评论来自 Doranos

These have about a 1 in 100 chance of being inside the shellfish traps underwater. It's pretty easy to farm one. Just get a water breathing buff or item and swim in a circle opening traps. It took me about 30 minutes to get one. If you are alliance on a PVP server, I'd suggest farming these in off hours when horde are less likely to be in the area.

评论来自 2789

Well I guess I'm the unlucky one then, I lost track of time but when I finally got it I had 250 shellfish in my bags -.-
random is random ;P

评论来自 6039

Don't farm these to sell, you'll waste a lot of time. Just get yours and move on, cause there's probably about 10 horde druids trying to farm these.

评论来自 5909

Attempted to farm one of these for over 2 hours. There were also HORDE farming in the area. we kinda made a round robin looking. and got NONE. If you have a lot of time or if your gaining exp by killing the mobs in this area then by all means try to farm one. BUT otherwise you might be better off buying on AH. I would say 1-200 chance but then again I opened 200 and got none.

评论来自 6460

Once you are lvl 44 you can obtain a better fishing rod. The quest is attainable at 44 but requires you kill 15 mobs between lvls 48-50. However these mobs are non-aggro turtles, it should be a breeze to party with someone for a few minutes, kill the turtles, and go collect your nice fishing rod. Not nearly as time-consuming as opening a bazillion shellfish traps.

Get thee to Revantusk
https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/quest=7815

评论来自 chillyman

How unfortunate. I myself have picked up so many of these by grinding shellfish that I suppose it would have been be wise to sell them at the shared AH. Last time I found one of this I have to leave it behind because my bags where full and i didn't want to waste time. Btw, horde gets payed for the shellfish...

Alliance fanboys don't.

评论来自 6828

I have had horrible luck with this. I've tried for many hours to get this and still don't have it.

评论来自 1785

I got in first try so luck.

The good point to that traps is the way to get fishes and trade with npc to farm golds :)

(i got my mount is that way heheh)

评论来自 8677

I had read horror stories about people spending hours trying to farm for this fishing pole. I think it is much easier to farm the gold and just buy it off the AH. I bought mine for only 5g, so almost no time was investing in attaining this item.

Check your AH and consider farming gold to buy it rather than searching shellfish traps.

评论来自 kazalfarah

For casters that aren't warlocks, the hydrocane makes this farming go faster. https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=9452

评论来自 Hoppy

Man is this a pain to get. I spent at least 2 hours looking for this to no avail. The only bright spot was that, being horde, I was able to make about 5 gold with the shellfish i got from the traps. Still no fishing pole though.

评论来自 HappyKilla

I guess the fact that I got this just 5 nets, and not only that but I stole it from a member of the opposite faction (killed him as he looted it), makes me a lucky S.O.A.B. :)

评论来自 28465

I got 4 of thses 1 after another between the hours of 6:30-7:00 Am
Took me four days of coming and going because of other hordes or allies in area wiping out traps before i could get to them. Take potions or items that will help with air breathing and/or swimming.
Without you will need to stop at the fissure in between each trap.
To get (horde only ) mounts this will take alot of time its about 3-6g and hour without air or swim spells.

评论来自 41246

i got mine on the 6th trap i open so i must me superlucky xD

评论来自 Talimar

after gathering 44 shellfish and encountering numerous empty traps I gave up. it's not worth it.

评论来自 WarheadoW

Unfortunately, this spot has become a speedbot magnet. The last three times I've gone there (on two different realms, no less), there's been a player with a speed bot racing between traps, farming them all up. It's always been a hunter, too.

评论来自 48781

Got mine on the 10th try.

评论来自 robert

It took me about an hour and approx 100 shellfish. I figured out a pattern to search the shellfish trap with out using any potions or swimming to the surface. Start at the Bubbly Fissure located at 19,81 (We will call this bubly #1). Basically run a circuit to trap #1 19,82 then to Trap #2 19,82 (yes, fairly close to each other), then back to Bubbly #1. Next goto Trap #3 located 20,79 then to bubly #2 19,78. Once your full on air swim to trap #4 19,77 and back to Bubbly #2 for a fill up. Then do the longest swim to trap #5 21,80 and then back to orignall Bubbly #1. That's it, just repeat the circuit and eventually you will get the fishing rod. Notice 1/4 of the traps you open will release a lvl 33-34 lobster you have to kill. If you not high enough lvl you may run out of air fighting these so be carefull.

评论来自 58524

Got mine 4th Drop

评论来自 61376

I had to create an account just to tell you how lucky I am.

A lot of the posts are saying that this one is a rare find so I went to Desolace while I was doing Nat Pagle's Artisan Fishing quest to see if it's as hard to find as they say. I got one after the tenth trap. I thought it weird at first, seeing as it didn't even take me ten minutes to get this. So I tried another trap right after and I got another one. o_0

I'm of the opinion that Blizz improved the drop rate for this. Either that or I was just lucky. >.<

评论来自 36886

Haha, got one on my 2nd trap ;D Dam for once I am lucky! :)

评论来自 3608

Got mine on my eighth trap. Took all of 15 minutes on my level 30 character, without any swimming gear or buffs.

评论来自 80523

Well, I did the quest in Shatt and vendored the rod long before I took up fishing. Blizz needs an alternative : /

评论来自 24960

Has the drop rate been upped? I've gotten 3 already from just opening about 7 cages or so.

I know in the past I've spent hours trying to farm them on my warlock for her fishing.

评论来自 15628

I farmed on my 66 druid for about 2 hours before it dropped. I found a nice rhythm and made about 7 or 8 full circles before it appeared. I was >this< close to giving up, too!

评论来自 87449

I got mine in a little over an hour. It can get frustrating, but it will eventually show up, and it's definitely worth it, as to buy it at AH will cost you at least 20g.

评论来自 95342

i got this on my first try i must been lucky

评论来自 november

Actually, there is a Horde quest, Catch of the Day, which requires you to bring two Bloodbelly Fish to Nataka Longhorn, an NPC at Ghostwalker Post. In order to receive the fish, you need to do the Fish in a Bucket quest for Jin'ar Zillen in Shadowprey, and that in turn requires you to bring him 5 Shellfish. So it doesn't necessarily mean that people are farming for the fishing rod when they open these shellfish cages. I wasn't, for instance: mine dropped while I was completing the quest.

评论来自 38832

Since this is the only fishing rod of this quality available to the alliance, it is worth grinding for, however, it takes a long time. Farmed this for a good two hours.

评论来自 tenaci0usb

With 132 Shellfish in in my bags and 2 hours of my life gone forever, the rod finally dropped. This is an important pole for Alliance fishers so yes it's worth farming, but do yourself a favor and check the AH before you begin this potentially epic endeavor.

评论来自 Luciferi

i just got seth's graphite fishing pole. req 200fishing. much nicer rod. gets 52stam too

评论来自 19093

Whoa! I'd prolly did the quests for the fishing pole's because i couldnt get the quest anymore. But now i went to the Shellfish Traps i got my Big Iron Fishingpole withing the 6th Trap in 5 minutes! :)

评论来自 PirateNipple

If you're an idiot like me and vendored your fishing pole rewards before you decided to level fishing, this is the best pole you can get besides the one from the fishing contest in STV.

评论来自 95477

(https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=25978) - New TBC fishing rod available pretty easily to pretty much anyone above 60
(https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=19970) - Fishing contest reward. Not only do you have to WIN the fishing contest, but you have to choose this rod over the (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=19979)

评论来自 greystoker

I don't know if I should be ^&*!ed, or glad. I'm still in shock.

Lvl 70 Dwarf Hunter, doin the Nat Pagle quest for Fishing 300, figured I'd loot while the pet fights. It's on my way to the Desolace fish anyway. So, I pop a Nagrand Cherry (underwater breathing) and head for a trap. Surprised that they don't show as treasure, I went up, right click, and got the pole. 1st try.

评论来自 78626

Got mine on the very first cage, I was pretty stoked.

Added: After I got the pole on my first try I wanted to get another pole for my brother so I began opening more. Finally found the 2nd fishing pole after about 100 cages and got 2 greens, a few grey items, and countless shellfish.

评论来自 Vashra

1) On Balegund as of this post 210 shellfish traps opened and I've never seen this fishing pole.
2) Why not just go to the forest and smack the gnoll that drops it? (haven't tried given the drop rate, but on a nonpvp server I'd think this would be cake
3) Maybe you have to be lvl 70, but at 46 I do *not* get 50s every time I turn in the shellfish, I just get the fish he says he's going to give you....
4) The shellfish traps spawn lvl 27-32ish (?) agro mobs so don't think you're going to swim out there with a breath potion at lvl 1 and make a killing. (Tough if you can even get there unguarded at lvl 1 maybe you could farm there haha)

评论来自 135573

Acquired in 30 minutes or less. Hurray!

评论来自 mattaio

I'm liking 2.4 After many past attempts at retrieving this pole, I snagged it on the 3rd trap I opened.

评论来自 143919

I found two in 5 minutes.

评论来自 145511

Im Horde and just saw one of these at AH today. The guy that put it in is CRAZY! 300g buyout?!?
Dont he know that horde can get https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=19022 in the 40's?
Might be good for a twink who want Stranglethorn fishing rewards, but 300g?

评论来自 149864

lol i got mine in the first trap :D

评论来自 calabacin

Here's a small guide on what patterns/items can improve your proffessions/skills. Please do feel free to comment if there's something wrong, or that I missed. If you like it, you may want to rate this comment ;-)

Using Blacksmithing
Riding+4% (requires 235) Enchant Plans: Mithril Spurs

Using Cooking
Fishing+10 (requires 100) Buff Recipe: Captain Rumsey's Lager

Using Enchanting
Fishing+2 (requires 145) Enchant Formula: Enchant Gloves - Fishing
Herbalism+2 (requires 145) Enchant Formula: Enchant Gloves - Herbalism
Herbalism+5 (requires 225) Enchant Enchant Gloves - Advanced Herbalism
Mining+2 (requires 145) Enchant Formula: Enchant Gloves - Mining
Mining+5 (requires 215) Enchant Formula: Enchant Gloves - Advanced Mining
Riding+2% (requires 250) Enchant Formula: Enchant Gloves - Riding Skill
Skinning+5 (requires 200) Enchant Formula: Enchant Gloves - Skinning
Herbalism+5, Mining+5, Skinning+5 (requires 375) Enchant Enchant Gloves - Gatherer

Using Engineering
Mining+5 (requires 205) Head Goblin Mining Helmet

Using Fishing
Fishing+15 (requires 50) 2-Hand Darkwood Fishing Pole
Fishing+20 (requires 100) 2-Hand Big Iron Fishing Pole

Using Leatherworking
Herbalism+5 (requires 135) Hands Pattern: Herbalist's Gloves
Lockpicking+5 (requires 120) Hands Dark Leather Gloves
Riding+10% (requires 350) Trinket Pattern: Riding Crop

From a quest
Fishing+3 (level 14, requires 10) 2-Hand Blump Family Fishing Pole
Fishing+3 (level 70, requires 70) Enchant Spun Truesilver Fishing Line
Fishing+5 (level 1, requires 1) Head Lucky Fishing Hat
Fishing+5 (level 1, requires 1) Feet Nat Pangle's Extreme Anglin' Boots
Fishing+5 (level 1, requires 1) Enchant High Test Eternium Fishing Line
Fishing+5 (level 70, requires 70) Head Weather-Beaten Fishing hat
Fishing+20 (level 64, requires 62) 2-Hand Seth's Graphite Fishing Pole
Fishing+25 (level 50, requires 44) 2-Hand Nat Pangle's Extreme Angler FC-5000
Fishing+35 (level 62, requires 62) 2-Hand Arcanite Fishing Pole
Riding+3% (level 50, requires 40) Trinket Carrot on a Stick

From reputation grinding
Riding+10% (level 70, requires 70 & honored with Netherwing) Trinket Skybreaker Whip
Fishing+30 (level 70, requires 70 & exalted with Kalu'ak) 2-Hand Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole (Also allows underwater breathing)

From a vendor
Fishing+5 (requires 10) 2-Hand Strong Fishing Pole

评论来自 147675

hi just thought id update i got 4 in an hour, so they must have upped the drop rate, i'd binned seth's rod on my alts but fishing daily is such an easy big money q thought id get this, also you can put the extra fishing line on and send it to any char

评论来自 91707

Got mine on the 3rd Shellfish Trap. Must of been lucky :)
Might be a good thing to farm thses and put them on the AH!

Kudos to calabacin for the guide, I like it very much.

评论来自 194373

Been at it for 2 hours, not a single rod dropped. Does not look like the drop rate has been upped, it's just the luck of the draw.

Too bad these things go for ludicrous prices in the AH (at least on Alliance side, on my server)

评论来自 Ruhig

Engineers can use Deepdive Helmet to help farm this one.

评论来自 220141

Not too tough at all, got my first on my 2nd trap, and another on the 3rd trap :D

Guys, don't downrate me unless you have a reason!

评论来自 150628

Some tips on farming this item

1) Swim in a big circle so that you hit all of the traps.

2) Make sure that you loot them every time, even the trash. They don't change their items once you've clicked them, so leaving the trash there is a waste of time.

3) As mentioned above, some kind of water breathing buff is a useful, if not strictly necessary.

4) If you're a herbalist, this quest is much more lucrative and less tedious. There's lots of Stranglekelp in the region. I farmed out about 40g worth of materials in a half-hour. Expect this price to rise with WotLK

It helps to be a little bit higher level than the zone, so the lobster monsters don't give you any trouble.

评论来自 Nathanael

These are still available in patch 3.0.2

Took me 3 hours and 295 shellfish in my pack before i got one.

评论来自 riaa

Got it on first shellfish trap... seems luck was with me here... instead of all the times cool mounts etc. have dropped :(

评论来自 jwo7804

after reading the commenst about how hard it will be to get one i went to the AH and no luck,so i stock up on underwater breathing annd got ready for a longggg night acording to the commments posted ,well dive right in and got it on my first trap......figures

评论来自 237264

I got the Big Iron Fishing Pole in 30 minutes from the furthest trap the NW of the end of the pier.

评论来自 274949

that looks like a lot of play time having to farm a stupid fishing pole when you can buy it off somebody in the AH for like 100g but then you can also make that 100g from questing and selling the gear in northrend for a hour and after you spend 100g theres gonna be better in 100 fishing lvls so whats really the point?

评论来自 255604

I don't see how hard it is for people to find one of these things, I got 5 on my first visit to Desolace, which was 2 hours long, form entrance from Stonetalon mountains to hearth to auberdine. It's selling 'em that's the hard part, no one wants to buy a fishing pole because, let's face it, who levels fishing?

评论来自 290522

Somehow I got lucky and found it on my 7th trap.

评论来自 299915

This pole seems extremely rare on my server. I checked its price with Auctioneer after getting it, and the price is over 1000g! Either very few people want to bother farming it, or there's a flood of lazy fishers with LOTS of money to burn.

评论来自 57192

Took about 20 minutes for me to bag on.

=)

评论来自 Brynja

There you go, took 20 minutes for me too.

评论来自 298903

Huge waste of time. It's faster to get exalted with kalu'ak than to farm this thing.

评论来自 funnyman6685

It took me about 9 hours and 2000 shellfish to get thins fishing rod I was about to give up for the day and do quest it was in the morning around 11:00 am and I got it.

评论来自 302860

Took me 25-30 mins about 20 cages. Dont give up guys

评论来自 Amadais5820

got it on my first trap, i call it skill, not luck :D

评论来自 344472

sweet, i got one after only opening four traps

评论来自 66957

Changed to lvl 25 requirement 19 dps

评论来自 372982

I got mine in one try

评论来自 287020

Took 13 traps on one character and 35 traps on another.

评论来自 Etreum

It has never taken me more than 15 minutes or long enough to get the 10 quest shellfish to get the pole. I have done it with four toons. Just did it again today, it took me exactly 11 minutes. Just make sure you take an underwater breathing potion. I am going to try and get a second today. I do not know if having one in your bag will affect the odds of a second. Will post on it later.

Follow up: Level 35 Paladin. 30 Minute underwater breathing potion:

40 Shellfish
6 Greens
2 Fishing poles - As I mentioned, the first came at the 11 minute mark. The second at the 30, as I was going back to the village after the potion ran out. Last cage.

评论来自 95941

In my opinion its better to do the quest for Nat's Lucky Fishing Pole.

评论来自 357255

I was wondering if this had got rarer (it was going for a few hundred gold on the AH and it was taking me a while to get). Eventually I got it after finding 86 shell fish so it seems that the rate is accurate.

评论来自 Bozpak

I should have submitted this well over a year ago...

Yeah, I would say it all comes down to the roll -as usual. I remember it took me between 2 1/2 and 3 hours one time when I was getting one for my alt. I had a lot of time on my hands that day and was farming while working at the same time. So I stopped here and there for quick phone calls.

Anyways, several days later a guildie wanted one too, so I figured we can swim in opposite directions to cut the possible drop-time in half. Was handy to have a shaman to cast underwater breathing. So we hopped on Ventrilo so I could explain to him that the cages were laid out like an oval track course. That I would swim clock-wise and he would go counter.

He still had difficulty understanding, so I decided to have him follow me, so he can learn which way to swim and get familiar with where the cages were underwater. Never opening up a SINGLE one during the demonstration. So, we then went back to the "starting line" and were ready to begin after a good 15 to 20 minute explanation.

BOOM ! The very FIRST cage I looted, then Pole dropped. Bauhaha ! What makes it even more ironic is my wifey further up this thread also got her's a few week prior on her first drop as well.

Luck of the draw, I guess...

HH

评论来自 phunkymonkie

Just popped on some tunes and I got it my fishing pole in 1 hour, fairly easy to farm for if you get a good rotation going with the traps.

评论来自 Wolvi

Using gatherer helps as well(you can keep track of each spot). I have gotten this pole prolly 6 times now for diff people and it has taken anywhere from 5 minutes to around 2 hours. Last time I got it was today. I finished in bout 20 minutes and having 42 shellfish. other times I have finished with 200+ the one nice thing about this is that it is not soulbound so you can use it for a new fisherman and once you get higher and get the Seth's pole or the arcanite one you can send this one to an alt.

评论来自 605669

I gotten this fishing pole on my 3rd try. ( 5/24/2010 ) It was very easy to get. But then I did as a level 80 :) But this fishing pole is well worth the time if you don't have the rep needed for the wotlk one, And starting out fishing. And it goes for 110g, on my server

Happy fishing!

-Sein

评论来自 Thottbot

Found in the traps off the coast of Desolace, 7th or 8th trap tried.

Be Wary, there is a Horde outpost next to these shellfish traps. Also, there is a good chance a lvl 34-36 lobster will come out of the traps.

评论来自 Thottbot

It took me about an hour to find it. Just make sure you establish a good circuit. The traps spawn quickly and if you are smart you wont have to fight too many of the lobsters.

It would be well worth it to buy some water breathing potions.

评论来自 Thottbot

So I dove down searching for this fishing pole. I had intended on sending one to my buddy and one for myself. I find the first pole on my tenth trap. No problem so I mail it to my friend. I'm all happy thinking if I found it on my tenth trap it'll take ten more to find another one.

Almost 2 hours and 80 shellfish later I couldn't find another one. I searched all over the damn area too. I must have hit every trap at least once. Had to head to work so logged out.

But there's a happy ending. Came back the next day and found it on the seventh trap.

评论来自 Thottbot

Spent More then 3 hrs swimming around checking traps. Tons of Useless Shellfish (throw them away if you are Alliance, they are part of a Horde quest and have NO resell value). Left the area to help friend complete part of fishing quest, came back 1 hr later, and got the pole on my 4th or 5th trap. A good pole, but I'll miss my Gubber Blump Fishing pole (sentimental value only). Good Luck Ya'll

评论来自 Thottbot

3-19-2005
at lvl 56 and 300 fishing found places i dont have the skill to fish with out lures , even with a plus 5 pole , so to desolace I go .
First one was after 2 of the 10 UW pots expired down to 5 pots and no second pole yet , The drop rate 1% is accurate . First one dropped at about 50-70 traps , second pole dropped at about 230 traps. so it averages out if you get a pole or 2 fast , concider your self LUCKY ! .

In any case it drops for both horde and aliance.

Any time thottbot has 3000 or more kills and lists em the % is going to be pretty right on its when you get 23 kills and 1 drop thats when to be carefull it could be a 1 in 1000 drop and they got lucky.

评论来自 Thottbot

Considering that you only find a lobster in every 2nd or 3rd trap, you can see how long this might take you.
http://img345.imageshack.us/img345/8914/lobstermagnet0js.jpg

评论来自 Thottbot

...with my lev 49 Warrior dwarf, swam around and started opening those traps. It took me about 1,5 hours and then it dropped. Hoorah!

I do really loathe people who go there, grind for it and then; sell it for an absurt amount of gold... or even worse, disenchant it. *shudders*

No respect I say, no respect at all!

my advice to fishermen.. grind for it, dont buy it on AH unless you're lazy or have too much gold. (if you have too much gold, just give it to me;) Your patience shall be rewarded!

Fishermen are usually a patient breed, so a couple of hours opening traps isn't gonna discourage us is it?

We did Nat Pagle's Extreme Angler quest did we not?

Fishermen (and women), I /salute you!

Now for my next quest.. to see if that Lucky Fishing Hat is still out there...
does anyone know?

评论来自 Thottbot

L60 priest with Hydrocane. Took several hours but here's the total:

143 Shellfish
8 Sandals
7 Cuirboulli Boots
3 Reinforced Chain Boots
1 Big Iron Fishing Pole

评论来自 Thottbot

173 shellfish later but I got it
there is a bubbly fissure at 19,81 with 2 traps in sight of it for those that cant stay under or like me and got tired of switching to open the traps

评论来自 Thottbot

Amazing, after seing BIFP in AH, i checked Thottbot and decided to go and grind 1 for me and possibly another 1 to sell... What a silly girl...

After over 70mins of constant farming, i opened 74 cages, got 56x shellfish, rusted engineering parts, 2x reinforced chain boots, cuirboulli boots, apart from that most of the cages r bloody empty, ... and FINALLY my brand new fishing pole.
I was so relieved, i droped the idea to grind for another pole.
What a nonsence!

Happy u who can afford to pay for 1 of those in AH, cos all the money the pole costs just saved u loads of troubles.

Now i can truly enjoy me fishing ;))

评论来自 Thottbot

Got 2 as a 44 druid, swimming in a big loop and using Nature's Grasp often :P

58 Shellfish
3 Reinforced Chain Boots
2 Cross-stiched sandals
1 Cuirboulli boots
1 Rusted parts
Big Iron Pole

then...
32 Shellfish
2 Cross-stitched sandals
1 Cuirboulli boots
Then another pole

Some >53 orc hunter was chasing me around trying to kill me, but all he ever really got was about 30 seconds of my time. Too bad he didn't have one of those pets that don't seem to be slowed down in the water, like wolves that can sprint as fast as they would on land then stun you :P

评论来自 Thottbot

All these tactics on rounds to swim all sound very nice but are a lot of work. There is an easier way to get it and it doesn't concern throwing away a few hours you'd rather have back:

The Shellfish Traps respawn every 60 seconds.
Find a Bubbly Fissure with one beside it (there is one at loc(19,81) with two traps next to it), (or just be a druid/ warlock/ potiondrinker/ whatever to breathe underwater).

Park your character in the bubbles, look on your screen once in a while, open the crate, and go back to whatever else you need doing (reading a book, watching a movie, picking your nose, etc.)

Fishing like this might get you a few less per hour (about 50 traps an hour), but at least you can do something else at the same time.

评论来自 Thottbot

All these posts about finding the pole in the last trap you look in.

You know, if I lose my keys, I don't keep looking after I find them...

:-P

-- FG

评论来自 Thottbot

You dont have to go to surface to breath you can use one of the boubles.

评论来自 Thottbot

Biggest hints:
1) Buy pots to breath underwater
2) Sooner or later you will get what you look for
3) This is not a fun way to get a rod

How long it took me:
Two underwater breather potions
235 Traps later
112 Shelfish in the bag
5 Sandals
4 Chain Boots
3 Leather Boots
1 low lvl green item
1 pattern of detect lesser invisibility
10 seconds left on underwater pots
= A giant waste of time and One BIG IRON FISHING ROD

评论来自 Thottbot

after about 1.5 hour of swimming and opening one billion of traps and throwing out a half milion of shellfish i finally got my one and was so angry that i raided half of the troll village hitting them with the fishing rod :D

评论来自 Thottbot

Use noggenfogger from Gadgetzan it works really well for me everytime I used it I got the skeleton "You have stopped breathing..."

评论来自 Thottbot

Trap locations:
20,74 20,73 20,71 17,70 17,76 18,77 19,76 20,79 20,80 21,81 24,77 23,77 22,75 19,85 17,86 17,84 20,82 19,81 18,81

In 1 hour I opened 85 traps using 2 breathing potions.

Loot:
3 poles
93 Shellfish
3 Cross-stitched Snadals
1 Cuirboulli Boots
3 Reinforced Chain Boot
1 Shimmering Boots of the Eagel
1 Rusted Engineering Parts

评论来自 Thottbot

This item is very much a "by chance" item. You guys need to realize that. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to their dropping.

I'm a level 60 Druid with Seal Form of course, went a couple of days ago to grab one of these for myself. 2 dropped in my first 8 traps. Of course this got me extremely excited, mostly because I planned on outfitting several of my guild mates with the poles in return for favors they had already done for me.

So the first one was mine of course, the second actually went to the Guild Master, and I kept on going hoping to find at least a couple more considering the amazing luck I had.

Well, I must have opened 200 more traps, started going a little nuts, started feeling like it was the lottery, I got a big payout in the beginning, but just ended up losing in the end (losing out on the limited playing time I have that I could be doing better things).

These drops are all by chance, and once you do get yours I suggest you give up and move on unless you really want to go buggy while greedily searching for more. This is coming from a Druid with Seal Form remember - not only can I breath underwater infinitely, I can also swim at twice the speed you normally can. I couldn't imagine having to go through the whole surfacing to breath/breathing pots/dealing with mobs if I was lower level crap.

Get yours and move on I say! And if you're a lowbie befriend a high level Druid. I spammed the mobs with Moonfire twice and they went poof!

Satyrika Level 60 Night Elf Druid
Notorious Guild
Vek'nilash Realm

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Visit Shadowprey Village, South-West Desolace, on the coast. (lvl 35/45 area, out of the top of my head) Jump in the water at the harbour, and open the Traps you find all over the ocean floor.

Traps give you lobsters that can be handed in at the dock in exchange to fish you (Horde) need for a quest. Traps might also trigger a lvl 35-ish mob to spawn right on top of you, especially if you open a trap you have opened already a short time before. How delightful.
o.0'

Some people find the Pole within 2 minutes, others never find it, and a rare few get a handful of these in an hour. They are sold on AH irregularly (obviously more often during weekends), prices shifting from (as I've seen) 25 silver to 7 gold.

Hope this helps you. Wonder where the comments went, this was all here before.

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Thanks to everyone's comments on here who made it fairly easy to find my brand new Big Iron Fishing Pole! And so here is my effort to pay it forward to someone else:

I did the following loop of traps and once I got into the groove it was pretty easy:
1) Start at 21,81, which is at the base of a little hill.
2) Go south around the base of the hill, keeping the hill on your righthand side to the trap at 20,82.
3) You'll be looking into a canyon, so follow southwest around the left side of the rim of the canyon to the trap at 19,85.
4) From here you'll be looking into another canyon and if you look into the distance almost due west you'll find a fourth trap at 18,86.
5) Head due north, keeping the rim of the canyon on your right, and tucked away behind some ginormous sea anenomes you'll come to another trap at 17,84.
6) From here, if you look at your minimap you'll see Shadowprey Village to the northeast. Head straight toward it. Doing so will take you into a canyon. Look straight down and at the bottom of the canyon you will see another trap at 19,82 near a bubbly fissure.
7) Coming up out of the canyon, keep the canyon wall on your right and follow it toward the surface and you will come to a trap at 20,80 at the base of a familiar hill.
8) And from there just continue a few yards around the hill back to where you started at 21,81.

I didn't care about grinding for cash so I usually just rooted the giant lobsters, since it was quicker than fighting them. After all the only reason I was doing this was to get the pole, so the faster I could get to the next trap and open it, the better. Sometimes I was actually too fast and I came to a trap location before it had respawned, but that was no problem since I just went to the next one.

Aquatic form obviously was a huge help, but if you don't want to use a breathing potion, keep in mind that all of the traps except the one in number (6) are near the surface, and number (6) is near a bubbly fissure.

I must have picked up 100-120 shellfish and several pairs of boots (and one green item), but I kind of wanted to see if I had the patience to not give up, especially since there are two for the taking in the AH right now for about 8g apiece, but it ended up not being too bad. And of course there's the added little perk of pride in knowing I worked for it myself. But I recommend talking on the phone or otherwise multitasking while you're doing this since it doesn't take a whole lot of brainpower and doesn't exactly keep you on the edge of your seat.

And now I'm going to use my new pole to finish my Nat Pagle quest!

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Minute 1: Young, hopeful, happy and eager, our protagonist, a 70 gnome rogue, pops a water breating potion and submerges.

Minute 20: Slightly more sluggish, but even more diligent, our hero presses onward, opening about 2-3 traps a minute. God speed, young man.

Minute 30: Half an hour, halfway through with the potion. No pole, but a ton of shellfish. probably 60-65 traps opened.

Minute 45: Irritation is beginning to set in. The f-word sees more and more action as the search turns up fruitless. With still 15 minutes left on his buff, he sighs, and continues.

Minute 60: The buff wears off. No pole. A ton of shellfish, but a much wiser view of the world. Surface. Hearth.

Summary: The droprate is not nearly as good as these people claim, and I have reason to believe that these people were the extremely lucky outliers. If you need a pole, just stick with what you've got. As for getting 3-4 in one hour, they must've nerffed it, or someone is a huge liar.

Things I've learned:

Occasional monster spawn = 50% chance, often 3 or 4 times in a row

Well worth it, good money maker = someone with diarreah of the mouth

Occasional Greens = 1

Commentary: If you really really need this pole, buy the thing. It's only 25-ish gold. That's like a stack of terocone, which takes less than a &*!@ing hour.

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Took me exactly one hour, using two 30 min underwater beathing potions. Also collected a lot of Stranglekelp.

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For those of you who don't have the co-ords mod, the traps are to the far south in the waters of the horde city. Don't get greedy and fish the schools of firefins and blackmoth you see because a horde pat will come by and kill you then you loose the elixer of water breathing that you only brought 1 of. I found the pole doing about 5 laps around ~15 min.

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Took me 25-30 mins luckey?

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used this pole from level 20-50 and its not BoP so u can sell it once you get Nat Pagle's Extreme Angler FC-5000if you're horde

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Well, My little horror story of this pole quest begins like this...

44 LVL Lock
Day 1
4.5 Hours Opening Traps
373 Shellfish
24 Pairs of Sandals
37 Cuirboulli Boots
41 Reinforced Chain Boots
21 Rusted Parts
101 Lobsters Killed

44 LVL Lock
Day 2
3.7 Hours Opening Traps
241 Shellfish
14 Pairs of Sandals
25 Cuirboulli Boots
33 Reinforced Chain Boots
17 Rusted Parts
77 Lobsters Killed

44 LVL Lock
Day 3
2.2 Hours Opening Traps
151 Shellfish
8 Pairs of Sandals
12 Cuirboulli Boots
21 Reinforced Chain Boots
10 Rusted Parts
66 Lobsters Killed

If you can't tell I'm getting alittle frustrated with this trying to get this pole as each day I went back to the traps my time spent going after it was getting shorter and shorter. I'm about to say screw it and buy it off AH. But I prefer not to do that because I'm more of a player. If I know I can get it for free I'll do that instead. I love a challenge but this rediculous.

But I'm telling you this pole has got be the hardest fackin thing I have ever gone after yet. Don't get me wrong the money is good and all from all the Lobster kills, but thats not what I want.

I still do not have this pole but again this is Day 4 and I'm going after it again. I'm going to take all the advise you guys have stated in this thread and see what I can do but like I said I'm about to say screw it.

If anyone else can relate to this post please correct me if I sound rather dispondant. I don't know what I'm doing wrong or if I'm even doing anything wrong, but I do know my fishing skill is one of my prides that I have. I have even completed the Nat Pagle, Angler Extreme quest already as well. So this Pole is just a matter of pride to say I have it. Then I'll be going after the other poles as well. I really enjoy the fishing part of this game and its always fun to see what all I can pull up. Chance is what it's all about.

So anyways...I'm done ranting for now and stay tuned...I'll be back. I'm going after this pole again today and * BY THE SLIM FACKING CHANCE * I do manage to get it I'll be posting my pic with it.

Grrrrr Stupid Lobsters & Shellfish should all die because of this pole quest....lol =)

评论来自 Thottbot

Wow!

FIRST DROP out of shellfish trap at 22, 77 in Desolace.

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I had no idea these were a hot commodity. I got one last night while trying to complete the Catch of the Day quest from Ghost Walker Point. I have no idea how many traps I opened, but let me put it this way: I got the Big Iron Fishing Pole BEFORE I had reached my 10 Shellfish needed for the 2 Bloodbelly Fish. So I'm guessing it was less than 20 minutes. Here's the kicker: My fishing skill is still at 1! LOL. I suppose I'll start fishing now since I have a decent pole to work with after lvl 100 Fishing. Oh, btw, lvl 32 horde pally (mudeel on misha). For those of you that searched for this thing for hours...resurfacing sucks! If I decide to go back to find another, I'm taking UW potions with me.

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Three hours and a couple hundred traps later no pole. It's 30g in our AH but considering I can do a half a level in 3 hours it's worth it. If you can buy the pole, save the time; if not, happy farming.

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Big waste of time (at least for me) Spent 2 hrs opening cages
12 Shiny Fish Scales - 5 Cuirboulli Boots - 2 Reinforced Chain Boots - 1 Rusted Engineering part - 1 Double mail vest - 87 Shellfish later NO BIG IRON FISHING POLE :o( NO Green Items either. Good Luck.
There is a Bubbly Fisher to help with breathing underwater around the 21,81 coord. cage, if you do not have have potion for underwater breathing. Just swim on top of it and your breathing meter will fill. Hope this helps.

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Jan 2, 2008
First of all, thanks be to Thottbot and the wonderful advice of their readers! Bless you all! I needed and wanted a Big Iron, so at Lvl. 43 with my Mage, I jumped in. I had five (5) 30 minuts Underwater Breathing Pots with me and used them all. I opened 33 traps in about 45 minutes, and Bingo, my pole! I hung around, as I had more time and ended up spending a total of 2.5 hours (5 pots) looking. The last three minuts of my air, I lucked out and found my second pole! One for me and one to sell. I enjoyed it. It's a fun way to farm. I counted my gold before going in and earned about 1.5 Gold just from the Lobster-mobs! I got an additional four Green drops, each worth a Gold or better and one Blue Cape, worth 75-100 Gold at the AH! Not too shabby for 2.5 hours work, not to mention the fun of the game. Thanks again for the wonderful advice!

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I am leveling my Fishing and cooking at same time so that I can make my own buff food and was reading about the Big Iron Fishing Pole on here so I decided to go for it - I was reading that it takes a while to get it and that I needed to be patient and after 1 hour I was getting discourged... I decided to take one last 30 minute breath and with 11 minutes left on the buff the pole dropped - So it took me a total time of 1 hour and 19 minutes... But it is worth it cause as said in other comment - they selling in the AH for BIG money - so after I get my fish I need might give it a second go to try to get another to sell for cash

PS - I swam all over and didnt have acertain route to take - After the hour I read more comments and seen the "Swim In Small Circles" method - gonna try to get my second pole and see how it goes - will post with more on that issue

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lvl 43 Hunter, found it on my third potion (30 min each) there were also a few others looking for it at the same time but I seemed to be the last one that found it, or the others just quit.

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how deep is the water at the place? its gay but im afraid of deep water even in-game. ever scince that horrific experience swimming to the GROUND where ur not supposed to. i ended up dropping into outland for what reason idn, but i went off the coast of a place and swam down down down and ended up in outland(idn wy) but it just creped me out so how deep? and btw idiots warlocks dont need pots. they get a spell at lvl 16

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This item isn't soulbound so you can sell later when you get something better.

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At the south end of the bay (away form the Troll camp) I was able to stay under water the whole time by breathing from three different Bubbly Fissures. They were in a Y shaped canyon and I was able to swin to seven different traps from these three fissures. Four of the traps were in the bottom of the canyon while three were up on the top edges. I was able to see the three while floating in the bubbles as high as possable and looking around and using my pointer to ID what was out there.It took about one and a half hours to get my (DROP) big iron fishinf pole. The canyon tail or end of the (Y) was the colsest to shore and split going away from shore,and two cages are in the left fork of the Y.
GOOD LUCK. sorry no cords :-(

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i found it by look doing the shellfish quest i went on thotbott to check how much it was worth it appears to say 350 g i dont believe its worth that much . how much is it worth on AH

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Seems to be a lucky day today for me ^_^ first trap i checked near Shadowprey Village it popped up then fishing with it in eastern strand got me Weather-Beaten Journal on the first try ^_^ tis a good day for fishing :P

评论来自 Allakhazam

Actually, there are underwater air supplies around the shellfish traps. Just means you have to keep going back to them...

Took me about 2 hours to get mine.

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on my old character, the first pole i got, took me about 5 traps. the second pole i got, it took me 2 hours straight of traps. I have -never- seen this pole drop off of the lobster guys, and have killed a million of them. I've also found out that generally traps that drop items like boots or weapons, have a better chance of dropping the pole then one that always spawns a drysnap or shellfish.

I've seen the pole go for 50 - 100g in Orgrimar, havent check in Ironforge yet.

评论来自 Allakhazam

I got 2 in 30 mins :) sold the second for 16g on ah :D

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Took me a bit. I probably checked about 60 traps or so. I didn't use and water breathing elixirs though, I just found a nice spot with 2 traps and an air bubble vent. It was in the northern part of the area with the traps. Real nice place; I hardly had to fight any lobster things that did'nt come out of the traps.

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hunter weapon.

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i FINALLY got ONE! after farming for 4 1/2 hours i finally got one. in the meantime i got 155 lobsters, 8 sandals, 2 good boots, 1 mail boots, and 2 rusty engi parts.
i was lookin forward to sell one (or more) on AH.. since im achin fo money, but considering how long this took to get the one, its waaay not worth it.
i did it with a lvl 27 tauren druid.. aquatic form was useful. saw a pali doin it and he kept haivn ta run for air.. he was also way above my lvl tho..
i died like 12 times (or prob more)
at the claws of thos fkn lobsters!
anyways
good luck to all
this is a great fishin rod!
(its just not really worth farmin for the AH value alone)
since i fish and cook, this is useful to me. if you dont fish, dont waste ur time
-c

评论来自 Allakhazam

first trap i opened had one waiting for me. :)

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i spent one hour underwater and i got 3 rusted engineering parts, same drop rate of the fishing pole...

but no fishing pole.
i m gonna try again and again, start to be personal affair now

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Finally i got it. I had some time to spend and went to desolace. Second trap dropped it. Drop rate is correct, after all.

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GOT ONE AFTER LIKE HALF AN HOUR

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50G? I picked one up for silver in UC on Undermine. There were about 20 of them for sale.

Someone's server is overinflated. :-P Stop buying gold online people!

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Had a Elixir of Greater Water Breathing so decided to go use it for this pole. Got it after 35mins

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Not that i have this rod BUT i read on wow.com/info so i am lead 2 belive u get this as a

Reward for winning the Stranglethorn Fishing Contest

Hope this helps

评论来自 Allakhazam

Well almost 2hrs here now of continuously opening traps and not a damn thing. Lots of Shellfish and thats about it

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Found it after ~25 Minutes.
Got 31 Shellfish.

Patch 1.5.0
Server: Silberne Hand (RSP)

评论来自 Allakhazam

Spent two hours...fruitlessly opening traps, went to AH and bought one for 20G.

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As of Nov 3, '05 9am, it took me 35 minutes. I didn't count the traps I opened, but I got 42 shellfish, 5 Cuirboulli boots, 1 cross-stitched sandals, 10 spawned mobs, and then my big iron fishing pole. When the trap gives shellfish, it will be either 1 or 2. I would say it was around 40-50 traps for me.

I know someone mentioned something about agro below, and maybe something's changed, but it was normal, these mobs were 14-15 levels below me and agroed me only once in 35 minutes because I swam through the mob. That's not including mobs spawned from the traps which agroed almost every time because of vicinity.

When doing this you can use an enduring breath potion, or use the bubbly fissures, there's about 4 of them around the traps. You can make a nice circle and get nearly every trap without downtime, because of the quick spawn rate. Look at the map of the shellfish traps (click on shellfish trap above) and you'll see there's a small radius you can circle around to make the trip very efficient.

I hope this helps.

评论来自 Allakhazam

Hi - looking to find the pole. Any ideas what I can do with the vast quantities of Shelfish I gather ?

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Everyone who found one on your first trap, please die. I have opened like 400-500 traps and haven't gotten a single one.

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after 1.5 h 0 poles....tons of shellfish

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i got one too after a 1hr and half

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Four Hours.
Hundreds of Crates.
One Blue.
Two Greens.
Four Stacks of Stranglekelp.
Six Stacks of Shellfish.
Zero Big Iron Fishing Pole.

Gah I'm starting to get really annoyed...
I figured I'd be able to get this a lot faster than most people since I'm a druid and have aquatic form, so no need to hover over those bubbles AND I swim faster, but I still haven't had one drop. I'll give it about an hour more and then I give up.

评论来自 Allakhazam

just got mine after half an hour of farming:-)

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Read the other comments on this listing for a full hunt description detail.

Stand at the end of the dock, or any of it's adjoining beaches in Shadowprey facing the ocean. Dive into the Sar theris Strand and head SW looking down for traps.
Dive down:
you better have breathing gas. You should know this, but for some lower levels that are perusing: Buy it at auction, spend some time waiting for a low price. There are people that sell it for silvers, and there are people that sell it for golds, so be careful.
The humanoids are 32-34 at the beach and in the water around the pier, lvl 35 further out.
It's all in the luck of the draw. I did get a number of rare items and made all my alts very happy fellows, paid my expenses for breathing gases and buffing potions, got my fishing pole, and profited 10g for that 4 hours. There was one persistent elf that was bound and determined to take my route from me and just as I was about to give up, I got my fishing pole from the last trap. I was on my last bottle of gas! But my expenses weren't that big, one of my alts is an alchemist so I get my potions and breathing gas at cost.
I wish there was a recipe for all these stinkin' shellfish!

评论来自 Allakhazam

Got it well into my 4th water breathing potion... almost 2 hours of time. Don't try getting this if you get bored/frustrated easily. Never again, never again. You are better off spending the 30g.

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can you get anything decent doing this?

Is it worth spending time on?

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Wrong pole it is a diff one as the reward for the fishing contest (i want that one too).

As for the BIFP I sent my sisters lvl 59 dk and a lvl 49 rogue to do the traps for me. 6 H2O pots and unknown amount of time for the rogue and 3 H2O pot and 2 hours later the dk got one. Yay! Then my sis with the dk looked in her mains bank and found another one. Yippi Skippi! Now i have 2 to switch between my characters. I might put one on auction house. . . eventualy. . . after i win the fishing contest and get the nifty pole for my main. . .and my alts.

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I got mine after checking about 70 or so traps. Took about an hour at most for me. Make sure you bring some water breathing potions. Or if you are a shaman like me you have a nice spell to use. :)

There are also a few stranglekelp spawn points in the area for any fellow alchemists.

Oh, and it's probably not worth it to farm these if there are already one or more people there, since there aren't a whole lot of traps. Though they are spread well, and spawn back reasonably fast.

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Went in three times today in between runing RL errands ... not sure how long I was checking traps. Checked 30 to 50 traps I'd guess. Opened one right after dying (blundered into 4 or 5 lobster boys), and there it was!

The lobstermen in the area are lvl 34 or 35.

It's in the southern ocean area of Desolace - if u get in the water to the north u won't see any. They look like wooden or bamboo box-shaped cages - just right click to open.

I'm so stoked! This could have been worse. I didn't put more than two hours into it. I was checking AH for it the past few weeks and never saw it once. Now I'm gonna be a fishin fool!

Good luck all!

评论来自 Allakhazam

i spent an hour and a half today looking in the lobster traps and an hour yesterday, both times with elixer of water breath. my fishing skill is only 155, but i want this pole! i think ill give it a rest for a day or so and try again...

评论来自 Allakhazam

Took me about an hour as a 36 rogue, I would do it again with an underwater breathing potion. Didn't run into any horde, you guys are too busy ganking to get choice fishing pole!
Watch the lobsters and adds, I would recommend being at least 36, or you are going to have a hard time living. Stay near the bubble fissures to breathe.
Time to fish!
In your face, lazy guys! hehe.

评论来自 Allakhazam

trying to get these fishing poles is becoming a pain . Have been trying well over 4 hrs with no luck. Can someone really tell me

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Night Elf Hunter 60: I headed over to Desolace to get one of these, after having not found any in AH at IF and then buying 5 of the greater water breathing pots. I got to the place where the traps are, then drank a potion and headed underwater (actually I had opened the first trap before remembering to drink the potion). The SECOND trap I opened had the pole. I literally hadn't spent even two minutes looking; I still had 59 minutes on the water breathing buff left. XD

EDIT: Found a second one within 15 minutes. Also forgot to mention, no horde problems at all.

Edited, Wed Jan 11 21:21:45 2006

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Looked for hour and a half with alliance toon as I had gotten one with hord toon months before,,no luck till another guildie joined me and she got one in about 10 min from a trap and gave it to me :)

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Took me about 2 hours to find one.

155 Shellfish
Around 10-15 various boots/sandals
No greens or blues, bah.

Drowned once because I was distracted listening to football...

I was level 37 at the time, for what it's worth.

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Like most, it took me a little over an hour to finally get one of these to show up from a crate. +20 on the fishing rod is as good as an alliance can get without winning the tourney, and if you're dumb enough to have sold the one Seth gives you in Shattrath as part of a quest there (like I was), then this is your only option. So you just have to ask yourself is it worth the 20g (on my server) to buy at AH, or spend an hour in South Desolace? Your call!

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Okay so..farmed this on my shaman for an alt (Water breathing <3) took 1h30min and after I picked it up I was killing some along the way...I got three more right off the bat. I hate you too blizzard.

评论来自 Allakhazam

It took me 2min to get it :) I was lucky :) But couldn't find another one :)

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in fact, at 18,82 there's a fissure that's next to two traps, they respawn faster than it takes to swim to the other ones. I just camped out on that fissure. Although I should've had 2 poles by now, comparing the other loot I got, still haven't got it yet, but I will :)

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I will buy this pole. My fishing skill is at 200 and was wondering were to get more training. Is there a book I would need? were can I get it?

Realm: Arthas
Char: Homieg

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I guess I just have all the luck. I was in the area, and needed to kill 20 minutes. I ended up finding three of them. I didn't realize how valuable they were.

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Are the horde the only ones that benefit from the shellfish stacks? i have 6 stacks of them but I'm alliance and i have no idea what to do with them or if i can even redeem them anywhere. Could someone help a bro out and let me know?

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How do you farm for shellfish traps?

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Got it at 20.3/71.3 after 3 rounds of 2-3 hours each. I just decided to live in the water. So in 2008 it can still be done.

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Sure, the horde can get a better fishing pole, but that's not until the high 40's. This is a non binding +20 fishing pole that only requires level 25 & 100 fishing, so you can move it between your alts when they're able to get a better pole.

With the more recent change to underwater breathing & all of the bubbling fissures underwater in the area, this is easily done now without using water breathing pots. I spent about 2 hours yesterday with my lvl 33 blood elf hunter on Drenden getting one of these and never used a pot. I would have likely used water breathing potions anyway, but none were available on the AH.

Horde have it easier getting this, because where they're found is just off the coast of Shadowprey village. Horde can also turn the shellfish in for vendorable Bloodbelly Fish (2 of these fish are also used for a delivery quest to Ghost Walker Post above the kodo graveyard in Desolace)

First Time I ever farmed for these was with my Night Elf hunter on Stormrage when she was in her 40's somewhere a few years ago. She got the first one after about 45 minutes, got a second one within a minute or two of the first.

Depending on the price of these poles on your server, it may be more worth your time farming the gold and buying the pole (if you have a high level toon to farm gold with).

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I got mine from shellfish traps in desolace around area of (18,82). You will want to get some underwater potions or if your an engineer the underwater helm

Edited, Wed Dec 22 22:28:39 2004

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any enchanters to enchant luck on all my equipment?
you guys are so lucky, i have even had guildies that have gotten it on first try.
so far, i have made 3 visits to traps and each time spending hour + and i still have NO pole. can those of you that have got the pole remember which traps you were at. i know its random, but i am willing to try anything.

评论来自 Allakhazam

I tried doing this once a long time ago and had 0 luck. Just now I was doing the fishing quest I decided to try again with an Elixir of Greater Water Breathing and it took 43 minutes to find one rod. /sigh

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i have been last 2 day's. got 3 every time takes 1 hour to get 3

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in 1 hour (with elixir) i got 147 shellfish 14 boots and, yeah, 1 big pole

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Got mine Just shy of my 3rd Air elixer, scored another 15 mins later.
Is 3 hours farming worth a good pole and 20G? For this lvl36 Rogue it is!

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Hunted in Shadowprey village for it

After 3 breathing elixirs (3 minutes left on the third one)
122 Lobsters
2 cross stitched sandals
1 reinforced chain boots
1 ballast maul of stamina
1 pathfinder vest of intellect
20 shiny fish scales
1 greater healing potion

I FINALLY got my pole :)

It really was not that bad, goes by quick.. you pick up a small amount of silver on the way as well..

Edited, Jan 31st 2008 10:17am by chickwithpms

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I suppose you have to have lockpicking to open the traps?

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I spent 2-hours farming for this pole with no luck. My underwater breathing potion ran out, and I decided to hit 2 more traps before calling it quits, and guess what... I found it on the second trap.

In hind sight I would have paid for this thing rather then waisting 2-hours of my life hunting for it.

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I got 3 in about 15 min one night just before server maintenence

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selling this for 30g in cenarion circle each... i make around 5 of these in 2 hours so...

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Well just tried this today and yeah I swam around for a hour but I ended up selling for 23g! I'm lvl 60 warlock and have not found a better way to make gold. will be doing this again and again to get the cash for my epic mount.

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Wuhoo this is possible. I got my fishing rod after 15 mins 15 boxes later a few lobster and a pair of old boots. All with no extra breathing potions...

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yea, I would love to buy one of these. Can't find them anywhere.

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Woot, got mine on first try. Im number 12 out of a big number. think thats the cords

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Swim out to 18,82. Their are two traps down deep, and two more on higher ledge near them for total of 4 traps.

They respawn very quick. Did not need water breathing potions, but you can not delay or you will drown. Swim down, open, loot, then swim back up.

Took me 54minutes to find pole. Best wishes and luck to others that go.

* hugs ! *

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I couldn't believe it... I stumlbed across the traps while exploring and decided to try opening a couple... got the rod on my 2nd trap!

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Well it wasnt easy but i managed to farm 3 in 2 hours.
the first took 30 mins, the second took 1 hour 20 minutes and the third took 10 minutes...
not bad 75 gold in 2 hours :P

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Very easy to find if you lurk over the air bubbles and hunt only two consecutive traps at a time. I found four today while trying to get another item out of the traps alone; kept one for myself, gave one to a friend, and sold the other two on the AH for 45 gold a peice.

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I found the pole after swimming around opening shellfish traps for about 2 hours. I used about 4 minor water breathing pots.

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How do you farm for shellfish traps? is it class specific?

Edited, Jun 9th 2007 2:39am by SorionsBelt

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You farm them by swimming to the bottom of the sea along the Strand in South Desolace. The traps are like any unlocked chest, click to open them.

BTW, a lot of posts around this subject indicate a fundamental ignorance of drop rates. They are random and lucky or unlucky you may never, ever, ever see a particular drop of something even if it has a high drop rate. Whatever that is. The pole has about a 1% chance of dropping. Chances are persistence will pay off but then again maybe it won't. There is nothing you can do to improve your chances with the exception of KEEPING AT IT.

Of course, the advice to bring water breathing buffs should be followed and the suggestion that you keep a positive farming attitude (look at the gold you may grind) is helpful.

For those of you who like to know, found mine in under an hour but only one in about an hour and twenty minutes. No green drops from the traps but two from the mobs.

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73 Shellfish
3 Couirboulli Boots
2 Cross-stitched Sandals
1 Reinforced Chain Boots
1 Shimmering Boots of Frozen Wrath
1 One hour Underwater Breathing Potion
1 Big Iron Fishing Pole

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what, you really can buy this now? :o

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i got one too after a 1hr and half

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Spent hours trying to get the rod and failed! Thought I would have one more crack at it and went to the AH for some underwater breathing elixir. Bought one that allowed me one hour down there. Looked for the azure sash and deepdive helmet but none for sale. Then I looked up the rod to see how much they sold for in case I got 2 (ever the optimist!)and saw one for sale with a b/o of 4g and a bid of 1g 50s so I put in a bid on the off chance.
Went to look for the rod and spent an hour underwater killing shellfish and getting everything but the rod! I think the drop is much lower than people think and you must be very lucky to get one.
Anyway I get back on land and looking at my post find that I have bought the rod! And have loads of shellfish which more than paid for it :-)
Moral of the story... while looking for the rod you will make enough to buy one. The rod isn't soulbound so prices will only get cheaper..

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Toddler: "Mommy can I get a Big Iron Fishing Pole from Santa?"

Mom: "No sorry honey. Santa's broke. He can only give you shellfish."

Toddler: "Awwww! :'-("

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4 hours of farming, level 34 thru 36 from killing the mobs, no clue how many cages opened and still no pole, hearthed to orgrimmar, bought it on the AH for 4g. There is not really a reason for this pole to be this hard to get.

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4 hours of farming and finally got one. Had time on potion left so kept farming and got another one minutes later.

Edited, Apr 23rd 2008 10:06pm by rheollan

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There was one up in the auction house on Ogrimmar a couple days ago. Might be another one there now.

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I got 2 of these in 45 minutes of searching shellfish traps.

Aessedai
lv47 Human Priest
Argent Dawn

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found one on my 3rd trap while doing quest, and I already had one from one of my friends.

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i used 3 underwater breathing pots, and found 3 big iron's. did it at lvl 34 and had NO trouble at all, very proffitable for the time.

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got it 1st try on Darksorrow, then I though hey why not get one for my Hunter so she can feed her cat, got 2 more in 20 minutes so 3 in about 35 minutes. I used Breath Water potion was easy, I was killing mobs and getting the rod, I wasn't too bothered as it was 6 AM and no Horde about, I was level 35 Priest.

I was surprised to get it from the First trap:) for some reason that same trapped gave me the other 2... I was just going in a very big circle getting all traps but the same one that gave me 1st one gave me the other 2, so it might be worth trying on same trap.

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ok look its easy the trap i get it from is at 20-80--- but you must open others opening same trap it will not give the pole. i time it a 1 hour for the cycle. good luck my friends!

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Well, I tried and tried to get one back when I could have used it. Now, I have an arcanite fishing pole but since I was waiting for my Maraudon party to catch up with me, I decided to try my luck.

The second and third traps both had this big iron fishing pole! So I openned a few more and picked stranglekelp. A half dozen traps later, I had two more big iron fishing poles! Whaaa?

I wanted to stay in the water 'til I got all wrinkley, but I had to go. But four of those in about twenty minutes is just silly-lucky.

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First time I went after one of these I think it took my pally 2 hours of swimming around and hiding in air pockets. really annoying.

Cut to tonight.

One Elixir of Greater Waterbreathing and my rogue. Got one in 13 mins. And two more within 35 mins of total checking traps. All of my toons except one now have one and they dont Bind on Equip so you can trade them around. Or sell them. I was beginning to think they upped the drop rates until I read the guy's post before mine...

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I spended like 4 hours underwater, used 4 greater underwater breathing elixires and got... like 300 shellfish, lots of old shoes and rusty cogs... I had to open like 400+ of this ^&*!ing stupid traps! GOD! this SUCKS more then I can express... SCREW THIS FISHING POOL!

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Same here. I've been underwater for prolly close to 6+ hours total. I've checked tons of traps. Killed Lots of horde. Been kiled a few times by horde. Killed a Giant. Founds lots of boots, some engineering parts, and TONS of shell fish, But... No damn fishing pole.

I think I'm going to break down and buy one... :(

BAH!

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Ok, well I just read thru most of the posts and didn't see anything about Marshall McBride. He is listed above for having a drop rate of 50%. I got all the way to Northshire (there is a spot you can climb up a mountain and fall into the orchard area without having to go thru the gates) however, upon arrival I discovered that Marshall McBride is lvl 20 and cannot be attacked. So for those of you that may have thought trying to get it from him was an option? it's not.

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Guess I was really lucky. I was out deep diving for the traps, had opened about 4 of them when the server took a dump. When I logged back in I was dead. Recovered my body and swam down to the first trap I saw. Opened and whatta ya know, big iron fishin pole was sitting right there. 5 tries and it was mine.

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bought one for 1g at AH. beat that...

PST on bleeding hollow if you wanna buy it

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The shellfish are for a horde quest. You turn in five and get 50 copper and a bloodbelly fish (level 25 food). This is repeatable as many times as you want.... Turn in two of those fish for another quest at Ghost Walker post.

Unfortunately, there's no rep gain for this quest, so you can't use it to get a raptor.

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First time I tried I only had 30 minutes to kill and got nothing for my troubles. Sunday night (two weeks later) I downed a 1hr Water Breathing potion and picked up three in forty minutes. I was doing it specifically to get the rod for one of my characters, kind of a boring way to make money IMO.

Edited, Mon Jan 2 16:11:32 2006

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It took well over 12 hours on 2 different characters to finally get this pole, which was spend over 4 sessions, but I finally got mine. Since I had like 20 mins left on my pot, I decided to keep going until it wore off and got a second one about 10 mins later. At least I have it for both of my 60 chars now and won't have to worry about the other chars for a while. I think the random number generator being used is seriously unbalanced.

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i'm going to be rich :D

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Im an engineer with a Deepdive Helmet so I can swim all day. Have got like 3 before thought I would try again. 5th cage I opened gave it up.
Made for a short swim. Looks like they go for less on the AH now. Any input on that.

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I was helping a freind do the quest under the dock, because he kept getting killed by the mobs that come out of the crates. So while I'm waiting for him to run back from the GY, I open one, and there's the Big Iron Fishing Pole. I guess now I'll have to get his fishing up. It's great because it doesn't bind, and I can give it to another alt or sell it.

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i got some good money on the ah selling one of these, unfortunately i didn't realize i'd create a new charecter who fished... Got one on about the 5th trap.

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I got mine at (18,82).

There's a hill and there's 3 traps and I keep circling. After 2 hrs with loot like:
2 Reinforced Chain boots
5 Cross Stitched Sandals
5 Cuirboulli Boots
4 green items
2 Rusted Engineering Parts
96 shellfish (Don't know what to do with this)
THEN 1 BIG IRON FISHING POLE !

Good luck U guys..... !
This is AFTER the new patch !

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Got three in 30 min (two back-to-back) and one the day before after 10 min.

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this thing eas not very hard to get if you run outta air just go to the fissures and stay there until they respawn =)

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2 hours, 5 rods. First 4 in the first hour 5th in the last 7 minutes.

Don't know if they'll sell though. If they do, I know how I'm getting my elite mount.

Aggro range is a little ridiculous, I'm level 60 I should have to swim through the guys to aggro them. Not that they don't go down in a couple hits, but it was irritating.

Shellfish are annoying, might be good if I was a hunter.

Edited, Sat Nov 12 18:46:11 2005

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Took me just under an hour but got one, going back there tonight to see if my luck is better this time.

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7th trap in I got one. Never believed those that were all "First trap 50g omg".

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hey what do u guys do with the tons of shellfish?

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Hand in a set of five shellfish to Jinar'Zillen, who is standing on the dock in Shadowprey. He'll give you a bloodbelly fish in return. Completing the "Catch of the Day" quest, which is obtained in Ghost Walker Post in central Desolace, requires two of these fish.

Anyhow, after about an hour and a half this morning, I received my fishing pole at the coords 21, 81.

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I ventured in from Shadowprey thinking i was going to be there hours and planing on it too, killed just 45 crawlers and 53 pincers before picking my last crate which contained this beauty. Crate number 64 for me :). Not as long as i had planned.

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I'm beginning to think it's all a big lie. Spent 1/2 a level trying to get this. =( No luck. =( At least I'm getting xp's off the kills ... gonna try a bit longer and then just give up. =(

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this is a damn joke ive had 2 greens drop from these crates (both of which are ~0.1%) 4 of the rusty engineering parts (which are the SAME drop rate as the pole) and like 10 of each of the other drops (boots etc) not to mention well over 100 damn shellfish. im apprihensive as to whether the pole still actually drops...

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So I make something to eat and grab a 6 pack, then sit back and prepare for a LONG farming session to get ahold of one of these. I land and jump in the water and head for the nearest trap. Pop it open and... viola, first trap gives me the pole. Consider me one happy fisherman.

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I can't bleieve my luck, got it at attempt nº 3 :)
As soon as I have time I'll get another to sell @ AH

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I'm Alliance on my new realm, and one day I saw two of these up for sale in Gadgetzan. I remember from my Horde days how to get them, and that it's hard for Alliance. So naturally I bought both at 6g each. Have re-sold both for 50g each in the Alliance auction house. :)

Now I'm tempted to try to farm a couple more for myself, even with the Horde being nearby. ;)

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Hydrocane and one hour of boredom but got the pole.

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I got two of these within 10 minutes of each other, which i thought to be cool as hell hopefully i can make a good profit off of these

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Anyone tell me where to find this fishing pole ?

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I had sex with this fishingpole, it was really good!

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Took me 2 hours to find 1 pole. i'm not on a pvp server, nor am i alliance, so i had no problem as a lvl 44 taking out the 35 mobs. they were very annoying, and after about 200 shellfish and over 100 traps later, i finally got one. there is no particular trap this drops from. it's all chance. a very low chance. some people say they get them quickly, but i'd say that mine is just about the right drop rate. don't go into this with an extra 10 minutes one time. you have to have time to spend doing this. and again, mobs aren't hard, just annoying, especially when i feared them and the water became one gigantic moving mass of mobs all coming for me.

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That took so long but I got it in the end, 2 hours it took. I forgot to bring swimming or underwater breathing but found a spot where could swim from the air bubbles to the 3 traps.

5 and 1/2 bars for XP killing them Drysnap Crawlers and pals, so while it was boring I guess it all helps towards the next lvl.

One thing, when you do get it, don't do what I done and forget you still have to breath ;-) almost died after I got it. Time I got it was 19:40 game time not sure if that helps anyone.

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got one in the 5th or 6th trap for me, and while im there i grind, so i guess ill pull about 1-2 in an hour, then lvl every once i a while, great farming place

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I don't know about anyone else, but I farmed for 2 hours and not a single pole. Is there some secret to getting them to drop? I killed avery pincher that I saw and and opened every trap and still no pole. :-\

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Same Tauren farmer there everytime i go (4th time) and open Traps.

Average, I can get one every 1.5 hrs.
Would be more i think but this Tauren Farmer BOT must make bank selling them.

I can get 24gold for each at AH worth every penny

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The fisherman on the docks allows you to turn in 5 shellfish for 55s. Not a ridiculous amount of money, but if you're going to be picking up the shellfish anyway, might as well turn them in and make a little extra cash.

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caught somone hacking so he gave to me for free not report him and somone bought it from me for 40g lol

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Was doing this for an hour or two yesterday (lost track of time, I killed Shadowprey Guardians and the Flight Master to relieve boredom), then got two in a row. :D

I used Hydrocane and it helped alot. :)

Edited, Tue May 17 02:29:43 2005

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heh bought it in AH after seeing this for 70s :)

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An hour and a half so far, I figured I should post to increase my luck. I'd suggest bringing some extra weapons and skilling up, as you may be down a LONG time. Of course, I left MY extras in the bank, so my unarmed is getting a helluva boost. Buy a couple of cheap intellect scrolls to makes things move faster, skillwise.

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well i only farmed about 30min before my first one then an hour and a half of nothin went to mc ... came back 20min into farmming found one then another in the next crate ... then 30min after that found another one lol ... i think i'm lucky

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Okay, so I decided to try to get one... I found a nice little air fissure that had a couple traps continually respawning right next to it. I was there for probably about 10 minutes when I got my first one. About 20 or so minutes later (give or take just a couple minutes) I got my second one. This was all while repeatedly killing a pretty inept Tauren Druid that just wouldn't stay away from me... I'd use Hunter's Mark to warn him off, and he'd just keep coming. Anyway, got 2 of these in probably half an hour or so, more or less. Thinking of going for more for AH bait. :)

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As many of u has noticed the magnificent fishing pole is dropping in price.
The explanation is simple - It's not soulbound - so number of fishing poles just keep increasing.
bdw the big iron fishing pole is a very good 2h when u got 300 fishing skill.

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Yes...I got this fishing pole within the first five minutes.

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Just went grinding for 1h:30m, and no pole. First off, quite a few posts assume a certian amount of knowledge about the area. When someone refers to the dock, they are refering to the dock at Shawdowprey Village, which is a Horde Village. So, if you are alliance, you have to find some other way to the area.

I was grinding this thing as a lvl 57 rogue, so killing the mobs was not an issue, got a few green items, and a bunch of grey crap. Again, as with any drop item, it is luck of the draw. I killed everything from teh farthest north area on the Strand, to the farthest south and opened every trap multiple times. (bad luck I suppose).

You will need underwater breathing (via potion, or whatever).

Good luck and good hunting.

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It is a pretty well established fact that fishing for particular type of fish in a specific location is affected by the time of day you fish. It seems to rotate on 6 hour cycles (12a - 6a, 6a - 12p, 12p - 6p, 6p - 12a server time). The guys at Blizzard could very well have applied the same logic to hard to find items like the BIFP.

It would be very helpful to determine if this is the case if everyone posted the server time they found their BIFPs in the traps. I think we could very quickly find out if time is a factor.

Tachyon

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Well about 1.5 hours for me, 150 or so crabs, and i got it out of a trap.

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20-30 minutes opening traps

Since I have engineering I made the deepdive helmet. Made everything easy:)

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I got 3 of these in 3 successive shellfish traps -- I wonder what the odds of that are?

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There's a spot just off the pier in Shadowprey where a fissure in the bottom lets you go to breathe. Three traps spawn around there - I got mine at around trap #20.

Edited, Fri Apr 8 12:09:21 2005

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11th Trap, under under 15 minutes.

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i got it after 2 1/2 hours of EPless looting

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i spent about 50 minutes here and found 3 of them. at some point the traps seem to start popping out mobs only though.

pity you can't use thos fish for a recipe...

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After reading this I decided to give it a whirl. Ran to the AU grabbed my water pots and headed to Desolace. Go there and jumped in. Well.. grabbed mana instead of the pots. (duh) Anyways, i didnt want to go back so I went in anyways. I got mine after about 45min of swimming between the clams. Died once.. but worth it... BTW my luck when searching for an item I want is horrid. So I was feelin' pretty good bout this one!

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This drop is too inconsistent. I've been at this for over 3 hours so far, opened 240 traps and still no fishing pole :( but I did get 200 shellfish, useless...

Most of the drysnaps seem have a massive agro range (equivalent to a yellow to level 48, even though these buggers are 15 levels below me!) and are getting very annoying... but still not as annoying as a 1 in 90 drop not appearing after 240 traps ]:(

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i got one of these things from one of the shellfish traps. yes, the traps themselves. i remember reading a WoW:FAQ a few weeks back and reading about these. so i went here and sure enough, i had gotten one. i hit up the AH, it hasnt sold yet (i put a 24-hour on it)... i am horde btw..

Xbashmq - Skywall - 37 Tauren Hunter

btw: was farming the traps for shellfish, then i turn in 5 for 55s...i make like 9g an hour... :) yay

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Took me ages to get. Lucky for warlock underwater breathing.

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got it from first cage. ty % chance!

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I farm these with my 60 war way before TBC. Took between 30 mins to 1 hour for each drop. Then, one day 2 mid-30s horde druids either doing quest or farming try to gank me. They try to drown me by rooting and moonfire. I laughed, I just switch to Hydrocane for a bit and charge them. Kill them 3-4 times before they left me alone. I wonder if they ever figure out why I won't drown. lol

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the first fishing pot... got the fishing pole
second fishing pot... got another fishing pole
third fishing pot...got a third fishing pole

all in all i sold the first 2 for 100g each and saved the last for myself :)

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i'd like to add that this would be ideal to do solo at lvl 34 or 35 as you'd be able to get better xp off the critters that pop out of the traps occasionally. No respawn of the regular mobs at that spot unless you leave the area of 18, 82.

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Two so far, in 1 hour.. looking for a 3rd for guildie..

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Cant wait to get my hand's on it :)

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How easy is it for the horde to get in Desolace ?

And yes you need a book to train fishing.

Edited, Sun Mar 27 03:04:46 2005

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Total Not Obtainable. I tried for over 5 hrs. Using 10 30 min. breathing Potions. I never been this Frustrated playing this game. I had to just give up. I put a ticket ouit, Hope they address it in the next patch. Otherwise, I won't waste my time again.

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Got mine right now, 10 shells opened this time, but my previous 2 were a disaster. Spent 2 hours every time but nothing. At least my third time was faster :)

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got this on Sylvanas EU, if you're interested, give me a mail.

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trying to get these fishing poles is becoming a pain . Have been trying well over 4 hrs with no luck. Can someone really tell me the best spot to get them and just to confirm they are from the traps, and not from the lobster things?

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I farm there 2 hours a day. Get about 4. And I run the market on Manaroth server. Since Im the only one who farms them lol I make the price in AH

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after 5 hour of worthless crayfish, 0 poles and im gonna kill the next person i c, GL for all of u lucky S.o.B's that get it

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Back when I was around 35-40 I used to visit Desolace and look for this thing and although I didn't put in the effort lots of people did I never found it.

Tonight I decide I'll see if I can go find it and thought it would be funny if it dropped out of the first cage and low and behold it did!

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i hope you are all kidding these are easy to get and i seel em about 50g apiece on windrunner buy some elixir of water breathing and go farming... it can be slow but once you get 2 you can smell the golod between your greedy little fingers spent about 1 and 1/2 hours doing this got 4 of em... AH = 90!

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got it on my 6th crate, stayed down for 30 more minutes to try to get one to sell, but never got another....

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after an hr of opening traps i got mine from a trap. wouldn't have had to do this but i threw away seth's pole by accident ><

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Took 30 minutes. I used one breathing potion. I was about to give up when I got it. LOL.

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2 under water breathing elixir, 50mins later and i found one.

ATM im keeping it, but I have seen these on AH for like 15G+.

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this fishing pole is nice but horde get an even better one from a simple quest. . . . heres the link 纳特-帕格的超级钓鱼竿FC-5000型

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3 hrs of useless time - board
150 shellfish - a nice amount of gold
a blue, and a few greens - more gold

finding 4 poles when some cant even find 1.... PRICELESS

if u want to buy one i will sell for about 10g but open to offers

Fortesque
<SPARTAN Group Omega>
Khaz'Goroth
Horde

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it took me 50 traps, got 1 green, 3 stacks of stranglekelp and 5 stacks of shellfish

water breathing FTW

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You guys are going too crazy over this stupid fishing pole.
Big effin deal how its 20-40g on inflated servers...fkin noobs.

FOR HORDE PLAYERS: (a lot of horde posters here..)
If you actually want a decent fishing pole and you are bent on fishing as a profession... just wait till you hit level 43-49. You will probably in some point in time go questing in the Hinterlands. In revantusk village you will be able to pick up a quest called Snapjaws, Mon! obtainable at level 44. a relatively easy quest.

here is the reward from the quest: 纳特-帕格的超级钓鱼竿FC-5000型 guess if you're a bad horde player and you don't know how to make money.. sure! go ahead and waste your time swimming around in the water.

Alliance: If you want a decent fishing pole you will have to swim around looking for the Big Iron Fishing Pole. HA! HA! or... try and win the fishing event in STV.

good day. flame on.

评论来自 Reaul

It took me 143 traps for the Fishing Pole to finally drop, unlucky maybe but the 220 Shellfish for the 55 silver reward per stack of 5 made this very worthwhile.

坐享其成 - Troll on the dock.

评论来自 endow

And the level of the mobs that spawn and are in the area is?

评论来自 Pawnuke

Took me like 3 hours but it was well worth it! 水藤 was really helpful as I didn't have to return to the surface at all!

评论来自 Ghnutoc

I got the Fishing Pole opening no more than 30 traps, in about 15 minutes. I am not saying that, being smart, but wishing to inform fellow players, that it is not that hard to get the pole yourself.

评论来自 Thorgron

This thing is the biggest load of crap! I got the underwater breathing pots and spent 1 1/2 hours down there opening traps between 1AM-3AM, so I was virtually alone, only ran into two other people and they didn't stick around. I didn't keep count, but I'd say I opened over 100 traps and not a single fishing pole! I got a few greens and probably 100 worthless shell fish, since I'm not Horde! Wish I would have just bought one in the AH and not wasted my time!

评论来自 Xaliden

Ugh. I spent a total of 2 hours, 20 fast swim pots, ran a pretty good circuit. Ended up with 170ish Shellfish, a few white vendor trash pieces, a couple random greens, but no fishing pole.

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评论来自 Texaporte

i opened about 70 traps and had 80 shellfish i traded to the guy on the dock for 55s per 5. made about 8g in that hour while looking for the pole.

评论来自 DrMinD

Did it with no underwater breathing on lvl 43 warrior. There's plenty of Bubbling Fossil to keep you breathing. Just get familiar with the spawning points and pick a route that fits you.

Got it after:

300+ Shellfish
10+ white boots listed here
30+ grey boots not listed here
1 green boot
7 cogs

... and 8 hours of cage opening plus 2 rage quits.

评论来自 TbeL

If you are farming the 粗铁鱼竿 as Alliance, you will get a bunch of 贝壳 which you can sell on the neutral AH.
I usually put em up for 40-45s and they sell quite fast. Good thing is; it doesn't cost you anything to list them on AH.

评论来自 TrAuZ

Got two fishing poles along with 120 Shellfish, but I never realized I got the second one until I checked my bags. So I have no clue how many shellfish I was actually at when I got the second pole.

评论来自 7rinity

To the village of Shadowprey rode a stranger one fine day,
Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say,
No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip,
The stranger there among them had a big iron on his back,
Big iron on his back...

评论来自 Recurse

If you are Alliance on Firemaw, do place all your Shellfish in the Booty Bay AH.

I check regularly and will buyout all quantities at 45s / 5 (1,8g per stack of 20)

Let's make that grind worth your while :)

评论来自 Rassy

Took me 70 traps to get my big iron pole, I didn't want to buy underwater breathing pots, or swim speed pots, or hope I got to a trap before someone else did. My plan was to go and find a fissure that was right beside where a trap spawned.(I used 19.00,77.61) I looted the trap, moved to the fissure so i wouldn't drowned and then waited for the trap to repawn, then loot, and repeat. I timed the first 20 traps just to get an idea of the respawn timer, shortest time was 1 minute and 13 seconds, longest time was 2 minutes and 52 seconds.

in the 70 traps I got

1 green boot
7 grey boots
1 grey cog
72 shellfish
1 big iron pole

just keep trying!

评论来自 Struk

So here we go again. If you haven't played classic before then with the exception of the pole from the competition in Booty Bay this is the best pole you will get on Alliance side.

Location: Desolace
Coordinates: In and around 20,80
Looking for: 贝壳陷阱
Aids: 水下呼吸药剂
There is Bubble outlets on the seabed to avoid repeatedly swimming to the surface.

Easy enough farming rotation, respawn rate of the traps is few minutes at most. However it is a lengthy grind, took around 100 cages per pole, making it roughly a 1% chance as stated by others.

评论来自 MoonVoW

Back in Vanilla, we farmed these to raise funds for our mounts. For nostalgia, we returned to so the same now, found everything the same, but we cannot get any of the cages to open. Has it been changed? We don't remember exactly what we did as Alliance Druids - except dying a *lot* doing this. I've read all through several threads like this one that talk about drop rates and patterns but not about specifically what to do to open them or if it has changed. Thoughts? Directions? Grateful for links to conversations I have missed.

评论来自 Vile

Spent about 2.5 hours farming traps, unlike the 5-6 bots that were there for 14+ hours. 175 shellfish, 2 green boots, and I junked the greys due to bag space. 0 fishing poles.

The bots really suck the fun out of these. There were so many, my friend and I could barely do the quest ONCE earlier because we don't have swim speed potions or anything and the bots did (3 were Druids though). They would swim right in front of us and take them, then go back to the exact locations to sit and wait for cage respawns. We did get the quest done, and I was trying to find the pole for my friend during my farm because he was really excited about it.

He's a BRAND new player so the whole bot thing was really disappointing to him. We will have to watch the AH for the overpriced ones or wait till Hinterlands.

I know it's just a fishing pole, but you kind of want the new people to enjoy the game. I do anyway.

评论来自 squiretoad

Three full hours (I counted the breathing potions), and nada, zip, zilch. Oh, lots of useless lobsters (I'm Alliance, hardly worth throwing them away), a few other drops and a silver or so from the big lobster NPCs I'm killing, but damn all for fishing rods. Bah, useless. I'd have done spending 12G in the AH and rewarding some more patient soul. Lesson learned, bah.

评论来自 rogerwilco

1 hr 20m farming traps on <Felstriker> .

101 Shellfish
4 Reinforced Chain Boots
6 Cross-stitched Sandals
6 Cuirboulli Boots
1 Deverish Boots of the Eagle
1 Agile Boots

0 Big Iron Fishing Poles

\o/ ---yay!

评论来自 newphonecase

Finally got the fishing pole after 304 shellfish

I would definitely recommend buying 5-10: 强力水下呼吸药剂
Buy more than you will probably need as you don't want to have to find a mailbox/AH mid farm

评论来自 IronArsenal

9 hours and 14 water breathing potions later.....still no fishing pole.....amazing. f*** that f***ing rod you f***ing peice of s*** f***ing c***

评论来自 bogmore

I got 3 in 30 minutes with the trap quest on a PvP Classic realm. There are a few traps you can get to without pulling a drysnap.

评论来自 sirdope

Took me less than 20 min to get mine, there is a circuit where cages respawn and you are never waiting its easy to figure out

评论来自 Macswaggens

I got god luck, literally third cage. Sorry for bragging.

评论来自 carcasses

TO THE TOWN OF AGUA FRIA RODE A STRANGER ONE FINE DAY

评论来自 balmora90

Took me a $%^&ing 314 tries to finally get this one in SoM, was a really painful grind seeing how many boots dropped meanwhile (the ones on 3% chance) and i also got 3 junk parts (1% chance) + well over 200 shellfishes that sold for 35g on BB AH. Statistically you have around 67% chance to get it if u open 100 traps but oh well, odds are odds.

Worth mentioning that the price of this rod is around 50g on the biggest server in SoM right now, so thats actually a decent way to potentially get some gold if u have patience. It's also not BoP so if u somehow upgrade it in fishing contest u can safely resell it.

评论来自 Realto

I opened at least 200 in the course of 2 maybe 3 hours with Hydrocane. Got many pairs of Cuirbolli boots. These WoWhead percentages gotta be off. Less than 1% drop for sure

Alliance Grobbulus - TBC Classic

评论来自 Sulhir

132 Shellfish
4 Reinforced Chain Boots
3 Cross-Stiched Sandals
3 Cuirboulli Boots
1 Rusted Engineering Part

2 Big Iron Fishing Poles

Druid with Glyph of Aquatic Form ftw

评论来自 Kulrig

Ya know, I don't mind that the big iron pole has a low chance to drop. I really don't.

What I DO mind, however, is how the game insists on trolling me by giving me five Drysnap Crawlers in a row.

Repeatedly.

评论来自 Losho

Took me a solid hour and a half, no pots, just used the bubbles for air and went in a circle. Honestly worth the farm, best pole you can reasonably get as Alliance.

评论来自 Najadum

First try with my 34 mage today. I did not even know how rare this item was supposed to be. Lucky me I guess!

评论来自 njry

To anyone attempting a Big Iron Fishing Pole farm in the SoD 25 level bracket:

- be ready for a painful, slow, dangerous grind
- the gold reward from turning in the shellfish was removed, so that will reduce more incentive to do this, but i found the fish reward vendor price was able to cover my repairs
- if you are not undead or warlock using underwater breathing, you WILL want underwater breathing potions
- before you approach traps, plan your escape route
- not every trap can be looted without aggroing the nearby makrura patrols but most can if you wait for them to patrol far enough away
- putting a marker on the nearby makrura patrols can help you in gauging aggro distance before you go in to loot. i would also recommend an addon like 'rangedisplay'.
- get as far away as you can from the trap while still able to click it
- if the trap spawns a makrura, there is a brief moment after spawn where it can't aggro and you can use this to stealth, or blink away sometimes and make enough distance to not aggro.
- the spawned makrura is not going to be killable, just run
- use every defensive tool your class has and as much armor, health and possibly frost resistance you have available. if you do not strafe move so as to not present them your back, they will daze you and almost certainly kill you, so only use strafe movement to run away.
- as a mage i made sure to use frost armor, arcane int, dampen magic (for frost shock), mana shield and blink. regeneration chest rune could be used to heal when i get low after breaking aggro while still in water
- i found the spawned makrura would be despawned by the time i looped around again to the trap that spawned it.
- i'm probably 2+ hours in with no drop so like i said, this will not be fun.

Happy hunting.

评论来自 Pashkova

Got this today as a 25 Human Rogue after 2 days of farming, as a rogue you need to spec into the sublety tree talent Master of Deception to stop the mobs from detecting you when they spawn even if you instantly stealth.

My loot was as follows:

169x Shellfish
8x Cross-stitched Sandals
7x Cuirboulli Boots
5x Reinforced Chain Boots
1x Dervish Boots of the Monkey
1x Big Iron Fishing Pole

Good luck...

评论来自 urbiu

Got it probably after two hours of farming as a druid. Tip: Just be patient for the mobs to turn away if you are trying to farm it.

- 116x Shellfish
- 2x Greens
- 8x Grey
- 3x White
- 1x Fishing Pole

评论来自 amgyn

323 shellfish, countless boots from junk, to green quality, and engineering parts -- and I finally got the rod! Made almost 3g from the random stuff i got. Not worth your time to be honest. (this is in SoD)

评论来自 Narkaia

Got it in 30-45 mins on my warrior in SoD. 45 shellfish, got pretty lucky id say.

评论来自 oliv3rb

Farmed on SoD 25/02/24.
Got it on the 50th trap, took about half an hour. Happy hunting!

评论来自 Lenux86

150 traps and still no rod.... does this thing exist? lol

评论来自 lxxv

definitely recommend druid with feral spec with the added talents to stealth. swim up as seacow, open cage, immediately shapeshift to cat and hit stealth if you see the red nametag spawning in, swim on to the next. little downtime save for bad respawns or patrols.

got mine in about an hour of goofing off and not really wanting to play wow anyway (watching youtube) so sold it for 20g, now going to farm again and keep one for myself. if i don't get another one, no biggy.

评论来自 NanoNymphie

I went as a level 28 druid and got it on just my 3rd trap under the end of the dock at the village.
Maybe I was extremely lucky but it only took 3 tries. Also got some white boots.

评论来自 pepperpot

This search for a fishing pole will only turn you into bubba gump the amount of shrimps you pick up and crawlers you kill ....omg

评论来自 Eggsnbacey

Definitely took me just under 4 hours but I finally got it. When you first enter the water from the path down there's two shellfish traps that are relatively shallow, straight ahead from there and a bit deeper is a bubbly fissure you can get air from. Surrounding that bubbly fissure is 3 more shellfish traps. You can grind these 5 traps efficiently without waiting for the traps to respawn and without having to use underwater breathing elixers.

评论来自 MDurm

Just a little tip for anyone farming.

At 19.11, 81.31 there is a bubbly air fissure between two traps. You can chill here between the two traps and the respawn is super quick. Probably less than a minute after you've looted both. It was the quickest way I found.

评论来自 metroboomkin

Snagged the pole after freeing 247 shellfish and a pile of boots and sandals.

As others have mentioned....

It will be in the last trap you search.

Use underwater breathing spell or potions for ease.

Bubbly fissures near the traps at the bottom of the underwater canyons provide air to breathe, so consider that as an option if you're running low on o2.

After circling the area a few times (hopefully you'll find it with haste and wont need to) you will develop a feel for the respawn times and locations and find an efficient strategy.

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粗铁鱼竿

	[Phase 1]

物品等级：30

双手	钓鱼竿

45 - 69伤害	速度 3.00

（每秒伤害19.00）
耐久: 55 / 55

需要等级 25
需要钓鱼 (100)
装备：钓鱼技能提高20点。

售价: 33 78

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