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Here are the latest changes to fishing in 3.1:

• Fishing
  
  
  
  • A new (and very rare) special mount can now be caught from Northrend fishing pools.
    
  • A new clam, the Giant Darkwater Clam, can be obtained by fishing in Wintergrasp. This mighty clam has a greatly increased chance to drop pearls, and yields up to five times the regular amount of clam meat.
    
  • New fishing dailies are now offered from Marcia Chase in Dalaran City!
    
  • Players are no longer required to do the Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme quest to gain Artisan fishing. The quest now offers a special superior-quality fishing pole instead. If you already completed the quest, you can visit Nat Pagle in Dustwallow Marsh to receive this new fishing pole.
    
  • The time needed to catch fish has been reduced.
    
  • You can now fish anywhere, regardless of skill. Every catch has the potential for fishing skill gains, but you are likely to catch worthless junk in areas that are too difficult for your skill.
    
  • You can now fish in Wintergrasp, and the fishin' is good!
    
  • You no longer need to learn fishing from books. The trainers have finally done their reading and are able to teach you the same thing.
    
  
  

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New mount? Sweet!

I haven't tried fishing in an area where I should have absolutely *no* chance to catch anything yet, but what I have tried is with ~200 skill, fishing in Terrokar and Un'Goro, I got a catch every single time, but it was the new "junk" loot almost each time as well.

i.e. Driftwood, sickly fish, etc. Not sure if that contributes to the faster leveling of the skill or not though. On a sidenote to that, though, I was able to get normal catches in areas where my skill was closer to or above the old required skill level.

Either way I'll be holding off on leveling fishing on my alts for a bit, just to see what they do with it.

EDIT:

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Players are no longer required to do the Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme quest to gain Artisan fishing.

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Yeeeeah, okay, definitely holding off on leveling fishing on my alts ;)

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Q u o t e:
Here are the latest changes to fishing in 3.1:

• Fishing
  
  
  
  • A new (and very rare) special mount can now be caught from Northrend fishing pools.
    
  • A new clam, the Giant Darkwater Clam, can be obtained by fishing in Wintergrasp. This mighty clam has a greatly increased chance to drop pearls, and yields up to five times the regular amount of clam meat.
    
  • New fishing dailies are now offered from Marcia Chase in Dalaran City!
    
  • Players are no longer required to do the Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme quest to gain Artisan fishing. The quest now offers a special superior-quality fishing pole instead. If you already completed the quest, you can visit Nat Pagle in Dustwallow Marsh to receive this new fishing pole.
    
  • The time needed to catch fish has been reduced.
    
  • You can now fish anywhere, regardless of skill. Every catch has the potential for fishing skill gains, but you are likely to catch worthless junk in areas that are too difficult for your skill.
    
  • You can now fish in Wintergrasp, and the fishin' is good!
    
  • You no longer need to learn fishing from books. The trainers have finally done their reading and are able to teach you the same thing.
    
  
  

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Awesome!

Thanks, Zarhym!

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Aquatic mount possibly? Also, is it possible to fish from aquatic mounts?

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That swimming turtle thing

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achievements LOL. fail

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Normally I'd agree, but the Salty title is the single best reward in this game. If you have this title, then you have indeed won the game.

They could implement a fishing net as a cool tool, so you can catch multiple fish in a spot or whatever.

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Q u o t e:
Here are the latest changes to fishing in 3.1:

• Fishing
  
  
  
  • A new (and very rare) special mount can now be caught from Northrend fishing pools.
    
  • A new clam, the Giant Darkwater Clam, can be obtained by fishing in Wintergrasp. This mighty clam has a greatly increased chance to drop pearls, and yields up to five times the regular amount of clam meat.
    
  • New fishing dailies are now offered from Marcia Chase in Dalaran City!
    
  • Players are no longer required to do the Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme quest to gain Artisan fishing. The quest now offers a special superior-quality fishing pole instead. If you already completed the quest, you can visit Nat Pagle in Dustwallow Marsh to receive this new fishing pole.
    
  • The time needed to catch fish has been reduced.
    
  • You can now fish anywhere, regardless of skill. Every catch has the potential for fishing skill gains, but you are likely to catch worthless junk in areas that are too difficult for your skill.
    
  • You can now fish in Wintergrasp, and the fishin' is good!
    
  • You no longer need to learn fishing from books. The trainers have finally done their reading and are able to teach you the same thing.
    
  
  

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You get the official Jindar the Fishermage SEAL OF APPROVAL (actual seal image pending approval).

Those changes sound great.

OMG please, tell me that mount its a boat....

that would be so awesome


make it happen

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Aquatic mount possibly? Also, is it possible to fish from aquatic mounts?

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Turtle mount... says it is a very fast land and sea mount... so I would assume the turtle swims faster than every other mount in the game will (once they add it).

I hope you all realize this is a joke...

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They could implement a fishing net as a cool tool, so you can catch multiple fish in a spot or whatever.

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I'm not sure what is active, but the quicker thing should be pretty self explanatory.

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Thank you for your very informative post. However, how can it be self-explanatory if you're not on the PTR? And if the OP was on the PTR, why would he ask? [edit: Apparently Zarhym agrees with me.]

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This is true. The current iteration of the mount will give a 100% speed increase on land and in water. :)

These changes are taken from the latest version of the PTR notes and are subject to change.

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Zarhym, stop joking with everyone! they're taking you seriously :(

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This is true. The current iteration of the mount will give a 100% speed increase on land and in water. :)

These changes are taken from the latest version of the PTR notes and are subject to change.

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Yes, but can I fish from it?

first, got a blue reply, mwahaha, always wanted to do this.


edit: noooo I missed it! I did really think you were joking though =( Those are some strange patch notes.

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Here is the latest version of the 3.1 PTR notes, updated today: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

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I told you no one takes you seriously if you had blue text.

Well, except me. But I'm easily deceived. =(