 16 catches to complete
    505 fishing skill - 47 catches to complete

    and finally with a character that just leveled to 70,
    505 fishing skill - 138(!) catches to complete

    The 138 catches were 63 Barbed Gill Trout, 39 Figluster's Mudfish, 35 Icefin Bluefish, 1 Curious Crate, and 1 World's Largest Mudfish.

    I did not fish in any new areas. It usually takes 7-10 catches to complete even though I have completed it in one catch before. Yesterday the daily was the same quest and it took one of my characters 37 catches to complete.

    I don't think I like this quest anymore.

  2. el <Nat Pagle's Love Child>, 2 years ago:

    Are you absolutely sure the bobber was landing in the correct water each time? This is a very easy quest for half your casts to miss the correct water - for example, land in "Garadar" and not "Skysong Lake".

    Your numbers read a lot like the old (patch 2.4) method (see Random Catches). With WotLK's progressive drop rates, these dailies rarely take more than 5 or 10 casts. And I'm not even sure 138 is possible with the new method. So perhaps the method changed again?

  3. saltydog9 <Angler>, 2 years ago:

    Since I fish pretty close to Garadar I cannot be certain that my bobber was in the right water. It did seem like many of my casts were shorter than normal and it's easy to stand a few feet away from where I normally do.

    The quest came up again today and it took 5, 8, 4, and 18 casts. The last character had several short casts which again may have contributed to the higher number. I suppose that I am standing in a spot that normally is okay but has little tolerance for poor casts. And if I am a few feet short of where I usually stand then the casts must be that much further to even count toward the quest.

    Maybe I should just consider the above a bad weekend on my part. Other than that my Outland quest luck has been very good for the last week -- two Weather-Beaten Fishing Hats and three Eye of the Sea's.

  4. Michlo <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    218 skill (+95), caught at Sunspring after 6 tries.

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