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[Fishing] What Counts as a Fish?

  1. Avatarel <Nat Pagle's Love Child>, 2 months ago:

    The fishing archievements require catching a certain number of fish. Unfortunately, not everything you catch is counted as "a fish": The achievement does not count "other items".

    It is becoming clear that some things we thought were fish are not fish. I think it would be helpful if we could gather information about what is counted as a fish, and what is not. So if you watch your catches carefully, please use this thread to post what you find is counted as a fish and what is not counted as a fish. Hopefully we will quickly see a pattern, without having to "test" every catch.

  2. Jolt <Angler>, 2 months ago:

    Like I mentioned in another post, isome of my fish counts disappear after logging.

    I noticed the bug one time while I was tracking my 500 fish achievement. I had 450 fish. Logged Off. When I logged back on I was at 365. I opened a ticket.

    Fished it back up to 450. Logged off, and it had dropped to 375. For fun, logged off, and logged on quickly. And the count dropped by one to 374?

    Bloated Barbed Gill Trout do not count as fish for me by the way. Guess Hungry Trout are not fish. :-P

  3. Kahless <Salty>, 2 months ago:

    I can tell you from Fishing in the Bay of Storms
    These Do Not add to my Fish Caught
    Winter Squid
    Stonescale Eeel
    Large Raw Mightfish
    Bigmouth Clam

    The only fish there that will count are Darkclaw Lobster and Raw Spotted Yellowtail

  4. Zahana <Angler>, 2 months ago:

    After doing the Extrazaganze yesterday, despite my 30+ catches (the fun of a pvp server) I had a grand total of 2 catches. Is it a bug, or do fish caught in pools not count towards the total number of fish caught?

  5. Augos-RH <Angler>, 2 months ago:

    Unless it was bugged last night, Felblood Snappers do not add to your "caught" count

  6. Jolt <Angler>, 2 months ago:

    Like Zahana said, Basically everything you catch during the fishing derby does not count as a fish

    Tasty Fish, Eels, Firefin Snappers, Oily Blackmouths, and of course the lovely Kelp that gets fished up instead of tastyfish.

  7. Deathxtreme <Salty>, 2 months ago:

    From my experience yesterday, I would like to say that I think the "Fish Counter" is quite buggy in that sometimes it works, other times it does not.

    For example, this past weekend I was fishing in Azshara trying to complete "The One that didn't get away" (as awful as that achievement is). When I decided to take a break, my fish counter had gone from 500 to 590 catches. Later that night, when I logged back in and went to Dun Morogh instead (since I think the 15 lb Mud Snapper may be easier to catch - at least I CAUGHT several 10 & 12 lb Mud Snappers unlike my time in Azshara where I caught only 1 9 lb Lobster), my fish counter said I only had 500 catches! Furthermore, after catching several fish there (Raw Brilliant Smallfish & Raw Longjaw Mud Snappers mainly), my fish counter didn't move at all. After getting booted from the server (probably because I then went to go make dinner and didn't log out), I continued to fish in Dun Morogh and the same fish started to register on the fish counter.

    Lesson from this Post: The Fishing Counter is buggy so make sure you're getting some fish that register before you rule them off as not counting as a fish.

    (Besides, we'll all need to catch a zillion things in Dalaran anyways to achieve several achievements on the way to the "Salty" Title so an inaccurate fish counter here or there isn't really a big deal as long as they get it to work sometime.)

  8. Axal <Angler>, 2 months ago:

    Deviate fish also are not counting towards fish caught ...

  9. Vanyalosswen <Angler>, 1 month ago:

    Sickly looking fish caught from Tirisfal Glades also do not count as fish.

    In addition, in order to have a fish count you need to properly loot it and put it into your inventory. "Catching and releasing" will give you skillups but it won't trigger the fish counter.

  10. Tigole <Blizzard>, 1 month ago:

    el wrote:

    The fishing archievements require catching a certain number of fish. Unfortunately, not everything you catch is counted as "a fish": The achievement does not count "other items".
    It is becoming clear that some things we thought were fish are not fish. I think it would be helpful if we could gather information about what is counted as a fish, and what is not. So if you watch your catches carefully, please use this thread to post what you find is counted as a fish and what is not counted as a fish. Hopefully we will quickly see a pattern, without having to "test" every catch.

    The way this is currently working on the live realms is that it counts as a fish if it falls under the "Trade Good" category with a "Meat" sub-category. Unfortunately, this leaves out a lot of fish.

    In patch 3.0.3 *anything* that is caught via the fishing profession will count towards the criteria. In patch 3.1.0 the wording on the achievement gets changed to "Fish up 25 items" rather than "Catch 25 fish".

    Hope this clears things up.

  11. Anozireth <Angler>, 1 month ago:

    Tigole wrote:

    el wrote:

    The fishing archievements require catching a certain number of fish. Unfortunately, not everything you catch is counted as "a fish": The achievement does not count "other items".
    It is becoming clear that some things we thought were fish are not fish. I think it would be helpful if we could gather information about what is counted as a fish, and what is not. So if you watch your catches carefully, please use this thread to post what you find is counted as a fish and what is not counted as a fish. Hopefully we will quickly see a pattern, without having to "test" every catch.

    The way this is currently working on the live realms is that it counts as a fish if it falls under the "Trade Good" category with a "Meat" sub-category. Unfortunately, this leaves out a lot of fish.
    In patch 3.0.3 *anything* that is caught via the fishing profession will count towards the criteria. In patch 3.1.0 the wording on the achievement gets changed to "Fish up 25 items" rather than "Catch 25 fish".
    Hope this clears things up.

    Currently the achievements summary shows a count of all items caught, not just fish. I wonder if this will be set as the count toward achievement progress?

  12. Axal <Angler>, 1 month ago:

    Tigole - Is there anything he can't do ?

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