Can you make any money fishing? Do fish sell to NPCs?
The reason I ask this is I have come from FFXI and quite frankly, fishing completely ruined that games economy. All of the players with the best items were the ones that left their PCs on all night botting for fish and selling them to NPCs.
So hopefully this is not at all possible in WoW and fishing is just something fun to do while waiting between spawns.
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Yea you can make money from fishing, and you can fish up items like The 1 ring and recipes.
The thing with WoW is that fishing is nearly impossible to bot.
The thing with WoW is that fishing is nearly impossible to bot.
Since this is about fishing question...
I finally got the book for advanced fishing from Booty Bay. Fishing is now 150(+5)/225.
Where do I fish to get my next 75 points?
To answer the initial question tho - Yes, you can make money with fishing. It slowed them greatly for me recently however. At lower level, when I was fishing around darkstrand (I was level 8 or so) I was getting decent money for my level out of it. And heck, sometime I even fished out stuff that was better then the gear I was wearing!
However, as I leveled up and got to new areas, the new areas didn't keep up. Most fish sells for the same value as they did when I was level 8 (or with a slight increase) and I hardly ever get crates with stuff in them :*(. Basically, it just isn't worth my time to fish for money.
I do fish for alchemy components however.
I finally got the book for advanced fishing from Booty Bay. Fishing is now 150(+5)/225.
Where do I fish to get my next 75 points?
To answer the initial question tho - Yes, you can make money with fishing. It slowed them greatly for me recently however. At lower level, when I was fishing around darkstrand (I was level 8 or so) I was getting decent money for my level out of it. And heck, sometime I even fished out stuff that was better then the gear I was wearing!
However, as I leveled up and got to new areas, the new areas didn't keep up. Most fish sells for the same value as they did when I was level 8 (or with a slight increase) and I hardly ever get crates with stuff in them :*(. Basically, it just isn't worth my time to fish for money.
I do fish for alchemy components however.
Fishing has not been implemented in the higher lvl areas yet, so there is a limit but I don't know what that is.
Fish sell to vendors, but not for much. Some of the items, even the crappy stat-less boots, can sell for a decent chunk of change though.
If you take on cooking, u can cook foods using your fish that sell to vendors for a bit more if you dont want to use them yourself for heals. I'm a hunter personally so I keep everything I catch and cook it up for my pet and myself.
If you take on cooking, u can cook foods using your fish that sell to vendors for a bit more if you dont want to use them yourself for heals. I'm a hunter personally so I keep everything I catch and cook it up for my pet and myself.
Scholar
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Unfortunately nothing is impossible.
Thanks for the answer. Rather disappointing answer at that but hopefully it wont be as bad as FFXI.
Thanks for the answer. Rather disappointing answer at that but hopefully it wont be as bad as FFXI.
I'll copy paste a post I made when somebody said Gil Seller would ***** WoW's economy like it screwed FFXI.
As the problem created by money sellers (i.e. providing huge amount of money to people with no in game efforts) are similar to bot fisher (providing huge amount of money with no in game effort).
As the problem created by money sellers (i.e. providing huge amount of money to people with no in game efforts) are similar to bot fisher (providing huge amount of money with no in game effort).
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You see, to put in in FFXI term, all the 'cool' items, you know those that are ridiculously overpowered for their level? (leaping boot, emp hairpin, huabergone, etc)
Well, in WoW, they are ALL rare/ex.
Items are color coded see.
Gray -> Junk
White -> Normal (most people don't use those)
Green -> Good (those item bind upon equiping, so if you use, you can't sell it back to the AH or trade it to player. You can only sell it to vendors)
Blue-Purple-Red -> Powerful item, those are all rare/ex.
All quested item are rare/ex as well, regardless of color.
So you just bought 100G from Ebay.
Good!
Now what are you going to do with it?
You can deck yourself up in Green items at the auction house. Although those plentiful and easy to find on mob. My character only has Green and Blue item, no white - and that happened naturally.
You can buy tons of potions. That will give you an edge, but nothing tremendous. The higher level potion require a level cap, so you'll have to actually get to their level before being able to use hem.
And you can buy your level 40 and 60 mounts (altho that one is 1000gold), which while useful, certainly isn't a necessity.
FFXI = Money is king. Money is life.
WoW = Money is a nice thing to have. Nothing more, nothing less. Doing normal questing will give you plenty of gil to buy your level upgrade and get a couple little trinkets on the side.
Will we have money sellers? Sure. Do we care? Not really.
Well, in WoW, they are ALL rare/ex.
Items are color coded see.
Gray -> Junk
White -> Normal (most people don't use those)
Green -> Good (those item bind upon equiping, so if you use, you can't sell it back to the AH or trade it to player. You can only sell it to vendors)
Blue-Purple-Red -> Powerful item, those are all rare/ex.
All quested item are rare/ex as well, regardless of color.
So you just bought 100G from Ebay.
Good!
Now what are you going to do with it?
You can deck yourself up in Green items at the auction house. Although those plentiful and easy to find on mob. My character only has Green and Blue item, no white - and that happened naturally.
You can buy tons of potions. That will give you an edge, but nothing tremendous. The higher level potion require a level cap, so you'll have to actually get to their level before being able to use hem.
And you can buy your level 40 and 60 mounts (altho that one is 1000gold), which while useful, certainly isn't a necessity.
FFXI = Money is king. Money is life.
WoW = Money is a nice thing to have. Nothing more, nothing less. Doing normal questing will give you plenty of gil to buy your level upgrade and get a couple little trinkets on the side.
Will we have money sellers? Sure. Do we care? Not really.
Scholar
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Thanks a lot Tyrandor for the reply. This makes me feel really good.
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it's definitely not like ffxi... there's not people standing at the water all day and night just fishing... you actually dont see many people fishing, some will come by and do it for a few minutes and then leave.
personally i find it very unrewarding... maybe i just have the worst luck but i've never gotten anything decent, and i'm at 187 expert.... i almost always just catch fish, i once got a pair of leather boots, and afew message in bottles written by someone on a stranded island.
i really dont know how people were able to make money off it....
personally i find it very unrewarding... maybe i just have the worst luck but i've never gotten anything decent, and i'm at 187 expert.... i almost always just catch fish, i once got a pair of leather boots, and afew message in bottles written by someone on a stranded island.
i really dont know how people were able to make money off it....
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