New Fishing Changes Follow

I have found out the new fishing changes yet the Wiki and other posts have not been updated yet or i could not spot them and as i am not that great at writing in english i thought i would start this thread so others better at writing could alter the Wiki and trades skills posts.

You can now learn up to and including artisan level at level 10 , no quests required and no books are needed , i just got artisan just fishing by the trainer in Darnassus , also the fishing is a lot faster now as the cast bar goes a lot faster.

I have not yet checked out what level is required to get to 450 skill but will be doing that later unless anyone else wants to add a comment first.

You still have to catch X number of fish to level up at each appropriate skill level - difference now is that you now do that in zones that would previously have given you a message that you need a certain minimum skill level to fish there.

For example, my brother's fishing skill is still pre-300 yet he can now fish in the Dalaran sewers and actually managed to catch the giant sewer rat NC pet anyway. My GF's fishing only just cleared 400 and yet she's successfully doing fishing dailies in areas that you needed 450 and a good rod and bait to even cast in.

However, when you fish in zones that you previously couldn't fish in, you won't always catch the fish for that zone - the worse your skill the more likely you are to catch garbage like 'sick fish' 'tangled fishing line' 'tattered sail' and similar stuff that's only worth a few copper each.

If you're having varying numbers of catches per skill point its possible that some of those junk items aren't counting as catches towards your skill up. It used to be that everything you caught counted but its possible that the junk, either by design or accident, doesn't all register towards your skill point.

What hasn't changed though is that you can still skill up fishing in lower level fishing zones - if you want, you can just fish in newby zones and go from 0-450 without issue still.

I know about the whole trash items deal. I guess I could have not put in that whole last statement about the worthless junk. I've been fishing in Dalaran and I'm currently at 282. I do catch mostly junk with some coins goldfish and the occasional sewer carp. The junk does count for something, at least in the achievements it counts for catching X fish. Maybe I'll have to go to a place where I actually catch fish and see how my leveling plays out.

I just started an alt and went to level fishing and cooking. I am currently at the pond outside Goldshire and have gotten to level 25. I got a skill up every level but I have yet to catch an actual fish. I can't figure out where I would go that would be low enough to actually net me some fish. Guess I'll have to level the early cooking levels off of other stuff.


fyi: You still get the achievement from fishing up debris. >.>



Edited, Apr 19th 2009 11:27pm by imbtrthnur

I have not skilled up on a junk catch, but I have gained a skill up on a Clam.

So I can confirm that clams = fish as far as the 'skill-up' meter goes...

I can haz turtle mount?

My alts will first fish in inland waters in Northrend, rat can wait :p

But none of the other secondary professions are that hard to level. I like the fact that it's easier to level fishing, except it still takes a long time to do so anyways. Plus if your leveling in a high place your just going to get worthless junk that means nothing to anyone, but it still takes X amount of catches to level your fishing once.

Versus, say, the super hard previous way to skill up consisting of sitting in front of a pond in a capital city, right? ;-)

The reality is that fishing is just a secondary skill added to supplement the real tradeskills and give peeps something to do. It's not like fishing used to be super hard to level up or anything and now they've suddenly nerfed it to the point that anyone can do it - its always been that way - the only thing slowing peeps down from maxing it was time and patience.

As such, the only real effect is that now everyone can have a shot at the turtle mount, rat pet and fishing dailies instead of exclusively those of us with who spend too much time with our rods in our hands.

Well I'm getting about 4.5 fish/minute average on open sea in borean tundra. Without counting the time to apply lure and etc.

According to El's Angling website it's 11-12 catches per skill point from 370 to 450.

So going from 370 to 450 would take me 3 and a half hours?

Pun was already made my friend - I'm a grand master baiter too. ;-)