This achievement is driving me mad! For a week now, I've only needed Thrall's Gold Coin. I have Silver in the City and Penny for your Thoughts completed since last Friday. Since then, I've fished at least 30 minutes every day in the damn fountain, sometimes an hour, and that last coin still refuses to drop! I think I've spent as much time fishing just for the last coin as I spent fishing for all the others.
Anyone else in this situation? Argh!
Chromie and Arugal. Had the rest done for a while. Alternatively, I've have a stack of 8-10 of Archimonde's left even after using them for buffs, and I'd guess an average of five of all the rest of the golds.
It took me about 3 1/2 hours to get all the coins I needed. Thrall's coin was one of the rare golds, but I did get a total of two of them by the time I was done.
After the first hour of fishing, I only needed 5 coins: 1 copper, 1 silver, and 3 gold. (A friend of mine reported the same pattern). After another hour of fishing I got the missing copper. After another hour I got the missing silver, and two of the missing golds. The final gold came up about 1/2 hour later.
Here are some suggestions:
-- Throw back your gold coins (one at a time!). During the 2 minutes that the luck buff lasts, you should get seven catches. 2 to 4 of these should be coins.
-- Get your fishing up so that you don't have any fish "getting away", as this wastes your luck buff. Here are some ideas to increase your fishing skill:
1. Use the best pole you can get, but use the +25 Pagle pole as a minimum.
2. Use a +100 lure (a good source of these is the Outlands daily fishing quest)
3. Go to the Dalaran sewers and search for Underbelly Elixirs. If you are lucky, drinking one of these will turn you into a walrus guy with +50 fishing skill.
4. Use your cooking skill to brew up some Captain Rumsey's Lager which will give you another +10 skill.
5. Get the +5 fishing enchant for a pair of "fishing gloves".
These measures alone will boost your skill by 190, which should be enough to avoid the "your fish got away" problem for anyone with a skill in the upper 300's.
Of course, you may also have other "+" goodies that this site can tell you about, but the one's I've listed are probably the easiest to do.
-- If you haven't already done so, bind a key or a mouse button to the casting "spell" so that you don't waste any time re-casting once you've clicked on the float.
-- Get out your favorite pet, clean it so it sparkles, and feed it a pet treat so that it loves you. This, of course, has absolutely no effect on your fishing skill or chance to catch anything, but it does make you feel better, and you can always toss a ball of wool for it to fetch every so often to help break the monotony... :)
Hope this helps and Good Luck!
Nice tips, but unfortunately, I'm using all the coin buffs I can, I have 450 fishing and maximum buffs from fishing gear (including the hat lure), and I certainly do have fishing bound to a key.
I just spent another 2 hours fishing for Thrall's coin and still nothing, although someone next to me caught one...
Ok... after ANOTHER hour of fishing, I finally got the damn thing! I now have the title and my Seal. :) Now to work on the sewer rat...
I caught all but Teron's coin within a few hours. It then took me about 7 hours over a few days to get the last one. I hate RNG sometimes.
Funny enough, one of the copper coins was the last coin for me to find. In fact, right before I caught my last coin, I had just caught an extra Thrall's Gold Coin. I never got to use it because I caught the last copper coin before my previous Lucky buff wore off.
Now I have a Titanium Seal & Thrall's Gold coin in my Gigantique bag for good luck. My Mr. Pinchy was obtained next to Thrall so The Warchief brings me good Fishing luck for some reason. Whatever, For The Horde!
Yender wrote:
I caught all but Teron's coin within a few hours. It then took me about 7 hours over a few days to get the last one. I hate RNG sometimes.
RNG really does suck. I think I caught 20 Teron's coins trying to get Thrall's, it was the most common gold coin for me.
kamitomo wrote:
It took me about 3 1/2 hours to get all the coins I needed. Thrall's coin was one of the rare golds, but I did get a total of two of them by the time I was done.
After the first hour of fishing, I only needed 5 coins: 1 copper, 1 silver, and 3 gold. (A friend of mine reported the same pattern). After another hour of fishing I got the missing copper. After another hour I got the missing silver, and two of the missing golds. The final gold came up about 1/2 hour later.
It took me a bit longer, as I did not fish consecutively (here and there in between questing and guild 5-man runs). But I did wind up needing only 1 copper, 1 silver, and 4 golds after a few hours' worth of fishing. Then I got both the copper and the silver within a few minutes of each other... and then another half hour to get three of the four gold coins I was missing. It took another couple of hours before I finally got that last elusive gold coin (Arthas', wouldn't you know it!)
Now on dungeon runs, I'm being asked to flip my seal to decide whether we take the left or right path ;)
Thrall's gold coin was the second or third gold coin I caught. There are only two gold coins I've caught more than once; can't remember what one of them was offhand, but it was NOT Thrall's. The other was Jaina's.
I wasn't going to go to Dalaran until I could get there under my own steam, but I have been leveling slowly and a Warlock guildie was making an event of pulling us all in ...
I tried fishing the fountain for the first time last night. I don't use add-ons, so I have no stats, but I was there for probably three hours, on and off. What struck me was the behavior. Fishing (STV fishing comp aside) used to be a bit genteel, but I observed all kinds on people rolling up and parking *on* other players, and non-fishers were delighting in "griefing" us by thrashing about in the fountain while mounted on Kodos or Mammoths or purposefully passing between the anglers and their lures.
Is this usual on a PvE server? It was like a Gnome turned up and pee'd in my moonwell :(
missing thrall's too. today i will take time, gain thralls coin and with it the salty title
If you can get several people to fish in the same fountain and all throw in simultaneous gold coins, the odds get better. Kind of hard to tell how many had active gold coins at the same time, but with five fishing in the same tiny fountain next to the trainer, I was getting about 80-90% coins for a minute or so. Happened repeatedly when there were a bunch fishing at the same time. Biggest drawback is the hassle of trying to watch your lure with that many lures in the same pool. Couldn't rely on the sound at all.
Finally got thrall's coin last night,and with it the fun of casually flipping my titanium seal :D
Had to pretty much fish up every copper coin over again by the time i finally landed it though,and at one point there were 7 of us all fishing at once,so I couldn't even take my eyes of my bobber to read guildchat.
The only thing holding me up from being salty now is winning the extravagan(k)za.....this may take a while ......
Sigh
2 gold coins to go since i hit the wall..ive gotten each gold coin again..just not the 2 i need =(
Guess I'll just hug my rat and keep trying
Dethwolf wrote:
Sigh
2 gold coins to go since i hit the wall..ive gotten each gold coin again..just not the 2 i need =(
Guess I'll just hug my rat and keep trying
I'm in the same boat, have 2 gold coins left... caught all the others at least 3 times (some even more then 10 times...)
I had all but one gold coin within 4 hours of fishing, and then an additional 2 hours before I was very discouraged not getting that dopey Argual's gold coin (after I got all other gold coins at least twice). It was the very last coin before that wonderful Salty title, and after seeing how anxious and disappointed I was getting, my girlfriend suggested "what if you move just a few feet away and try fishing??" I figured it wouldn't make a difference but I did it anyway, and lo-and-behold, the very NEXT cast, what do I fish up???? Argual's Gold Coin!!! To all those anglers out there, just hang in there. You'll get that title and the congratulations soon enough. :)
Took me on or off about 6 hours to get the achievement. The big problem are the griefers who need to demonstrate their lack of life by jumping into the fountain with a vehicle type mount and block the view of everyone's lure. Now that I have my coin, my next objective is the rat.
I got all the silver coins before all the coppers. I had been fishing for a couple hours and I was only missing Arugal's coin, when a guildie asked for help with a group quest in Grizzly Hills. I tagged along, and who were we there to kill? Arugal, of course. After we killed him, I ported myself back to Dalaran, and caught the last gold coin in fairly short order.
So I'm a cute little gnome flipping my coin in Dalaran and along comes a big giant Tauren and he starts flipping his coin too. We stand around emoting at each other for a while. Funny how you can make friends over a silly little coin. :)
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