For the Fishing Fans!Follow

Through a link in an article at WoWInsider, I found this list of accomplishments at WoWHead.

Holy Cow!

Avid fishers are going to be busy.


Also, just glancing through the lists, I notice a couple things:

- Looks like some old world schools will have subtypes: Teeming, Abundant, Lesser, Sparse.

- Northrend looks to have a much wider variety of new fish than TBC introduced. I see 10 different types of schools listed for Northrend, whereas there are only six different Outland types.

- No more standing around in town. The Coin Master should keep all of us fishers busy in the Dalaran fountains. There are 23 copper, 15 silver, and 15 gold coins that are needed to complete the achievement.

Good luck all!

Edited, Oct 9th 2008 3:05pm by azwing

The fishing diplomat will be difficult on pve servers as well. On pve servers once you step into a capitol city, you are automatically flagged for pvp. This also brings out a lot of people who never see pvp in the real world to come on over and gang up on the sucker that stepped into their city. Because of this, about the only world pvp that seems to happen on the pve server I am on is during the fire festivals where you have to visit all the bonfires in each main city.

Getting into Orgrimmar is pretty easy. The back entrance is always empty and, if I remember correctly, it leads right to the trolls and I believe there is water by them. If not you have to travel deep inside which will be a pain and a few corpse runs.

As for Stormwind, your kinda screwed with the main entrance, however there might be somewhere to sneak in once the docks get built. Once your inside though the fishing is easy, many places you can hide in plain site that just aren't visited much.

The real pvp fishing is going to be Old Ironjaw and Old Crafty. Fishing once in an enemy city is cake compared to fishing for the rare fish. You will probably catch 1,000 fish from doing this alone.

I just caught Old Crafty yesterday in Orgrimmar (as Alliance). Got lucky; only took around 200 catches.

As a druid it was easy to stealth in, but once inside you have two decisions. First:
1. Do I want an easy way in?
2. Do I want an easy place to fish in?

The side entrance is easy to get in to. There are around 8 Horde guards (currently 65, going to 75 tomorrow), but they drop aggro before you get to the fishing spot. The problem with that first spot is that it is where Horde taking a portal from Shattrath are teleported. There's nowhere to hide besides behind the buildings, and that narrow area makes fishing very difficult.

The best spot is in near the PvP masters in the Valley of Honor. There's an outcropping of rocks and a waterfall there, and if you bury yourself in a corner, chug a camo potion, and /sleep, it's unlikely anyone will see you. The problem is getting there, because you need to ride through a lot of Orgrimmar and risk Horde coming out of the builder fresh by the Battlegrounds. Once you're there, however, it's the best place. That's where I fished; the first day I simply fished from behind the waterfall, but I realized people can see you if they look over anyway. The second day I hid in the little crevice in the rocks, and had no problems. I might have just been fooling myself, but I didn't get ganked and fished in peace for half an hour before catching Old Crafty.

Totally worth it. It was the most fun I've had in a while!

First question is if you need to be in the Canals district proper, or any water inside Stormwind. You can easily fish in the water off to the side of the drawbridge (just chug a water-walking potion and fish under the drawbridge).

However, the fish you're looking for is in Ironforge. Long story short, no, there's no easy or safe way to fish there. The one good thing is that few people pass through that way EXCEPT if the daily is Crocs in the City (you can fish it up in IF). My advice is to just sit at the edge of the water and fish. If any alliance toons come by, they'll probably be lowbies, and odds are they'll call some friends. Hide yourself in one of the houses nearby, log out, and log back in in half an hour.

I do think Alliance have it a little easier; Valley of Honor is more commonly traversed, but has a better hiding spot. Forlorn Cavern is not commonly walked, but has nowhere to conceal yourself.

Hi-

I did the diplomat fishing quest and it aint easy, buy lots of invisibility and healing potions because u are gonna die alot trying to make it to the fishing spot in origammar, once there, hide by the rocks and start fishing. I also managed to fish up old crufty while i was there too.


Scott

Stormwind is a horror to get into - the tunnel leading into it is lined with level 75 elite guards that see invis and inevitably several extremely bored rogues just waiting to pounce on you.

I've always wondered about these people that just sit around all day waiting to gank folks - cant imagine what kind of a brain-dead loser it takes to do that?

The STV contest is a nightmare, but Gaz'ranka and Lurker can be fished up solo without much trouble. All you need is someone to party with to get into the instance. That's assuming you're 70, of course.

For Gaz'ranka, you'll need to get the lures from Nat Pagle (the quest to get the lures start on the beach you fish the boss from). Once you have the lure, just fish up 5 mudskunks from the pools in ZG, stuff em in the lure, toss it in and run :p

Lurker's a bit harder to get to, thanks to the psycho fish and boiling water you have to go through to get to him. I have a pally, so all I did was hop into the water, pop a swim speed pot, bubble and laugh my way to the Strange Pool. After that it was a simple matter or fishing him up and bubblehearthing.

getting all the coins get you a coin item that makes you do a Harvey Dent type animation.

Since there is an achievement to "kill 50 enemy players inside a home city" I noticed alot of people are patroling the pool in IF now. If you sit there and fish for awhile you'll notice a lvl70 player come riding through and stoping to check the pool about every 2-5 minutes now.

I'm alli main, but if I see a horde fishing in the pool, I just wave and keep fishing. I don't bother them because I know what a pain in the butt is going to be to get these fishing achievements done. I will have to fish in Org eventually and I'm dreading it. I hope there are more mature horde players that see a fisherman as I do.

Unfortunately your fellow allies have made attitudes so bad on Horde side that its going to be pretty rough - have had several times where either peeps have laughed in /g or /yell about nailing a fisherman by the waterfall - I'd berate the ganker and point out that the Ally is just trying to do the fishing quest so leave him alone - without failure I get angry tirades about corpse camping, ganking and all the other fun PvP tricks that Allies do to Horde and this is payback in thier opinion for all the grief that Ally players have inflicted upon these people personally over the years.

Now combine that with the few professional gankers we've got Horde side and...well, good luck. :-/

Yeah, I caught between 7-9 of at least 6 different types of copper coin. It was weird though because I got all of my gold coins before the silver or copper.

I would assume you are "stuck" in that area, somewhat like going to Caverns of Time and doing Old Hillsbrad. But definetly worth a try!