Daily Fishing QuestFollow

I haven't done them yet. My old main has 375 fishing, but I pretty much only use him to get my new main buff food and other busy work stuff. I am leveling fishing on the new guy and will do those quests once I can. It's a slow process.

If they're anything like the cooking dailies, I'll enjoy them a great deal.

One thing I noticed and didn't realize from the patch notes was the adjustment to the fishing pools - Zangarmarsh used to be 50/50 sporefish/feltail pools (if not more feltail) and now it's mostly sporefish (which is in higher demand, I'd guess). Plus they've added the brackish water pools which have the golden darters (though not spicy crawdads). I use the fishsticks, so haven't seen how this has impacted the price.

I do the fishing daily every day. It's just too easy not to do it. Most of the time, the quest can be completed in less than 5 minutes. Rarely, it will take more than 10 minutes, but that's been the exception. The rewards from completing the quest are just too good to pass up for such an easy quest to finish. Also, with the exception of the baby croc quest and the SMV/Hellfire quest, the extra fish caught while completing the quest are beneficial to either my hunter or healer.

The other thing I like about the fishing daily is the random nature of the rewards. The cooking quest has this element, too, but the rewards from it are not as lucrative as the fishing daily. The possibility of getting vendor trash worth upwards of 25g and other goodies adds a fun element to the fishing daily.

I run the daily fishing quest with both my toons as it is very easy to do with a very nice potential for rewards. You are at least guaranteed a minimum of ~8g upon completion (no outright gold reward, but the bag always has around 7g inside and vendor trash worth at least 1g). I still haven't hit the jackpot in terms of rare items but fishing is a nice break from the PVE/PVP grind. If I only had 5 minutes to play WoW, the fishing daily along with the Skettis egg bombing run would be on the list to complete.

I probably developed carpal tunnel while leveling fishing from 1-375 but I sure did have a lot of savory deviate fish and primal water afterwards. YAAARRRR!

Edited, Apr 14th 2008 5:05pm by justoneguy

Where do you get the daily fishing quest?
Sorry,newb question I know but I've only been playing a couple of months so I am a newb. :-)

Wonder:
Unless you are lvl 58+ you need not worry where to get it. If you are up that high though, the quest can be found just outside shattrath city(fisherman with a blue (!) above his head) on the east side next to the first lake you see in Terrokar Forrest.

Edited, Apr 15th 2008 8:40am by DAVEPLANT

I do the fishing quest every day. The rewards are kind of like winning the lottery. You open the bag and even the bad stuff is good and the good stuff is great. I got Toothy the second day doing the quest and quite a few other nice venderable items throughout the days doing it.

The only one of the quests that I find tedious is the Nagrand quest. That fish just won't land all the rest I get in the first couple of casts. I went through three sharp hooks the last time I did the Nagrand quest and finally got the fish just as I was about to give up.

Just curious has anyone gotten the #2 ring from the quest yet? I keep hoping for it but no luck so far.

Just FYI, you have to be level 70 to pick up the quest. My level 68 Blood Elf hunter only sees a silver exclamation point over the NPC. Blizzard didn’t put a fishing minimum on the quest, as the waters themselves take care of that. If you are level 70 and have a fishing skill of one you can at least do the Croc quest.



As badlukchuk pointed out, be sure to check your mini map for this quest. I found this out myself the hard way. I like to fish from the shore next to the horde base. But while I can be standing in one spot and be fishing in the right lake, I can take one step to the right and my mini map will change to Nagrand and I won’t catch the quest fish. So while I’m fishing in the same lake it’s suddenly the wrong lake. Blizzard has an odd sense of humor.



I’ve read of a couple of people who have, but I’ve not been that lucky yet. If I get it I’ll most likely give it to my druid. I’d do the same if I got a second one, as they are not unique. I could make a lot of money selling them, but as I don’t raid they are most likely the best rings my druid would ever see.

Thus far I’ve gotten the hat twice, on the same character. *sigh* So I had to vendor the second one. I’ve gotten Chuck, one of the baby crocs. I have the Eye of the Sea, still trying to decide whether to use it or sell it. And two of my characters can brew the fishing bonus booze. *hick*



Thanks for that. I had no idea there were items my characters could equip. I like dressing them up while in town, so something like the monocle sounds like a lot of fun.

I do the quest every day but my fishing was like 250 when I started doing them and some of the areas are a pain. I think in Nagrand, the fish hooks I had, gave me just enough skill to put it in the water. That means a lot of fish that get away.

I haven't gotten anything that great. Almost always get some hooks and I got the monocle which is kind of neat. Some water walking stuff but if you get hit it wears off immediately. I think I got some strange pearl from it as well. Really looking forward to some of the other items.

I have noticed that there are times where I get the same quest day after day. Think the most was Nagrand 3 days in a row but I know I have gotten the Stormwind one at least twice in a row and Trekkor Forest twice in a row.

Does anyone know off hand if they are random for each player or is it everyone on a specific server gets the same quest? It appears that it isn't standard across servers but I am not sure how it works for characters since I only have one 70 so far.

Edited, Apr 16th 2008 9:59am by MrTalos

The fishing quest is the same for everyone on a particular server, or at least everyone on the same faction. I have four alliance characters that have done the quest every day and they always get the same quest each day. I would expect the horde would get the same quest as well.

It is, however, random per server. The quest was in game for over two weeks before Blackhand got the Croc in the City quest a second time. As I wanted a pet I found this rather frustrating, especially as I knew from reading another forum that other realms had gotten that quest multiple times.



The Eye of the Sea is BoE, as is the 2 Ring, which I think is nice of Blizzard to do. It gives us the option to give those items to the appreciate character or to sell it.

And you have a point. With the possibility of buying those items on the AH there isn’t a much incentive for non-fishers to level up fishing just to hope to loot them.

Thanks for all the good information here.

I have a toon with 340ish fishing and another with 320ish.

Daily fishing quests for both!

The next cooking that goes well with this loop is the nagrand one, so that leaves only (the worse of all IMO) netherstorm pick-a-berry one ;]

I pick this up every morning, along with the other dailies in Shattrath. Depending on where the fishing and the cooking quests send me, that determines which zone I will be visiting first. Best combo is Mudfish and Soul Soup, since they are both in Nagrand. The shrimping one is good too, since you can do a circuit of Serpent Lake and find several pools of steam pump qreckage. Only had the Terrokar one once, it took a while. The Felblood one is kind of redious whenever I have done it in HFP. If it is Crocolisks, I tend to do it when I am in Azeroth running Sunwell dailies.

I lucked out I think. In the first couple of days I got the fishing hat as the quest reward. Shortly afterwards I got the fishing line. Now I have no need to use the +100 hooks that I get most of the time, so they can go to my other toons. Hoping that one of these day the Stam jewel and the +2 ring will also drop.

Thranathiril

Perseverence pays off!

After Kara last night, I said "If I am going to do only one daily, it will be the fishing quest." The black darter of Terrokar was an elusive little guy for once, but I reeled him in and to my great joy, my bag of fishing treasures finally included something blue for once- a Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat just for me.

I immediately threw a stack-plus of Sharpened Fishing Hooks into the guild bank to help foster a new love of the sport among my fellow guildies. Oh yeah, and also because I'll never need to waste bag space on lures ever again!



There's no need to wait! At 405+ fishing skill, the only fishing daily that will pose a problem skillwise is the Nagrand/Mudfish quest. Your current skill is more than sufficient to finish the other quests in ten minutes or less.