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On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:00:41 -0400, Bruce Smith <mist...@sprynet.com>
wrote:

>I finally caught my 50 lunkers and purchased the
>Land Shark battle pet from Nat Pagle.  Boy, if this
>is a boosted catch rate, it must have been a negative
>drop rate before!  Fishing is so tedious; I had plans
>of getting the other pet and the mount, but now I'm
>doubting.  Not feeling the patience that would be
>needed to catch another 150 lunkers.  Who knows, maybe.

Congrats! :-) Working on that one myself, but slowly, it's infinitely
higher droprate than before though; I used to average one lunker per 2
hours fishing (erm, I only caught three before the patch, can't
inagine why...), now it's 2-3 per 10 mins lure, sometimes only one per
lure, but usually more, so yeah, MILES better. 

If it feels a lot worse than that, might need higher skill, apparently
the droprate is better the higher skill you have, so use your best
lures etc, might help a bit.

>The Land Shark - looks really cool when you summon it
>to follow you around, especially when you throw one of
>those plus 50% size biscuits at it.  But as a battle pet?
>Sucks!  Was hoping it would be uber powerful and strike
>fear in somebody I just entered into a player battle with.
>Nahh.  Basically just same abilities as a crocolisk.  Very
>disappointing.
>
>Nat Pagle, you beer guzzling stalker - you sold me a lemon!

Hehe shame, I thought the abilities sounded cool, that said, I've not
levelled a croc yet either, so it'll be of use to me if I level it up
first. Looks awesome anyway!

Talking of awesome looking pets, I'm 11/12 on the new raiding wth
leashes achievement, cannot wait to get my baby naaru, shame that one
can't battle but it looks amazing; I have a holy draenei priest who
will forevermore use that as her companion I think :-)

On 3/29/2015 12:11 PM, Catriona R wrote:
>
> If it feels a lot worse than that, might need higher skill, apparently
> the droprate is better the higher skill you have, so use your best
> lures etc, might help a bit.
>

I was using the Ephemeral Fishing Pole from the cavedweller
and the worm supreme bait for a skill of 700 + 400, and it
seemed a horrendous catch rate!  Maybe it just seemed that
way.  One nice thing I learned, as a mage I could throw
those pheromone fish at my mirror images to get the buff (you
can also throw at a bodyguard.)

I'll probably fish up the other needed lunkers; I'm just that
bored :/

On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 13:00:14 -0400, Bruce Smith <mist...@sprynet.com>
wrote:

>On 3/29/2015 12:11 PM, Catriona R wrote:
>>
>> If it feels a lot worse than that, might need higher skill, apparently
>> the droprate is better the higher skill you have, so use your best
>> lures etc, might help a bit.
>>
>
>I was using the Ephemeral Fishing Pole from the cavedweller
>and the worm supreme bait for a skill of 700 + 400, and it
>seemed a horrendous catch rate!  Maybe it just seemed that
>way.  

Heh, that's higher than I've been using recently since the really good
pole/hat won't drop for me, it's just been Worm Supreme plus the base
+fishing on my hat/pole, so about 700+240 or thereabouts. Seems a far
far better droprate than it used to be anyway, although it varies a
bit wih zone, it seems lower in Nagrand than Shadowmoon Valley,
probably because SMV requries lower fishing skill to begin with.

>One nice thing I learned, as a mage I could throw
>those pheromone fish at my mirror images to get the buff (you
>can also throw at a bodyguard.)

Ooh, nice, I never even thought of trying that one; I'll give it a go
with my bodyguard next time then, thanks for the tip!

>I'll probably fish up the other needed lunkers; I'm just that
>bored :/

Hehe good luck! I need to get down to that soon, been getting
distracted by other games recently though, rediscovering Portal 2
meant several evenings just vanished this last week... :-)