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DInDenver
(10/11/01 1:27 am)
I have to ask. I have only been fishing one day

Hi!
What is the EFFECT of increasing your fishing skill? More catches per cast, more expensive catches, larger skill numbers (lol)? I have read several articles on Fishing and most seem to concentrate on lures or be written for "Old hands" so there are no details.

Dave M
aka Sonjah Redh
Madgalyayana

Itien of Bristlebane
(10/11/01 2:07 am)
Re: I have to ask. I have only been fishing one day

As far as I can tell, it's more catches per cast (I rarely don't get anything at a skill of 200).
Possibly there are also less "trash" (sandals, scales, rusty weapons), but I'm not sure about that (it's been a very long time since I caught a rusty weapon though).
It would be nice if increased skill increased the chances of catching "rares" (like the sea weed in the Ocean of Tears or the salmons in the Karanas), but I haven't seen much support of that hypothesis.

Verdandi Snowblood
(10/11/01 5:33 am)
Re: I have to ask. I have only been fishing one day

My own experience has been that as your skill increases, you have less casts that don't catch anything, you get less shoes and rusty daggers, you lose your bait less, and you get more of the rare fish in zones that have more than one possible fish. When fishing in Firiona, I also seemed to get more of the bigger sized ones than I had with less skill.

This is all based on just my own observations so it's possible that it may have just been my imagination or the whim of my RNG. But I started fishing at level 5 and just hit 196 fishing the other day at level 54, so at least it's been plenty spread out [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think it's safe to say that a minimum skill level was not required for zone-specific catches. It's unclear whether skill increased the chance of a zone-specific catch, however. If higher skill increases the chance of successful catches generally and decreases the chance of catching junk, as seems to be the case based on the other fishing bug threads, then a higher skilled character would likely end up with more zone-specific fish caught than a lower skilled character for a given number of casts. That is to say, skill level wouldn't need to directly influence the chance of a special catch to end up with more special catches.