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[Fishing] No love for the fisherman (or fisherworman)

  1. Torgon <Finder of El's Mom>, 1 year ago:

    So a friend had asked me to start a new character with them, and having nothing better to do, I accepted. After the typical starting quests i found myself at lvl 12 in Ratchet with a fishing pole and some time to burn. I used some bait and quickly hit 75, few to Org and trained, flew back and got 150. Rather pleased with myself (and having a few gold from selling oily blackmouth's in the AH when i was in ORG) I hopped on the boat to Booty bay to grab my copy of "The Bass and you"...and was very sad to learn that apparently I could not read...

    Even though I could cook and bandage above 150 (both which require books to learn) and skin/mine/gather herbs above 150 at my level, I could not fish above 150. Anyone know the reasoning behind this?

    While i understand the higher the required level to fish, the more dangerous the location, this should be a risk/reward choice I should be able to make on my own.

    What's your opinion of being forced to level to increase your fishing level cap, while other "secondary" professions (and several primary ones) do not have this restriction?

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

    From memory (and we're going back years here), the level restriction on fishing skill was added to prevent level 1 alts fishing in high level areas like Azshara.

    Originally there were no pools of fish, so anyone that could travel to a zone could find a safe place to catch fish from open water. A level 1 character, that had simply spent a day (often semi-AFK) raising their fishing skill, could make the same money from selling high-level fish as the level 45+ characters the zone was designed for. But the level 45+ characters had invested a lot more time levelling.

    In contrast, herbs, mining and skinning almost always require a character that is close to the level the zone was designed for: Sure, you might be able to find the odd node or corpse you can reach without aggroing, but a level 1 alt has reduced choice, and so is not as efficient at resource gathering as higher-level characters.

  3. Torgon <Finder of El's Mom>, 1 year ago:

    Yes, but now that there are pools, I think it would make sense to take the restriction off of the book at least. Just my 2cp.

  4. Hockeyhacker97 <Angler>, 10 months ago:

    Well the level rest on it was only for a short time till they took it back off... If you look at all the professions youll see the following

    The 3 gathering skills had no restriction, if you could get to an item to farm you could know it, the reason for this was because if your level 1 you arnt going to be able to get to anything that requires 300+ to do, your not going to be able to solo level 60 mobs to skin, all the herbs and ores are also protected by these same mobs, so unless your raiding with an AoE party to keep you alive you arn't going to be able to farm things higher then normal levels anyways.

    All skills that are not the 3 gathering skills (skin/mine/herb) have a required level 5 for 1-75... level 10 for 76-150... and then theres some variation on 151-225, then 35 for 226-300 and some variation on 301-375

    Cooking/Fishing/First Aid - no requirement for 151-225 (fishing got changed back to this)
    The main reson Fishing temporarily had a level restriction was to try to detour level 19 twinks from farming the fishing hat on Sundays by making it so that they had to use a lure to not miss the fish... they then found out this didn't detour them at all since the lures are only a few silver while they are spending tons of gold on enchants and gear so the silver made no difference.

    All main proffesions - level 20 for 151-225 (proffesions not gatherings)

    226-300- 35 for all main proffesions and 35+quest at 35 for all secondary proffesions

    301-375 for all main proffesions level 50, for all secondary level 45.

    But as for why it was temporarily different it was just to detour people from farming the fishing hat for a 19 twink, which if they really wanted to do that they should just put a level 20 req on the quests to get the fishing gear.

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