Things Master Angler Taught Me

Preyfar

smacx250 wrote: »

For Cyrodiil and IC, re-read the post about fishing stealthed, and practice it (it can be useful elsewhere, as well). I don't recall getting ganked at all while fishing in IC - not to say I didn't get wrecked moving from place to place though! I also explained it here:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/3168174/#Comment_3168174

It doesn't quite work though. I saw a bunch of other people doing it outside the AD gate for the Ocean spawns (two people doing it together), and I just kept watching them blink in and out. Granted, some stealth is better than no stealth.

dodgehopper_ESO

Muy interesante.

Ourorboros

From one Master Angler to another, great post OP! I'm a little jealous of all the XP pots. I had my title before they came out.

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

I still believe this is the most "difficult" achievement in the game, and it's one of the few I will never get. Haha

I would have agreed about this at one point. But after getting this title, I started going after all the monster collectibles. I finished it right after zos so kindly made it impossible to bank these, and so swaps between alts. It was waaay more grindy than fishing, and now it's just about impossible to do on one character.....thanks for that, zos. And at the end of it.....no title and no XP pots.

Hallothiel

Doncellius wrote: »

Best way to test water type sometimes (besides add-ons or checking online) is to simply test to see what type of fish you catch using Guts. Guts are very plentiful. Not very bad to test with Insect Parts or Crawlers either. Never test with Worms!

Do try & work out what the water type is -as OP says its not always that obvious. (Is this a lake or a river? Is the water moving? Are all city waters foul?). But have found that even if have wrong bait can catch fish....and then might get Used Bait after a few goes. Which I don't understand.

Draxys

Does alcohol help?

ConeOfSilence

I sell fishing gear for a living in RL. Fishing in RL then come home and do some fishing on ESO. Just if I could throw some Rapala's around on a Stradic in ESO.......worlds are colliding.

MyNameIsElias

Dont forget the fishing holes that require you to have to look at a specific part of the hole to be able to fish in it

Mortehl

A man was hungry.
God gave man a fish.
Man ate fish for a day.
A man was hungry.
God gave man a fishing pole.
Man drank beer all day.

FortheloveofKrist

Finally done fishing! Time to catch....a Lady...

https://youtu.be/nFMW1gvSNJw

I_killed_Vivec

It's inadvisable to play a drinking game based on what you catch because then you're dependent on RNG - just think of the QQs...

"I played the fishing drinking game for SIX hours and ended up sober!"

Better to build up to an (in)appropriate level and just keep topping up as required

Recremen

If you can remember exact spots for certain water types I'd be SUPER grateful, as I'm actually running a fishing event all next week. >.>

Qbiken

Was disapointed, thought patience was going to pop up somewhere....

Anyway; I´ll use this as a guide when I begin my journy towards that achievement

Preyfar

Recremen wrote: »

If you can remember exact spots for certain water types I'd be SUPER grateful, as I'm actually running a fishing event all next week. >.>

I remember most of them, especially the frustration of trying to find where certain things are. A lot of the online guides are both accurate... and inaccurate as hell. XD I tossed you a friend request in game.

Tobius

... if you went out drinking and caught a fish, you might be ...

Recremen

Preyfar wrote: »

Recremen wrote: »

If you can remember exact spots for certain water types I'd be SUPER grateful, as I'm actually running a fishing event all next week. >.>

I remember most of them, especially the frustration of trying to find where certain things are. A lot of the online guides are both accurate... and inaccurate as hell. XD I tossed you a friend request in game.

My hero.

leothedino

Goodness, this post was excellent. OP it made my day, actually laughed and when I say that... I mean none of this 'blew air from my nose' nonsense

Reverb

I was in Wayrest working out a crafting request by PM this morning, and watched you skin fish for like 30 min! That was a lot of damn fish. Congrats on the Achievement and title.

Also, Alcohol helps.

Preyfar

Reverb wrote: »

I was in Wayrest working out a crafting request by PM this morning, and watched you skin fish for like 30 min! That was a lot of damn fish. Congrats on the Achievement and title.

Also, Alcohol helps.

Heh, yeah. I had over 3,000+ fish in my pack to go through. I was watching TV and looking over at the screen like "Huh. It's been an hour, and I've barely made a dent." It took over 7K fish to get the achievement (some of the fish I had by farming Dreugh for cheap leather).


By the by, the "Slaughterfish Flesh Pink" is so pink it could only be described as "violently fabulous".


Oh, and I captured the One True Emperor of Cyrodiil. HAIL FISHIS!

Vaoh

Preyfar wrote: »

Reverb wrote: »

I was in Wayrest working out a crafting request by PM this morning, and watched you skin fish for like 30 min! That was a lot of damn fish. Congrats on the Achievement and title.

Also, Alcohol helps.

Heh, yeah. I had over 3,000+ fish in my pack to go through. I was watching TV and looking over at the screen like "Huh. It's been an hour, and I've barely made a dent." It took over 7K fish to get the achievement (some of the fish I had by farming Dreugh for cheap leather).


By the by, the "Slaughterfish Flesh Pink" is so pink it could only be described as "violently fabulous".


Oh, and I captured the One True Emperor of Cyrodiil. HAIL FISHIS!

That is a nice pink!

My favorite dye will never be replaced though.

Aetherial Blue is amazing. Pretty sure it's the only dye with three colors as well on metals.

Preyfar

Doncellius wrote: »

Aetherial Blue is amazing. Pretty sure it's the only dye with three colors as well on metals.

That's one of my favorite dyes, especially on Daedric armor. I used to play Planetside for about 6 years, and was really well known in the community (especially on the Vanu side). Aetherial Blue makes Daedric armor have the same sheen that Vanu armor did in the game, and it's pretty much /perfect/.

Solariken

I'm deeply sorry if I was responsible for any of your IC deaths. I've murdered many fishermen in the name of free AP. I shoot first, ask questions never. I'm glad you got your achievements though. Kudos.

Preyfar

Solariken wrote: »

I'm deeply sorry if I was responsible for any of your IC deaths. I've murdered many fishermen in the name of free AP. I shoot first, ask questions never. I'm glad you got your achievements though. Kudos.

While you have may brought death to many fisherman... we Master Anglers have brought a veritable apocalypse upon the swimming, gilled vermin.

We all play our role in the circle of life AP.

Besides, as a Former Emperor, I'm pretty sure I deserved it for my Cyrodiilian war crimes. XD

Vaoh

Preyfar wrote: »

Solariken wrote: »

I'm deeply sorry if I was responsible for any of your IC deaths. I've murdered many fishermen in the name of free AP. I shoot first, ask questions never. I'm glad you got your achievements though. Kudos.

While you have may brought death to many fisherman... we Master Anglers have brought a veritable apocalypse upon the swimming, gilled vermin.

We all play our role in the circle of life AP.

Besides, as a Former Emperor, I'm pretty sure I deserved it for my Cyrodiilian war crimes. XD

Note to self: Slot Radiant Magelight....

Preyfar

Doncellius wrote: »

Preyfar wrote: »

Solariken wrote: »

I'm deeply sorry if I was responsible for any of your IC deaths. I've murdered many fishermen in the name of free AP. I shoot first, ask questions never. I'm glad you got your achievements though. Kudos.

While you have may brought death to many fisherman... we Master Anglers have brought a veritable apocalypse upon the swimming, gilled vermin.

We all play our role in the circle of life AP.

Besides, as a Former Emperor, I'm pretty sure I deserved it for my Cyrodiilian war crimes. XD

Note to self: Slot Radiant Magelight....

Please do not underestimate Khajiit's sneakiness. Thousands of fish were caught unprepared. Do not think you will remain unscathed!

Kikazaru

The Rift... I shudder at the thought on how long it took me to catch all of the blue fishes in the river. Blast that place!

Ankael07

Preyfar wrote: »

vamp_emily wrote: »

Alcohol helps a lot.

That is what I was doing wrong, quit 10 minutes into my fishing journey. Never went fishing again.

I had a lot of moments where it was like "I just had 2,000 guts. Now I have none. NONE! WHERE DID THEY ALL GO?!"

Fishing tip: Goat's Head Oasis wayshrine in Alik'r has tons (read: TONS!) of goats. It lives up to the name. You can farm guts insanely fast just running around the area.

Leave those poor goats alone!

Karminathevamp

What you mostly need is patience, lots of patience .... and alcohol of course.

Lylith

saxgooner wrote: »

Anybody need wrothgar biggest catch yet?

first cast in wrothgar.

couldn't believe it.


eta: many thanks to the op for a most enlightening (and entertaining) set of fishing tenets.

cheers!

hedna123b14_ESO

Preyfar wrote: »

• ZOS has no idea what a river is. Take the Rift for example. Look at the map. Just look at it. And realize that the entire map is pretty much a lake. While yes, it appears the entire western half is a giant river... no. That's a lake.
• NPCs are rude, uncaring heartless ***. Especially other fishing NPCs. They will constantly walk right into you while you're fishing and cause you to stumble, losing your fishing attempt. RUDE. Thankfully, we can kill them. And yes, the bounty you get from doing it feels so, so good. HAIL FISHIS!
• Alcohol helps a lot. Turn fishing into a game. Whenever you find a gunny sack instead of the fish you want take a shot.
• The developer who decided to put the Ocean fishing spots right in front of AD's gate is truly, truly evil. There's an entire coastline just East of the gate that looks like prime real estate for fishing ocean borne fish, but no... Nope. That's a lake. The Ocean spots are literally in the tiny river-like stream right in front of the AD gate. Again with faux rivers!
• Shadowfen, being a giant swamp, has very few fishing spots for the size of the entire map. Given the map is mostly water you'd think there'd be more. Nope. It's entirely possible to spend almost an hour running around the map looking for lake spots and finding none. When you fish one a lake spot on the entire other end of the map can spawn.
• There's a fish called a Hog Sucker. I don't know why but this greatly amuses me.
• 90% of the time what you think will be Foul Water turns out to be a lake,
• Alcohol helps a lot.
• Foul Water can exist anywhere. Anywhere at all. Sometimes you'll find a single Foul spot right next to lake and river spots in the middle of nowhere. For no reason. Except to make you lose bait. You'll stop trying to figure out what's what and just pray to Jone and Jode you find what you're looking for.
• There's 3" a puddle in Stormhaven that has a fishing spot just north of the Dreugh waters. It's literally too shallow for fish to exist in, but sure enough, they're there. Somewhere. Hiding.
• Finding active Foul water spots in Malabor Tor will make you want to scream.
• You'll never, EVER have to worry about XP again. Ever. For the rest of your life.
  
• Alcohol helps a lot.
• BONUS: Catching all the fish in Imperial City is 100X more dangerous than catching all the fish in Cyrodiil, and is compounded by the fact that all the fishing spots are foul. It took over 1,000+ bait to catch all the fish, and I won't even go into how many times I got ganked. It felt like half the time when I was about to pull up a fish I heard the telltale sounds of a meteor about to gently caress my forehead.

Best....thing....I've ever....read....on...these...forums
..you sir are a God...

kamimark

Preyfar wrote: »

• Alcohol helps a lot. Turn fishing into a game. Whenever you find a gunny sack instead of the fish you want take a shot.
• Foul Water can exist anywhere. Anywhere at all. Sometimes you'll find a single Foul spot right next to lake and river spots in the middle of nowhere. For no reason. Except to make you lose bait. You'll stop trying to figure out what's what and just pray to Jone and Jode you find what you're looking for.

I keep one hand on the keyboard, one hand on my beer or whiskey.

Foul water is usually well-marked with a corpse, but there are some where there's just hoarvar, or nothing? The 2 spots in Arenthia, Reaper's March were infuriating, because there's only some rubble nearby.

About 2/3rds done, but it's all the hard fish in the last zones.