trash removed from fishing?!?

[Powerogue]

was reading up on that fishing derby and boy did it sound interesting. but part of the blue post caught my attention....

It is said that these sharks’ favorite meal are the bite-sized Pygmy Suckerfish. Perhaps a hook in their waters will do the trick. Because of the increased concentration of fish, you have an increased chance to catch a shark from fishing pools. Don't forget, in patch 3.3.0 you never catch trash from fishing pools, regardless of skill.

ORLY?!

after analyzing that sentence for a while, i came up with 3 possibilities(2 of which omitted now, as the PTRs have proven the third)

-without trash drops, since we can fish everywhere already, a level 1 fisherman would have the same ability to fish as a maxed out 612 skill fisherman. (or whatever the cap was, around there) (Proven, but only in schools, not open water)

ok so that's scrap fishing as a skill and give it to everybody....then give us +15 skill boots and +5 skill "Enchant Gloves - Angler". What?

discuss ???

adding a note here, yes i'm aware that it says fishing pools, but that still makes up 90% of fishing, only really worthwhile place to open water fish is wintergrasp. :-\

it is now confirmed on the PTRs that someone with level 1 fishing skill got 5 straight fish in a school, then fished in open water and got all junk. sooo....yea. :'( leveling fishing to be all but dead except the occasional valuable open water. (dalaran fountain, wintergrasp, a few old world fish that you might want for cooking : )

I am determined now that this adding skill when skill is no longer needed means something. I can almost guarantee they are planning a future fishing update which will require some + to fishing to do, or they simply wouldn't be making these.
basically: hold on to your nat pagle fishing contest poles, + fishing may get a use later. (if ONLY blizzard would tell us what that was :)

[Xacez]

Don't forget, in patch 3.3.0 you never catch trash from fishing pools, regardless of skill.

Reread the bold part.

[Zth]

You said it yourself...

Don't forget, in patch 3.3.0 you never catch trash from fishing pools, regardless of skill.

you never catch trash from fishing pools

catch trash from fishing pools

fishing pools

???

[Gnometerry]

lrn2read imo.


it's only in schools.

[Architect]

Fishing is so nub now.

[Marithas]

Fishing is so nub now.

wow a secondary profession

[Polarthief]

wow a secondary profession

YOUR JIGGLYPUFF SCARES ME O.O

[Galith]

When can I cook things with lvl skill? Is there a point to have already leveled up fishing?

[Powerogue]

who DOESN'T fish from schools, besides wintergrasp :

[Eurytos]

moar cater to teh casuals, AHHHH THE SKY IS FALLING!!

i cant be bothered with trash while fishing

[ralphie]

lrn2read imo, stay in school.

FIXED!

[starvethedead]

This is complete BS, even the highest level fishermen fish from schools, because it's guaranteed to get the fish you want. So what is the point of fishing skill? GG Blizz.

[Ragorna]

Was surprised by the changes aswell. If you can't catch trash from pools anymore, what's the use of high fishing-skills?

The only thing I can think of (what would be evil) is that you'll just catch other crap fish from the pool, instead of the fish actually in the pool with a low skill level. The higher the level, the more chance you'll catch the actual 'pool-fish'.

Doubt they'll do something like that though.

[Recompence]

is there a point to level fishing

[Snebbles]

is there a point to level fishing

I guess some people have found a way to make money off of it....Level it if you're bored lol, and I think it's the only skill that you can get to 700 something.

[KhameleonN]

DAMN CASUAL FRIENDLY FISHING WTF BLIZZ > > > > > > > > >

[Jÿnks]

is there a point to level fishing

I leveled my fishing skills solely from the Dalaran fishing dailies (tried getting one of the rare fishing poles).

There really isn't a point in it unless you want to use one of the 300+ skill fishing poles.

[Ragorna]

is there a point to level fishing

Not having to pay idiotic prices for buff foods was my main reason to level it. But now that that has been cleared out if the way, it was useless yes.

(I also wasn't very lucky catching Old Crafty. Just kept on going till I got that bugger.)

[Moosedrool]

I leveled my fishing skills solely from the Dalaran fishing dailies (tried getting one of the rare fishing poles).

There really isn't a point in it unless you want to use one of the 300+ skill fishing poles.

Yeah because fish feast mats don't sell well.

[Jÿnks]

Yeah because fish feast mats don't sell well.

Do they? lol. I've never even bothered to check, I mostly fish in the Dalaran sewers for that damn pet >