Calm Waters

Calm Waters

Keya is making steady progress with her Underlight artifact improvements. She experimented with fishing in different zones, but her best success is in Aszuna, where she can catch the hermit, the cursed queenfish, and the blenny. She can now walk on water, so finding and fishing in pools is easier. Open waters are still the primary method of fishing since pools spawn only sporadically.

Keya has struggled to master the water walking talent. To walk on water, you have to have the underlight pole equipped and you must start on dry land. Then you can walk onto the water. It doesn't work if you are already in the water. The talent is sometimes fussy, having to come in and out of the water a few times before the talent kicks in. Even then, the talent only allows walking speed while on the water. Swimming underwater is much simpler. Just equip the fishing pole, dive in and become a  fast swimming fish at 168% speed. 

Keya is currently working on making enough AP to earn the chance to get a pair of boots via the "Better Luck Next Time" quest. So far other fishers have gotten grey level boots and one person says he dragged up a pair of green level boots. My guess is that better boots will come over time, perhaps even a legendary. Well, one can always hope. 

Bad Wednesday - Two hours of fishing in her favorite spots got Keya absolutely nothing. Even when she was successful she failed. Only once did she get a basket of fish, which usually has fish that can be farmed for AP. She got five fish, but they were ordinary cursed queenfish. It seems the rules keep changing.

So Keya switched strategies and went to Stormheim instead. She fished four pools and caught one rare, an axefish. One her fifth pool she hit the jackpot, catching eight seabottom squid without a basket. I'm beginning to think that fishing up rares works only once a day in each zone. 

Okay, the gods have blessed Keya! She flew to Whitewater Wash in Highmountain, the locale of Nessingway's Retreat . There she caught a mountain puffer . . . and then another, and another! Eight minutes of catching those puffers and she had FOURTEEN of them! Looks like time to go feed the artifact fountain! It also bolsters Keya's suspicion that it's better to fish rares once in each zone for best results. 

Further confirmation came when Keya tried her luck in Suramar as well. There she simply followed the river. There was no avoiding the local fauna, so she slaughtered her way to each fishing pool. They were numerous and Keya's luck was very good. She got ten rare Magic-eater frogs as well as eleven leyscale koi (ancient mana fish).

Keya also discovered that the fishing gods have a sense of humor. Keya is after rare legendary boots, which may one day drop from fishing with the underlight pole. Since Keya acquired the talent she's caught EIGHT pairs of boots. Keya is going to keep track of all of her "boot catches" to see how many she fishes up until something good catches her line.

Keya's Boot Storage: Keya is storing one pair of boots for each unique type she snags, and recording the number of times a duplicate pair shows up. All of the boots found so far are i369 grey gear.
Sunbleached Sandals - 3
Weatherworn Boots - 2
Warped-plate Stompers - 1
Rust Encrusted Sabatons - 1

Keya has now maxed her artifact talents. Her 12th and final talent gives her additional stealth capability while she fishes. She will still need to collect APs to max out fishing requirements for each zone, but essentially, she has completed Artifact Fishing.

Maybe Keya should think about how to improve her artifact weapon, too?