[Wowhead Guide]Skills to Pay the Bills

[Cryt]

This is a copy+paste helpful guide on fishing. There are two more parts that have yet to come out but will be updated into this when they come out. The next two parts will be over First aid and Cooking. Enjoy everyone.

-cryt

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Skills to Pay the Bills is a three-part feature that will cover the important details of leveling the secondary tradeskills of Fishing, First Aid and Cooking in Wrath of the Lich King. These posts are written for the player entering Northrend with all secondary professions already maxed (at 375 skill). For information on leveling tradeskills prior to 375, check out the Profession Leveling Guides sticky on our forums!

Now, on with the show!


Skills to Pay the Bills Part 1: Fishing
By Miyari on 11/20/2008 at 3:59 PM PST

Part 1: Fishing

Fishing is one of the easiest professions to max out, though it can be fairly time consuming. Most players opt to raise fishing casually when they find themselves with free time. You can train Grand Master Fishing from a Grand Master Fishing Trainer located in Borean Tundra, Howling Fjord or Dalaran. You can typically expect to spend somewhere around three hours raising your Fishing skill from 375 to 450. Skill-ups are gained typically every 10 or so successful casts. Thankfully, you can gain skill-ups anywhere from fishing anywhere, so you are able to choose exactly where you would like to fish to raise your skill. If you have 350 Cooking, you will probably want to consider fishing from Northrend waters so that you can obtain fish that you can cook to raise your skill. These fish offer powerful Well Fed buffs such as Picked Fangtooth and Smoked Salmon.

Gear Check
Fishing in Northrend requires, at minimum, 380 skill in Fishing. This can be obtained easily by use of a specialized fishing pole or even the cheapest lure. I'd recommend the either the Nat Pagle's Extreme Angler FC-5000 (for Horde players only) or Seth's Graphite Fishing Pole, both of which are available from quests. If you vendored these poles - don't worry! As I stated before, you can use any type of pole as long as you use a good lure - and you're going to want to use lures unless you like your fish getting away practically every cast! Also, in Wrath of the Lich King, Blizzard has given us the Holy Grail of fishing poles - the Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole! That's right - an epic fishing pole! This amazing pole can be obtained after raising your reputation to Exalted with the Kalu'ak faction. Reputation can be gained through doing quests for the Tuskarr, including three repeatable daily quests:

• Planning for the Future, which starts at Trapper Mau'i found at Moa'ki Harbor, in Dragonblight
• Preparing for the Worst, which starts at Utaik found at Kaskala, in Borean Tundra
• The Way to His Heart..., which starts at Anuniaq found at Kamagua, in Howling Fjord

Each daily rewards 500 reputation with the Kalu'ak and they are all quite easy! Starting on either side of Northrend, you can take the Giant Turtle to each camp and make your daily rounds.

An easy way to build a nice stock of fishing lures is to do Old Man Barlo's fishing daily quests in Outland. The reward bag almost always contains Sharpened Fish Hooks, which will make your Northrend fishing experience much more bearable. Alternately, the engineer-crafted Aquadynamic Fish Attractor can be used and are frequently found purchasable in limited quantities from fishing supply vendors.

If Dalaran fishing is your style, you can hunt around the Underbelly (Dalaran's sewer) for Underbelly Elixer (sic), small vials of yellow liquid which found lying around that can be looted for Underbelly Elixir. One of the possible buffs granted upon drinking the elixir will transform you into a Tuskarr (!) and grant you +50 Fishing skill while in Dalaran. Now that's

Achievements
Alternately, you can opt to raise your fishing skill by progressing towards a challenging, fishing-related achievement. The following achievements are great side-goals to consider while raising your fishing skill: fishing in style!

• I Smell A Giant Rat
  Be prepared to spend a long time fishing in Dalaran's Underbelly for the Giant Sewer Rat pet!
• Mr. Pinchy's Magical Crawdad Box
  Another difficult grind, as Mr. Pinchy can only be fished in the highland pools of Terokkar Forest and each use only has a chance to reward you with the pet!
• Old Crafty and Old Ironjaw
  Old Crafty can be fished in Orgrimmar, and Old Ironjaw can be fished in Ironforge. Both are extremely rare.
• One That Didn't Get Away
  Speaking of extremely rare, this achievement is granted for managing to catch any one of the listed extremely rare (and extremely useless) fish.
• The Coin Master
  Probably one of the easiest listed grinds, this achievement is comprised of three meta achievements: A Penny For Your Thoughts, Silver In The City and There's Gold In That There Fountain. Fish in the fountain located in the Eventide of Dalaran until you've looted every coin at least once and you will be rewarded with the Titanium Seal of Dalaran!
• 1000 Fish
  This achievement has five meta achievements below it, rewarding players for catching 25, 50, 100, 250, 500 and finally 1000 Fish!

Of course, there are a ton more Fishing-related achievements with more specific tasks that must be performed outside the act of normal fishing - such as fishing up The Lurker Below in Serpentshrine Cavern for The Lurker Above, or winning the Stranglethorn Fishing Competition (yikes!) for Master Angler of Stranglethorn. Completing the fishing achievements listed in the achievement Accomplished Angler will grant you access to a special in-game title - Salty! You can browse all available fishing achievements here.

You can find more information about Wrath of the Lich King fishing by checking out El's Extreme Anglin'.



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Part 2: First Aid
Coming soon.

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Part 3: Cooking
Coming soon.

[Zeraux]

Direct copy from Wowhead
Why not just link there instead? ...

[Ryoushi.]

Mmmh, I prefer to read it on WoWhead because of all the pictures, font etc.