Coldharbour Fishing Not Fun

HybridFreak · June 15

I'm currently working my way through the zones for the master angler achievement. Nearly half way through everything and working on coldharbour at the moment. I have all of the fish except 1 and have burned through nearly 800 crawlers just trying to get the last one, but that isn't the problem. The problem is the distinct lack of fishing holes in general. I have no problem seeing and finding them when they're actually there, but each main body of water only has 1 MAYBE 2 fishing holes. So once you've emptied them, you're spending the next 5-10 minutes hunting for your next hole. I've literally spent more time running around looking for fishing holes, than I have actually fishing. Up until now, I've enjoyed fishing in the other zones, but fishing in coldharbour just sucks.

Heren · June 15

I doubt this will be very useful to you, considering how far you are, but I hope they bring back the 'solution' for fishing they introduce with the pan-tamriel celebration ( I was too lazy to fully take advantage of it ). Like many collecting things in ESO, it's way better to do them while an event is active.

freespirit · June 15

I've always found Coldharbour to be one of the easiest fishing achievements.....

I see you are on xbox so no addons but I also presume you have the "Angler's Instinct" cp slotted and are at least using Artaeum Pickled Fish Bowl with added benefit from Sharp-as-night if you have him?

Below is the map generated by one of my addons, as you can see there are a couple of areas bottom left and middle left that should always have multiple holes up!

I know you cannot recreate this in game but maybe you could use it for reference on your phone?

DenverRalphy · June 15

HybridFreak wrote: »

<snip> The problem is the distinct lack of fishing holes in general. I have no problem seeing and finding them when they're actually there, but each main body of water only has 1 MAYBE 2 fishing holes.

There are more than you think. I thought I had no problem seeing them myself at first (despite them being much harder to see than in other zones), but there are many that just don't have the right backdrop/terrain aroud them to give off any visual cues.

Then when I started referencing https://housetertia.com/fishing-map/ I found that many that no way would I have ever spotted them unless by random happenstance I walked right through them.

Deadlands can be the same way as well. But for different reasons.

zaria · June 15

The problem with Coldharbor is that in other zones you need to get 3-4 unique fish of 3-4 water type.
So after fishing 3 of four unique fish its an 25% chance of getting the missing so first fish is always unique, second fish is probably also unique 75% for an new unique, then its 50% to two is needed last is 25% so 4.

In Coldharbor its 10% chance of getting the last unique fish, 20% for getting the 9/10 unique.
So its much more grindy than other default zones.

katanagirl1 · June 16

DenverRalphy wrote: »

HybridFreak wrote: »

<snip> The problem is the distinct lack of fishing holes in general. I have no problem seeing and finding them when they're actually there, but each main body of water only has 1 MAYBE 2 fishing holes.

There are more than you think. I thought I had no problem seeing them myself at first (despite them being much harder to see than in other zones), but there are many that just don't have the right backdrop/terrain aroud them to give off any visual cues.

Then when I started referencing https://housetertia.com/fishing-map/ I found that many that no way would I have ever spotted them unless by random happenstance I walked right through them.

Deadlands can be the same way as well. But for different reasons.

I used this site for my fishing endeavors. I highly recommend it.

ElderSmitter · June 16

HybridFreak wrote: »

I'm currently working my way through the zones for the master angler achievement. Nearly half way through everything and working on coldharbour at the moment. I have all of the fish except 1 and have burned through nearly 800 crawlers just trying to get the last one, but that isn't the problem. The problem is the distinct lack of fishing holes in general. I have no problem seeing and finding them when they're actually there, but each main body of water only has 1 MAYBE 2 fishing holes. So once you've emptied them, you're spending the next 5-10 minutes hunting for your next hole. I've literally spent more time running around looking for fishing holes, than I have actually fishing. Up until now, I've enjoyed fishing in the other zones, but fishing in coldharbour just sucks.

Took me 2 weeks to get 1 last fish for master angler in Coldharbour i feel your pain!

DreamyLu · June 16

I miss only one fish to complete the zone and after weeks without getting it, I have given up. I didn't retry since then. So I feel your pain too.

Side note: the zone was - for me - extremely tiring for the eyes. I did use a food that highlight the fish holes and it helped somewhat, but pffff...

madman65 · June 16

I know there are a few in the public dungeon and you may try Vaults of Madness to see if there are any in there. I know of some dungeons that have fishing spots.

Ilumia · June 16

I hated that one as well!
Though I dislike any zone that only has one category of fish because of the awful rng for the last ones needed.
I use maps of the zones fishing holes, google something like "Coldharbor fishing". Potentially put eso in front if it's a zone that occurs in skyrim too. Maps are really helpfull for the zones that have only a few of certain types of fishing holes too - so thank you to the people that gathered and provided the information