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[Fishing] Junk fish catch - Goldenscale Vendorfish

  1. Gned <Angler>, 2 years ago:

    Howdy fellow fisherfolk,

    I didn't see this particular catch listed anywhere on this fantastic site. Caught it one time in the Frozen Sea, a non-pool catch.

    Gned
    Argent Dawn

  2. Nonzor <Angler>, 2 years ago:

    I've caught a few of these pre-WotLK in the Outland. It's aptly named, eh?

    Happy casting!

  3. ChefTrotline <Salty>, 2 years ago:

    I love it! The Goldenscale Vendorfish lives on in Northrend! :)

  4. Gihelle <Salty>, 2 years ago:

    Goldenscale Vendorfish was a trash from Outland fishing...

    Is it on Northrend now?

  5. Trann <Angler>, 2 years ago:

    That is good to know, I missed that attention to detail that TBC fishing seemed to have.

  6. Malvenue <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    The Goldenscale Vendorfish can commonly be caught from Steam Pump Floatsam pools in Zangarmarsh. I mention this because it's counts for the Limnologist achievement and currently El's Guide does not mention this.

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

    Malvenue - Sounds like you got lucky. I just fished 10 Steam Pump Floatsam pools empty (40 catches) and never saw a single Goldenscale Vendorfish.

  8. Druidmoon <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    Looks like quite a few have found it a decent source of the Vendorfish reading wowhead comments like this;

    http://www.wowhead.com/item=27442#comments:id=1199052

    I used to catch them all over the pace as a rare drop including open water. Was always a pleasant surprise.

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

    As a rough rule, any catch or drop rate below 10% creates "theories": Humans (and gnomes) doing what they do best - looking for patterns, even where there are none. Eric Heimburg provides a good introduction to player reactions to randomness.

    Wowhead comments create a pyramid structure of validation for these theories: If a thousand people act on a comment, a few of them will be able to confirm it however rare the catch remains. They appear to validate the theory, so even more people try it, and so on. This seems to be a particular problem for achievement-fish, because new anglers mostly care about catching the first fish, then move on. "It took me 10 catches" is a lot less reliable evidence than "I caught a 100 fish and 10 of them were this".

    I don't dismiss these reports without testing, because sometimes things do change, and I'm often reliant on people posting here to know.

    In this case Steam Pump Floatsam pools would need to have much higher (5-10%) catch rate for Goldenscale Vendorfish than other pools to be recommended for the Limnologist. Why? Because the pools are only found in a set of 3 different pool types, making Steam Pump Floatsam much harder to find (and fish sustainably). If, as I suspect, all pool types in Outland still have the same chance, fishing just one pool type in Zangarmarsh is a huge waste of time (except perhaps for the gold, which is still low compared to Cataclysm).

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