Fishing For The First Time…
Hey guys! Wanted to talk about fishing today. It occurred to me over the weekend that paying gold for food buffs was finally getting silly.
The +40 Strength and Stamina food buff (of which I cant remember the name) was costing me around 50-70g per stack of 20 for just the fish. Even more if I wanted to buy the ready made stuff. So after almost 3 years I decided to start leveling my fishing skill.
Not only to be able to fish for my own food, but also to get some more achievements done!
Over the years when I’d been REALLY bored I’d managed to get myself to 225 Fishing Skill. So having found some good guides on the web I set about fishing.
I started in Ironforge as I wanted to get hold of the rare fish there for the achievement. When i finally fished up this beauty I was about 275 Fishing. I then moved to Theramore and started again. I stayed there till 350 fishing then moved to Northrend to get my 350-450 skill training.
I started in some of the sea’s/lakes there until I got to 360 or so then was able to fish in Dragonblight to fish up the Dragonfin Angelfish from the pool surrounded by dead kalu’ak dudes.
So now I’m 390 or so and actually enjoying myself! I’ve started doing the outland-daily quests and I’m fishing up the coins in Dalaran.
I’m slowly moving through the achievements one-by-one.
I’m a bit obsessed by these achievements really – All of them are in my grasp, so I’m spending more time doing them than actually leveling my alts! HaHa!
Anyway here’s me fishing in Dalaran
Also need some quick advise – which of these 2 pairs of boots is better. The gem in the boots with the socket was there to keep my meta-gem working.
(PS – If anyone is interested in the Mini-Map addon I’m using its called “sexymap”)
6 Responses so far
Adrus
February 6th, 2009
5:08 pm
Kinda hard to say witch boots its all what you need hit or crit. That would be giving up a lot of hit.
Uthell
Alex - aka Firelight
February 6th, 2009
5:22 pm
With either boots i’m WAY over hit cap.
Ironshield
February 6th, 2009
6:06 pm
@ gratz on ‘finding fishing’ – you are going to find that as long as you keep a rod and stack of lures in your bags, that you are going to make a lot of gold both by not spending some on buff food, and by selling the excess you fish and dont use.
there is so much time in the game spent waiting on something or someone (like pre raid) that you can spend usefully now.
Anonymous
February 6th, 2009
8:29 pm
Alex – according to MaxDPS.com, the Sudden Reprisal are better. Certainly I would expect them to be better if you are way over the hit cap. That said, you aren’t taking full advantage of the gem slot at the moment.
Another thing about MaxDPS and similar gear spreadsheet-type tools; the relative gear rankings change when you input your actual stats.
Myself, I’m using Sudden Reprisal because that’s what I have. I am currently WAY under the Hit cap, although the chances of running a 25-man with no Draeni seem slim.
I might have to take up fishing myself for the same reason – I bought some 40STR fish recently (Dragonfin Filet, I think?), but it would be better to catch my own.
Keep the blogging coming!
Fedaykin98
Gepetto
February 10th, 2009
8:45 pm
Alex you write a mean blog man as a long time player of wow and a long time pala im loving each of your submissions, how do you feel about tanking, speaking personally i hate it with a vengence
Alex - aka Firelight
February 11th, 2009
9:37 am
I used to be Prot spec before getting into my current guild 18 months ago.
I dont mind doing it – Its healing I hate with a vengeance!!!
I’m currently building a tanking set to use when the dual-spec’s come out!
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