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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>, 7 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>, 7 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>, 7 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>, 7 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>, 6 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>, 6 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>, 6 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 <Angler>, 6 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>, 6 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>, 6 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.

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