The Ghostfish
This quest takes place in the Sholazar Basin which, if you have the right flight paths, is a relatively short flight from Dalaran. You want to fly directly into River’s Heart if you can. Right next to the flight path, on days when this is the Fishing quest, you will find dozens of people fishing into the water. The quest item, the Phantom Ghostfish, can sometimes take awhile to catch but when you do it’s simply a matter of using the item by eating it. It’ll give you an invisibility effect that wears off eventually (you can speed up the process by right-clicking on the buff icon in the corner of your screen). Once the effect is gone, you can fly back to Dalaran and turn in the quest.

Jewel of the Sewers
This is the faster of all of the Fishing dailies to complete since it takes place right inside of Dalaran. The water you’re looking for located near the inn down in the city’s sewer. There’s a small dock next to the inn that is typically crawling with fishermen when this quest is the daily. Once upon a time, the drop rate on the quest item was insanely small but the rate has been bumped up so much that it’s not uncommon to snag the item on your line after less than a dozen casts. As a fun sidenote, this dock is also a popular fishing spot for anyone who is a serious pet collector as it is possible to hook a Giant Sewer Rat out of this same water.

Dangerously Delicious
Since this quest takes place inside the sometimes obnoxious Wintergrasp, where PvP can run rampant depending on your server population, I like to do this daily during non-peak times when possible. Snagging the ten Terrorfish you need to complete this quest can sometimes be a pain thanks to it’s relatively low drop rate. It’s not uncommon to have to sit and cast time after time for several minutes to get everything you need. That’s why I try and go when there aren’t many people in the zone since it’s not uncommon to run into PvP griefers who hang out near the popular fishing spots. If you can, try and stay as close to your faction’s flight path as possible when completing this quest. It’ll significantly lower your chances of being harassed by other players.

Monsterbelly Appetite
This is my least favorite of all of the Fishing dailies for some reason. The easiest way to get this done is to fly to the southern edge of Dragonblight, near Moa’ki Harbor. The trick to this daily is to make sure your character is in the “Frozen Sea” and nowhere else. The easiest way to tell if you’re in the right location is to look at the text above the minimap/radar on your screen. If it says “Frozen Sea” then you are good to start fishing. If you get lost or confused, my preferred spot to complete this quest is a small series of ruins that poke out of the water to the east of Moa’ki Harbor. You’ll occasionally find other people there fishing as well.

Blood Is Thicker
Get ready for a long flight from Dalaran if this is the Fishing daily quest for you. This particular Fishing daily takes place in the Borean Tundra. In order to knock this out as quickly as possible, fly straight to the small lake just south of the Amber Ledge. Once you’re arrive there, find a nearby mammoth or other creature and kill it so you turn red. This is a zone-wide debuff you receive for killing innocent animals. You can get rid of the debuff by jumping into the lake and doing so causes a red pool to appear. Fish in that red pool and you’ll begin to pull up the Bloodtooth Frenzy you need to complete the quest.

The Rewards

The Bag of Fishing Treasures is your main prize for completing the Fishing daily. It has a random assortment of items and occasionally you get cool stuff like the Porcelain Bell. This gray item sells at any vendor in the game for 100 gold. It’s a pretty rare drop from the Bag but when you get it the whole daily becomes more than worth it. The bag can also include useful items like rare gems, new fishing poles and even items that start additional quests. There’s an entire list of possible drops over at Wowhead.

Aside from the quest rewards, the sheer number of miscellaneous fish you’ll catch while doing these dailies can be a nice source of gold depending on your server’s economy. There are plenty of posts on this blog already about the monetary joys of fishing so I’ll leave those for you as further reading.

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Fishing. In the World of Warcraft, the act of fishing was apparently designed to be the most miserable and sadistic act in a video game ever. It’s horrifyingly boring and monotonous. How anyone could derive enjoyment from this act is simply beyond the scope of my brain’s mental capacity.

Now let me tell you why I think you should start fishing every day.

There is gold to be made with fishing. Everyone needs Raid food these days and the best way to cash in on this demand is to help supply the hardcore Raider types with the cooking materials necessary to make the foods they need each week.

The Best Selling Fish

There are only four fish I actively seek: Glacial Salmon, Nettlefish, Dragonfin Angelfish and Musselback Sculpin. I find these four to be the fastest selling of all the fish available in the game right now. While you don’t need a maxxed out Fishing skill to catch all of these types of fish I highly recommend you get your Fishing up to 450 and have a decent pole. The time you’ll save and the areas you can fish in will be much improved.

Glacial Salmon
You can get these by the boat load in Wintergrasp. The have a decent drop rate and, on my server, the average selling price per fish hovers somewhere around 1.5 gold. When the supply is low that number can creep up and over 2 gold each.

Nettlefish
While I’m fishing in Wintergrasp for Glacial Salmon I’ll pull up a fair share of Nettlefish as well. I usually cook these into Poached Nettlefish and sell them for about 2 gold each. You can try selling them in uncooked form but I’ve found that they generally take much longer to sell this way, if you can manage to sell them at all.

Dragonfin Angelfish
The Dragonfin Angelfish is probably the most lucrative fish on my server at the moment. You can find pools of them in the south of Dragonblight. You can pretty quickly put together a stack of these fish just hopping from pool to pool. They sell on the Auction House, depending on supply, from anywhere between 2.5 gold each to 3 gold each.

Musselback Sculpin
The great thing about the Sculpin is that you can not only find them in the Borean Tundra but in Wintergrasp as well. These sell on the lower end at about 1.5 gold a piece but the sales come pretty consistently. I would not recommend you fish for these alone but pull them up while you look for other stuff instead.

Bonus Catches
In Wintergrasp, you will pull up a lot of Succulent Clam Meat, Siren’s Tears and Northsea Pearls. You can cook the Clam Meat into Dalaran Clam Chowder that sells for 3 to 4 gold each. Siren’s Tears are on a pretty low drop rate but will earn you a quick 50 gold profit. The Northsea Pearls tend to sell on a rollercoaster of price points on my server but should get you a gold or two for each.

Start Fishing!

If you haven’t maxxed out your Fishing skill yet you might want to start doing a little bit each day. Once you get the ball rolling you’ll find that it doesn’t take long to get the skill up to 450. If you’re looking for a decent fishing pole, I’m partial to the Mastercraft Kalu’ak Fishing Pole. You can get it for cheap from the Kalu’ak once you reach Exalted with them.

Once you’re geared and skilled up I first suggest you head to Wintergrasp and try your luck there. After an hour or so of straight non-stop fishing action you should have several hundred gold worth of fish to sell.

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I’m taking a quick break this week from the series on working the Auction House with one starting gold. Instead I thought I’d write a bit about my schedule, broken down by day, for how I grind, loot and list things for sale. On my server, and I suspect on many others, there is a selling pattern on the Auction House from day-to-day that you need to be aware of to maximize your returns.

Monday

A lot of people will tell you to avoid listing anything on the Auction House during the late hours of Monday. Their reasoning is that, with maintenance right around the corner on Tuesday morning, anything you list will be sitting idle on the Auction House without any opportunity to be purchased while the server is down.

While I usually stick to this same theory myself I do like to make a quick scan of the Auction House on Monday night and see if any of the usual sellers have low supply. If they do, I’ll try and put a few things up and hope that when the servers come back up the next day my listings will go fast.

Monday nights are full of opportunities for those of you interested in buying low and selling high. You can take the knowledge that the servers will be down to your advantage by making low bids on high selling items with short expiration times. If no one outbids you before the servers go down for maintenance you have a great chance at winning the auction at a steal of a price when the servers are live again.

Tuesday

Maintenance days are pretty tough to work around. It’s always a crapshoot as to just how long the servers will be down and even when they’re up it’s sometimes a slow moving day for the Auction House. I normally sit this day out and use my time to run dailies and farm for materials (Cooking and Fishing, mostly) to start selling throughout the week.

Wednesday – Friday

Wednesday through Friday are your days to really make a big push for gold earning. The server populations are pretty decent but not so high that the Auction House is being flooded by amateurs listing their goods at ten cents on the dollar and effectively destroying entire markets.

The items you’ve been collecting on off days (Tuesdays and, as I mention next, the weekends) should start moving in force at decent prices. You can make your most profit during these three days because the demand for goods is relatively high but the supply is usually low.

Saturday & Sunday

The weekends, like Tuesdays, are days I set aside for grinding and farming materials to sell during the next week. Again, demand for goods is high on the weekends but, unfortunately, the supply is usually ridiculously high. It’s hard to sell anything for a decent profit.

As an example, this past weekend the price of Glacial Salmon was down to 95 silver a piece. According to Auctioneer, the last time I sold Glacial Salmon earlier in the week I was getting 3 gold a piece for them. That’s the kind of effect the weekend tends to have on prices across the board in every market. That’s why I find it best to just sit the rat race out and wait for prices to climb and settle at a higher point.

Your Mileage May Vary

I’m sure there are exceptions to these “rules” for some servers so if you’re unsure how things go set aside a week to just observe how prices on common selling items fluctuate throughout the week. You should be able to identify, fairly quickly, what days are best to sell and what days are best to sit things out on your own server.

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I had come close to 40,000 gold a few weeks back but then I went on a buying binge of gear for my priest and found myself hovering around 36,000 gold when it was all said and done with. A little bit of Fishing and smart Auction House work found me back to within striking distance of my goal. After running the Argent Tournament dailies today on two of my characters I broke the 40,000 gold mark by one.

What’s Next

More gold! I want to hit 50,000 gold as fast as possible. I’ve said this dozens of times on this blog before but once more can’t hurt: Gold is a scoreboard for me. Some people collect gear and brag about their DPS. I like earning gold and I plan on continuing to do so as long as I’m playing World of Warcraft.

I like these locations so much because, while there aren’t any fish specific pools here, the random fish you manage to catch are great for Cooking and, ultimately for me, selling on the Auction House.

With a little time and dedication you can fish up stacks and stacks of Glacial Salmon, Musselback Sculpin and Giant Darkwater Clams (that have a tendency to drop Northsea Pearls and Siren’s Tears). All of those items go for a decent amount of money on the Auction House on my server. The Glacial Salmon go for about 40 gold a stack and the Siren’s Tear sells for about 65 gold each.

I’m a big Wintergrasp enthusiast so my new game plan is to arrive about thirty minutes early for the next battle and spend that time fishing. If you’re looking to either kill some time pre-battle or make some simple money than I suggest you give these spots a try yourself.

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In the last few weeks I feel as if I reached what, as far as I’m concerned, is the maximum I can accomplish on my Hunter without being in a Raiding guild. Since I don’t have much desire or inclination to join a real guild I’m trying to find other things to keep my Hunter active and, to that end, I took up Fishing.

Wasted Opportunities

What in the world had taken me so long? Fishing is a money-making machine and I was too stubborn to realize it. I think not being a serious Raider, and therefore not appreciating the importance of Raiding food, is what kept me in the dark about the buckets of gold a person can make with a little Fishing and Cooking skills. I wasted a lot of time neglecting Fishing but that’s all going to change from here on out.

Dragonfin Angelfish

One of the big sellers for me, so far, has been Dragonfin Angelfish so I thought I’d put together a post detailing my favorite farming spot for these.

Right now I’m having the best luck fishing for Dragonfin Angelfish in Dragonblight. There’s a lake just to the northwest of the Moa’ki Harbor that has frequently spawning pools of the fish. Even without the pool action you can pull up a fair share of the Angelfish as well as Bonescale Snapper.

I haven’t really timed myself but, if I had to guess, I would say you can easily pull up 3 stacks or more in an hour of fishing. When you add in the other fish you snag during that time it’s worth the effort when it comes to Auction House time…

The Pay Off

On my server, I can sell a stack of Dragonfin Angelfish for about 60 gold. Sometimes I get lucky and can push it up to 70 gold but that’s been rare. If they don’t sell I just keep re-listing until they do. I haven’t investigated what foods I could cook with these yet and whether or not I could see a bigger payday with them in cooked form. With the price of Northern Spices plummeting more and more each day I’m not really concerned with using them up on Cooking anymore.

Anyone who is looking for a high reward gold making idea with a low barrier of entry should think about Fishing. The big investment is time which might be enough to drive some people away but if you can put aside a few minutes each day I think, in a matter of a few days, you’d be pleasantly surprised with the results.

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Well, it’s time to put my Mastercraft Kalu’ak Fishing Pole to use and get fishing up to 450. When I started this the other night my skill was under 365. After some fishing in the Barrens for Deviate Fish I hit 385 and made my way to Northrend. By the time I hung up my fishing pole this evening I was up to 392.

Before I called it quits I did some research and decided I should start doing the Burning Crusade fishing dailies again for extra Sharpened Fish Hooks and just maybe I’d get lucky after a few weeks and the fishing hat would drop.

A quick portal to Shattrath and I was on my way to completing The One That Got Away. I had this done in short order and when I opened up the quest rewards I was lucky enough to snag the Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat on my first try. I wish I had that kind of luck with that awful Mysterious Egg and its “Seven Day Timer of Disappointment.”

So why the sudden interest in fishing? Gold, of course. There’s always a crazy market for Raid food and, with 3.1 rapidly approaching, I’m counting on that demand to increase dramatically after the patch is released. I figure I might as well be at the front of this growing need for Cooking materials.