Wotlk Fishing + I wana Fishbot!

[stormcrowsix]

Introduction

This "guide" will learn you where to fish in Northrend to make some nice cash. For this I use the Iwana Fishbot (old as my granny, still one of the best), and a few other addons to make my life easier.
Below I will describe where you can get wich fish, what they are worth, what you need them for ... Of course it is required to check your AH prizes since your server economy will determine what spot you are going to chose.
Note: not all the Northrend Fish are in here, only the ones that I found worth spending time on.


Setting up

1. Download Iwana Fishbot in this thread http://www.mmowned.com/forums/bots-p...fishbuddy.html
Be sure to download the attachement at the bottom of the post

2. If you never worked with Iwana Fishbot before, take a look at http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-gu...hingspots.html

Also written by me, old, but still gives you an adequate explanation of the bot.
Make sure of the following points:
- read the readme included in the rarfile
- disable autoloot when using this bot
- remember that outside your fishbot (most of the time) needs a different profile for day/night cycle
- if your settings are low, and the program can't find the fish or can't loot them, turn up the spell detail, and the options that make you "see" further.

3. Make a macro and place it on your castbar, first spot.
/cast "LURE'S NAME"
/use "YOUR POLE'S NAME"
/cast Fishing

Since even at 450 skill some spots will make you get the "your fish got away" message I advice you to use this macro. Stack up on some lure, and you are off to go. Should you leave your bot on for a few hours, and halfway he goes out of lures, he just keeps fishing without it.

4. Download and install lootfilter Loot Filter - Addons - Curse

This addon, known by most, will delete the stuff you don't wanna have. Fishing for one specific kind of fish, and 2 other fish are being fished up regularly, will **** up your bagspace. lootfilter can take over and keep those fish out of your bag for you.

5. Download and install AutoConfirmLoot cAutoConfirmLoot : WoWInterface Downloads : Bags, Bank, Inventory Mods

Since the fishbot requires you to disable autoloot in settings, you would miss out on rare fish/items like the sewer rat, the dark herring, the one ring, and all other loot that drops when fishing. This addon will make you "skip" the "are you sure you wanna loot this blablabla" screen, so all loot ends up in your bag rather then being tossed back into the water.


Getting started

Ok, so first of all, max out your fishing. If you don't have fishing yet or it is not maxed out yet, go and read my guide again, it explains you were to go and what to do.


I advice skilling up 1-450 in Wailing caverns, works out fine and you only need to leave it a few times for a fishing quest/training, + you still get a lot of money for the deviate fish.

If you want to start fishing sooner in Northrend (incl Dalaran) be sure to use the appropriate lure for it.
The only lure you should be using is the aquadynamic fish attractor (Aquadynamic Fish Attractor - Item - World of Warcraft) which requires
* 2 bronze bar
* 1 nightcrawler
* 1 coarse blasting powder
These mats give you 3 lures at a time, and if you can calculate a little bit, you would know you need 6 to fish one hour with lure.

Big *empty* bags are pro, cause (depending the place) you will get a lot of loot. 25 Stacks a night is pretty common (depending the fish you go for).
At some places (dalaran, outside VH) its best to put all your keys in your bank to if you have the space for it, since keys can be looted there from fishing.

Get a bankalt if you don’t have one already. Maybe people who are fisherman themselves will see you fishing a lot in certain spots, and that + your not answering to them them seeing you undercut their AH prizes all the time will give you problems.

If you insist of fishing with your interface on, disable or hide all addons that fill up your screen (questhelper/carbonite/omen/…)


Here Fishie fishie fishie!

Ok, enough chitchat, lets get some money betch!
You could fish for different reasons, like lvling cooking, making gold, getting mats for alchemy, etc.
If you are fishing for gold you will pick your spots based upon one of the above objectives.
Below I will explain which fishes are (in my opinion) worth going for, what to use them for and where to catch them.

Bonescale snapper (Bonescale Snapper - Item - World of Warcraft)

This is the most common fish in Northrend, but this does not mean he is useless/worth nothing…
First of all, due to the fact that he is easy to catch in masses, he is ideal to lvl up your fishing.
Starting from skill lvl 350 till 3870 you can cook this baby into a normal food that doesn’t give a buff, but does not require any spices neither.

His cooked version, the Snapper Extreme (Snapper Extreme - Spell - World of Warcraft) requires 3 fishes + 1 Northern spice to cook, and is a fairly good seller. 1 stack of these sells for about 80-120G depending on your economy.
Usage:

• Cooking: Grilled Bonescale (restores 15000 health and 12960 mana over 30 sec, requires Level 70).
• Cooking: Snapper Extreme (restores 15000 health and 12960 mana over 30 sec, +40 Hit Rating and +40 Stamina for 1 hour, requires Level 70) - requires 3 Bonescale Snapper and Northern Spices.

Fangtooth Herring (Fangtooth Herring - Item - World of Warcraft)

This fish is not so spectacular neither. Basically a decent fish that sells raw for a decent price (about 20-40G/stack depending on your economy).
If you can make the haunted herring (one of the emofoods) I suggest making that one and sell/piece at AH, since people need this for an achievement, if not I would suggest selling raw.
Usage:

• Cooking: Pickled Fangtooth (restores 15000 health and 12960 mana over 30 sec, +12 MP5 and +40 Stamina for 1 hour, requires Level 70).
• Cooking: Spicy Fried Herring (restores 15000 health and 12960 mana over 30 sec, +16 MP5 and +40 Stamina for 1 hour, requires Level 70) - requires Northern Spices.
• Cooking: Haunted Herring ("makes you scared" for 2 hours) - also requires Essence of Undeath.

Glacial Salmon (Glacial Salmon - Item - World of Warcraft)

This fish is a decent seller, you can sell him raw between 20-40G/stack (depending on your economy ofc)
You could also craft him into smoked salmon (no herbs req) or a firecracker salmon, both buffoods, wich sells for a decent prize
Usage:

• Cooking: Firecracker Salmon (restores 15000 health and 12960 mana over 30 sec, +46 Spell Power and +40 Stamina for 1 hour, requires Level 70) - requires Northern Spices.
• Cooking: Smoked Salmon (restores 15000 health and 12960 mana over 30 sec, +35 Spell Power and +40 Stamina for 1 hour, requires Level 70).
• Cooking: Small Feast (party food, restores 15000 health and 12960 mana over 30 sec, makes you smaller, requires level 70) - requires 2 Nettlefish, 2 Rhino Meat, 2 Glacial Salmon, and Northern Spices.

Pygmy Suckerfish (Pygmy Suckerfish - Item - World of Warcraft)

One of the more interesting fishes. This fish is loved by Alchemists to skill up (375-390 skill) by making pygmy oils. The oil also has a cool effect on the one that drinks it (shrinks the player) and therefore is a very good item to sell.
1 stack easily sells for 60-100G depending on your server economy

Usage: Alchemy: Create 1-2 Pygmy Oil. Drinking Pygmy Oil makes you a little smaller for 10 minutes. After drinking 6-10 oils in a row, you gain a buff described as "Pygmified!", which turns you into a Pygmy for 10 minutes. Pygmy Oil is also used to make several other alchemy potions and the Indestructible Alchemist's Stone.


Now why do I post these fishes all together? They can be fished from the same place!


In the lake marked on my map, you can find all these fishes.
Now, as you should know by now, fishbot is sensitive to day/night cycle, and the way the light hits the water.

In the north of the cliffs however, you can stand on little ledges at the bottom of the cliff, and even undeep water (so you got the cliffs in your back and you face the south).
Since you are in such a weird spot in the lake at that point, only DK’s/Shamans, people with flying mounts will see you, unlike all the others that don’t come past there.
Picking this position will also benefit in another way: if you configure the bot on the red feather, he can fish day and night without need to reconfigure the colors.

This spot already gave me a few thousand gold, and that’s why I post it here.



Slippery Eel (Slippery Eel - Item - World of Warcraft)

This fish is amazing. It doesn’t need cooking, you can fish a lot during a night with fishbot, and they sell uncooked for about 50-80G/stack. These Eels are an amazing buffood for tanks.

Usage: Food: Eaten raw, restores 13200 health, +30 Dodge Rating for 1 hour, requires level 70.




Now, to fish these without a lot of misses, you will need to reconfiger your bot during night/daycycle. I marked the day area and the night area, the night area is the red one (focus bot on red feather) and the blue one is the day area (focus on the blue feather). Maybe useless, but I had the least catches here.

A lot of people are afraid to get caught here in dalaran, and I understand there concern, but still, these spaces are relatively safe cause there are SO MANY people passing by all the time that they don’t even notice you.

Why fish here you ask? Only for this one fish?
Hold on, there is more ^^

While you are fishing here you have a chance to get Rusty Prison Key (Rusty Prison Key - Item - World of Warcraft) and with this key you can open a chest standing there in the water. There are 3 blues that can drop from this one, 1 every time you open it, and the blues sell from 50-150G each depending on the one you have. If you calculate you get maybe 15 stacks of eels during a night, and between 5 and 10 keys, you can imagine a nice cashflow.

You need to configure lootfilter however to throw away
* Shimmering Minnow
* Half Full Bottle of Prison Moonshine
* Half Empty Bottle of Prison Moonshine
* Partially Rusted File
* Bloodied Prison Shank
Since these are just bagfillers.





A few last words

Some people are probably asking “what about the nettlefish? What about the manta ray? Why not those fish?”
The problem is that these fish can only be fished verry accurately in certain places, pools, or they sell like crap and aint worth the effort… Or maybe too much crapfish is caught zhile catching them, so the more you fish, the more you throw away
The place I showed you in northern Howling Fjord gives you the opportunity to catch 4 different valuable fishes, and you don’t need to toss away a lot of crap.

Also the pool in dalaran (for the coins) is a bad idea since a lot of people fish there to get the achievements, and all those bobbers around confuse your bot.
The sewers of dalaran can give you this awesome cool sewerrat and is easy to get with this bot, but besides some craploot, a few vials and lots of Magic Eaters (cool fish with a cool buff that sell for only 5/10G-stack) you can’t catch anything else there.


Hope this has been of any use to you, gogo fishing and last but not least


ZIAO I LOVE YOU AND STILL WANT TO HAVE YOUR BABIES PL0X!
Your bot has made me thousands of golds throughout my wowcarreer, and it still does, day after day.


Info of this guide was compiled from my own experience, and completed with info from
www.wowhead.com
and El’s Extreme Anglin’, the best site about WoW fishing
http://www.elsanglin.com/
This is the site where i also got the pics of the fishes

Update: an addition from Zaphry - all credit goes to him for this

Place for Dragonfin Angelfish


and SS of the place


And Place for Nettlefish


and where to fish


And both are pretty much secured places
Place for Dragonfin is behind waterfall in corner so you'll be behind peoples eyes there and profit when you cook them into Blackened Dragonfin is HUGE, but place requires flying mount though.
Getting around +14 stacks in night when fishing in there.

Nettlefish place is also behind eyes of curious people cause it is edge of the map and noone comes to there usually, but I am not sure it it requires a flying mount.(most likely requires)
Getting around 12 stacks in night in here too

Stack amount may be low, but I have not used anykind addon with these to only get certain fish

[pardalis1111]

wow thats a great guide.
i already do it but for people that don't i'm sure it will come a big help.

[lozer]

good guide! but I like mr.fishit better as a bot.
still +rep!

[SmotPoker]

lol at.......

This "guide" will learn you

[Zaphry]

Over all nice but you forgot few most profitable fishes
Such as:
Dragonfin Angelfish
and
Nettlefish

May I pm awesome botting places for them?

And Nettlefish goes for around +70g stack on my realm so it is kinda profitable :O

[stormcrowsix]

lol at.......

please, what is there to lol @?
or you flame and bring the arguments, or you GTFO... k?

@ Zaphry please do mate, I just didnt include them since I like fishing at one spot and get lots of different ones without letting lootfilter trash half of them cause they are useless...

[Zaphry]

Will pm them when I will start to bot later tonight.. taking picture of both places

[countchocula493]

nice guide. it worked good

[KaozChicks]

Interesting, i never thought about fising to the sides of VH

[stormcrowsix]

Startpost updated with a few Screenshots of Mr Zaphry... ALl credit goes to him.

[naxxgor]

I'd like to add a tip for the next patch (if someone didn't already know). In 3.0.8, which should be out soon, there will be a new recipe called Fish Feast (Fish Feast - Item - World of Warcraft). The new feast is better than the Great Feast that people use now, and will especially benefit raiders that need something to boost their DPS. Fish Feast equals the same buff that people would get by eating individual foods. So it's probably a good idea to try stocking the fish needed for the new upcoming feast and after the patch make some for your own use or just sell the fish after the patch when raiders need them. The mats needed are on the page I linked. Note that the required amount of Northern Spices is only 1, not 4.

[stormcrowsix]

thanks for all the positive replys and the rep...
Nice to get the feeling you actually contributed something

[Gripen2]

Finally something usefull, I thougth i skilled Fishing for no reason. :b

[khangging]

Great guide, informative as well =]

[Ziddy1337]

I have a question which is a pretty nooby one. Does everybody who uses this use it on the official realms and what are the chances of being banned for it?