Fishing at 300Follow

After getting my druid to level 63 I decided to work on my fishing for a while. I was at level 265 so I took a short trip to Feralas to work on it. Each skill point took about 7 casts so getting to 300 was fairly quick. After getting my Master training, I continued fishing in Zangarmarsh and suddenly realized that it now takes 10-11 casts per point. That's quite a jump, or at least it feels that way when you are trying to level up. I guess I should think about getting an addon so at least I don't need to keep moving over to my bars to cast (I think there's one that lets you double-click to cast).

Yeah, fishing in OL is a nightmare, especially if, like me, you were dumb enough to vendor that +25 pole because you assumed another one of your toons would handle fishing.

Once you hit level 70 and start doing the daily fishing quests you can get + fishing gear that way. And you’ll never run out of +100 skill Sharpened Fish Hooks.

For now I’d suggest checking the auction house for the sharpened fish hooks. I have about eight extra stacks of them in my bank, plus one or two stacks on each of my four characters doing the fishing daily quests. On Blackhand I’ve seen stacks of 20 selling for about a gold each. Blackhand is a high population server, so prices could easily be higher on different servers.

And here’s the URL to the fishing site I list in just about every fishing post I reply too:
http://www.elsanglin.com/

Happy Fishing

That's a great list, thanks much.

Another option, especially if you're still getting "fish got away" in Zangarmarsh is head back to a lower level area in Azeroth so you are guaranteed a skill up point from every cast.

One possibility is to head to STV on Sunday afternoon and fish the Tastyfish pools for the weekly fishing contest. They are available from 2-4pm server time. You have the possibility of catching three rare fish that will reward you with fishing gear/enhancements (+5 hat, +5 boots, +5 line) when turned in. You don't even necessarily need to try to win the contest, but just fishing the pools for the contest will take your mind off the fact that you're leveling fishing.

If you don't mind going back on promises to yourself or can delay that promise, another route you can do is level to 70 then resume fishing (if leveling is relatively fast for you).

At 70, you get access to the daily fishing quest. As Calabar mentioned, the quest rewards, in addition to the 100+ lures, give you a shot at a fishing hat & line.

But the good thing about daily is that if you are not at max skill while doing them, you are guarenteed to get skill ups every 10-12 casts. Since you are doing the daily for the rewards, the skill ups are an added bonus. Makes leveling the skill alot less tedious.

I always like accomplishing mutiple objectives by doing one task. Saves time.

And at 70, you'll have a flying mount making it easy to fly to fishing spots.

I started the dailes at about 330-340 skill. Could do all the fishing dailies reliably except Nagrand. Some of the dailies it seems like you'll never get the required catch. I fished for the baby crocolisk once and it took about 40-50 casts before I caught it. As frustrating as that was timewise, I did get 4 skill ups out of the deal. Made the timesink a little more palatable.

10-11 catches a skill point is the norm post 300 skill.

Just something I thought I'd mention, although it's been alluded to above. Where you fish, i.e. the zones fishing difficulty in relation to your fishing skill, makes absolutely no difference with regard to whether you get a fishing gain or not. It is totally based on number of successful casts. So if you're just fishing for gains and don't care about making gold or what you catch, then train fishing in a starter area with a low fishing skill requirement. Especially at higher fishing skill where it requires an average of 11.5 casts per gain, you'll appreciate not missing. Although it's worth mentioning also that once you get to a certain skill you can fish just about anywhere in Azeroth without missing a cast, especially if you have +fishing gear and lures. I prefer to just train fishing without using lures and worrying about outside distractions. It's already tedious enough to level fishing...

I am amking a killing and skilling up my fishing by going to the Barrens and getting Deviate fish..They sell for 12-15Gs per stack...10 Levels of fishing is about 2-4 stacks of deviate fish.

Good luck

Flipp

I figured it was. No offence intended.

The only reason I tried to clarify it is because I’ve spoken to people who thought that all they had to do was cast their line to get skill points.