lucky fishing hat.
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Kearbear
Legend
Tips? The only one I can think of is : Keep at it.
It can be really frustrating to find your Keefer, sometimes you get it right away and sometimes you don't. For a personal example, my ally priest got the hat on the first try, 10th cast, with only 27 fishing skill or so. My horde druid took 8 grueling weekends over 3 or 4 months before I finally got his. You just have to keep trying until you get it
Mrcer
OG
Patients is all you need to get this item.
Shft
Legend
You are knowledgable. But you still have much to learn about the art of catching hats grasshopper.
yasueh
OG
Last week I got 220 tastyfish, 2 racers and a queenfish (I got unlucky on rares again, but I regularly catch several of them), starting from the 100 fishing needed to use fish finding. That's with a DK on tow, but I still average 160-180 tastyfish without. With 9 fishing hats across all my characters I average 2-3 weeks of fishing per hat (my best being 2 characters getting a hat in one competition, and the worst being 8 weeks of fishing without any luck).
You maximise your chances of catching the fish you want, by maximising the number of fish you catch each week. You give up before the competition is over, and you seriously reduce your chances.
Here is how fishing pool spawning (and most spawning throughout WoW) works:
(In situtaions other than with the fishing competition, the upper limit might actually be the same as the number of possible locations, so when left alone there are no empty spawns, and the lower limit may be at 0, so forced respawning can't happen and no mobs can be present. Also, in some cases hitting the lower limit can force respawning of seval replacements together, eg. almost all the Crown Thugs for the Valentine's event appearing when there are just a couple left).
Assume that we have 20 locations, an upper limit of 10, and a lower limit of 5.
Now also assume that there are mobs that make fishing half of the area less attractive than fishing the rest.
If everyone clumps up in the easy area, fishes the pools there, and the fished out pools have a 50/50 chance of either respawning in the area that's being fishing, or in the other, unfished half, then eventually, if fished enough, the 5 pools will be in the area that isn't being fished, as they will all have respawned next to the mobs.
The ones that can appear up to the limit of 10, then also have a 50/50 chance of appearing where people are willing to fish them, or in the unfished area, but they will be spawning on a timer, limiting the rate at which pools can be fished in the easier area, and they too can all be pushed into the area with mobs.
If you want to maximise the number of pools that can be fished, you have to move, spread out, and somehow either fish out or make available to be fished, those pools that aren't so easy to get to. It also helps everyone's chances to remove the pools fast enough that they are on instant (forced) respawn, so the more fishers the better (if there are enough fishers, then you hardly have to move at all).
Finally, always have beer. Just like IRL, fishing is much more bearable with it.
You maximise your chances of catching the fish you want, by maximising the number of fish you catch each week. You give up before the competition is over, and you seriously reduce your chances.
Here is how fishing pool spawning (and most spawning throughout WoW) works:
- There are a set number of locations that may have a spawn appear at them.
- With no-one removing them, there will be an upper limit as to how many of those potential locations can actually have a spawn.
- When one is removed, it will be replaced, within a certain time, at a random location that does not have a spawn (which can include the one you just removed, but at a low chance due to the number of empty locations).
- When a lot of spawns are being removed, due to a lot of players in the area, so that a different lower limit is reached, they no longer respawn at a random location on a timer, but respawn, still at a random location, but now immediately.
(In situtaions other than with the fishing competition, the upper limit might actually be the same as the number of possible locations, so when left alone there are no empty spawns, and the lower limit may be at 0, so forced respawning can't happen and no mobs can be present. Also, in some cases hitting the lower limit can force respawning of seval replacements together, eg. almost all the Crown Thugs for the Valentine's event appearing when there are just a couple left).
Assume that we have 20 locations, an upper limit of 10, and a lower limit of 5.
Now also assume that there are mobs that make fishing half of the area less attractive than fishing the rest.
If everyone clumps up in the easy area, fishes the pools there, and the fished out pools have a 50/50 chance of either respawning in the area that's being fishing, or in the other, unfished half, then eventually, if fished enough, the 5 pools will be in the area that isn't being fished, as they will all have respawned next to the mobs.
The ones that can appear up to the limit of 10, then also have a 50/50 chance of appearing where people are willing to fish them, or in the unfished area, but they will be spawning on a timer, limiting the rate at which pools can be fished in the easier area, and they too can all be pushed into the area with mobs.
If you want to maximise the number of pools that can be fished, you have to move, spread out, and somehow either fish out or make available to be fished, those pools that aren't so easy to get to. It also helps everyone's chances to remove the pools fast enough that they are on instant (forced) respawn, so the more fishers the better (if there are enough fishers, then you hardly have to move at all).
- If you have a high level escort that can protect you or give you a water walking buff, fish in the areas with the toughest mobs. By fishing there, you push spawns back into the easier areas for everyone else. You will probably have more than you can fish where you are anyway, because everyone else will be pushing the spawns into your area. A DK is good for one person, because otherwise you have to clump up to make use of it's buff, but a L24+ shaman can give a 10 minute buff to everyone on their faction as they go past.
- If you can't fish an area because of mobs, spread out to cover as much of what you can, as you can. If everyone clumps up, then eventually there will be no pools in that area, and you will have to move anyway.
- Move around. Pools will always be where people aren't fishing, so always keep moving to stay away from other people.
- If you can help each other to take out a few mobs and get access to some more pools, do it, otherwise those pools will remain unfished for the duration of the competition. Unfished pools can reduce the pool respawn rate for the whole competition, if they allow the limit to go above forced respawning into timed respawning.
- Do not sit and wait for spawns, spend your time looking for them instead. If you rely on other people to take on all the effort of causing pools to respawn, then you can also rely on them giving up and not being there to make things so easy for you in future.
Finally, always have beer. Just like IRL, fishing is much more bearable with it.
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MarzRider
Legend
What it's like to fish in Aerie Peak.
...but seriously, just be patient! 9 weeks it took on my Warlock, catching a rare every weekend (lots of Dezian's) Exhausted, I skipped a weekend and came back the next fishing event to catch my Keefer.
Haha the whole AP channel turns into a CAPS LOCK yelling fest.....
Be patient with the fishing, some get lucky (like me 10min fishing first time ever) and others take a while.
allahkazam
Legend
After about 20 fishing tournaments across 3 or 4 different twinks going back 5 years I have finally finally finally got a fishing hat on one of my twinks.
Malanior
Legend
Speaking of frustration:
Master Angler of Azeroth <-- this is the achievement I get on 30/10/2011
Mooraine @ Laughing Skull <-- this is my char, have 375 fishing skill,Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat, Arcanite Fishing Pole, I regularly buy Aquadynamic Fish Attractor whenever I see any at vendors and drink Captain Rumsey's Lager often. I have loads of High Test Eternium Fishing Lines (other that the one on my fishing pole) and Nat Pagle's Extreme Anglin' Boots in inventory but as u can see, no Lucky Fishing Hat at all and I rarely missed a week since october till now.... Frustration? -.-
ps) No hat either today
Master Angler of Azeroth <-- this is the achievement I get on 30/10/2011
Mooraine @ Laughing Skull <-- this is my char, have 375 fishing skill,Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat, Arcanite Fishing Pole, I regularly buy Aquadynamic Fish Attractor whenever I see any at vendors and drink Captain Rumsey's Lager often. I have loads of High Test Eternium Fishing Lines (other that the one on my fishing pole) and Nat Pagle's Extreme Anglin' Boots in inventory but as u can see, no Lucky Fishing Hat at all and I rarely missed a week since october till now.... Frustration? -.-
ps) No hat either today
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Infernal13
Legend
Just got my LFH after 1 hour 7 minutes of my first tourney. RNG has been kind to me lately
I hate you so much.
Quelfep
OG
adorable
Mutamutamuta
Legend
Be carefull,ppl turn insane at sundays,like that zombie movies..So agressive