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[Fishing] No frill catches since 3.0.8 (?)

  1. Pokeit <Salty>, 10 months ago:

    I spent about an hour in Shadowglen fishing for the last component of my title (and here I thought that STV Tourney would be the prob... easy 2 tries).

    With over 230 casts I caught nothing only raw brilliant smallfish and raw longjaw mud snapper with 1 exception of one (1) minor mana potion. Normally every 60 or so casts I see some sort of frill such as 10 and 12 lb off hand frill fish. In fact just prior to the patch I had about 400 casts with 2x 12 lbs, 4x10 lbs, and 1 of each potion type.

    Do you think now a bad time to work on the one that didn't get away?

    (Also, I swear some accounts have luck modifiers based on RNG + account ID or something.)

    [Edit]
    Ok, well I made 2 more casts just after posting this and finally caught a 12lb mud snapper.
    But I still feel that the drop rate is down a good bit.

  2. GormanGhaste <Low Sodium>, 10 months ago:

    I was at Wellspring Lake in Teldrassil last night, and with 113 catches, I had 2 mana potions and one 10 pounder.

  3. Pokeit <Salty>, 10 months ago:

    Well I just picked up my 15 Pound Mud Snapper!

    2700+ for Ironjaw
    470+ for Crafty (till I learned of the Crock bug)
    600+ for 15 lb (50% of that was going for Dark Herring)

  4. Azaguth <Salty>, 10 months ago:

    5k casts in Elwynn forest:

    0x 15 pound mud snapper
    15x 12 pound mud snapper
    29x 10 pound mud snapper
    22x minor mana potion
    21x minor health potion
    6x random BOE greens
    8x random unbound white items
    4x grey shield type items
    boat loads of mud snappers and raw brilliant smallfish (smallfish outnumbered snappers about 2:1)

    15 pound mud snappers are supposed to be about 1:2k casts, I went 5k before I gave up.
    The following Sunday I won STV and got the Rockhide Strongfish within an hour of each other for the salty title.

    Long story short, this one will happen when it happens, it's a tough one to force (this is after 2200 casts for crafty out of 1/1000 odds, 1200 for ironjaw out of 1/1000 odds [during which time I caught the 1 ring], and over 4k casts for coin master).

    The only two that I was really lucky in were Mr Pinchy (caught him after only 11 casts in highland schools, then got the pet on the first try) and the giant sewer rat (only about 670 casts, 1/1000 odds).

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