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[Contests] Open forum to past champions: Do you use special potions / gear to win?

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  1. Gihelle <Salty>, 11 months ago:

    I help my guildies with my DK, nowadays... she has a Sons of Hodir mammoth and she's Unholy with the 15% speed aura.

    It's not as fast as Crusader Aura, but it saves the time to mount/dismount.

  2. Pipre <Deadly Salty>, 11 months ago:

    The biggest advantage in the fishing tourney right now is path of frost or waterwalking, which allows you to quickly get to pools that are offshore. Pools that would otherwise be off limits.

  3. Zallanada <Angler>, 11 months ago:

    I won STV Sunday the 29th of March, 2009 on Korialstrasz, a PvE realm.

    I used my epic mount, crusader aura, two potions of water walking and three sharpened fish hooks to secure my victory. I used my Big Iron Fishing Pole. This pole has High Test Eternium Line, and has now won me two STV tourneys, as it is the best pole that can be passed from toon-to-toon. I had no fishing enchants, no other fishing gear, and ~325 fishing skill.

    I flew to BB 15 minutes prior to the start of the contest and set my hearth there; this gave me the power to end the contest when I caught my 40th tastyfish.

    I moved fish to actionkey 1, and assigned mousewheel up as a secondary key for actionkey 1; this let me mousewheel up to cast/re-cast. My rod was also hotkeyed, as were my lures and my potions. I enabled autolooting. The fishing process was as simple as wheeling up until a good cast hit, and right clicking to autoloot. Since my rod was hotkeyed next to my bait, that was another short click-cast away. I cleared my main bag and kept it open to track my progress. (I will look into writing a good STV macro... there must be an elegant solution.)

    I positioned myself prominently on the peninsula opposite north of Gazban's Isle prior to the start of the contest; this placed me within easy reach of the nodes immediately along the coast to the west. It also made this stretch of land more crowded, discouraging fishing there from the start.

    I baited up at 13:57 server time, so I would start the contest with a lure on. Once it did, I fished out the nodes on the peninsula and to the west. After competitors arrived, I popped the water-walking potion, mounted up, and hit the nodes on Gazban's Isle. By alternating between the isle and the shore, I could avoid knots of competitors. I rebaited and potioned on the island, and stayed in this general area until my third bait. Then I hit the shore and went southeast until I hit my quota and hearthed.

    A rude surprise awaited me in BB. A flagged Night Elf on a warbear had positioned himself right over Bassbait at the turn-in. The jerk was spinning around and it took me about a minute to double click past him to end the competition. Heaven help me had I been horde. =P

  4. Oom <Angler>, 11 months ago:

    mart4510 wrote:

    Hi all,
    I have a question for those of you who won the tournament in the past through regular means (ie: won because of a server restart, low number of competitors...etc)
    I'm mainly interested in non-twinks as twinks obviously need to work much harder then level 70 toons:
    - Do you use running or swimming speed potions or do you just rely on your mount to get you places?
    - Do you have guildmates / other people helping you to win the tournament?
    - Do you camp the same pools and patrol them until one spawns or do you just travel up or down the coast?
    - Have you ever won the tournament from solely fishing at the lake and rivers outside of ZG by those venture mining company goblins?
    I am interested in hearing from you and I would like to see what strategies past winners have used. Clearly it comes down to luck... where you are on the map relative to other people... spawns of the pools... etc.

    I've attempted the fishing contest 4 times, 3 for myself, once for a friend. I've won 2/4 times (both on different characters)

    My first attempt I didn't do much reading on it, just decided I'd try it. Didn't even set my hearth to BB. I hung out south of BB and that was a terrible idea. The 2 times I did win, I had my hearth set, I scouted the area before hand (west coast, north and south of Grom'Gol) and I had swim speed pots (for my mage) just incase. I won both times in BC, pre-achievement patch :P

    Stay away from the pools half buried, you will have Los problems. Stay away from crowded pools as well. I didn't have any guildies helping me.

    Best of luck to you!

  5. Faderaven <Angler>, 9 months ago:

    mart4510 wrote:

    Hi all,

    I've won this event twice now. I have it easier as I'm not on a pvp server...and I've never seen a mammoth blocking a fishing pool.
    - Do you use running or swimming speed potions or do you just rely on your mount to get you places?
    I used Water Walking potions, a Glowworm (only have to apply one bobber for the whole event) and made some Captain Ramsey's Lager. I had caught the turtle mount earlier that day but I'd go with the WW potions - much faster.
    - Do you have guildmates / other people helping you to win the tournament?
    No.
    - Do you camp the same pools and patrol them until one spawns or do you just travel up or down the coast?
    I found a good spot. Its a cove below Grom'gol. Many pools spawn there and respawn like crazy during the event. Also, since it's a cove the curved shoreline means there is less travel time between pools.
    - Have you ever won the tournament from solely fishing at the lake and rivers outside of ZG by those venture mining company goblins?
    No.

  6. Deatharon <Salty>, 9 months ago:

    I won this event today. I went to the east coast, as far north as possible, around 20 minutes before the competition started. 15 minutes before the start, I was ganked by 3 Horde. I decided to spirit rez and run as quickly as I could go Gazban's Isle, remembering a post on this forum.

    It worked. I stayed on the isle, or the coast 50yds in either direction. One Horde (part of the gank squad) rode by, but I saw him before he saw me, and managed to run westerly enough to avoid him. A fellow Alliance stopped for a bit to compete with me for a node, but quickly left when he saw that there were so few nodes around.

    I used most of the tricks I found here and on wowhead(macro to keep track of tastyfish, re-casting when in even the slightest doubt about whether the bobber was on target, etc) and basically got to 40 with no trouble at all. I hearthed, claimed the hook, and that was that.

  7. anakhahawk <Angler>, 9 months ago:

    I've not attempted the Extravaganza but am keen to give it a go when I can free up a Sunday afternoon. I have a quick question about handing in:
    Is there a shortcut key to target the NPC and initiate chat to hand in the 40 fish. Was wondering if there was a way to get around the problem of people on mounts covering the NPC ?

    Thank You

  8. Al <Salty>, 9 months ago:

    Alas, I haven't yet had to deal with this particular problem, but applying some baby spices (from Dalaran cooking quests) often helps me find a flight master when someone is on a mammoth mount sitting on top of him/her. Also helps when the offending player is sitting on a tasty fish school.

  9. anakhahawk <Angler>, 9 months ago:

    wyrmsmom wrote:

    Alas, I haven't yet had to deal with this particular problem, but applying some baby spices (from Dalaran cooking quests) often helps me find a flight master when someone is on a mammoth mount sitting on top of him/her. Also helps when the offending player is sitting on a tasty fish school.

    Don't know why I hadn't thought of that!
    Thanks wyrm :)

  10. heraklen <Angler>, 9 months ago:

    anakhahawk wrote:

    I've not attempted the Extravaganza but am keen to give it a go when I can free up a Sunday afternoon. I have a quick question about handing in:
    Is there a shortcut key to target the NPC and initiate chat to hand in the 40 fish. Was wondering if there was a way to get around the problem of people on mounts covering the NPC ?
    Thank You

    You can also press V to get up the name/healtbars to be able to klick on that bar to target the NPC.

  11. Brenden -Lightbringer <Angler>, 1 month ago:

    I won by noticing that there were a couple of "bugged" pools nearby, where the texture didn't show up on the surface of the water - only the sparkles. I fished each of them once and got a tastyfish so I knew they worked, then I "saved" them. I saw a lot of people ride up to them, stop, and move on. When I got up to 35 fish, I went to my "bugged" pools and fished them out to get 40, and hearthed to win.

    I also used elixirs of water walking the whole time. One suggestion- when you start to hearth, make sure you're on land or under water- my elixir expired 8s into my hearth and dropped me into the water, cancelling the hearth cast! I thought I had lost for sure, but I still barely beat 2 dk's and a hunter to the turn in guy - thanks, Pursuit of Justice!

  12. jasonpatterson <Angler>, 1 month ago:

    I just won this past weekend on Madoran(PVE).

    I'm an engineer/rogue, so I have two speed buffs, however, I only used these when I saw a nearby pool on my minimap, otherwise it was my mount.

    I fished the east coast, starting at the zombie troll ruins and heading south from there. I didn't see anyone else until I got to the giant halfway down the coast, and from there I was swamped by others.

    I kept going whenever I saw someone fishing a pool unless I had just seen them start there, as I had no idea about how many fish it had left.

    If I had already caught two fish and someone else joined me, I only continued fishing if I had cast before them (presumably also resulting in a catch before them.)

    At one point a huge mob of fishers were swamping the bit just north of the bloodsail pirates. I rode through, and there was nobody there at all, I'm guessing that the group that started at the southern tip had met the group starting in the middle portion of the coast. As a result, I got two or three schools to myself by riding farther south where the southern group had just come from.

    I then rode back north along the coast and got 3 more schools to myself back at the zombie ruins and a lucky catch in a pool with 4 people for my 40th fish.

    Hearth, rocket boots to the finish, know ahead of time what you're going to pick as your reward.

  13. Al <Salty>, 1 month ago:

    After many fruitless attempts ... and a few spells of "why bother?" I finally won this contest.

    I fished my "first" area - on the west coast, in the bay south and east of the Grom'gol base camp. I kept a water walking potion up so I would not be slowed down running from pool to pool. I only mounted up once in search of a pool that wasn't already crowded.

    There was not too much competition, but that's been the case a few times in the past. I'm on a pve server, so opposing faction players are merely annoying competitors - not a mortal threat. The only difference ... if I could name one ... was that I seemed to pull fewer "non-tastyfish" from the pools (blackmouth, eels & firefins).

    That certainly didn't have anything to do with any steps I took in prior contests.

    Al (aka: Wyrmsmom)

  14. Garroch <Salty>, 1 month ago:

    I just won! So I'd be happy to share my strategy, which is very similar to those posted on here, but there is one thing I'm going to stress.

    First, obviously, your fishing should be high enough to where you don't have to worry about lures, drinks, or anything like that. Just the fishing pole.

    Second, Water-Walking potions. Necessary to level the playing field between you and DKs/Shammies. And I can't tell you how many pools are more accessible from the ocean than from the shore.

    Third. Know the area, and know the limits of your radar. Take for example, the cove south of Grom'Gol. What would you spend more time doing, going all the way around the cove on the beach, or across the cove (with Water Walking), with your radar skirting the far shoreline? Make sure you know the limits of your radar, and use it to your advantage to create shortcuts.

    Finally. Learn to trust respawns. So many times I'll be fishing, working my way south from Grom'Gol, and the zerg from Booty Bay will work it's way north to me. So many angler's think that that carrion swarm has obviously fished everything out. Not so. The respawns on pools are so fast that you can find a pool 100 yds behind the zerg very, very often. Never get caught up in the zerg. Just wave at them, and travel to where they were. It WILL be an area now where you can fish alone for 5-6 min. Also, never fish in someone else's pool, unless they just made their first cast. Move on, it's not worth your time.

    And between Grom'Gol and Arena is definitely the place to be!

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