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Fishing
First of all, let me start off by saying that I think EVERYONE should take up Fishing. It'll give you something to do when you run out of mana or you're injured and have to rest to heal or you're LFG and there's water nearby. (Yes, you CAN fish while sitting. There's just not any animation if you do that)
Why should you take up fishing? Well, its very simple:
1. You can actually eat the fish as is, without having to cook it. A few coppers for one meal is cheap!
2. You can use the Fresh Fish to make Fish Rolls. 1 Fresh Fish + 1 Batwing combined in a spit or oven makes one Fish Roll. But the trivial is in the early 100's, so expect a lot of failures at first. Or you can do Fish Fillets, using a Jug of Sauce instead of a Batwing, but Fish Rolls are cheaper to make.
3. You can make a small profit by reselling any rusty daggers, fish scales and tattered sandals you catch to vendors (or use the Fish Scales yourself if you can cast Enduring Breath).
4. Some items caught by Fishing are used in other tradeskills. (Mainly Baking and Brewing)
5. Go to the Bazaar and look and see how much Blessed Fishing Rods (made with Fishing skill) and Saltwater Seaweed (Fished for in OOT) sell for. I rest my case.
Getting started.
First of all, go buy a fishing pole and some bait, and find some water. (If you're in Qeynos, make sure you're at the docks, not the Pally and Cleric guild!) Equip the fishing pole, hit the Fishing button (or make one, if you haven't already) and wait.
With low skill, you may lose bait and your fishing pole may break. But both are VERY cheap, so don't give up.
When your skill is high enough, you can catch special zone-specific fish and items. (If you catch a fish and its not "Fresh Fish", then you have a zone-specific fish!)
Its time to take a Fishing trip!
After your skill hits 50 or so, if you're not evil, head to Butcherblock and hop at the boat. When the boat stops at an island with an NPC named Zachariah Reigh standing on the docks, get off the boat.
On this island are a few shops of interest. One of them carries fishing poles, bait, hooks for making lures, and tackle boxes. Buy as much bait as you feel like using, but make sure you have enough left for a tackle box. (hooks too, if you want, but I never use them)
Fish here until you get bored, run out of money, or hit whatever skill point you're aiming for. Keep any Gunthak Mackerel and Saltwater Seaweed you catch, but sell anything else, if you like. And buy a tackle box before you leave.
Making profit from the catch of the day
Now, what to do with the Gunthak Mackerel and the Saltwater Seaweed....
Well, unless you're a Brewer or know someone who is, sell the Saltwater Seaweed in the Bazaar. Its used to make temper for Freeport human cultural items. As for the Gunthak Mackerel, put them in the bank and go buy a skinning knife in the Bazaar or find someone who will make one for you, unless you can do it yourself. You can combine the Gunthak Mackerel with the skinning knife in the tackle box I told you to buy and you will end up with 5 fishing bait.
There are zone specific fish in a lot of zones, including several of the starting cities, and they all have different uses. Some are used for Brewing and some for Baking. Check out this link for the info on the different types of fish, where to catch them, and some of their uses:
www.eqtraders.com/locatio...g_zone.htm
You can even make food out of some of the fish you catch by combining them in the tackle box with a fillet knife (again, player-made), a root (you can forage these or buy them from someone who can), and celandine (bought from an alchemy vendor), but you need VERY high skill to do this. (They all trivial in the 170's to 180's) The fish bones that are a by-product can even be made into Fishbone Darts, which are a good weapon for Monks to use. (Requires a special Fishbone Dart Tool, made by a Blacksmith, to make the darts)
But I want to make fishing lures!
*Sigh* My advice is....don't bother. First of all, they take up too much space and they're used up just like other bait is. You're better off getting some Animated or Catch-A-Lot Bait, or even Fishing Grubs, and selling any Spiderling Silks you've acquired to a Tailor....unless you ARE a Tailor. But if you really want to, look at the bottom of this page:
www.eqtraders.com/secrets...ishing.htm
I'm getting sick of my fishing poles breaking!
No matter how good a fisherman you are, your fishing pole will break eventually. Live with it. Or do the Fisherman's Companion quest, if you have PoP. By turning in 2 Nightmare Cichlid Bones and 2 Valorian Discus Bones (unstacked, and its a good idea to actually get the quest from him before turning them in) to Ramos Jerwan, the Barbarian Fishing supply vendor in PoK, you can get a Fisherman's Companion. The Fisherman's Companion is a No Drop Lore item that has a treasure chest graphic and weighs 1.0. It has the right-click effect of Summon Brell's Fishin' Pole. Brell's Fishin' Pole is....a fishing pole (who'da thunk it?!) that has +3% modifier to Fishing and a right click effect of its own: Summon Ale. (It only summons 1 at a time, but they're not Lore. You can get a whole stack in about a minute or so) The fishing pole itself is No Rent and No Drop. The summoned ale, however, is only No Rent. If the Brell's Fishin' Pole breaks, just summon another one. (There are no items that summon bait, however. You'll still have to carry a supply)
If you are flagged for Nightmare and Valor you can catch the fish yourself. Making the bones for the turn-in trivials in the 180's. You might be able to get the fish or bones if you ask around in PoT and are lucky enough to catch someone who has been Fishing there (According to someone who posted on the EQTraders board), but if not you'll have to try buying them in the Bazaar.
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If anyone wants to copy this for their own website or anything, go ahead, as long as you give me credit for it (Zyrtryx Conjureblade of The Rathe server). And the links need to be fixed, because I just copied and pasted from the entry on my guild's message board.
Fishing
First of all, let me start off by saying that I think EVERYONE should take up Fishing. It'll give you something to do when you run out of mana or you're injured and have to rest to heal or you're LFG and there's water nearby. (Yes, you CAN fish while sitting. There's just not any animation if you do that)
Why should you take up fishing? Well, its very simple:
1. You can actually eat the fish as is, without having to cook it. A few coppers for one meal is cheap!
2. You can use the Fresh Fish to make Fish Rolls. 1 Fresh Fish + 1 Batwing combined in a spit or oven makes one Fish Roll. But the trivial is in the early 100's, so expect a lot of failures at first. Or you can do Fish Fillets, using a Jug of Sauce instead of a Batwing, but Fish Rolls are cheaper to make.
3. You can make a small profit by reselling any rusty daggers, fish scales and tattered sandals you catch to vendors (or use the Fish Scales yourself if you can cast Enduring Breath).
4. Some items caught by Fishing are used in other tradeskills. (Mainly Baking and Brewing)
5. Go to the Bazaar and look and see how much Blessed Fishing Rods (made with Fishing skill) and Saltwater Seaweed (Fished for in OOT) sell for. I rest my case.
Getting started.
First of all, go buy a fishing pole and some bait, and find some water. (If you're in Qeynos, make sure you're at the docks, not the Pally and Cleric guild!) Equip the fishing pole, hit the Fishing button (or make one, if you haven't already) and wait.
With low skill, you may lose bait and your fishing pole may break. But both are VERY cheap, so don't give up.
When your skill is high enough, you can catch special zone-specific fish and items. (If you catch a fish and its not "Fresh Fish", then you have a zone-specific fish!)
Its time to take a Fishing trip!
After your skill hits 50 or so, if you're not evil, head to Butcherblock and hop at the boat. When the boat stops at an island with an NPC named Zachariah Reigh standing on the docks, get off the boat.
On this island are a few shops of interest. One of them carries fishing poles, bait, hooks for making lures, and tackle boxes. Buy as much bait as you feel like using, but make sure you have enough left for a tackle box. (hooks too, if you want, but I never use them)
Fish here until you get bored, run out of money, or hit whatever skill point you're aiming for. Keep any Gunthak Mackerel and Saltwater Seaweed you catch, but sell anything else, if you like. And buy a tackle box before you leave.
Making profit from the catch of the day
Now, what to do with the Gunthak Mackerel and the Saltwater Seaweed....
Well, unless you're a Brewer or know someone who is, sell the Saltwater Seaweed in the Bazaar. Its used to make temper for Freeport human cultural items. As for the Gunthak Mackerel, put them in the bank and go buy a skinning knife in the Bazaar or find someone who will make one for you, unless you can do it yourself. You can combine the Gunthak Mackerel with the skinning knife in the tackle box I told you to buy and you will end up with 5 fishing bait.
There are zone specific fish in a lot of zones, including several of the starting cities, and they all have different uses. Some are used for Brewing and some for Baking. Check out this link for the info on the different types of fish, where to catch them, and some of their uses:
www.eqtraders.com/locatio...g_zone.htm
You can even make food out of some of the fish you catch by combining them in the tackle box with a fillet knife (again, player-made), a root (you can forage these or buy them from someone who can), and celandine (bought from an alchemy vendor), but you need VERY high skill to do this. (They all trivial in the 170's to 180's) The fish bones that are a by-product can even be made into Fishbone Darts, which are a good weapon for Monks to use. (Requires a special Fishbone Dart Tool, made by a Blacksmith, to make the darts)
But I want to make fishing lures!
*Sigh* My advice is....don't bother. First of all, they take up too much space and they're used up just like other bait is. You're better off getting some Animated or Catch-A-Lot Bait, or even Fishing Grubs, and selling any Spiderling Silks you've acquired to a Tailor....unless you ARE a Tailor. But if you really want to, look at the bottom of this page:
www.eqtraders.com/secrets...ishing.htm
I'm getting sick of my fishing poles breaking!
No matter how good a fisherman you are, your fishing pole will break eventually. Live with it. Or do the Fisherman's Companion quest, if you have PoP. By turning in 2 Nightmare Cichlid Bones and 2 Valorian Discus Bones (unstacked, and its a good idea to actually get the quest from him before turning them in) to Ramos Jerwan, the Barbarian Fishing supply vendor in PoK, you can get a Fisherman's Companion. The Fisherman's Companion is a No Drop Lore item that has a treasure chest graphic and weighs 1.0. It has the right-click effect of Summon Brell's Fishin' Pole. Brell's Fishin' Pole is....a fishing pole (who'da thunk it?!) that has +3% modifier to Fishing and a right click effect of its own: Summon Ale. (It only summons 1 at a time, but they're not Lore. You can get a whole stack in about a minute or so) The fishing pole itself is No Rent and No Drop. The summoned ale, however, is only No Rent. If the Brell's Fishin' Pole breaks, just summon another one. (There are no items that summon bait, however. You'll still have to carry a supply)
If you are flagged for Nightmare and Valor you can catch the fish yourself. Making the bones for the turn-in trivials in the 180's. You might be able to get the fish or bones if you ask around in PoT and are lucky enough to catch someone who has been Fishing there (According to someone who posted on the EQTraders board), but if not you'll have to try buying them in the Bazaar.
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If anyone wants to copy this for their own website or anything, go ahead, as long as you give me credit for it (Zyrtryx Conjureblade of The Rathe server). And the links need to be fixed, because I just copied and pasted from the entry on my guild's message board.
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