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PhysicalTooltip
Equip a fishing pole and find a body of water to fish. Right-Click on the bob in the water when it splashes to catch your fish. Higher skill increases your chance of fishing successfully in higher level areas.
How it works
Fishing is built from 2 client effects, applied in this order:
- Effect 1 is Summon Object (effect type 50).
- Effect 2 is effect type 118, which the datamine does not name. Its base value is 2. It scales with 1 times spell power.
What it does
Fishing is a spell with an instant cast, a range of 10-20 yards and effects that last 30 sec. When cast it summons an object.
Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.
Spell Details
| School | Physical |
|---|---|
| Range | 10-20 yards (Short Range) |
| Cast time | Instant |
| Duration | 30 sec |
| Effect #1 | Summon Object (50) Misc value: 35591 |
| Effect #2 | Effect 118 Value: 2 Spell power coefficient: 1 Misc value: 356 |
Raw client values from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70532. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.
Fishing sounds
The sounds the game plays when Fishing is cast and lands, straight from the client. Press play, or open a kit for every file and the download formats.
Joined in the WoW Forever beta client: spell visual, then visual kit, then SoundKit, then the sound file. Browse every game sound in the sound archive.
Used by
Where is this spell used?
Fishing appears in: 1 skill line and 2 teaching spells.
Skill lines
- Fishing, replaces FishingSkill line
Teaching spells
- Journeyman Fishing (record #7734)Teaches this spell
- Journeyman Fishing (record #64485)Teaches this spell
From the client's JournalEncounterSection, SpecializationSpells, TraitDefinition, PvpTalent, SkillLineAbility, SpellLearnSpell and SpellEffect tables.
Related
More Fishing spells
Multiple client spell records exist
The game client stores 91 separate Spell records named "Fishing". This page is record #7731. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page. The 12 records closest by id are compared here.
| Record | What differs from this record | Likely reason |
|---|---|---|
| #7620 | subtext: Apprentice; effect values: 0, 1 (this record: 0, 2) | A different rank or variant |
| #7732 | subtext: Expert; effect values: 0, 3 (this record: 0, 2) | A different rank or variant |
| #13620 | used by: Enchanting; cast time: 5 sec; duration: none; effect types: Enchant Item; different tooltip text | A different owner |
| #18248 | subtext: Artisan; effect values: 0, 4 (this record: 0, 2) | A different rank or variant |
| #33095 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #51294 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #63275 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #88868 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #110410 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #111541 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #116562 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
| #124755 | effect types: none | A different effect setup |
Compared fields: SpellMisc difficulty rows, school, cast time and duration; Spell subtext and tooltip text; SpellEffect types and base values; journal and class usage. The reason column names the first difference found.
WoW Forever
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