After getting The Fishing Diplomat and Salty, I decided to stay in Orgrimmar and see how long it would take to get Old Crafty.
It took about 3 1/2 hours, and during this time, no horde ganked me.
Fished in Valley of Spirits. Here are my Old Crafty stats:
300 Longjaw Mud Snapper
117 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
84 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
3 17 Pound Catfish
1 19 Pound Catfish
1 Lesser Healing Potion
1 Old Crafty
Total Caught: 507
Last night before I logged, I decided to hop back to Outlands to do the Fishing Daily as I still need that damned Weather Beaten Hat -- even though I already have a Lucky Fishing Hat -- the WBH is the only rare item from Daily I haven't gotten (aside from 2 ring and every croc pet).
So I port back, it's Baby Crocolisk. Head to Org, equip my Kalu'ak Pole, jump into Valley of Spirits - Cast:
Old Crafty
Baby Crocolisk
I don't know what those Tuskarr make their fishing poles out of, but needless to say I was a happy happy person at 5:00 this morning ^_^
Still no Hat from daily, or a croc pet.
Now just Rat & Ironjaw before I have all Fishing achievements.
*Edit*
Upon reading earlier posts, it seems this isn't that special :(
But for those still wondering, it seems that this Crocolisk Quest & Crafty trick may still work. Next time I get the Croc quest I'm going to Ironforge.
I am so upset! Twice now I should have gotten this achievement. The first time I missed it was admittedly my own fault: I had my loot on auto and was recasting quickly...I recast too fast and threw Old Crafty back!
As if that's not bad enough, yesterday while doing Crocolisks in the City, I fished up Old Craft y along with the Baby Crocolisk...but I couldn't loot it! Auto loot wasn't on, and I had the space...but try as I might, I just couldn't pick him up. Opening GM ticket closed loot window, and after talking both to GM and opening online support ticket, I've been told nothing can be done for me. No fishy, no achievement. Here is one sad screenshot of the event: http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot112908180320iq0.jpg
I am so disheartened...should I keep trying?
There is now a awsome way for alli to catch him without being camped by horde!!! In WOLK there is a quest where you go into a "phased" org. You are unseeible by horde but you can fish freely.... THANK YOU WOLK
moogleroyalty wrote:
I am so upset! Twice now I should have gotten this achievement. The first time I missed it was admittedly my own fault: I had my loot on auto and was recasting quickly...I recast too fast and threw Old Crafty back!
As if that's not bad enough, yesterday while doing Crocolisks in the City, I fished up Old Craft y along with the Baby Crocolisk...but I couldn't loot it! Auto loot wasn't on, and I had the space...but try as I might, I just couldn't pick him up. Opening GM ticket closed loot window, and after talking both to GM and opening online support ticket, I've been told nothing can be done for me. No fishy, no achievement. Here is one sad screenshot of the event: http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot112908180320iq0.jpg
I am so disheartened...should I keep trying?
Yay! I finally got him! After realizing drop rate goes way up during that quest, and getting the suggestion from Blizz to delete the standard folders, I was able to actually loot Crafty and get the achievement while doing Crocolisks in the City! Finally~!
'lo folks
I managed to catch old ironjaw in IF earlier today and on a whim decided to take a trip to org and attempt a few casts before bed. My luck was in tho for after making myself comfy behind a big rock up by the spiritual pool area on my First cast i got my Old Crafty and my Fishing diplomat achievments!! Hope my luck holds for the rest =D
FrogE <Angler>, 1 year ago:Got Old Crafty today in 16 casts. Used the Baby Crocolisk quest trick. Turned off autoloot and didn't loot the Crocolisk until I got Crafty. Used Elixir of Camo so hunters couldn't track and hid in the waterfall under the hunter trainers. Woo-hoo!
Greetings! Newb fisher here.
I caught Old Crafty tonight. I didn't know there was a trick to get him, so I guess I'll take a little pride in "doing it old school". I know now to check these forums first! Here's the stats in case anyone is interested:
956 total casts
573 Longjaw Mud Snapper
208 Bristle Whisker Catfish
164 Brilliant Smallfish
4 17 Pound Catfish
1 Lesser Healing Potion
1 19 Pound Catfish
1 Bloated Mud Snapper
1 Northern Shortsword of Stamina
1 Willow Gloves of the Whale
1 Seer's Gloves
1 Old Crafty
Thanks to Ulose for taking the time to give me a "congratz!"
pinktoque <Angler>, 1 year ago:moogleroyalty wrote:
I am so upset! Twice now I should have gotten this achievement. The first time I missed it was admittedly my own fault: I had my loot on auto and was recasting quickly...I recast too fast and threw Old Crafty back!
As if that's not bad enough, yesterday while doing Crocolisks in the City, I fished up Old Craft y along with the Baby Crocolisk...but I couldn't loot it! Auto loot wasn't on, and I had the space...but try as I might, I just couldn't pick him up. Opening GM ticket closed loot window, and after talking both to GM and opening online support ticket, I've been told nothing can be done for me. No fishy, no achievement. Here is one sad screenshot of the event: http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wowscrnshot112908180320iq0.jpg
I am so disheartened...should I keep trying?
I've experienced this, too.
I can confirm that the Old Crafty/Crocs in the City quest "bug" is still working. Twice now I've gotten the quest, gone to Org to fish up a baby croc and gotten the baby croc AND Old Crafty on my first cast... but when I get Old Crafty on my first cast along with the baby croc, I am unable to loot him.
I've already caught Old Crafty before so losing him twice now while doing the quest wasn't a big deal to me, but I'd be upset if I were still trying to catch Crafty and I wasn't able to loot him.
I have yet to get over to Ironforge to try for Ironjaw while I have the croc quest. One day...
Hmmm I must just be really unlucky. Over 2000 casts in IF and no Ironjaw. Tried the fishing daily trick and still no Crafty.
Wow what a day!
15lb mud snapper in shadowglen
after thousands of casts in forlorn cavern (previously) sat down at mystic pool and got Ironjaw in 4 casts
then spurred on by my success went to orgrimmar (I'm alliance) and
60 mins later and only 167 casts
95 Longjaw Mud Snapper
38 Bristle Whisker Catfish
32 Brilliant Smallfish
1 17 pound catfish
------ and -------
Old Crafty
After days of trying, I finally caught Old Crafty!
It took 2185 attempts to land that crafty little fish.
1282 Longjaw Mud Snappers
484 Bristle Whisker Catfish
385 Brilliant Smallfish
8 17 Pound Catfish
8 Lesser Healing Potions
2 Lesser Mana Potions
2 Baby Crocolisks
1 Bloated Mud Snapper (with 1 Shadowgem inside)
1 19 Pound Catfish
1 Old Crafty
My lowest moment came somewhere around the 1900 mark. Another came up and begin fishing. Just a couple of casts, and ding! There's the achievement that he caught Old Crafty. One more cast and ding! There's his achievement for catching 50 Fish! Good thing my Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole is a virtual pole or I would have snapped it over my knee and tossed the pieces in the pond.
pinktoque wrote:
moogleroyalty wrote:
I have yet to get over to Ironforge to try for Ironjaw while I have the croc quest. One day...
It doesn't work for Old Ironjaw...believe me,I've tried....and I've spent hours fishing in IF,and not a sausage,which is still galling as i got him way before the achievements were a twinkle in the developers eye,but chucked him due to needing the bank space :(
This is just a little heads up on the OLD CRAFTY fish achievement. I went there at around 2am server time( i'm Oceanic ) by just riding full speed though the front doors, and straight to to the left and around to the back area ( FORLORN CAVERN ). I died a couple times getting there from npcs, but picked my res timing when Allies were not around. Also, HERE'S THE DEGRADING PART, i made a beg macro, kneel macro, and a salute macro as well, to appease my hosts with a spam of kneel/beg/kneel/kneel/kneel/beg/beg while standing naked with my fishing rod in hand. I ended up fishing with 4-5 other hard core Alliance fishermen for 4-5 hours, before landing the beast, with afk, bio breaks, food and coffee making breaks included. I was mostly left untouched during my visit into Ironforge. DON'T fight back if one comes in and decides to beat on you, just spam that macro like a gold seller in Org. IT SAVED MY SKIN SO MANY TIMES. Just let them know you just came for the fish ( ie.naked with rod,non aggressive ), and hope they think about being discovered by a like minded fisherman, such as yourself when in Org chasing after their achievement. I'm sure some of the Alliance fishermen warned off the several aggressors when i was spotted and approached, which really helped.( SALUTE them guys,and those who spare you, but don't overkill it ) Stand V's Sleep methods.......? i did a 4 of the 5 hours standing, lucky i guess, fishing with such generous hosts, I sum it up that if some Alliance guy is looking for intruders, you will get busted no matter what way you choose. Many Allies rode past totally oblivious to my presence. The Alliance fishermen soon soon departed with a wave, and i resorted to sleep method when 2 other 80 Horde turned up with there own pre-announced version of spam - LOCAL DEFENSE-IRONFORGE IS UNDER ATTACK ....1 of them landed him in 20 casts, i nearly flipped out after 5 hours and 5-6 run backs. I persisted casting for another 30 minutes or so and reeled him in, I figured that i made the effort to get into IF and do the deed, so i had to keep going. Most rewarding fishing achievement to date. Sorry about the long post post, but i wanted to be helpful. FOR THE HORDE !!!!
Caught Old Crafty today using the fishing quest trick so I can confirm that it still works! It took less then 10 casts. Prior to this I spent many hours and caught hundreds of fish in Org fruitlessly.
Moving on to IF to see if the trick still works there. I'll post in the Ironjaw thread if it works
Obieight
Hi,
Not sure this has already been mentioned but there is an easy way for Alliance to complete this Achievement catching Old Crafty.
Firstly make sure you have the daily fishing quest 'Crocolisks in the city'
This bug (if you want to call it that) only works when you have the above quest in your log
Now make your way into Org and corpse run to the Valley of Spirits if you have to. Once there fish and make sure autoloot is off. You dont want to loot the crocolisk quest item. If you accidently loot the croc then simply delete it from your inventory. I can confirm that both me and a friend caught Old crafty within 20 casts. a 3rd friend tried this and got Old crafty on his 1st cast and after a bit of asking around i've discovered others taking advantage.
Try it and see. The important parts are to have the quest mentioned above and not to loot the quest item. If you do loot the quest item you must delete. Failure to delete the quest item will mean you wont be able to loot old crafty when it catches. You will get a warning 'you can't do that right now'.
I got my Old Crafty over the weekend using the Fishing daily and the Wrathgate chain.
As an Alliance there is a part of the chain where you visit Orgrimmar and after chatting with Thrall I sat down and had a good fish.
No gankings at all, it was very peaceful. :)
Alliance get all he breaks. Where's our Winterspring Tiger?
I caught Old Crafty too, after something like 572 casts (don't remember the exact number). I must shamefully admit that the last 30 casts were with the Crocolisks in the City daily in my quest log. I was really trying to get the little bugger unaided. But oh well ... the 4 deaths (over two separate corpse run journeys) and 572 casts I had to endure along the way make me feel slightly better about myself. :)
Pipre <Deadly Salty>, 1 year ago:Just tried this trick today, and it worked. Got him on my fourth cast.
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