Fishing Guide for Midnight

Fishing is a gathering activity done in the world. You will be searching for bodies of water to throw your bobber in and, hopefully, reel in some valuable fish and treasures from special treasure pools.

While most fish are used as Cooking reagents, there are a few that have extra uses.

Earthen will be able to gather more fish with their Hyper Productive racial, making them a great option for optimizing your time spent fishing.

Dracthyr mobility abilities and +2% baseline Perception racial are a decent alternative, as they will allow you to get more rare catches while fishing.

You will mostly be looking to stack Finesse for bulk fish farming or Perception in order to maximize your odds of fishing rare fish.

Increasing your skill in Midnight is done by fishing in watery areas, and you can start fishing in Eversong Woods right away, but fishing in Zul'Aman requires 100 skill, fishing in Harandar requires 225 skill, and fishing in the Voidstorm requires the full 300 skill.

Fishers can use two pieces of gear and the best gear available is:

• Sin'dorei Reeler's Rod, made by Engineering;
• Elegant Artisan's Fishing Hat, made by Tailoring.

While the main benefit of having blue or higher gear over green is the skill increase, you will also get more gathering stats with blues. Higher Quality gear will also grant more stats.

Green versions are bind on equip and from trainer recipes, but blue and higher versions require faction / renown grinding for their recipes and are bind on pickup, requiring you to submit a Crafting Order for them or crafting them for yourself.

You should drink Argentleaf Tea and use the Alchemy-crafted Haranir Phial of Finesse when doing a fishing session. Enchant your tool with Enchant Tool - Haranir Finesse for even more Finesse bonuses!

Fishing has no Specializations.

Fishing makes gold by farming fish pools for the most part, as that is where you will find the best and rarest catches, such as Null Voidfish and Ominous Octopus. Use a lure, such as Ominous Octopus Lure, in order to maximize rare catches while fishing without Perception investment.

As fish are a common ingredient for stat food and feasts, try to sell yours in raid days, when Cooks are more likely to be looking to craft and sell their wares. The Undermine Exchange can also help you understand the price fluctuation for fish in your server, and which fish is best to farm at any given moment.

Although it sounds simple, most players do not have the patience or knowledge to take advantage of timing the market, and doing so correctly is where your profit will come from in the long term. Selling the fish randomly is potentially leaving a lot of gold on the table if price fluctuations are high!

We have a specialized guide for Midnight gold-making below, which contains a gold-making tier list and goes deeper into techniques and habits for successful gold making, as well as websites and addons that can help you on your journey!