This page contains news from April 2009.
Book of Glyph Mastery Drop Rate Increased
“The book of glyph mastery has had its drop rate increased.”
The Book of Glyph Mastery is used to research most of the new glyphs. Glyph of Envenom has also been removed.
3.1 Fishing Finds
Post-patch discoveries, mostly via the forums (thanks for all the contributions so far):
- Ulduar fishing. Fish also caught in Icecrown, Storm Peaks and Zul’Drak. And now Naxxramas.
- Feast are no longer soulbound and can be traded/sold. Fish Feast requires 425 cooking and level 70 to use.
- The 5 Ring, confirmed epic reward from the new fishing dailies.
- Extreme Angler FC-5000 has been reduced to a +20 bonus. DPS on many poles reduced, and level restrictions removed. Stamina bonus removed from Seth’s Pole. Kalu’ak pole change not intended.
- Essence of Fire now caught by fishing (discussion).
- Unusual Scryers Fishing Trainer in Shattrath.
- Phased Orgrimmar fishing removed.
- Dark Herring seems more common.
- Fix: Dalaran Cooking dailies require level 65 again.
- Fix: “Certain fishing nodes [presumably Pool of Blood] for one of the fishing daily quests should no longer be spawned on land.”
3.1 Inscription
Patch 3.1 highlights for scribes, live shortly:
- Rare world drops, Book of Glyph Mastery, research new glyphs. Books can be traded. No new Northrend/Minor research.
- Dual specs = dual demand for glyphs!
- Lexicon of Power no longer needed to apply glyphs.
- Dropped tome recipe, Technique: Rituals of the New Moon.
- 7 new trained glyphs, 1 new trained tome.
- See all 3.1 changes.
3.1 Fishing
3.1 is going live. Fishing highlights:
- Dalaran/Northrend Daily Fishing Quests (unconfirmed new reward: The 5 Ring)
- Sea Turtle mount (full guide added)
- Junk catches replace “get aways”
- Training from trainers, not books or quests
- Wintergrasp fishing for Fish Feasts
- More 3.1 Changes
El’s Anglin’ has been updated with all known changes. Please post errors or new discoveries on the forums. And good luck catching the turtle…
3.1 Junk Catches
Confused about junk catches and skill changes in patch 3.1? This new video should help!
Fishing Bobber Distribution
Now for some real bobber news! Vetchinkin recorded the place his bobber landed about 50 times (view full image). “I see that the bobber lands with equal probability within a trapazoid shaped region. The range is 10-20 yards, but that’s a little misleading, because it is 10-20 yards perpendicular to a line passing through the angler, not 10-20 yards radius from the angler.”
Gnobbers
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