Wednesday, November 4, 2009

How to make fishing in Wintergrasp waters worthwhile

Normally I would keep something like this to myself, but I'm sure anyone can figure it out who really wants to, so I may as well put this out there for those of you who don't know about it.

Wintergrasp is a great place to fish. You can fish up Musselback Sculpin and Glacial Salmon, both very valuable on the auction house, without needing to go looking for pools. The problem, though, is that Wintergrasp is a PvP area, and if you want to fish while doing something else, that makes it difficult to do. You can't fish in Wintergrasp for more than five minutes without someone of the opposite faction attacking you, as anyone who has tried to do Dangerously Delicious can attest. Going into Wintergrasp flags you for PvP, and if a battle starts, you'll need to queue for the battle to stay in there. The key then, is to be able to fish in Wintergrasp waters without being in Wintergrasp. This, surprisingly, is possible.

The key is to stand on the edge of Wintergrasp by where the air elementals are. You can stand there and fish in Wintergrasp waters while being in Dragonblight, thus not flagging you for PvP (that won't work on a PvP server, though, but when you rolled your character on a PvP server, you knew what you were getting into) and allowing you to fish in peace, even where there is a battle going on (I have done this before). Unfortunately, those air elementals will attack you in most spots you try to stand, but there is one spot where they won't attack you, pictured bellow. The coordinates are 24, 35 in Dragonblight.











































In those pictures I am standing as close as you can stand to the water without being in Wintergrasp. The spot is in the lower-right (south-east) corner of Wintergrasp. Don't worry about needing to stand really close to the water. Your bobber with go through the rock, as you can see bellow, and you can still click it through the rock.















That said, you'll still want to get as close to the water as possible without being in Wintergrasp. My advice on how to do this is to walk towards the water bit by bit until you enter Wintergrasp and are flagged for PvP. Then walk backwards inch by inch until you are in Dragonblight again. Now mount up and fly directly upwards (space bar) without moving in any other direction. Stay up there so that the members of the opposite faction cannot attack you while you wait for your PvP flag to disappear. Once it is gone, fly back down (x key) without moving in any other direction. You can now fish in peace.

So there you go. Now go enjoy your new-found cash cow!

As a note, this post was pretty short, and all of my posts this month may be the same way, since I am participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Wish me luck!

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