Schools Of Fish, Whats the point?Follow

I've heard of "junk" pools or "shipwreck" pools or somesuch where you fish up mostly boxes.

People have gotten green items out of those boxes.

Is it worth it? Don't know :-)

I don't think I'd have a good time up there. I'm only lv36. Is there an easy way to get up there? I swam there once but got aggro to much, I was only 29 at the time however, but I know that is a high lv area.

300 is a long way for me now based on the reports I'm reading. I completed the lv cap quest as soon as I hit 35. I hope they fix whatever is wrong with lving or figure out if we have to do somethig different for skill ups.

Thanks for the info. I will plug along the tanaris coastline for now just to see what I can get in those boxes. Hopefully something good.

Fishing was the first thing I checked out when I got into game yesterday. For me, its one of the most exciting things found in the patch. I spent most of my time along the shores of Stranglethorn. While there is a chance to pull up items from the firefin and blackmouth schools, what I was looking for were the pools of wreckage. From these I sometimes pulled out kelp or mugs of ale. But most of the time I pulled up bloated mightfish or mithril bound chests. Though once I reached the beach where the horde outpost is located I started pulling out iron bound chests. So those waters must be lower level.

From the bloated mightfish I caught I pulled out one Citrine, four star rubies and one level 40 ring. Each of the mithril bound chests contained coins, one to two silver. The rest was random. Sometime all I got were coins. Sometimes I’d get five or six items. There were manna and healing potions. I collected about six green pieces of armor from levels 38 to 44. I had a couple of stacks of rugged leather and about 20 bolts of runecloth. I was rather impressed with the runecloth, as those 20 bolts are equal to 100 sheets of runecloth.

I’m very pleased with Blizzard for putting some fun back into fishing. It’s a shame that cheaters had to ruin fishing for everyone for over a year. But now fishing can be exciting again. I think its great that I got more green items from my time fishing than I’ve gotten from soloing sections of SM. This should help enchanters a great deal.

I’ll have to take my level 60 rogue to the Bay of Storms and see what he can pull up. His fishing pole is +25 and he has fishing boots for an additional +5. But it’s still only going to be hit or miss using +50 lures. I’ll take some +100s with me just in case, but with all that running around I kind of hate to use them.

Also check inland waters for schools of Sagefish. When cooked the greater Sagefish will heal both your health and manna while sitting and eating. And they also give manna regen for ten minutes after eating. My druid is very excited about these.

Well, I found about five wreckage pools in my first sweep down the shore of Stranglethorn. However, keep in mind that this took place when nobody else was looking for them. I expect they’ll be harder to find for a while when the masses learn what can be pulled from them. I also pulled up mithril bound chests from the shore of Tanaris. So if you know of some less traveled shore lines in that level range they might well be worth visiting.

I found the fishing nodes to be hellafun. I caught sacks full of junk off the coast in the Barrens and sagefish galore in Silverpine. It was like Winter Veil all over again openning those crates and bloated fish for items.

I do have a couple concerns.

(1) Fish like oily blackmouths used to sell for 10s each. I fear their price will drop dramatically now that they are so simple to catch in quantity (each blackmouth school seemed to give up 3-6 fish...so catching them is much less time consuming and there are schools all over the place).

(2) Now everyone will want to fish. Again, that will decrease the profit from what already was a poor way to make money. Then again, a greater population will benefit from having more materials available for themselves to use.

I love the nodes, don't get me wrong, but I think there are just too many of them.

Of course, it's also fun to mess with those pesky paladin fishermen by fishing their holes. He had no business fishing in the shadow of Tarren Mill, anyhow!

Just curious, any luck? I scoured Bay of Storms with no luck for about 2 hours.

What is the Swirling Maelstrom? And why did they put it in the middle so only those who can walk on water/levitate can fish? :(

Yea, that river by Tauren Mill rocked. I don't know how often you find pools there but when I saw one I got pretty good stuff. Threw my lure in 3 times. First time caught a fish. Second time caught some drink that raised my Stamina by 10. The last time I got a chest with some money and a green item inside. Wanted to stay longer but I was on a mission...

I first found this out when I was wandering around in the Wetlands. I found some school of blackmouths and firefins there...

And after reading this thread and this:

I'm thinking about to combine these areas for fishing, go to theramore and memethil by hopping on the boats...

/ty