Fishing Guide

Powerleveling Fishing from 1-450

This guide has survived four years and soon to be 3 expansions. It’s a combination of fishing and cooking together as we mentioned in our previous article: Cooking & Fishing, Leveling them together.

Now, to be completely honest, you don’t need to level fishing this way. You can stand your toon of any level in Dalaran at the fountain and go all the way from 1-450 if you like. But as long as you are at it, why not get your cooking up to 450 as well? Besides that, fishing is pretty dull and moving around a bit to catch different types of fish can break the monotony to some degree.

1 – 50: Brilliant Smallfish = 80. Mats (1 Raw Brilliant Smallfish)

51 – 100: Longjaw Mudsnapper = 80. Mats (1 Raw Longjaw Mudsnapper)

101 – 175: Bristle Whisker Catfish = 120. Mats (1 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish)

175 – 225: Rockscale Cod = 80. Mats (1 Raw Rockscale Cod)

226 – 275: Spotted Yellowtail = 80. Mats (1 Raw Spotted Yellowtail)

276 – 325: Your Choice – or combination of the following = 80.

326 – 350: Golden Fish Sticks = 40. Mats (1 Golden Darter)

At this point the recipes come from the trainer directly or from purchases with Dalaran Cooking Awards from doing the cooking dailies.  As with any profession, it is much easier to do all of this at level 80.  You’ll have to do the cooking dailies regularly to complete the rest of this guide, but that’s not the fault of the guide, the game just requires it.

351 – 375: Baked Manta Ray = 60. Mats (1 Imperial Manta Ray)

Here’s where you’ll actually have to use some beast meat for a little while.  The mats are normally to be had on the AH, so you don’t have to go farm all of it yourself, but if you’re cheap you can look each one up and go get them yourself.

376 – 400: Great Feast = 40. Mats (1 Chunk o’ Mammoth, 1 Shoveltusk Flank, 1 Worm Meat, 2 Chilled Meat)

  • 20 Chunk o’ Mammoth
  • 20 Shoveltusk Flank
  • 20 Worm Meat
  • 40 Chilled Meat

401 – 420: Anything else, although Spicy Blue Nettlefish sells fairly well.

421 – 450: At level 420 you can cook all of the other recipes in the game except for fish feast.  We recommend Dragonfin Filet using Dragonfin Angelfish as we cover in this post: Fishing For Gold.  Dragonfin Filet and any of the other recipes you buy with the cooking awards will take you all the way to 450, where you can make the premier buff food in the game – Fish Feast.

It’s then that all your Dominating work will make you the most popular cook around.  Everyone loves a fish feast, and you can make serious coin cooking up any of the foods you grab the recipes for.  We highly recommend doing the cooking daily every day.  It will maximize your buffs, and your gold earnings – especially if you can dominate it with more than one toon.

Now, even though leveling fishing doesn’t require running all over the place any more, it’s still a pain in the tookus.  It might actually take longer.  It’s easier, but a larger time sink.  After about level 225 it’s 10 casts per skill-up and that means it will take you around 4-6 hours if you did nothing but fish.

We’ve also got a great little tip for how to get those last few skill points in cooking in the Leveling Cooking Tip post, as well as a nifty mod that makes getting all your recipes for cooking or any other skill a whole lot easier in the post Finding Recipes Made Easy.

This little guide should make the prospect of getting to those dailies on alts a bit less daunting.  So grab a pole and a pan and get to work!  Soon you’ll be cashing in, just like we do.

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