Minime's fishing guide

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Minime's fishing guide

#1 » Post by Minime » 19 May 2010 10:18

Hello, here are my fishing tips. Hope you will like them.

Here at first one, I will tell you why to fish and in which areas are for which skills.

1.0 Basics:

1.1 Why fish

Fishing is not an essential professional skill. Many players lead happy and for filled lives without ever catching a fish. But there are plenty of good reasons to fish. Here is a summary:

-It is classed as a secondary profession. This means learning to fish does not limit what other professions you may learn.
-It can be relaxing. It gives space to think or socialise between adventures or battles.

-It is a good source of food, including food that gives "buffs" ((bonuses to attributes)).

-It can provide a modest gold income for little risk.

-It complements other professions, for example:
Cooking - most fish can be cooked.
Alchemy - some reagents can only be gained by fishing.
Others - some catches can be used in other manufacturing professions. For example, cloth for Tailoring. The main source of materials for those professions is not fishing.

-Hunters can use fish as an easy source of pet food.

-It allows certain achievements to be completed.

-It rewards certain minipets and mounts.

-It opens up some extra quests, and allows a few dungeon creatures to be summoned.

In spite of these benefits, the main requirement for enjoying fishing is patience. Some people have patience, and some do not...

1.2 Skill Required by Location

You can cast into any open water with fishing skill 1, but each area also has a "no-junk skill".

If your effective fishing skill equals the no-junk skill, you will not catch junk in open water: Every catch will be a regular fish or item. Your effective fishing skill is your personal fishing skill, plus bonuses from gear and lures. Try to fish with at least the no-junk skill, if fishing in open water. There is no known extra advantage for having your effective fishing skill above the no-junk skill.

If your effective fishing skill is below the no-junk skill, a proportion of your catches from open water will be a junk item, such as Driftwood. Junk items can be sold to vendors, but are not valuable (averaging 35c per catch). It is best to avoid catching a lot of junk!

The greater the difference between your effective fishing skill and the no-junk skill, the more junk you will catch. The precise formula is derived here.

For example, Dalaran requires 525 skill to fish without junk. If you fish there with skill 500, only 9% of your catch will be junk. At skill 50, 99% of catches will be junk. Dwarves with only 50 effective fishing skill, might never catch a proper fish in Dalaran.

Here's the table with the locations and skills:

25 Azuremyst Isle, Dun Morogh, Durotar, Elwynn Forest, Eversong Woods, Mulgore, Teldrassil

75 The Barrens (except Oasis), Blackfathom Deeps, Bloodmyst Isle, Darkshore, Darnassus, The Deadmines, Ghostlands, Ironforge, Loch Modan, Orgrimmar, Silverpine Forest, Stormwind City, Thunder Bluff, Undercity, The Wailing Caverns and Westfall

100 The Barrens (Oasis)

150 Ashenvale, Duskwood, Hillsbrad Foothills, Redridge Mountains, Stonetalon Mountains and Wetlands

225 Alterac Mountains, Arathi Highlands, Desolace, Dustwallow Marsh, Scarlet Monastery, Stranglethorn Vale (except Jaguero Isle), Swamp of Sorrows and Thousand Needles

300 Azshara (General), Felwood, Feralas (General), The Hinterlands, Maraudon, Moonglade, Stranglethorn Vale (Jaguero Isle), Tanaris, The Temple of Atal'Hakkar, Un'Goro Crater and Western Plaguelands

375 Hellfire Peninsula, Nagrand (Forge Camp Hate) and Shadowmoon Valley

400 Coilfang Reservoir and Zangarmarsh (East)

425 Azshara (Bay of Storms), Burning Steppes, Deadwind Pass, Eastern Plaguelands, Feralas (Jademir Lake), Scholomance, Silithus, Stratholme, Winterspring, Zul'Aman and Zul'Gurub

450 Isle of Quel'Danas, Terokkar Forest (Rivers) and Zangarmarsh (West)

475 Borean Tundra, Dragonblight, Grizzly Hills, Howling Fjord, Nagrand (General), Netherstorm and Zul'Drak

490 Nagrand (Lakes)

500 Crystalsong Forest and Terokkar Forest (Lakes)

525 Dalaran, Sholazar Basin and Wintergrasp

550 Hrothgar's Landing, Icecrown, Storm Peaks and Ulduar

575 The Frozen Sea

1.3 (Not) Catching Junk

1. Fish Anywhere with Skill 1
You can cast in any water with fishing skill 1.
You will always catch something. But you may catch a lot of junk items from open water.

Tip: Junk is only caught from open water. You will never catch junk from pools

2. Junk
There are 8 common junk items (Driftwood, Empty Clam, Sickly Fish, Tangled Fishing Line, Tattered Cloth, Torn Sail, Weeds and Withered Kelp) and 5 uncommon junk items (Empty Rum Bottle, Old Boot, Rock, Tree Branch and Water Snail).

All junk items sell to vendors, but are not very valuable: 18c each, except Tattered Cloth and Rock, which sell for 1s. The average income from fishing junk is just 35c per catch.

Tip: The most valuable catches can be auctioned for gold, so it is usually best to avoid catching junk. However, 35c per catch is more valuable than some low-level fish, such as Raw Brilliant Smallfish.

3. Area No-Junk Skill
Every area of water has a "no-junk skill". This is the effective fishing skill required to fish without ever catching a junk fish from the water.

Skill and Locations lists the no-junk skill for every zone or area. You can also find this information in the Fish Finder.

Tip: The "no-junk skill" is the same number as the old "skill to fish without get-aways".

4. Amount of Junk Caught
If your own effective fishing skill is equal to, or above, the water's "no-junk skill", you will never catch junk items from the water.

If your skill is below the no-junk skill, you will catch some junk.

The more below, the more junk you will catch.

5. Example: Tanaris
Tanaris' no-junk skill is 300.

150 fishing skill = 75% of catches from open water (3 out of every 4) will be a junk item.

260 fishing skill = 25% of catches will be a junk item. 3 out of every 4 catches will be a normal fish.

300 skill or above = you will never catch junk in Tanaris.

Other zones/areas have different no-junk skills.


1.4 Fishing poles

A fishing pole must be equipped in your main hand to catch fish. Only one pole may be equipped at a time.

Most fishing poles give bonuses to fishing skill: While the pole is equipped, your effective fishing skill will be increased by the bonus. So if you skill is 100, and you equip a Big Iron Fishing Pole with +20 bonus, your effective fishing skill will be 120. Bonuses from poles stack with bonuses from other Fishing Gear and Lures.

Poles are held like weapons, and can be used in combat. They cannot be enchanted (except with lines), and using them will not raise combat skills (such as "unarmed").

This was all about the basics. I will post other guides later.

Enjoy your fishing time and don't forget: "Never leave your fishing pole home, you will never know where you will need it!"

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Eros

Re: Minime's fishing guide

#2 » Post by Eros » 20 Nov 2010 16:19

awesome guide.

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Minime

Re: Minime's fishing guide

#3 » Post by Minime » 09 Dec 2010 22:51

/bow
Thank you, hope it helped ya a bit =)
Back then I had quite much time to do this stuff...and I'll maybe have again at summer, or at winter (26-2).

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Re: Minime's fishing guide

#4 » Post by Shlavenzo » 16 Dec 2010 01:18

Cool guide mate , thnx :)

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Nytrox

Re: Minime's fishing guide

#5 » Post by Nytrox » 13 Feb 2011 14:00

Thank you,Minime.
lol .. you helped me a lot ;]

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Minime

Re: Minime's fishing guide

#6 » Post by Minime » 21 Mar 2011 11:08

Late respond, but thanks.

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Re: Minime's fishing guide

#7 » Post by Aquilusnex » 01 Apr 2011 14:44

I've fished a lot in the game but have never caught junk o.O and I know I've fished under the no-junk skill (a lot, too). I tend to go to Tanaris at 200 fishing, for example. Other than that, looks like a good guide. I didn't see you mention the possibility of engineering mats from fishing (more prevalent in outland/northrend but also in azeroth some) or ore (outland/northrend) catches. I also didn't see any mention of the fishing extravaganza hat (the BB one) which is an item that 10-19 twinks used on retail due to the stats on it and the fact there was no minimum level... it WAS possible for a 10-19 to get it. Unless they fixed that or the fishing extravaganza doesn't work here...?

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Re: Minime's fishing guide

#8 » Post by Minime » 04 Apr 2011 08:26

For the first, thanks, and evryone catches junk! And well, It was the first time I started this, and well, you can gather all the stuff from the game, there's just too much!

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Re: Minime's fishing guide

#9 » Post by Powdered » 04 Apr 2011 09:23

do the fishing events work and if so
what time does it happen (im cst time -6 gmt)
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Re: Minime's fishing guide

#10 » Post by Minime » 11 Apr 2011 11:10

Hmm, when I was last time fishing (PHOOO, long ago) It didn't worked. But IDK now.

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