This section contains news about selected professions ((in World of Warcraft)). This page contains El's news. All news gathered from other sources is on a separate page.
Dark Herring and Dustbringer
Northrend anglers can catch 2 very rare fish:
- Dark Herring - A fish dagger. Caught from at least open inland water in Grizzly Hills and Howling Fjord, plus Fangtooth Herring School. Completes the achievement, “One That Didn’t Get Away”.
- Dustbringer - Another dagger, the “Blade of the Crimson Landlord.” Learn more about the Ash…Dustbringer in Valuable Gear. Nat Pagle still has a lot of explaining to do!
Special thanks to everyone who has been posting about rare catches on the forums.
Salty World Firsts
After barely 24 hours of being able to reach Northrend, the first Salty titles have been awarded. Congratulations to Neuport, Butternugs, and everyone else who earns “Salty” so quickly!
Realm First Anglers
It has been confirmed that the first angler to 450 fishing skill on each realm is announced to both factions, and gains a Feat of Strength. Congratulations to everyone that makes it!
WotLK Fishing Essentials
Information overload? Only got 5 minutes before the boat or zeppelin leaves for Northrend? Learn everything you really need to know from our short guide to Wrath of the Lich King Fishing Essentials.
El’s Anglin’ Updated for WotLK
Busy packing warm clothing for a trip to Northrend on 13th November? El’s Extreme Anglin’ has been completely updated with Wrath of the Lich King information. The biggest changes are:
- Training - Including a new 350-450 cooking and fishing leveling guide. A guide to Dalaran Daily Cooking Quests has been added.
- Valuable Fish - Many new valuable catches, from buff food to minipets.
Please post about anything you find confusing or inaccurate on the forums.
Patch 3.0.3 and Northrend Leveling
- El’s Inscription has been updated with expected changes in patch 3.0.3. Most important, leveling from skill 290 is now much easier.
- A 350-450 Inscription leveling guide has been added to the training chapter for Northrend scribes. I recommend you stop leveling at skill 430, and simply research: Power-leveling to 450 is possible, but currently requires a lot of materials.
More Pigments from Milling
Thanks to everyone that submitted milling data, the milling analysis has been updated. The results are still not conclusive, but it seems likely that higher-level herbs within each skill-group give more pigments. From lowest to highest level herbs, an average of about 2.4 to 3.0 for primary pigments, 0.2 to 0.6 for secondary pigments. Read more.
Cross-Faction Fishing
Trying to catch Old Crafty or Old Ironjaw in the opposing faction’s capital for an achievement? Read our new guide to Cross-Faction Fishing.
Fish Counts
Tigole was kind enough to clarify the fish catch achievement:
“The way this is currently working on the live realms is that it counts as a fish if it falls under the ‘Trade Good’ category with a ‘Meat’ sub-category. Unfortunately, this leaves out a lot of fish. In patch 3.0.3 anything that is caught via the fishing profession will count towards the criteria. In patch 3.1.0 the wording on the achievement gets changed to ‘Fish up 25 items’ rather than ‘Catch 25 fish’.”
Inscription Beta 9095
Major changes:
- Ethereal Ink is trainable at skill 290. Scrolls trained at 290 and 295 use Shimmering Ink. The hardest part of the leveling curve should be fixed. Twice.
- Almost all Northrend-only trained glyphs can no longer be trained… Tentatively: These are now discovered using Northrend Inscription Research.
- Many changes to existing glyphs and new glyphs added in-game.
- Off-hands become Bind on Equip - but still require Inscription skill to use.
To avoid confusion, all “pre-WotLK Inscription” changes are listed here until these changes are patched onto live realms. The rest of El’s Inscription will be updated with WotLK-only changes.
