Description
- The Fishing skill allows players to fish on land or at sea from a boat to catch fish and other loot. Fishing requires use of Fishing Poles, Crafted Fishing Nets, or Special Fishing nets. There are many unique encounters while fishing, such as creature spawns, messages in a bottle, and fishing frenzies. Players can even catch creatures to display in an aquarium and compete for World Record catches! The Fishing skill also gives players the ability to fight with ranged ocean weapons. The Fishing weapon special attack is Impale, which damages additional nearby targets.
Summary
- Players use the Fishing skill to fish up a variety of items and resources
- Fishing skill can be used for Fishing Weapons, which are player crafted with Blacksmithy
Fishing Weapons
Main article: Armor & Weapons
Players can use Ocean Weapons such as Harpoons and Tridents while on land, but with the following mechanical adjustments:
- When attacking Creatures and Players, Ocean Weapons will adopt the Swing Speed and Range of Heavy Crossbows, and have Damage similar to Heavy Crossbows (slightly lower)
- Ocean Weapons will continue to use their normal Ocean Weapon-based Weapon Specials, Codex Stances, Codex Finishers, and Weapon Abilities as unless indicated otherwise
- Any bonuses, abilities, or effects from Ocean Weapons that are related to either being on a Ship or affecting Crewmembers will not resolve on land (i.e it will be up to players to adjust their Stances/Finishers/Abilities to use ones that will resolve as normal on land)
Fishing Weapon Special
- Fishing Weapons now have their own unique Weapon Special called Impale that has the following handling:
- Damage is increased by 100%
- Impales target, inflicting an additional 60% of Damage to a random target within 2 tiles
- Damage is increased by 30% if no additional targets exist within 2 tiles
FishingWeaponClass
| Burst | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Weapon | Wielded With | Poisonable | Speed |
| link=Armor & Weapons<br />Harpoon | 2H | No | 20 |
| link=Armor & Weapons<br />Trident | 2H | No | 20 |
Codex
Main article: Weapon and Parry Codex
FishingCodex
| File:icon-fishing.png Fishing Codex Stances, Finishers and Abilities | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Name | Description |
| Stance | Snipe | Accuracy increased by 3% per rank and Weapon Special Chance increased by 2% per rank |
| Stance | Pin Down | Damage increased by 2% per rank and weapon swings increase your Damage Resistance to all enemies by 4% per rank for 5 seconds (does not stack) |
| Stance | Skewer | Deals an additional 5% of Damage per rank inflicted to a random target within 2 tiles and has a 2% chance per rank to apply a Pierce effect of 25 for 15 seconds to both targets |
| Stance | Strafe | Damage increased by 6% per rank if player's ship has moved within last 0.5 seconds with bonus increased to 12% per rank if target is not on same ship as player |
| Stance | Heave | [At Sea] Range increased by 1 per rank and Damage increased by 10% per rank, but 2% chance per rank any Hits will convert into Misses. [On Land] Increases Range by (rank / 2) rounded up and Damage by 3% per rank |
| Finisher | Run Through | Inflicts 600% Damage to target with Damage increased by 400% if target is on same ship as player |
| Finisher | Salvo | Deals 150% Damage to target, and then resolves 4 additional hits of 150% Damage randomized between target and all creatures within 4 tiles (max of 3 hits per creature) |
| Weapon Ability | Rouse | For next 15 seconds all damage dealt by ship crewmembers increased by 40% |
| Weapon Ability | Scourge | For next 15 seconds the impale weapon special will hit 2 additional targets, or apply an additional 30% damage bonus for each unused additional target |
| Weapon Ability | Buoy | Immediately restore 7.5% of each crewmembers health |
- Fishing Weapons benefit from Stances and Finishers provided by a Fishing Codex
- Requires 80 Fishing and 80 Tactics
Weapon Setup Bonus
- Players will receive bonuses against creatures based on what "setup" they have for weapons/shields occupying their hands
- These bonuses will be listed as (Setup) in the [stats page
- These bonuses only apply to non blessed weapons/spell books
Land Fishing
- While fishing on land, players will no longer be prompted with a Captcha for harvesting attempts (i.e 100% automated and AFK Land Fishing is now allowed)
- While fishing on land, players will only be able to harvest Raw Fish (no special items such as Large Raw Fish, Special Fishing Nets, or Aquarium Creatures) and will do so at a substantially reduced success chance compared to normal
Fishing Resource Map
Check the Resource Maps page for more information.
Fishing Frenzy
- Fishing Frenzies are special fishing locations that randomly spawn throughout the game world in land-accessible areas
- If a player makes a Fishing skill attempt near a Fishing Frenzy, or double-clicking them with a Fishing Pole equipped, they will attempt to harvest from it in a manner similar to Fishing Resource Maps
- Fishing Frenzies have a limited number of harvest attempts, but players may potentially harvest one or more Freshwater Aquarium Creatures from them
- Harvesting animation speed is increased for Fishing Frenzies and harvest completion has a reduced wait time of 3 seconds
Fishing Poles Bonuses
When determining chances for catching Special Fish or discovering Special Fishing Nets, players receive a bonus based on the quality and material of the fishing pole used as follows:
Fishing Poles can be created with Tinkering in the "Harvesting Tools Category"
Ship Fishing
- Special Fishing Spots can be found using a spyglass while sailing the seas. At these locations, a player can use a Leather Fishing Net (crafted by a Tailor from the various leather types) for a chance to pull up aquarium fish, delectable fish, or fishing spawns.
- Players can also use fishing poles in open water. Using fishing poles on a ship, players will be able to harvest Raw Fish, Special Cooking Fish (such as Raw Large Fish, Raw Lobster, Raw Crab), and Special Fishing Nets, but not Aquarium Creatures
- Players have a (1% * (Fishing Skill / 100) * (100% + Fishing Pole Bonus) chance to find a Special Fishing Net while fishing on a ship
- While fishing on a ship, players will still be responsible for passing Captchas when prompted as before
- Increased effective Harvest/Fishing skill will improve your chances of finding special fish and fishing creatures spawn
- Read more about Ships
Fishing Spots
Player Crafted Leather Fishing Nets
- Players may craft Leather Fishing Nets (using any leather material type) through Tailoring or purchase Leather Fishing Nets at Fisherman NPCs
- Leather Fishing Nets have a limited number of uses, which is increased based on quality and material type
'''Crafted Leather Fishing Net Bonuses'''
When determining chances for retrieving items from Fishing Spots and SOS locations, players receive a bonus based on the quality and material of the crafted leather fishing net used as follows:
Fishing Creatures Spawn
Players have the opportunity while fishing at sea to initiate Fishing Creature Spawns. Fishing Creature Spawns can only occur when using '''Special Fishing Nets''', while fishing at '''Fishing Spots''', or when fishing at '''SOS locations'''. They will not occur during normal fishing with a fishing pole. Fishing Creature Spawns may result in both water-based creatures or creatures that spawn immediately on the targets ship.
- When a Sea Serpent appears as a creature spawn it will always have a Special Fishing Net
- Players will always trigger a Creature Spawn within the first 5 fishing attempts at a Fishing Spot with a Castaway
Special Fishing Nets
- Special Fishing Nets are single use items that may be thrown from a ship into the water
- Once thrown, a Special Fishing Net has a 75% chance to generate a Fishing Creature Spawn or a 25% chance for the player to catch a Special Fish
- If a Fishing Creature Spawn occurs, there is a 25% chance that one creature will have a Message in a Bottle on it's corpse
- Special Fishing Nets are stackable and come in the various random hues
Messages in a Bottle/SOS
- SOSes have no expiration date
- Double click a Message in a Bottle to receive an SOS
- Players use crafted Leather Fishing Nets to retrieve items from SOS locations, as long as they have the SOS in their backpack
- Players must be within 12 tiles of a SOS location to attempt to retrieve items from it
- Players may make up to 20 retrieval attempts on a SOS location
- Players have a (50% * (Fishing Skill / 100) * (100% + Fishing Net Bonus) * (100% + Ship Upgrades Bonuses)) chance to have a "successful" retrieval action
- Players are guaranteed to have at least 1 Creature Spawn occur per SOS and up to 3 maximum
- One creature per Creature Spawn will have either a Small, Medium, or Large Salvaged Crate on its corpse with a variety of loot items (items vary based on crate size)
SOS Case
- Players will now be able to craft SOS Cases using the Inscription skill under the Utility Items category
- SOS Cases are used to store individual SOSes
- In order for an SOS to be added to the SOS Case, it must have the full starting 20 Attempts Left that they begin with (i.e. no partially completed SOSes can be added)
- Players can Shift-Click and select the “Add All SOSes in Backpack” entry from the Context Menu entry to add all valid SOSes from their backpack into the SOS Case
- If an SOS Case contains any stored SOSes, each time the player Double-Clicks the SOS Case it will remove a random SOS and place it in their backpack
- Players can lock down SOS Cases in houses
- Access Levels for SOS Cases that are locked down in houses follow the same handling as Tome items (Mastery Chain Tomes, Aspect Item Tomes, etc) which require Co-Owner level or higher access to use them
Aquarium Creatures
- Aquarium Creatures are broken down into three Rarity levels: Common, Uncommon, and Rare
- Aquarium Creatures are broken down into two Water types: Freshwater and Saltwater
- Players can only harvest Freshwater Aquarium Creatures from Fishing Resource Maps and Fishing Frenzies
- Players can only harvest Saltwater Aquarium Creatures from Special Fishing Nets, Fishing Spots, and SOSes
- Read more about Aquarium Creatures
- Having a bladed weapon in your backpack and double clicking Raw Fish will cut it up into Fish Steaks
Records
Taking both skill and luck, catching a World Record fish is no easy feat. Players will be notified when they catch a unique fish as well as if it is a World Record.
- Double-clicking on the fish will open its stats, allowing you to see who has caught the heaviest of that type of fish
- If you are the competitive type, there are also Fishing Record Boards that will list all the types of fish that can be caught, what the current weight record is, as well as when and who landed the fish
- You can find Fishing Record Boards at each city's dock near the Dockmaster
- Catch of the Week allows players to compete for the best catch each week for reward points.
Training
- Fishing has a delay of 7 seconds per use
- Players can now gain Fishing Skill up to 100, and other combat skills to their normal skill limit, while using Fishing Weapons (Harpoons / Tridents) in combat
- Players can now gain Fishing Skill when tossing Special Fishing Nets
- Fishing Skill Gain for Fishing Spots / Fishing Frenzies / MIBs has been vastly increased