Question: Foraging / Fishing
 

Hello all! I have a couple questions regarding leveling up in Foraging and Fishing.

For context, I am a Level 8 Druid (Wood Elf).

If I am correct, I believe I started out with a skill level of 50 in Foraging. I have done a little bit of foraging, but my skill level hasn't gone up. Is it just more rare for it to increase, or is it stuck at 50?

My other question is in regards to fishing. I've been doing a little bit of fishing, I believe I've been able to increase my skill to 30 or so in fishing. However, the only thing remotely fish-like I've caught was some fish scales once. Is there a skill level of fishing where catching actual Fresh Fish is more common? Or trivial even (aka, always catch a fish)?

Thanks in advance :)

Every Wood Elf gets 50 forage, even Warriors. Every Druid gets forage also, but I'm 95% certain that, like all class skills, it's limited to 5 per level. Thus, the cap for a level 8 druid would, I think, be 40.

In other words, your druid level hasn't gotten high enough to raise your foraging maximum to above 50, so you can't increase it because the 50 you get from Wood Elf is higher. Give it a few more levels and you should be able to increase your skill.

There is no level where you always catch a fish. I have a very high (possibly max, I forget) fishing skill on one of my characters, and they still catch nothing, daggers, boots, and fish scales fairly often.

All the fishing skill does is increase the chance of getting something good. As your skill increases it will not only improve your chance of catching "Fresh Fish", but also increase your chance of catching zone-specific fish, such as Thunder Salmon in the Karanas or Cobalt Cod in Cobalt Scar. Several of these fish are actually used in-game (eg. Cobalt Cod can be used to make an oil that tailors need for certain Velious tailoring recipes).

But you should be warned: fishing is for fun, not wealth. Even if you manage to catch a stack of Cobalt Cod you'll get maybe 400-500 plat at most for it, and that stack will require a lot of fishing in a zone that's difficult to get to below 40.

Hope that helps.

Yes, that was very helpful! Thank you so much!

4-500P for a stack of cod? Wow I need to put my 200 fishing to some use!

-Mcoy

I did say "maybe" and "at most" :) But it was a rough guess based on the higher prices listed on:

http://wiki.project1999.com/Cobalt_Cod

I do think it's possible that if you had an entire stack, and a Velious tailor was in need, that they might actually pay that much (especially if they saw you were lower level), but it would definitely depend on the circumstances.

Fishing feels pretty non classic to me.

As well as the rewards feeling off, shouldn't you be forced to stand if you want to fish?

Just FYI, in the few months I've been auctionQuesting, I've only seen this in EC twice, both on the same day in July, from the same seller. He was asking 30p and 35p.

The % of time that the fishing pole breaks is absurdly high.

Well like I said, it's circumstantial: only Velious tailors can use them, so if there's no Velious tailors around you could go days without selling any. But if a Velious tailor (or even maybe just a Shawl quester) passes through and you have a stack for sale, I could totally see them paying up to 50p each just to avoid having to waste hours doing the fishing themselves, especially if the seller is low level.

But that's certainly going to be a "the stars align" moment: unless you spend a ton of time in EC (after spending a ton of time fishing in Cobalt Scar) I wouldn't expect to be making that kind of plat off cod.

I’m fairly certain fishing can be done while sitting even in the super-realistic environment that is real life.