Comments on: Kaet: Finishing Up Westfall (Mostly)

By: Mania

Mania — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:27:20 +0000

Really? A quest for Magic Dust? Cool. Thanks for the tip!

I’ve never used the WoW suggestion boards. Most of the MMO teams I know don’t read suggestion boards unless they are very bored — it just never occurs to them to slope over there. Their problem is too many ideas, not too few. But I might report the weirdly drawn out quest as a bug. That’s a good idea.

By: Someone

Someone — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:34:55 +0000

A few more notes:

1) There are deviate fish pools but only in the lakes in The Barrens…

2) I agree with your fishing suggestions: maybe yous should make a post in the official forums about that too?

3) About the quest “The Coast Isn’t Clear”: maybe you should also make a post on the proper channels as that’s most likely a bug! Having a quest to grind mobs from level 11 to 19 is kind of weird! Even though you can get it at level 11, I know of no other quest that you have to grind some mobs now, wait a few levels, grind some more, wait more levels, grind some more, just to complete 1 quest!

By: Someone

Someone — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:25:54 +0000

Save the magic dust: the drop rate is crappy and you can complete a quest delivering it later (late 20ies IIRC).

By: Mania

Mania — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:48:32 +0000

Thanks, guys, and sorry for that extended digression. :> I ran into Machalor online the other night while I was trying to get Mania’s fishing up. (In the half-hour we chatted, I gained a whole 7 points!) So I guess I just have fishing on the brain.

Gurluas: I didn’t realize that! I knew Horde could do the Captain Sander’s quest (for the shirt) but I didn’t realize they could do all the lighthouse quests. That’s really handy to know.

Edit: I can tell people apart, really I can! I just typed the worng name … my apologies to both Kestrel and Machalor/Nicora.

By: Dvalin

Dvalin — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:21:42 +0000

I wish fishing worked so that the level of the area you were fishing in affected the skill up rate(ie, high lvl zone = faster skill up), I’m currently at 346 fishing skill and it takes a good 10 – 12 catches to get a skill point but at least my Cat, Shadow will not be going hungry any time soon. The big thing I dont get about fishing is why the required skill level has to be so damn high, I need to fish for furious crawdads in Terrokar to lvl my cooking but those damn pools are so hard to find and I miss roughly 80% of all casts thats with +100 lures, +20 rod and +2 enchant on top of my basic skill. Ahem, anyway keep up the good work on the crab, Mania, I’ve alway been tempted to level one but leveling one now to 70 would be too much of a pain in the backside.

By: Grishin

Grishin — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:26:22 +0000

I don’t have any problems catching fish at the end of the timer. It just takes a little practice and you actually need to click before you see the splash. I miss maybe 1 in 100.

By: wowHuntress

wowHuntress — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:52:03 +0000

I love your suggestions for fishing – they make a whole lot of sense! I typically designate one character (per faction/server) to be the fisher as it is such a chore to level.

Oh, and grats to Niffis on turning 16! =D

By: Vronsky

Vronsky — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:18:12 +0000

IMO, the dev’s made the in-game fishing experience too much like real world fishing – I need an adult beverage to get through a session. After trying it at age 12 I swore off real world fishing and wouldn’t have ever done it again if my son hadn’t really wanted to go on the cub scout camping trips. On one of the trips, my son turned to me and said that fishing didn’t seem fair for the worm – thankfully that was the end of his interest in fishing.

By: Grimia

Grimia — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:20:01 +0000

About improving fishing, I don’t know. Aside, until like lvl 15 I thought you did have to wield the Mining pick to mine. Removing the wielding requirement would be great (‘tho I’d still have to swap out hats), but I really like the fact I could skillup in lure-free waters still while doing something useful for my guild (Stonescale eels, or runecloth bolts).

IMHO the most annoying thing with fishing right now is the handful of pools that are _just_ outside of easy casting range in Nagrand (I usually end up bugging a Shammy for water-walk) and then the bug about last-second catches (it used to be impossible to catch those, now it’s only a mad click-dash).

By: Pujol

Pujol — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:30:43 +0000

I couldn’t agree more on your ideas for fishing in the pools.

I am glad that the developers changed the the fact that you get a bite every time you fish, but those bites are sometimes at the end of your fishing cast and then (unless you very fast) you’ll miss the catch at the end.