Why level fishing

How fast a player levels up in fishing depends on much fish they get and the quality of their catch. Bigger fish of uncommon or quality reward more fishing experience with every catch, and the chance of that increases if the fishing pole is equipped with some kind of bait. It's strongly recommended that players craft or cook fishing bait to help speed up the process, and even a simple Tier I camp can create some if needed.

As players wander further into the wilds of Aeternum, their levels will climb and so will their fishing skills. After reaching Fishing Level 2, players will be able to track fishing hotspots. These are special fishing spots from which valuable and rare fish, and sometimes other items can be dredged from the depths.

Players need to remember to repair their fishing poles to make sure they're as effective as possible, and to upgrade them when they reach higher levels. Fishing poles can be repaired the same way as the rest of the tools and gear, and it's easy to craft better ones as other professional skills progress. Tools that are intended for harvesting are some of the earliest items players are able to craft. The fishing pole is among these, however, it takes extra material to make so it's often not the first tool players make.

The harvest sickle, the skinning, knife, and the mining pick only require wood and flint, along with a bit of leather. A fishing pole requires these ingredients along with a fishing line, which is crafted at a loom using hemp fibers. Hemp is not as easy to find as wood and flint which is why some players have a wood ax before they have a fishing pole. Like other tools, the fishing pole will need to be repaired and upgraded after a long period of use. You can move your character so that they are mostly submerged in the water but not swimming and angled so that no casts will go onto land or shallow water.

If you are having trouble seeing the bobber bob when a fish is on your line, you may want to zoom in so you are looking in 1st person. If you are fishing alone, you can hear your bobber splash; in a group, all of the bobbers sound the same. Fishing pools are objects found in bodies of water and other liquids lava, most notably throughout the many zones of Azeroth and beyond.

These pools can be roughly divided into two subcategories:. Both of these can be located on the map with the [ Find Fish ] ability, which is learned from the [ Weather-Beaten Journal ].

Similarly, both will also respawn as appropriate to the circumstance, similar to mining nodes. Schools of fish may not respawn if the event associated to them, such as the Pandaren Fish of the Day or the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza , ends before they can do so.

Existing pools will also despawn at this time. Some fish may only be caught during specific times of day or season. Other fish such as [ Stonescale Eel ] and [ Plated Armorfish ] have been rumored to only appear during certain times of the day - however, all of these can be caught 24 hours a day. It is known that Winter Squid and Summer Bass appear during their respective seasons. During Autumn and Spring, they can both apparently be caught, although the frequency of each might scale throughout the season.

The mechanics of fishing skill levels were changed significantly in patch 3. Prior to 3. In between there was a chance your fish could "get away"; you would catch nothing and receive no skill-up for that cast. As of 3. However, if your skill level is too low for a zone, you will catch mostly vendor trash items. The skill level required to guarantee "no junk" catches is equivalent to the old "no getaway" level.

The easiest areas have very low skill level caps, allowing you higher success initially. You will need to have one point of fishing skill apprentice level fishing training to fish these.

For information on fishing locations and fishing skill requirements, see Fishing skill requirements by zone. Fishing previously involved a single large skill number that was increased on an expansion by expansion basis.

It has since been reworked alongside other professions, however, to be regionalized; fishing in the Outland, for example, will level the skill for that region only. Before this change there were also books that had to be obtained to learn Expert and Master level fishing for Outland and Northrend, respectively and a quest offered by Nat Pagle for the Artisan level.

These have been removed, and those who completed the latter requirement before Patch 3. To learn how to fish, one must speak to a trainer for the appropriate region. These vary based on faction as well as location. To increase their fishing skill, an angler need only fish in a region for which they have unlocked the appropriate skill.

This may at first lead to them catching more grey trash items than fish, but as their skill increases, this will change. Using temporary skill increases through one or more of the items seen in the section below will help remedy this earlier and lead to earlier positive results. In addition, fishing daily and world quests may grant permanent skill increases.

There are many items that increase fishing skill beyond the innate skill a character has acquired:. Fishing poles replace the basic Fishing Pole or the random stick used if no fishing pole is available and provide a fishing skill bonus when wielded.

Fishing lines are consumables that create a permanent enchantment on a fishing pole. These can only be applied to a fishing pole in your own inventory. You cannot put a line on someone else's soulbound fishing pole. Fishing lures are consumables that create a temporary enchantment on a fishing pole. Enchantments for apparel items create a permanent fishing skill bonus on an item, which is then worn to apply the fishing skill bonus.

The following general classes of items can be obtained through Fishing :. Characters of any class and any level can successfully fish, but there may be some minor differences between classes, for those considering this choice. Although it is unlikely that one will necessarily choose their class or race based on their ability to fish, stranger things have certainly happened on Azeroth:.

It should also be noted that taller races will have an easier time wading out farther than gnomes or goblins to fish in pools farther from shore. Wowpedia Explore. Main Page All Pages. World of Warcraft. Classic Vanilla The Frozen Throne Reforged. Here is what I suggest What you will want to do is find a nice cozy two star fishing hotspot.

When the hotspot is up, fish in it, when it is down, keep fishing in the same water. Make sure you are using rarity boosting baits and equip any gear you have that can affect rarity or size. Now just stay there, and keep fishing Before we can understand what actually makes the two star hotspot the way to go we have to first understand how we gain fishing experience.

There are two factors that effect the amount of experience you will earn. Fish Size and Rarity. Our goal to make leveling fishing the fastest requires us to maximize both of these variables. Since we are measuring over time, we can consider time to catch a fish, another variable we can work with. Using these variables we should be able to find an ideal fishing location. When you compare different rarities, a common fish will bring you in between to fishing experience.

An uncommon fish will bring you in to A rare fish will bring you in to Legendary fish come in one size and bring you in experience.

The range for each quality is influenced by the size of the fish caught. We can also boost our chance to catch rare fish if we fish in hotspots.

We can increase our chance of catching larger fish using Size Boosting Baits , Perks on Gear , the Focus Points Bonus , as well as fishing in deep water. We can't really control the time it takes to catch a fish, but we can do something about how long it takes to get a bite. Without bait in open waters it can take as long as 15 seconds to get a bite. Using any bait you can reduce this to do about 5 to 7 seconds.

Now fishing in a hotspot will cut this time down even more. Fishing in a hotspot with bait you will get a bite almost instantly.

It all comes down to the numbers. Three star Secret hotspots only have 8 - 10 rare fish in them, then take about 40 minutes to respawn.

Rare hotspots have 15 - 25 fish in them, uncommon quality and up, and take about 30 minutes to respawn.