In Real Life, angling is certainly something that does not appeal to me. In WoW, I have been, torn between the fantastic rewards that people have written about and the reality of watching a bobber for several minutes/hours.
As a Hunter, there is a symbiotic relationship between the Hunter and Pet. This is further complicated by the need to feed your beloved Pet on a very regular basis, this takes up very valuable bag space and requires the need to find bigger and better food to keep the hunger pangs away for longer periods. Cooking is the natural answer to the Hunters problem. You are killing Beasts on a regular basis why not feed the surplus to your closest friend.
The problem with cooking is the best way to level up to 300+ was by cooking fish, which have no need for elaborate spices, just requiring a roaring fire. The best way to get raw fish is to go and dust off your fishing rod and do the deed yourself. The first 75 skillups are no problem with a ratio of 1 per fish, this gets gradually more difficult until you reach 1:8. Most of my fishing was conducted whilst on the docks waiting for boats between continents, to avoid downtime.
From personal experience I had no issue with this until hitting lvl 225 and then trying to complete "Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme" http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?source=live;wquest=6607&locale=enUS.
This is the worst quest I have completed by a mile. Not only do you need to fly to 4 different zones, but the droprate is terrible and most of the zones are sat next to Horde camps or Nasties like in Stranglethorn Vale. Thankfully I am not on a PVP server. The result was several hours and 100+ raw fish in my heavily laden bags and no skillups for my trouble. I can safely say that I never wanted to fish again. My cooking however was easily skilled up to 300 by grilling Spotted Yellowtail.
So many moons roll by and Bob dug out the fishing rod whilst at the Cenarion Circle in Zangarmarsh. Fishing is by no means any more exciting but there is a whole bunch of new things to catch, and all of them come with buffs when cooked. It was time to get that skill up to an acceptable (275) so that I could read "Master Fishing - The Art of Angling" .
In an attempt to do this and make some money I decided to read up and see if there is any sensible way to this. El's Extreme Anglin' http://www.capsu.org/wow/ was a very useful resource. Bob portalled back to the Old World and ended off to the old stomping ground of Hillsbrad. Just behind Tarren Mill there is a whole series of Sagefish Schools. Over 2 nights Bob travelled the circuit once each night and topped off the final skillups by travelling to the Alterac Mountains, to fish for some Greater Sagefish.
The fish were distributed amongst the Alts and then a Hearthstone back to the Outlands. 2 nights spent/wasted, with no XP, but with the prospect of more fun filled evenings fishing in Zangarmarsh.
Hopefully with the new patch 2.1:
- The fishing timer has been reduced from 30 to 20 seconds and it now takes less time to fish.
- The fishing timer can no longer run through its duration without a fish biting.
Then fishing might become slightly more enjoyable/easy
As a Hunter, there is a symbiotic relationship between the Hunter and Pet. This is further complicated by the need to feed your beloved Pet on a very regular basis, this takes up very valuable bag space and requires the need to find bigger and better food to keep the hunger pangs away for longer periods. Cooking is the natural answer to the Hunters problem. You are killing Beasts on a regular basis why not feed the surplus to your closest friend.
The problem with cooking is the best way to level up to 300+ was by cooking fish, which have no need for elaborate spices, just requiring a roaring fire. The best way to get raw fish is to go and dust off your fishing rod and do the deed yourself. The first 75 skillups are no problem with a ratio of 1 per fish, this gets gradually more difficult until you reach 1:8. Most of my fishing was conducted whilst on the docks waiting for boats between continents, to avoid downtime.
From personal experience I had no issue with this until hitting lvl 225 and then trying to complete "Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme" http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?source=live;wquest=6607&locale=enUS.
This is the worst quest I have completed by a mile. Not only do you need to fly to 4 different zones, but the droprate is terrible and most of the zones are sat next to Horde camps or Nasties like in Stranglethorn Vale. Thankfully I am not on a PVP server. The result was several hours and 100+ raw fish in my heavily laden bags and no skillups for my trouble. I can safely say that I never wanted to fish again. My cooking however was easily skilled up to 300 by grilling Spotted Yellowtail.
So many moons roll by and Bob dug out the fishing rod whilst at the Cenarion Circle in Zangarmarsh. Fishing is by no means any more exciting but there is a whole bunch of new things to catch, and all of them come with buffs when cooked. It was time to get that skill up to an acceptable (275) so that I could read "Master Fishing - The Art of Angling" .
In an attempt to do this and make some money I decided to read up and see if there is any sensible way to this. El's Extreme Anglin' http://www.capsu.org/wow/ was a very useful resource. Bob portalled back to the Old World and ended off to the old stomping ground of Hillsbrad. Just behind Tarren Mill there is a whole series of Sagefish Schools. Over 2 nights Bob travelled the circuit once each night and topped off the final skillups by travelling to the Alterac Mountains, to fish for some Greater Sagefish.
The fish were distributed amongst the Alts and then a Hearthstone back to the Outlands. 2 nights spent/wasted, with no XP, but with the prospect of more fun filled evenings fishing in Zangarmarsh.
Hopefully with the new patch 2.1:
- The fishing timer has been reduced from 30 to 20 seconds and it now takes less time to fish.
- The fishing timer can no longer run through its duration without a fish biting.
Then fishing might become slightly more enjoyable/easy
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