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[Fishing] WoLK speculation

  1. Zhivago <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    So, fellow anglers, time to speculate on WoLK fishing stuff. As I am totally freaked by the benefits of fishing, I can't wait for the expansion.

    1) The 3 Ring -- you know we want it, you know it will drop.

    2) Spell Inscription -- squid ink, pearls, and maybe some Incriptions themselves for our fishing equipment (like casting speed increase - more fish, more faster).

    3) Pets -- I don't have Mr. Pinchy (yet!!!), but maybe his brother, or wierd uncle, Mr. Pinchy Pants.

    4) I know guild or player housing has oft been discussed and tabled, but if it ever comes out, I want to be able to make Fishing Trophies and hang them on my walls.

    5) Fishing Boats -- forget those Elixirs of Water Walking. I wanna get in my boat, row out to my favorite spot, down a couple of Captain Rumsey's Lagers, and fish the sfternoon way.

    That's all I have for know. Put on those fishing caps and think of some more fun.

  2. Spellbinder <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    Maybe not a funfactor as such, but i am annoyed over one thing. Skill/catch ratio, i'll make 2 examples.

    Example one: You are fishing floating shipwrecks after trunks, now with 253 in fishing skill you could get whatever, thats ok. BUT if i skilled up my fishing and i have all the right gear i should have a higher ratio on the trunks then the one with only 253, meaning much less Strangle kelp and other fishes as oily blackmouth and fire snapper.

    Example two: Extravaganza, i know some might think it is unfair, but really why would some one with 375 in skill and 517 with all the right gear catch oily blackmout, strangle kelp and fire snapper in Spotted Tastyfish pools?

    Like IRL, it is called targeting fishing, the better fisherman you are and right gear (right lure for specific speciment, know where to plant your bait etc) the higher the chance to catch what you came to fish.

    I guess this is hard to make real in WoW but i sure could whish.

  3. Oberweiss <Moderator>, 1 year ago:

    IRL, having a better fishing pole doesn't really affect what fish you catch. My little cousin caught a big fish on her "The Little Mermaid" kid's fishing pole. Plus, if fishing in WoW was truly realistic, we would have hour-long fishing outings where we caught absolutely nothing. :)

    Part of what I enjoy about fishing is its randomness. If I knew I could go to a certain pond and get an 80% catch rate of the fish I wanted by just standing there and casting, that would be pretty boring. Hunting for schools makes it more interesting, as does not knowing exactly how many fish you'll get out of each school. It's like those eBay commercials say, "It's better when you win it."

  4. Calabar <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    Blizzard has done an amazing job with fishing, especially with the fishing daily quests. Hopefully they will continue adding fun stuff to the profession come the expansion. And more pets would, of course, be most welcome. So what if I’m out 30 bank/bag slots already because of my pet collation. *sigh* More are always welcome. Though I really do hope the rumor from a couple of years ago comes true and Blizzard gives us either something like the keychain for mini pets or a kennel that fits in one bag slot but holds 20+ pets.

    As for player housing, that topic is a big can of worms. Pun intended. *grins* Player housing has proved extremely popular in many other games. I still miss my little cabin in the woods from when I played UO. And should Blizzard choose to add player housing to the game I’m sure they would do it right. They have many examples to learn from. Unfortunately, Blizzard doesn’t seem to want to take the game in that direction.

    There is a left over housing portal in Stormwind from back in beta when they were considering adding player housing. But since then Blizzard has shown us that they are more interested in offering raiding and PvP content than role-playing content. There are some small RP elements in game, but they are extremely limited. Blizzard is adding a few more bits of “fluff” to the game with the expansion, such as the ability to change our character’s hair. But I will be very surprised if the powers that be ever add player housing.

    Umm… don’t tell anyone, but I do still have my fingers crossed in hopes of being proven wrong.

  5. Slavaa <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    As for speculation, I read that the Tuskarr are very good fishermen, and they breed penguins...

    Penguin Minipet!

  6. Spellbinder <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    IRL, having a better fishing pole doesn't really affect what fish you catch. My little cousin caught a big fish on her "The Little Mermaid" kid's fishing pole. Plus, if fishing in WoW was truly realistic, we would have hour-long fishing outings where we caught absolutely nothing. :)

    Part of what I enjoy about fishing is its randomness. If I knew I could go to a certain pond and get an 80% catch rate of the fish I wanted by just standing there and casting, that would be pretty boring. Hunting for schools makes it more interesting, as does not knowing exactly how many fish you'll get out of each school. It's like those eBay commercials say, "It's better when you win it."

    I both agree and dissagree with you. As stated in my original post it's probably not as fun.

    I do dissagree with you about "IRL having a better fishing pole doesn't really affect what fish you catch" well maybe not WHAT fish you catch but how big etc. Ok granted that you COULD catch a big fish with little mermaid, but the chance will of course be less then if you have the "right" pole for it or at least if you are able to land it without the pole breaking. And about the WHAT fish to catch i meant more the choices of lure, places and time you fish. Sending out your cousin to catch a pike for example and sending me, the chance that she comes home before me with a pike are really slim to be honest. As i am a skilled fisher and she is not, i will know what lures to use, i would know where they stand etc.

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

    My predictions:

    • 450 cap on fishing skill.
    • A new fishing pole from the Tuskarr.
    • Pools of Crystallized Water (just like Pure Water).
    • Schools of Northern Salmon confusingly fished with a net.
    • Possibly something interesting with harpoons or whales-on-a-rope.
    • At least 3 new fish.

    Blizzard have been getting rather upset with people discussing the content of the Wrath client they accidentally released onto the internet. That limits what I feel I can discuss here. But from the information thus far leaked, Wrath is shaping up to be similar to The Burning Crusade: A whole new tier added to professions, but no radical changes in how things are done. Of course these are still early days, with a good 6 months of development and testing until release.

  8. Yohaun <Angler>, 1 year ago:

    Also:

    New fishing pole that's a spear instead

    New fishing pets (penguins!!!)

    New fishing dailies

    New fishing gear - perhaps leggings or chestpiece, so that new items don't make old (like the current fishing daily hat reward) obsolete

    New type of "Mr. Pinchy" - something like a rare whale you spear that gives you just 1 wish/bonus/item different from Pinchy - maybe a special Fishing quest

    LOTS of new types of fish, and of course cooking recipes. Bonuses will probably be mostly new and and/or only slightly better than Outland bonuses. My reasoning for this is that I've heard the gear stats will scale much more in-line with level in WotLK than they did with BC (so that as soon as you cross into Northrend you're not replacing every blue item you have with a random green). So for example cooking the WotLK-equivalent of Bluefish will give 10 or 12 mp5 instead of only 8. And we'll see new bonuses like +DEF, Resil, Frost (Death Knight) dmg., etc.

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