WoW Fishing Leveling Guide

This WoW Fishing Leveling Guide will show you fastest way how to level Fishing from 1 to 450.

Fishing can help while you're leveling up your cooking skill as well, as almost any fish caught can be cooked if you have the recipe for it.

While fishing, you can fish useful gems, such as pearls, which are required for leatherworking, blacksmithing and tailoring. Often these sell for a lot of money in AH, so fishing can be a good money-maker as well.

This WoW Fishing Leveling Guide will require a lot of patience and time to build your skill level up to the maximum level. In the end you will have to catch about 2000 fish to get from start to finish. I don't recommend trying to do this all in one sitting... it would drive you crazy!

With recent changes made by Blizzard, you can skill up your fishing from 1 to 450 in any fishable water. This means you can stand in Orgrimmar (or any city) all day long and get skillups on your fishing at the same rate as you would in a higher level zone. What decides your skillups is the number of successful catches.

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I'll start with a list of equipment you may want to get:

Fishing poles

You need to go buy a fishing pole. After using your initial Fishing Pole, you can find better ones out there in the world. As always, you can check the Auction House to see if there are any for sale.

• [Blump Family Fishing Pole] +3 - Alliance only quest. Talk to Gubber Blump in Auberdine (Darkshore).
• [Strong Fishing Pole] +5
• [Darkwood Fishing Pole] +15
• [Big Iron Fishing Pole] +20
• [Nat Pagle's Extreme Angler FC-5000] +25 - Horde only quest. Talk to Katoom the Angler at Revantusk Village in the Hinterlands.
• [Arcanite Fishing Pole] +35 - Reward for winning the Stranglethorn Fishing Contest.

Bait

Find a merchant who sells bait. You can then use this bait to raise your fishing skill so that you have an easier time catching fish. Bait wears off after a period of time, so you must continue to reapply it. You can buy better bait for higher bonuses to fishing. You will need Aquadynamic Fish Attractors for the highest level fishing areas. These can be created by Engineers.

• [Shiny Bauble] +25 for 10 minutes
• [Nightcrawlers] +50 for 10 minutes
• [Bright Baubles] +75 for 10 minutes
• [Aquadynamic Fish Attractor] +100 for 10 minutes

From level 1 to 75 you will get a skillpoint on pretty much every successful catch, this will decrease as your skill gets higher and from 300 to 375 you will need to do more than 10 successful catches for each skill point gained. The following equation gives a rough estimate:

(Current Fishing Skill - 75) / 25 = Rough number of successful catches for a skill-up.

Thanks to the recent patches, you no longer need books to learn the next level of fishing! Not to mention that you are now able to fish ANYWHERE. Here's my recommended method:

Easist Method

1. You will need to be at least level 10, have The Wrath of the Lich King expansion, and about 50 gold.
2. Buy a basic Fishing Pole. These are sold by many trade goods vendors and fishing suppliers.
3. Travel to Howling Fjord: Horde to Vengeance Landing, Alliance to Valgarde. At lower level, Horde travel by zeppelin (from Undercity), Alliance travel by boat (from Wetlands).
4. Find the fishing trainer. For Horde, Angelina Soren, on the docks next to the sea, with an umbrella. For Alliance, Byron Welwick, by the water, with an umbrella, behind the flight master. Learn Apprentice fishing.
5. Fish open water next to the fishing trainer. Between the fishing skills below, learn a new rank from the trainer:
   • 50-75: Journeyman.
   • 125-150: Expert.
   • 200-225: Artisan.
   • 275-300: Master.
   • 350-375: Grand Master.
6. And that's it! Overall, half your catches will be junk items. But that doesn't matter, because every catch contributes to improving your skill. Both trainers in the Howling Fjord are next to water, and train all 6 ranks. So you won't waste time moving around if you just choose to fish next to them the entire time.

Thank you for viewing my WoW Fishing Leveling Guide, I hope you found it useful.

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