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[Fishing] WOTLK Fishing is in!

  1. By Thalen <Angler> 3 months ago

    Very preliminary, but I discovered today that you can fish in the sewers in Dalaran, first place I've seen in there that didn't tell me there were no fish there.

    I've seen 3 fish so far (pygmy suckerfish, glassfin minnow, and bonescale snapper). They're all white text, so you can't eat these for health or anything, but they're probably cookable at some point.

    Looks like my leveling is on hold, I'm off to find more!

    (got quite a few 'fish got away' wearing just my arc pole and the hat/boots, but with the hat lure applied, I was getting pretty much 0 misses, and the fish were coming up 2 at a time).

  2. By Thalen <Angler> 3 months ago

    Quick update...it's not much Dalaran, I've been fishing up imperial Manta Rays, Borean Man 'O Wars, and Rockfin Groupers in Valiance Keep (between crippling waves of lag >.<)

  3. By el <Nat Pagle's Love Child> 3 months ago

    You can find my observations here. I'd welcome additions, particularly on rare fish (there don't seem to be any yet) and pools (aside from quests, I've only found Nettlefish School, and even then, only a handful of spawn points). I suspect fishing is only about half done.

    Pygmy Suckerfish are usable by Alchemists to create Pygmy Oil (which essentially turns you into a gnome with a scary mask - probably exciting if you aren't a gnome already). Otherwise, I suspect we're going to have to wait for Cooking recipes to appear.

    The 2 obvious bugs at the moment are unnamed coastal areas containing inland fish (just like the TBC Azeroth zones) and some quirks in Dalaran, where if the bobber lands very close to a wall, the skill requirement is minimal and the catch includes Raw Brilliant Smallfish.

    (I'm still slightly bemused by the fact that all the main WoW news sites completely missed the introduction of fishing.)

  4. By Thalen <Angler> 3 months ago

    Thanks, missed that post. If I run across anything new I'll let you know :-)

  5. By smoo <Angler> 3 months ago

    mmo-champion.com does give some information about fishing, and the changes to fishing. Not every news site ignored it. :)

  6. By el <Nat Pagle's Love Child> 3 months ago

    Smoo: Could you link to the precise information please? I watch that site quite carefully (Boubouille and I play the same "beta exploration" mini-game), but I've only seen recent references to the BlizzCast interview.

  7. By smoo <Angler> 3 months ago

    Maybe you expect more, but there was the part in the Interview - Jon LeCraft (Profession designer), and some information scattered(?) through the news over the last past days. :)

    But youre right, there was no major newspost regarding the fishing... :)

  8. By GIGAR <Angler> 3 months ago

    They should really add some fishing quest that gives XP for lover lvls D:
    It's boring as hell to lvl, fishing is just so much more fun :p

  9. By el <Nat Pagle's Love Child> 2 months ago

    Some pools have been added into the latest build: It looks like pools have been added for the less common fish in each zone. So there are schools for Glassfin Minnow and Fangtooth Herring, but not the more common Bonescale Snapper - the same sort of approach used in Outland.

    Plus the trainer in Dalaran is offering Master (previously learnt from the book) and Grand Master (375-450) training (but nothing lower). Grand Master is reported broken on the test forums.

    Unfortunately the server seems to be struggling a little more than usual (and "usual" is pretty dire), both with crashes, disconnects, and a tendency to de-sync in a weird way, all of which makes spotting changes a painfully slow process.

  10. By el <Nat Pagle's Love Child> 2 months ago

    Added everything I know so far to the Fish Finder - see pools. I will write it up in more detail later. Tentatively, all the pools have a 100% catch rate of the named fish.

    I get the feeling that these pools are not yet fully implemented or balanced.

  11. By rakoth <Angler> 2 months ago

    I assume the max fishing level will be 450. Do you have any idea how many catches per skill level will be need to reach it?

    I thought going from 6 to 10-11 at 300 was a big jump. Hopefully we don't need significantly more.

  12. By el <Nat Pagle's Love Child> 2 months ago

    Just under 1,000 catches from 375 to 450, as described here.

    I should add: What I don't know yet is whether 300-375 has been made easier.

    Oh: And I couldn't find a Horde fishing trainer in Borean Tundra. I presume here is one - I've just missed it.

  13. By Zhivago <Angler> 2 months ago

    Not really just fishing, but as so many Fishers are Cookers, thought this post from World Of Raids with these new cooking recipes would be helpful:

    WotLK Cooking Recipes

  14. By el <Nat Pagle's Love Child> 2 months ago

    Thanks Zhivago. I'd seen a similar list on MMO-Champion earlier yesterday.

    It transpires that there are quite a lot more recipes via the new daily cooking quests in Dalaran. It's a token system, where each daily rewards a single "Dalaran Cooking Award", and you then trade in the awards for recipes and reagents. There are 5 dailies available as I type, but like Jewelcrafting, I'm not sure how much choice there will be on live.

    I'll write this up in full "later", but to give some idea, here are the (unchecked) buffs from the fishing-related token recipes:

    80 Attack Power, 40 Stamina
    40 Critical Rating, 40 Stamina
    16 MP5, 40 Stamina
    46 Spell Power, 40 Stamina
    40 Haste Rating, 40 Stamina
    40 Hit Rating, 40 Stamina
    40 Spirit, 40 Stamina
    40 Agility, 40 Stamina
    40 Strength, 40 Stamina

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