The Underlight Angler - A Step by Step Guide to Obtaining Legion's Fishing Artifact

Par madseasonshow Actualisé : 06/06/2018

Pêcheur de TerradianceRequirements

Level 110

A fishing level of 800. You'll more than likely have this done by the time you finish the achievement below.

Obtain the Passons aux gros poissons achievement.

(Optional) To earn this achievement, you must catch 18 different rare fish scatted throughout the Broken Isles. To do this, you must first catch rare bait and then use this to catch the rare fish. The drop rate of the rare bait can be quite low, but once you catch it you can usually catch the relevant rare fish every time(at least with the drop rates on the beta anyways). To make things easier on yourself, you can increase your chance to catch the rare bait by visiting Adjurateur Margoss. He will sell you an item to increase the chance of acquiring the rare bait by a substantial amount.

Bigger Fish to Fry

Catch a rare bait by fishing anywhere within a zone

Use the bait to get a 2 minute buff that gives you a chance to catch a rare fish

Fish up the actual rare fish within your short, 2 minute time window

(Optional) Conjurer MargossAppât arcaniqueEmblème de MargossKit de planeur gobelinMana engloutiAppât arcaniqueMana engloutiNote #1:Suprême de versplease share it in the comments below.Note #2:Note #3:notNote #4:AzsunaOngle de pied de SkrogGelée de Murloc aromatiquechanceBlennie scintille-tellureConque perlescenteBernard-l'hermite de Nar'thalasBroche à talangs rouilléeTalang fantomatiqueVal'SharahArête de poisson pourrieMoussebranchie ancienneChardofeuille noyéFlet épineuxMarcheur de l'ombre cauchemardesqueAileron-de-TerreurHighmountainŒuf de Murloc pêchéPoisson-globe des montagnesBlennie scintille-tellureEscargot de mer puantLeurre à saumonSaumon de Haut-Roc ancienVer de givreCarpe froide-rivièreStormheimTalang fantomatiqueAncienne bague vrykuleTalang fantomatiqueOodelfjiskHameçon en corne d'élanFretin sablargentRaie-tempête fulminanteEcaille de drake détrempéeHomard ventre-grisOcean FishRequin en colère étourdiCalmar des fonds marinsMessage dans une bouteille de bièreLeurre à poisson-hachePoisson-hacheGraisse de baleine en décompositionMouche voraceBarracuda noir ancienSuramarLeurre enchantéGrenouille mange-magieDétritus démoniaqueKoï runécaille corrompueMurloc endormiPoisson-globe sage-épineLevel 800 FishingPassons aux gros poissonsThe Luminous Pearl and Acquiring the ArtifactPerle lumineusePerle lumineuseLa fontaine de DalaranFrénésie de poisson

For stage one, you have to clear out the island of the surrounding murlocs.

For stage two, you must fish up 15 Furie du déclin in a nearby pond.

For the third and final stage, you must fish up and slay the murloc boss, Mglrrp.

Leveling the Artifactwhile the Underlight Angler is equippedPassons aux gros poissonsBroche à talangs rouilléeAncienne bague vrykuleNotable TraitsTerradianceYou can find the trait calculator here.

Surface Tension - Allows you to walk on water. Does not work in combat/getting hit. This is very useful for non death knights/shamans as many of the pools in Legion are unreachable unless you can walk on water. Unfortunately, it cannot be used while mounted.

Bloodfishing - This gives you a chance to fish up the rareSang de Sargeras. This is a high level crafting reagent in the Legion expansion.

Fishrender's Blessing - Transforms you into a fish when underwater, granting you greatly increased swim speed and underwater breathing. This is like the druid's aquatic form(although it's faster). It persists through combat, even when you are getting hit.

Better Luck Next Time - This allows you to catch up pairs of boots when fishing in the broken isles.

Way of the Flounder - This gives you a stealth effect and reduces your aggro range by 5 yards whenever you have your line cast

Increased bait duration - Each point you put into the artifact increases the duration of your bait by 8%. You can see this by mousing over the top-left icon in your trait tree.

Minor Traits

Pêche à la perche moussebranchie - Grants a chance to fish up an entire school of Perche moussebranchie in one cast.

Pêche au talang maudit - Grants a chance to fish up an entire school ofTalang maudit in one cast.

Pêche au saumon de Haut-Roc - Grants a chance to fish up an entire school of Saumon de Haut-Roc in one cast.

Pêche à la raie-tempête - Grants a chance to fish up an entire school of Raie-tempête in one cast.

Pêche à la koï runécaille - Grants a chance to fish up an entire school of Koï runécaille in one cast.

Pêche au barracuda noir - Grants a chance to fish up an entire school of Barracuda noir in one cast.

ConclusionI also have a video version of this guide here.

Commentaires

Commentaire de Mnementh85

Hi,

I made this macro to automaticaly throw rare fish:Talang fantomatique and Oodelfjisk

#shwotooltips

/equip Underlight angler

/use item:139654
/use item:139661

/Cast Fishing

I limited the macro to these 2 fish because a complete macro for all the rare fish exceed the limit of 255 caracters, and they require a lot of space as you can easily catch 30-40 of them
If anyone know how to shrink the length of the macro ...

Item ID for 50 AP fish range from 139652 to 139669

Commentaires

Commentaire de madseasonshow

Update log: I'll update this post whenever I make notable changes to the guide.

7/31/16 - Fixed various grammatical errors.
8/2/16 - Added additional info about the arcane lure.
8/2/16 - Further updates in changelog

Commentaire de Tronhelm

Thanks so much for this guide, I can't wait to get started in a couple weeks!

Commentaire de Beanie

Great guide that im sure i will be back to again and again while I fish.
This artifact is the one that looks the most interesting to use/level out of all of them :)
Thank you !

Commentaire de jjanchan

Awesome guide! It shed some light on this artifact, when there was very little previously known about it.
Keep up the good work!

Commentaire de nicebloke

Awesome guide thanks!

Commentaire de 40980

This guide write-up is amazing! You have reinvigorated my love of WoW fishing and now I cannot wait to get to 110 just to obtain this achievement and item! :)

Commentaire de Nighteye

Is the achievement Bigger Fish To Fry that you have to get for this account bound? Or is it something each character has to earn?

Commentaire de 1598422

Is catched fish with AP 50 works with artifact knowledge? Will i get more AP for my knowledge level?

Commentaire de lanmanmcse

Excellent guide. Ty!

Commentaire de perculia

Sorry for the delay in getting it up, the Fishing artiact and related pages are now live: https://www.wowhead.com/artifact-calc/Ati0JJA

Commentaire de BigRed

I'd like to add that the usual Draenor helpers: Chapeau à tentacules, Canne à pêche éphémère, and Suprême de vers function in the Broken Isles as well. With this combo, I caught six rare fish from my first lure, and a second lure as well.

Commentaire de camy011

Anyone know why level 110 would be a requirement? All the quests and fish baits indicate level 98 to use, didn't know if there was a blue post or something that clarified as it doesn't seem intuitive.

I took a break from leveling and am currently 106 with the achievement almost complete. I will try fishing up the pearl to see if it can be done before 110.

*EDIT* Can't seem to get the pearl yet, decided to finish leveling first.

Commentaire de Warstain

So just to clarify, you don't need to fish the lures from pools? Just any open water in the zone?

Commentaire de camy011

After you hit 800 don't bother saving the rare fish you caught, just vendor them for 10 gold each. They do not grant you artifact power after obtaining the artifact, you have to catch new rare fish for that.

Commentaire de camy011

Artifact power for both end traits = 5500 (110 total rare fish)

After you get both of the end traits, Way of the Flounder + Underlight Blessing, the cost of further increases raises substantially.

Each additional point after both end traits:
1000 - 20 additional rare fish, 130 total rare fish
6840 - 137 additional rare fish, 267 total rare fish
8830 - 177 additional rare fish, 444 total rare fish
11280 - 225 additional rare fish, 669 total rare fish
14400 - 288 additional rare fish, 957 total rare fish
18620 - 373 additional rare fish, 1330 total rare fish
24000 - 480 additional rare fish, 1810 total rare fish
30600 - 612 additional rare fish, 2422 total rare fish
64800 - 1296 additional rare fish, 3718 total rare fish

For those interested with how the fish form interacts with druid shape shifting:
All forms are still usable underwater but your character model will be converted to a fish and you will gain the bonus movement speed regardless of what you are shape shifted into, i.e. bear, cat, travel, or moonkin.

Underwater movement speeds:
135% travel form (seal)
169% all forms (fish)
169% stampede (fish)
169% cat form dash (fish)
202% seal's wild charge (fish)

Commentaire de dasquee

Well, unless something is incredibly broken after the shutdown a few hours ago... rare fish have been nerfed within extinction. 3 hours of fishing with arcane lures in pools, 100+ baits and a grand total of 3 rares.

/nothappyjan

Will update if we hear anything from Blizzard.

Commentaire de 453305

On live, increased bait duration is no longer a hidden trait. Mousing over the trait count shows Increases duration of Legion lures and baits by 8% for every trait purchased. Doesn't seem to extend Appât arcanique duration.

Commentaire de Badpunsguy

Does the blood of sargeras spawn when fishing for drowned mana and/or the fountain in dalaran? I'm not sure if that works, but if it does it would be a good idea to get the rod before attempting to get all the coins or the new fish mount.

Commentaire de Falquan

Minor issue on live as of today (03-Sep-2016) is once you complete the quest chain and get the Artifact, you will keep getting Pearls drop every 5-10 minutes of fishing. They can be sold for 1c, but as they take a bag slot, it's annoying.

Commentaire de 968644

I'm having trouble fishing up the ocean fish; any advice on where specifically I can try fishing these up?

Commentaire de 626661

Aho!

Just a side note....

Your artifact forge is the PEARL at the Dalaran fountain. There u can upgrade your pole.

Aho!
Licht

Commentaire de NytemareRulez

So does increase fishing help with bait and stuff? and can you only get rare fish when bait up? I have almost all the finishing items up to wod, so it is worth putting on my fishing set to jack me over 1100 while doing this, or did they make it where over max not needed now?

Commentaire de Punraz

To get Artifact Power very fast, fish Oodelfjisk:

One Oodelfjisk school in Stormheim is at 46.4,63.2 (right south-east of Cullen's Post, nearby the waterfall).
Of course you have to use Ancienne bague vrykule first to see it.
I would also advise to use Appât arcanique while fishing to get additional Ancienne bague vrykule and other baits.

Commentaire de watermouse

So....I will have to try this again, but I just tried gliding from the spot in DAL to the fishing island and it de-gliding me about 20% in and dropped me in the waters below

I was able to use this method 2 days ago, but for some reason it did not work this time...was it changed?

**EDIT -- Tried with Goblin Glider and it worked. I must have done something wrong....fewww

Commentaire de yager05

Took me around 2000 fishes, 35 arcane lures and 8 hours.

Commentaire de 1628594

Is anyone getting more Artifact Power with Artifact Knowledge? Still getting 50 AP per Fish, but the "Total Ranks" Tooltip is showing +25% AP.

Commentaire de MagusMaximus

I feel that the range on the Undercurrent ability is *way* too low, especially with how far spread out pools of fish seem to be in the Broken Isles so far, and their scarcity. And if the cast (the spell, not the fishing cast, heh) is cancelled for any reason it will still incur the cooldown and not teleport you.

Commentaire de clarkeyboy

I hope you don't have to scat throughout legion O_O - The first few lines of the guide have a spelling error with the word "scattered". Great guide though!

Commentaire de sponge

It should be noted with the 100s of fish I have farmed with the lure (pool vs no Pool).

I personally concluded you CAN get the rare fish. This IMO is more tied to the Fishing Skill. Yes, the Pools increase that change more so.

But personally speaking, if all you care about is getting at least 1, for the achievement (barring horrible RNG), You will at least get one.

My Fishing was 800
+ 30 Fishing Pole
+ 100 Lure

YMMV.

Commentaire de myathebee

I would like to point out I just got the achievement without the arcane lure, rarely fishing out of pools and using no other fishing skill enhancements like poles, hats, etc. Took me about 3-4 hours total and that's with being distracted with other things too.

Commentaire de AWildRaccoon

Throwing the fish back in doesn't give me artifact power... What gives?

Commentaire de qaccy

Can I point out that this guide, while being very in-depth, doesn't actually provide a direct link to the artifact itself?

Commentaire de lunamoonraker

There are also some traits that increase you chance to catch zone-specific fish in the open water:

The minor artefacts listed are worded slightly differently in-game now.

There are three ranks (presumably varying % chance for the proc) which:

Grants a chance to fish up an entire school of in one cast.

Commentaire de Sqqueeky

Pêcheur de Terradiance

For some reason the item wasn't in wowhead's database at launch, or at least it wasn't searchable. I must admit that made me worry that it was all an April Fool's joke that had been taken too far! Happy that it proved otherwise.

Commentaire de 1696041

I started doing this achievement at 110 with approx 500 fishing, and only the strong fishing pole... Some anecdotes from my journey:

You will level up VERY fast with the rare fish! You'll be 800 in no time.
I started with 27 arcane lures, and only ended up using 15. I'm not sure if it helped or not but I kept a shiny bauble on my rod at all times.
You do not need to fish schools for the lures or the fish, however drop rate from schools is seemingly higher. I would fish open waters until I noticed a fish school, then I'd fish from it
I caught a few of the rares while doing the fishing world quests, which helped a lot
My total focused time on the achievement was about 3 hours not including the drowned mana fishing for lures.

Now if only i could get that damned pearl to drop ....argh

Commentaire de Sqqueeky

Caught my first Sang de Sargeras yesterday in Suramar with a level 13 pole, puts my personal droprate at around 1 in 200 casts, perhaps more. It was from a Koi pool, I didn't have an Arcane Lure active.

Commentaire de binkenstein

One note: you can only have one bait up at once. I tried using 2 different types and ended up overwriting the first one >.<

Commentaire de sissely

I have the fishing rod, added AP but I can't use the AP on traits even though I am at my forge. I just keeps saying 'you must visit your artifact forge in your class hall to purchase traits' Any idea what to do ?

Commentaire de Lomack

A few notes:

Undercurrent: The range is low. I've only found it useful in areas where pools are plentiful. Basically if you can't see the pool on your mini-map, it won't get you there.

Barrel of Fish: This appears to be the Minor Trait ... " Angeling". Where you can fish up an entire school of xxx fish type in one cast. The only time I have fished up an entire school is when the barrel appears. I have received bait in the barrel, but no rare fish. I have not gotten a barrel when using bait.

Surface Tension: I've had difficulty walking on the water. If I am in fish form and try to get on top of the water it often drops me through the surface and back into fish form. It can be a pain to use if you angle your camera down at all, even while standing still, you often go into the water. Water Walking potions seem more reliable.

Artifact Knowledge seems to be bugged. My 2x Knowledge is doing nothing.

As camy011 mentioned, the cost for artifact traits jumps up significantly in the later stages. But, its not based on getting your end talents, it jumps up based on number of traits learned in total. So you can't save the gold dragon end traits for later and get all the lower traits to save AP. The cost starts to skyrocket around 12 traits, no matter which traits those are.

There does not appear to be any way to reset your Artifact Traits.

I got to 14 talents before I needed a break. Used 37 Arcane Lures up to this point (fishing Quest included).

Commentaire de BananaBomb

Anyone know anything about any different the Artifact Appearance for this one ?
I only have the default red, "Underlight Angler".

Commentaire de cag8f

For me, it seemed I was only able to fish up Drowned Mana after killing Aquaos, a large water elemental that rises from the lake. I had made ~20 casts, and only caught fish. Then Aquaos appeared (I don't know why), I killed him, and then started fishing again. I was immediately catching Drowned Mana with each cast.

edit: From the comments on Aquaos the Unleashed's page, he gives the pool a brief buff that increases Drowned Mana chance to 100%.

Commentaire de microb92

As far as I tested using the old rares you catch WILL NOT give you any AP. You have to catch new rares with the artifact equipped in order to get any artifact power. Also the new rares you catch with it equipped don't stack and have a tooltip specifically saying that they grant 50 AP.

Commentaire de Maxion

The barrels of fish listed as a hidden trait is what happens when the minor traits proc.

Commentaire de marcyh

this guide was extremely useful. I used the raft and the water strider throughout and obtained the fishing artifact within a reasonable time. Thank you

Commentaire de Alistair590

If you happen to have any excess Murloc endormi from your rare fishing hunt in order to get the artifact do not use it! It doesn't matter if you fished it with a plain rod, once you set the murloc free while having the artifact equipped it will drop for you the upgraded version of Poisson-globe sage-épine that gives you AP! Essentially you get immediately the first trait without having to go fish and come back and learn it from the fountain, saves a bit of time.

Commentaire de BladeKnight1120

A heads up for anyone that's managed to get the Underlight Angler. I discovered today after killing a Landlocked Shark that unless you kill the shark with the Angler equipped then the squid it normally drops will be the standard throwback fish for Fishing skill rather than AP. My suggestion for melee like myself is to get the shark down low, equip the Angler, and then finish it off.

Commentaire de Poppleop

Regarding levelling the Underlight Angler, you can use the fishing world quests that involve unique fish pools (i.e. Huge Mossgill Perch School) to gather rare fish - assuming you have the correct bait. Simply fish from the pool without picking up the quest objective's fish and only the rare fish - and you'll have yourself a steady stream of unlimited rare fishies :)

Commentaire de Broughden

I would edit or add the tip that you should use the shark IMMEDIATELY otherwise it will despawn out of your bag within a minute. Had this happen to me and took quite awhile to fish up a second one.

Commentaire de Benwick29

I've noticed that if you've already fished up a lure and used (or lost it in the case of the shark), it takes an awfully long time to obtain it a second time. I'm curious as to if there's a hidden timer or cast count.

Commentaire de 1631649

Does higher skill lvl (800+) increase your chance of getting baits or rare fish in Legion?

Commentaire de Salus

You might want to add this to the guide :)

There are groups in the group-finder that fish together on Margoss' Retreat; this greatly increases the number of Mark of Aquaos that are fished up, and with enough people you can chain them back-to-back, increasing your rate of Drowned Mana acquisition dramatically!

Commentaire de rebs1978

I've gotten the underlight on my Demon hunter, and the pearly drops like water. The pearl will not drop for my paladin! I've met all the pre requirements. The bigger fish to to fry achievement appears to acct wide. Do I have to catch all the rare fish on each toon?

Commentaire de darkze

For ease of use when throwing back fish for AP/fishing levels i have two macros I spam which uses all fish you can get. easier than right clicking in the inventory/binding each to an action button.

macro1:
/use Axefish
/use Seabottom Squid
/use Ancient Black Barracuda
/use graybelly lobster
/use Ancient Mossgill
/use Leyshimmer Blenny
/use Nar'thalas Hermit
/use Ghostly Queenfish
/use thorned flounder
/use terrorfin
/use mountain puffer
/use coldriver carp

macro2:
/use Ancient Highmountain Salmon
/use thundering stormray

Commentaire de Jiliya

A good spot for undisturbed and comfortable Ocean Fishing is the small rock island east of Azuregale Bay (Suramar). Since the spot does not have coordinates (or none that are shown on my map), go here: 84,71 and look roughly east to see it. You can swim there, it's not far. There's only some peaceful Lion Seals flapping about. Happy fishing!

Commentaire de MurlocHolmez

I had a day off and stumbled across this guide... my day off quickly turned into work. I began my fishing journey at 10:00 AM and finished, with artifact equipped, by 5:00 PM by following this guide to the T. I had less than 100 fishing level with no real fishing experience prior.

I collected 30 arcane lures to get the job done and it was the perfect amount. The only thing the guide doesn't mention is that when you are fishing for the drowned mana there is a chance that an uncommon item will drop. When you cuse the item a huge arcane elemental spawns. Upon killing it the pond is empowered with drowned mana. Every fishing attempt grants at least one, more often two drowned manas. I was able to get all 30 within 2 minutes of arriving. Hopefully you are as lucky as I.

Follow the guide and your fishing will excel!

Commentaire de MajorXMidge

Thank you for this guide so much! Honestly it has been so helpful in obtaining the rod, one thing I would like to add is that the coastline around Jandvik in Suramar seems to be a great place to fish up the ocean rare fish, as there are a lot of pools around there.

Commentaire de mommyclz

Nobody mentions that this pole is made from a dangly part that Nat Pagle cut off of Mglrrp's head!

Commentaire de Webminky

Thank you so much, I got this with a little AH expense and some patience in a few hours :)

Commentaire de 445981

Spent my Saturday working on this started with only 2 or 3 of the rares at about 9am took a break after i spend an hour on the last 2 in suramar when i logged back in I got my final 2 baits and fish and the pearl all within about 15 min. Great Guide.

Commentaire de 1724596

Great guide! got it in one afternoon. THX!

Commentaire de 1724596

Great guide! got it in one afternoon. THX!

Commentaire de OldSubSailor

Did I miss something? I caught two rare fish, but did not get any increase in Artifact Power, that is, the little AP bar did not show any increase numbers. I had equipped and was using the Angler pole.
Thank you

Commentaire de acemans99

Hello and thank you for doing this but id like to know if i mush redo this on all my alts too ? please let me know

Commentaire de thr0ttles

thanks for this super guide! :)

Commentaire de 1728414

everyone of my friends said this is tooooo much work & you must have a lot of baits & luck.

Well. . . with this guide . . .

-> easy
-> fast
-> I only needet 1 bait per rar (most of the time <5 tries for rare)

Got my Fishing Artefact exactly 3 minutes ago!

Thanks man for this amazing guide! :))))

Commentaire de Jawless

Arcane Lure CAN be bought at the auction house and it comes pretty cheap too - no need to fish up the drowned mana for it.

Commentaire de christianjlo

best way to fram artifact power for your Underlight Angler fishing pole is by using Ancient Vrykul Ring Bait... The bait gives you a 10 min buff to fish in the pool that doesnt expires and until the buff expires I usually get around 40 Oodelfjisk fish, that means 2k Artifact Power... so its pretty nice...
In my opinion forget about the other baits... go for this one!
One more tip when farming for this, probably you will get the other 2 baits for Stormheim, Soggy Drakescale and Moosehorn Hook, so dont throw them away, keep them, so you wont get them again, this way you will force to get the ring bait.

Commentaire de Nortie

A small addition for the Mouche vorace the buff actually lasts 5 minutes instead of 2

Commentaire de djharris

Maybe this is well known or posted elsewhere, but if you fish for Ghostly Queenfish while also having an Arcane Lure active, you will pick up a new Rusty Queenfish Brooch every time (or at least I do with 1000+ fishing skill using Nat's Hat as well. I'm assuming the same would be true for Oodelfisken.

Commentaire de 842695

TURN OFF AUTO LOOT...I needed the Conch and Brooch to finish my Bigger Fish to Fry achievement. I waited until the Huge Cursed Queenfish fishing daily was up. Turned off auto loot. Stood there less than 10 minutes with my 800 fishing skill, worm supreme and arcane fishing lure. Just kept casting into the pool and and hitting escape to clear the loot box if I didn't get the lure I needed. Got lure, hit escape on loot box until the rare fish came up. Got Bigger Fish to Fry achieve. Continued fishing the pool and hitting escape until the Luminous Pearl popped up. THEN I turned auto loot back on and got my 10 fish from the pool for my fishing daily.

Commentaire de eloril

Excellent guide, thank you! for anyone starting out, focus on pools as much as possible. I finished this much faster by fishing in pools.

Commentaire de JohnPombrio

I found a great place to grind the rares once you have done the Jandvil's Jarl questline (which can be skipped if you have flying in Legion). In Suramar, fish Azuregale Bay from 73,50 at Janvik village (set your hearth there) to the end of the North side of the bay 84,52 until you have Surface Tension and Underlight Blessing which opens up the whole bay as a big ring of pools. There is a continuous line of Barracuda pools around the bay with no pesky fights with the local mobs. There are also pools around the island that is good if you run out of pools. Plenty of bait, the shark drops a ton of rares, and the normal rares are common. This handily beats any other place I tried for leveling the pole as I got a ton of gold from the fish themselves and the pools will almost always pop once level 3 in Black Barracuda is reached. The bait is usually had before it runs out as long as Arcane Lure is running. If you are a miner, there are several nodes around the bay.

The problem with the Brooch approach or the Ring thing is that the pool will never pop and you will have to wait for a regular cast for each and every rare. You also get nothing to sell from the pool. The Barracuda sell for about 1K gold for a stack of 200. After finishing at level 24, the mountain of fish earned me around $90K of gold as the price was good back then! I also got 150+ Bloods as well. Go with the Suramar location.
While getting the full pole on my horde main, I averaged 58 rares per hour (6 10 minute lures) on 34 lures with a high of 94! and a low of 39. I used a fished up +100 cap from the garrison fishing drop and regular +75 lures as I found Worm Supreme not to make any difference that I could tell and they are hard to get nowadays. Compare that number to other fishing spots and you will come up short.

I got the final level. The last three levels are the hardest. Here is what I learned for going from zero to hero in this fishing zone.
1. The first three traits on the pole should be getting 3 levels in Black Barracuda. It is SO much faster to fish with this leveling in place as I rarely had to wait for a normal cast for the 4-5 casts before the pool would pop. You also get loads more fish and lures with level 3.
2. Next trait to get is Surface Tension as it also make fishing a lot faster.
3. Underlight blessing is the final must have (and is a great way to run away from angry mobs in a hurry when you are near water!)
4. Undercurrent, Better Luck Next Time, and Way of the Flounder were all pretty much useless for me. Lots of 3 gold boots, rarely a green level 780, and no rare boots at all.
5. The best to worst sales of fish on my server are as follows, Highmountain Salmon, Black Barracude, Runescale Koi, Stormray, Mossgill Perch, and tying for last place is Cursed Queenfish and Silver Mackerel. This gives you an idea of where to put your artifact points in.
6. A higher level of the pole does NOT confer any benefit except for longer bait times as far as I can tell. Getting to level 3 is the most important thing for catching fish in a pool. It also is way harder to get the final levels so there is no reason to keep going once you have what fish you want to catch leveled up.
7. Keep Arcane Lure and a fishing lure on the pole at all times. What bait you use is dependent on your level as the 2 minute bait goes quickly at lower levels but provides somewhat better rare drops. Around level 15 switch from Ravenous Fly to Axefish Lure. Make sure to empty the Flask and the Blubber if you do not already have the Fly And Axefish in your bags or you just used one. I recommend buying the mammoth mount in Daralan as you can buy and buy BACK extra bait with the onboard traders and make some decent gold that way as well.
8. It's best to drop the sharks on land once you have switched to your weapon.
9. I now have all 14 of my alts with an Underlight Angler to the water walking stage. I fished up ALL of the bait for them with my main which had lvl 3 fish pops for all the different fish. The only one that I could not get is the stunned, angry shark and that usually dropped eventually, heh.

Commentaire de Voranc

I tried fishing Talang fantomatique in Azsuna and I got around 40 of them per 1 lure. But I didnt get the Broche à talangs rouillée everytime it wore off. It was a bit frustrating. Tried another method and it worked pretty great.

Some stats of my Pêcheur de Terradiance.
Ranks Purchased = 16
Black Barracuda Angling = 3/3
And all of the other major traits 1/1

You need Mouche vorace and unlocked Surface Tension on your Pêcheur de Terradiance so you can avoid some mobs and optional Appât arcanique, Azure Water Strider, Anglers Fishing Raft.

I tried two runs with and without Appât arcanique. I start in Suramar at around /way Suramar 84.7 55.2 and move towards Jandvik and fish out of all Black Barracuda Schools that are along the way. Just run along the coast until the Mouche vorace wores out.

Stats with Mouche vorace ( last for around 11 minutes) without Appât arcanique

Barracuda noir ancien -> x33
Calmar des fonds marins -> x32 ( comes out of Requin en colère étourdi which you have to use immediately after you fish it out!)
Message dans une bouteille de bière -> x1 ( use it immediately and you'll get Leurre à poisson-hache, so you can fish another Message dans une bouteille de bière)
Requin en colère étourdi -> x4 ( after you kill it you get x8 Calmar des fonds marins)
Graisse de baleine en décomposition -> x2 ( use it immediately and fish further until the Mouche vorace flies down so you can loot it. Then you can fish another Graisse de baleine en décomposition.)
Barracuda noir -> x85
And some gray boots worth around 3 gold.

Stats with Mouche vorace ( last for around 11 minutes) with Appât arcanique

Barracuda noir ancien -> x45
Calmar des fonds marins -> x32 ( comes out of Requin en colère étourdi which you have to use immediately after you fish it out!)
Message dans une bouteille de bière -> x1 ( use it immediately and you'll get Leurre à poisson-hache, so you can fish another Message dans une bouteille de bière)
Requin en colère étourdi -> x4 ( after you kill it you get x8 Calmar des fonds marins)
Graisse de baleine en décomposition -> x2 ( use it immediately and fish further until the Mouche vorace flies down so you can loot it. Then you can fish another Graisse de baleine en décomposition.)
Barracuda noir -> x117
Sang de Sargeras -> x1
And some gray boots worth around 3 gold.

Good thing about barrels is that if you get x2 Requin en colère étourdi you can loot one of them and the barrel will stay there. So you can kill the first shark and loot the other one from the barrel.

I know you have to run around a bit more than with Talang fantomatique. But you get 20-30 more rare fishes in the same time and all the other stuff which is worth more than 2k gold.

I didnt try all the zones and all the fishes so I cant say that this AP building is the best. But I can say it's better than Talang fantomatique.

Have fun. Feel free to reply if you have anything else, that is not fishing with Talang fantomatique or Ancienne bague vrykule.

Commentaire de Farmbuyer

Are the zone maps (embedded in the guide) meant to have any locations highlighted or otherwise marked? Pools, etc?

If so, then something's broken because the maps are just plain zone maps. (And if not, then... okay.)

Commentaire de Khoria

Thank you very much for this guide. I have written a small helper addon available at curse.com that can track the fish you still need and the bait for it based on your guide. It's at https://mods.curse.com/addons/wow/263139-bigger-fish-to-fry-tracker and hopefully people will find it useful.

Commentaire de Hayew

Any news on the possibility of the datamined hidden artifact appearances for the Underlight Angler coming to game?

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/5uaktr/new_fishing_artifact_hidden_appearance/

https://www.google.com/search?q=underlight+angler+appearances&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir-6uKirrTAhXr6YMKHWYCBGwQ_AUICCgD&biw=1536&bih=774&dpr=1.25#imgrc=LRjqParfNzlbwM:

https://www.google.com/search?q=underlight+angler+appearances&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwir-6uKirrTAhXr6YMKHWYCBGwQ_AUICCgD&biw=1536&bih=774&dpr=1.25#imgrc=h8t5tRMgMx_fQM:

Commentaire de magiccozmo

Just a quick TY for this. I just got my artifact on a second toon. Went a bit faster this time since I also now have flight (;

Commentaire de Voodoomkin

A one button macro that switches between Pêcheur de Terradiance and Gueule-du-Damné. This allows you to easily switch between your Angler/Artifact when you hop in/out of water/combat. It's also setup for when you hold Alt, it will cast fish.

#showtooltip
/equip Maw of the Damned; Underlight Angler
/cast Fishing
/cast Undercurrent

Your welcome :)

Commentaire de Leiru

Great guide - thanks so much!

Commentaire de cparle87

I just completed my Underlight Angler, but something weird has happened. I had 3 of my 4 weapons maxed out at 54 before 7.2 came out, and when I maxed them the exp bar at the bottom of my screen disappeared signifying I couldn't put more AP into it.

This hasn't happened with me Underlight Angler. When I mouse over the exp bar it says 30 of 105,280. I've double checked all my traits and it's complete all 3/3. Is this normal? Or should I keep putting AP into it for something else?

Commentaire de 1768798

I had a DH at like 400 fishing and a mage at 1, both were lv110. Using this guide, I bought as many lures as possible from AH on my DH and got the angler in about 2.5 hours. Had I used my brain and did my mage first, who has portals to each zone in order hall, woulda been a lot faster. But then I bought the lures again, needed to fish a few that weren't on AH. Drowned Thistleleaf took about 30 mins to fish up, but my fishing was under 500 at that point even with lure, maybe had I fished up the missing lures on my DH it would have went faster as well. But I guess this is what drinking and fishing is all about...

Anyway, in less than 24 hours I started fresh and got two anglers, and upgraded each of them up to at least the aquatic form (my mage is cruising along now..) thanks very much for the guide, it helped a lot

Commentaire de kodora1316

This is a wonderful guide, thank you so much! With this I was able to get my fishing pole in just 1 day. A long day, but still!

Commentaire de Guggenheim

I am not sure if this is actually the case - but during the Stormheim invasion - I catched ~150 fish without getting a rare catch once. I had the Arcane lure applied. I decided to wait until the invasion was over, and I got the rare catch after ~10 catches. I don't know if it is just bad luck or you actually are unable to fish rare fish during invasions.

Commentaire de matthewgeraldfre

I loved the guide. You were very clear and well spoken. I followed your guide to the letter!

Commentaire de liviuirimia

A quicker way to track your progress for Passons aux gros poissons
/run for i=1,18 do l={GetAchievementCriteriaInfo(10596,i)} print(format("%s : %s", l, l and "\124cff00ff00Done\124r" or "\124cffff0000Need\124r")) end

Commentaire de Euronymus

The fastest way to upgrade your artefact then is to farm them Sleepy Murlocs in Suramar , or even the sharks !

Good luck on this :P

Commentaire de Myrkrida80

I may have missed it, but just in case -- While you are fishing for Drowned Mana on Margoss' little island, you will inevitably catch a "Mark of Aquaos". Toss it back in, kill Aquaos, and an effect will kick in that increases your Drowned Mana catch significantly. It only lasts a few minutes, and once it wears off you'll be back to catching regular old fish and an occasional Drowned Mana. I got TWO Marks of Aquaos within a 15-minute period. I obtained the 40+ Drowned Mana mentioned in the guide within about 15 minutes.

Cheers and happy angling!

Commentaire de Magmarius

So I'm a little confused. It says the level requirement is 110, but every item and quest indicates a level requirement of 98. What part do you need to be 110 for? Seems to me the real requirement is level 98.

Commentaire de clstarling

Upvote if you read this whole guide in the dulcet tones of Madseasonshow's voice.

Commentaire de myssket

This guide is awesome! Very easy to read with clear instructions. Thanks so much :)

Commentaire de JDLKY

Correction; Thistleleaf and Salmon Lure last 5 minutes, not 2.

Commentaire de 1075612

Got mine yesterday. Great guide and thanks!

Commentaire de scubalady2

Your video was fabulous! About to start my quest now. Wish me luck!

Commentaire de carney77

Thank you! This was a great guide!

Commentaire de 914094

If you are going to do this from 1-800, start in your garrison from WoD. Do the opening quests for your Fishing Shack in the garrison in order to get Guide de pêche en Draenor. It will open up your skill level from 1-700 so you can avoid having to visit the trainer every 75 skill points you obtain. The only other time you will have to visit the trainer is at 675-700 skill points to get the rest of the skill points opened up.

Commentaire de 701021

I just bought almost all the bait on the AH, and got this done outrageously fast. It's fairly late in the Xpac, and we're sort of right at the end of a patch when folks are bored and waiting for the new raid to pop. So this might just be a lucky timing thing. My guess is that these will not be very common or cheap on the AH after 8.0 drops so take advantage while you can if you're considering going for this.

Commentaire de Scaryzombie

Just to add the npcs from "fisherfiend of the Isles" generally sell the bait for that zone for 25 of their hand ins (I also caught some of the fish from their fishing pools when active)

Commentaire de bellaneal

I want to thank you so very much for taking the time and for creating the youtube! You are very articulate, precise and took your time with explanations.
Most appreciated.
;)

Commentaire de rubyrabble

If you are interested in getting the Underlight Angler AND getting Fisherfriends of the Isles for the two appearance recolors, I would highly suggest doing this through the daily Fisherfriends groups from LFG. I did this on my numerous alts.

I first trained fishing (if needed) and then went straight to the Garrison and got the item to train Draenor fishing (so skill can go up to 700, saves you some back and forth to trainers); one cast in open water (as in the coast right behind the Garrison) was all it took for every alt. Most of my alts started at <20 fishing.

Each Fisherfriend takes about 60-90 minutes to fish/loot enough of the special currency to get to Best Friends. You can use the currency to buy all the baits you need right there. With the exception of the Ancient Vrykul Ring.and Rusty Queenfish Brooch, you can use all the bait right there while you are fishing for the rep too. I just bought a Ring and a Brooch to take with me to where the pools for them spawn to fish up those rare fish.

Plus, you'll definitely level fishing to 800 along the way. If you have rare fish, but are close to maxing fishing, just save them to throw them in the fountain in Dalaran later after you train Legion Fishing. Remember, you can train Legion Fishing at 675.

So basically, a bit of time for six days and you can have it all finished; fishing leveled to 800, Bigger Fish to Fry, and Fisherfriend of the Isles.

And as a bonus, you can buy or save some extra baits to level your artifact later for the awesome traits.

Commentaire de Himrent

Thank you so much for this guide. I was 1/4 of the way through when I found your guide. It took me all of 5 hours to get it done, without flying mind you. My Underlight Angler Artifact power is now at 2,150 after 1 full day of fishing.
Many Thanks.

Commentaire de 6by6n6

IF IN A RUSH

First of all.. brilliant guide. Was a huge help.

Got it done within 2 hours on an alt... got my fishing from 0 to 800 and upgraded the rod to 12. Not giving any new information here, just my experience. Having done it on my main 6 months back, felt somehow faster this time, will note what i thought was different. Also, full disclosure, it cost me around 15-20k gold to get the angler, and then around 10k more to get it to lvl 12. At this point, I thought it was worth it.

First, learn fishing from any trainer, & put the fishing action button to a convenient keybind, you're gonna be pushing it a lot :)

Next, a trip to the garrison in Draenor. No issues if u don't have a garrison, just need to fish in the ocean behind where it's supposed to be (near the shipwreck). A couple of casts should get you Fishing guide to Draenor. This saves you multiple trips to the trainer & u can simply fish till u hit 700.

Then the gold sink... i bought 30 Appât arcanique and pretty much all the lures. Totally u need to catch 18 fish. Noting the special cases..

Requin en colère étourdi cannot be traded. You'll have to fish this out. Use the technique noted in the third point to follow.
Most of the lures are 300 - 700 gold each in the AH except for 2... Broche à talangs rouillée & Ancienne bague vrykule. These are much more expensive, and with good reason. While the other lures may get you 1-5 of the needed fish, these will give you almost 20! Considering each fish is worth 5 skill points (or 50 AP once you get the rod).. it is definitely worth paying more for these. If you get any of them for under 1.5k, buy out the AH! I have personally paid (and later earned) 3.5k for each of them.
If you don't get a particular lure (not available or too expensive), don't worry too much. You can only have one of each lure in your bag at a time so when you get to the zone, don't use the lures you have. Just use Appât arcanique & start fishing. The game will automatically give you the one you're missing first. Same technique for getting Requin en colère étourdi, & later if you decide to fish for gold, you can target the expensive lure by fishing in the zone with the rest in the bag.

DO NOT BOTHER SEARCHING FOR POOLS.. probably the most important time-saving tip i can give. I just found a convenient spot by the water and used the lures (unless of course there was a pool right where i was). NONE of my lures went to waste & not only did i catch at least one of all the required fish, I also caught a decent number of lures to put back on the AH. EXCEPTIONS: The ocean fish where you have to fish in the black barracuda pools. Also Broche à talangs rouillée & Ancienne bague vrykule where u have to fish in the pools that spawn. If you don't have water walking buy something like Draenic Water Walking Elixir for these two, since the pools spawn in the middle of the lake.

At this pace, I managed to get all 18 fishes with my fishing lvl 595. I just bought a couple of Ancienne bague vrykule to complete the deficit (100 fishing points each).

Don't forget to head to Dalaran to raise your skill cap to 800 at this point.

Once you have all 18 fishes and hit 800 in fishing... don't forget to /reload.. I spent 5 minutes wondering why the Perle lumineuse wasn't showing up. That's it. Done. I continued to burn gold on the two main lures to raise my fishing rod to 12. You can do so at your own pace as you please.

Commentaire de Zottyboomkin

Just two little notes from ol Zotty:
1: It helps a TON if you have Journal détrempé before you even start going for this achievement/artifact. It can be fished up in the Steam Pools of Zangarmarsh (Outland) from the floating broken crates Caisse étrange
This not only gives you the ability to track fish schools, but counts towards the achievement Chiffonnier which is part of the meta Pêcheur accompli for the "Salty" title. Killing birds with stones man....birds with stones.

2. A balance spec druid can buy the tome Tome de la nature : Battement d'ailes and learn Battement d’ailes which allows a crude glide ability that can be refreshed infinitely at no cost.
By itself, Flap is a bit underwhelming and a good spell to break fall damage. However, In balance form and mounted, you can get a running start and click flap and become a makeshift hang-glider. This will allow you easy access to Adjurateur Margoss to fish up the Mana englouti !

Commentaire de Astranea

So... who knows what happens to this artifact after Battle for Azeroth goes live? Or even, in patch 8.0?

Commentaire de GrumpyDad84

Is it possible to still get this in 8.0?

Commentaire de Doyeah

Since 8.0, you must have 100 skill point in Legion Fishing. The rare fishes don't actually give any point of skill when release (surely a bug).

Commentaire de WRXhokie

Are the baits dropping for anyone else post 8.0? I'm on an alt trying to get it and have been fishing for hours and no bait. Been using Arcane lures the entire time.

Commentaire de doubtisavirtue

FYI you don't need 800 fishing, you need the legion fishing achievement. This means you can get the pearl without leveling fishing in older zones.

Commentaire de 1875031

I can confirm that as of patch 8.0 you CAN still get this. It took me about two hours to fish up half of the lures and all of the rare fish. Then around half an hour to fish up the Pearl to start the quest.

Commentaire de kekru

Confirmed today, if u want to fish Perle lumineuse after 8.0 patch. You only need to have legion fishing 100/100.

Commentaire de Extreme123

I did it during 8.0.1 patch.

You just need 100/100 Legion fishing (I had 0/300 Vanilla Fishing).

You can also buy almost all lures at auction house they were around 500-2500g on my server it will incredibly speed up your progress of Passons aux gros poissons

Commentaire de 1696581

This guide is amazing! Thank you for instructing us!

Commentaire de Nesstii

anyone do it after bfa? i spend 2 days, and i was so confused with only legion fishing 100/100, and after 4 hours still dont get pearl ... so maybe archivment still needed so next day starst with doing it ... and in Azasuna cant fish two rares fish, dont get lures in open waters or pools ... also dont have them in bank or bag :/

Commentaire de 1706956

In Bfa, they changed the way fishing and professions work. So you have 800 broken up.

So if you are on a char that doesn't have fishing skill, the Legion fish will only put your LEGION skill to 100 and then stop working.

What this means is you have to go back and get all the other xpac skills to max level before the pearl will drop for you.

I tested it by just going for the pearl after 100 legion and it didn't drop. When I did it on other chars I got the pearl always within 5mins.

(Thanks for the guide btw, it is great. Maybe update with Bfa information for those who want to chase it in the new xpac)

Commentaire de CRYPTsakura

Confirming it's still working on 8.1. I just started from absolutely 0 to finish it and it took about 6-7 hours for me (bought about 6 baits on market). Tx for guide

p.s. nothing except legion have leveled and legion i was leveling during catching rares
p.p.s. Trait and bonuses should be still active what i read on internet

Commentaire de Nullpoint

Once you acquire The Underlight Angler, and you've thrown back a few fish and aquired enough artifact power to upgrade it for the first time, you must return to Dalaran and go to the fountain, NOT your class order hall. The forge for the fishing rod is floating above the fountain in Dalaran, it looks like a beach ball sized pearl, and when hovering your mouse over it, the mouse icon/hand turns into a book. You then right click on the pearl (when close enough) and it will open the user interface to begin choosing your artifact power choices.

Commentaire de AntPDC

A stupendously well put-together Guide Madseasonshow. Thank you very much for all that you do, both here and in your WoW Channel. Professional, scrupulous - a joy to learn from your knowledge and insights.

Commentaire de Mookosh

One important thing to note for those wanting the Pêcheur de Terradiance on multiple characters.

Do NOT be fooled by the achievement window showing Passons aux gros poissons as complete.
Once completed the first time, it will display as completed regardless of which character you are on.
However, for each character you want to get the artifact rod on, you must also have obtained all of the rare Legion fish on THAT specific character.

Basically, for every character you want the artifact rod on, you must re-do this entire achievement individually on THAT character.

Unfortunately, once completed the first time on the account, it can no longer be properly tracked in the Achievement/Quest Objectives frame by other characters who have not yet completed it.
Mousing over the Achievement points in the character's achievement window will show which character on the account earned it first, as well as whether the current character has completed it.

However, when viewing Passons aux gros poissons in the achievement window, if you mouse over the left side icon for the prerequisite achievement in the frame Prise surprise, it will show you which fish you have and have not caught on the current character. Exceedingly annoying, but at last there is some way to keep track of what you have and have not yet caught on alts you wish to also get the rod.

There was an add-on that made tracking achievement progress on alts easier, but recent patches have broken the add-on making it always display fully completed even on characters who have not actually completed it.

Edit: Up through 8.2.5 you could not properly track Passons aux gros poissons on other characters once it had been completed on one. Looks like this was corrected in 8.3 and can now be properly tracked on individual characters as it always should have been.

Commentaire de 256124

I've completed this for the second time today, I wasted a lot of time doing it the first time around in Legion. Both times I used arcane lure, I didn't even have a fishing rod equipped most of today.

The achievement tracking issue people have noted is fixed. It shows my other character's completetion date but does not interfere with tracking on either the quest tracker or when mousing over the achievement.

Pools definitely yield better results than regular water, once I focused them I caught all fish in a few hours. I wasn't sure the first time around, this caused the Terrorfin to take me literally two days to catch as I followed people saying to fish the red water. I caught it in about 3 casts in one of the pools under the Highmountain waterfalls today.

The best routes lead along a river to the sea when you still need ocean fish.

Make sure you have a stack of elixir of water walking as some pools cannot be reached from land. In every zone I just worked my way up or down one of the rivers. As most of the bait is unique I would keep it in your bag if you catch more once you have your fish because this should increase your chance of getting the bait you still need from a given zone. I would also cancel the bait buffs once you have your fish before casting another as it isn't worth risking it interfering with the drop.

Surumar has a really good loop just above the city, it has easily the highest concentration of pool spawns in the Broken Isles. I'm not 100% if fishing skill influences drop rate as I fished regular water in Azsuna from 0 to 100 fishing skill before I started focusing pools and immediately noticed a far better drop rate. I would use the Surumar pools to level fishing as you rarely travel more than 5 seconds before hitting the next pool. This way you will barely waste any time levelling fishing if low skill level does matter.

Be mindful of how catching the fish you are hunting works. It's easy to waste a lot of time assuming all bait is just bait. I checked this guide and then kept double checking any unusual fish in a given zone after making that mistake.

Commentaire de Mookosh

If you don't want to spend the gold on Broche à talangs rouillée or Ancienne bague vrykule, another fast, and in my experience more consistent way to power level the rod is to join fishing groups for Diablotus on the Broken Shore to just spam farm Requin en colère étourdi which drop a guaranteed 9 Calmar des fonds marins. Alternatively you can also join fishing groups for Sha'leth in Suramar, and spam farm Murloc endormi which drop 5-9 Poisson-globe sage-épine. Both require Friend level reputation to purchase for 25 of the appropriate special fish from the friend. With the Shadowlands buffs to BFA and Legion rep it takes very little time to get to this rep level.

The Sharks on Impus days are my preferred method, since with a group everyone who tags a shark can loot it, not just the person who bought/fished it. That said, I HIGHLY recommend if you have a persistent damage aoe like Death & Decay/Defile, Consecrate, Starfall, etc available to cast it BEFORE opening the shark to guarantee a tag as the sharks do have a faction tag lock on them and can be "stolen" (likely why they have a max guaranteed drop of the fish).

For the Sleeping Murlocs, just fly up and stand on one of the broken pillars above the lake to open it and it will drop all the fish in a single spot instead of you having to "chase it around" to collect them. With even a small group of 3 people, I usually can get to the 5500 AP minimum required to unlock Tension de surface, Bénédiction de Terradiance and Voie du flet in about an hour to an hour and a half from 0 Fisher Friend rep and 0 AP

Commentaire de Kerzox

A fishing level of 800.

With the changes to professions' levels, is the requirement now a fishing level of 100 for Legion Fishing?

Commentaire de ChasRC

Does anyone know if the level for this quest after the pre-patch for Shadowlands is 40 or 50?

Commentaire de Dragovich

Is the artifact usless at this point? After all, legion artifacs were deactivated

Commentaire de eternalwhitemoon

This is a wonderful guide! For those of us looking for this in Shadowlands, yes it 100% still works, and yes, it IS worth the grind I promise!

Some tips:

1) The rare lures are Unique. I don't mean Unique per item, I mean unique for them ALL. I wasted hours and hours, cursing my luck, the stars, and the family cow, because I had a deep sea lure in my bag and didn't realize it shared a Unique status with the lure I was trying to get. SO, that leads me into tip 2....

2) If you have some sort of ability to vendor in the field (think tundra mammoth, longboi, even the Argent Squire/Gruntling with pony bridle), if you get a lure you can't immediately use, you can vendor it to "hold" it. You'd do this in cases where you already have an active buff going so that you're not overlapping or wasting anything. Once the buff from your existing lure is gone, you can then buy-back one of the "spare" rare baits and carry on fishing. This will allow you to chain rare fishing much more efficiently.

3) I do not know if getting the lures from Margoss are really effective, but it doesn't hurt to get them. They're easy to get and if you get the coin you're supposed to toss back you can defeat the elemental for a drowned mana drop rate buff. I also don't know if having only Shadowlands fishing will allow you to get the quest (it will let you fish the rares though), so I went ahead and picked up Legion fishing from him while I was there to be extra sure.

4) Flying makes this much easier. And speaking of easier....

5) Until you have the rod, get yourself some water walking elixirs. There are absolutely (particularly in Stormheim) pools where there is zero way to fish there by land.

6) If you don't have a Legion Dalaran hearthstone, for whatever reason, make sure you get it. If you had it and just lost it (or destroyed it, like me), there's a lady in Legerdemain Lounge that can give it back.

7) Don't spend a bunch of gold on the lures. They will drop, I promise. Patience, grasshopper. I was able to get this done in 2 days even after I had wasted hours not understanding the Unique status.

8) For the particularly annoying ones, I picked a pool and then overfished it (fished it until it went away, then kept at it). Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn't. Such is life, eh? :)

Getting the rare fish achievement is 100% the hardest, most tedious, most annoying part of the entire thing. Stick with it though!

Leveling the Artifact

So once you actually have your shiny new rod it can't do anything. Bummer :( You have to go and catch more rare fish with the rod equipped. The existing rare fish hogging up space in your bags....well, they're soulbound and they can't be used for artifact power so you might as well vendor them. When you start catching them again, you will see the tooltip change to say they grant 50 Artifact Power. Keep fishing the rares until your bags are pretty much completely full. (Tip: make this much faster on yourself by going for the queenfish necklace or the vrykul ring, then camp 1 of the pools until they disappear, use the vendor trick if necessary, repeat.)

There appears to be a tooltip bug when you go to actually upgrade it. The pole says you need to go to your Class Hall to do your traits but that is A LIE. You throw all the rare fish you got into the Dalaran pool by your pearl to get the Artifact Power and then click on the pearl itself for your traits.

Using a multi-line Use macro will save you a bunch of clicks when you are spamming your Artifact Power at the fountain, like:

/use Ancient Black Barracuda
/use Ancient Mossgill
/use Coldriver Carp
/use Graybelly Lobster

etc etc for all the fish types.

AND FOR READING ALL OF THIS I say enjoy and good luck! :D

Commentaire de Fallenhunter

I loved this guide, I do have a request to make.

Your guide is geared toward doing this when Legion was active.

Under current live standards, I was hoping you could do an update (not edit the guide, but add a section about doing it during later expansions).

With all artifacts loosing power, (most are useful only for transmog these days). Is this still worth getting? Could you give the current state of the depowered artifact?

If this artifact just has no bonuses, its most likely not worth getting unless your just achievement hunting. However if it still has more than +10 to fishing (you can easily get a rod like that outside Shattra, or in the hinterlands.

I might get it anyway, just for laughs, have my DK tanking with a fishing pole, via transmog would be funny.

Thank you for the time, effort and hours you have put into this and the other guides you have written.

Fallenhunter@EarthenRing

Commentaire de PeckNeck

100% doable in Shadowlands 9.2.0

My experience:
- Bought 25-35 Arcane Lures
- Followed the guide with the Bigger Fish to Fry achievement, it is accurate
- Only had Legion fishing 100/100 never fished before on the character I did it with
- Luminous Pearl dropped after 10-15 mins after completing Bigger Fish to Fry achievement

Commentaire de Velor

anyone know if you can still get artifact power for this via the rare fish? or did it go away with the rest of the artifacts?

Commentaire de Salt519

As of 11/23/22 There is a bug with Evoker receiving the Underlight Angler. You are unable to display the artifact tree when you use the pearl at the fountain in Dalaran.

Commentaire de TummyRupples

If you are not seeing the traits show up when clicking on the pearl, make sure you have unlocked one of the legion artifact weapons on your character.

Commentaire de Ahnzoog

Drakthyr can get this

follow the instructions as normal, all the way until you have the Underlight Angler and have caught and used some rare fish to add artifact power.
Go to the pearl in the fountain and you'll see a blank screen with the artifact power at the top.
put this into chat /run for i,powerid in pairs(C_ArtifactUI.GetPowers()) do C_ArtifactUI.AddPower(powerid) end

I found this on Reddit and it said
Fix: all credit goes to this genious i found on Icy-Veins Username: Stoppableforce

Commentaire de perpetual

For Envokers you wont be able to use the fishing artifact power till you run this command
/run C_ArtifactUI.AddPower(1021)

Copied from blizzards support site https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/en/wow/t/evoker-underlight-angler/1412757/7

I hope everyone affected by this problem is following closely, because I came up with a fix you can do all by yourself!

First, acquire enough AP (100) for the first power on the pole. Approach the pearl, then open the Artifact UI for the pole, as one normally would. Open your chat box, paste and send this command:

/run C_ArtifactUI.AddPower(1021)

This should purchase the first power on the artifact, causing the UI to update and make visible the rest of the tree. Happy fishing!

Commentaire de Glunk

Just to let all of you know. I did the quests and the fishing and received the fishing pole on my Dracthyr character and you are unable to upgrade the rod. you do not get the quest to put the 100 artifact power into it and therefore can not update the rod.

Commentaire de Schmierlapp

I've often had rare lures drop from fishing world quests, anyone else think this might be a thing?

Commentaire de bkconn

How to POWERLEVEL Legion Fishing:
As of The War Within expansion, Legion Fishing skill goes up to 100. At 100, I started seeing much better RNG. So if you don't have 100 Legion Fishing, these Rare fish each give you PERMANENT +5 to Legion Fishing Skill. Since the GHOSTLY QUEEN FISH is a 100% catch rate (as long as you have the lure and fish from the proper school) you can catch several of these fish and level your fishing up instantly. I leveled my fishing up the slow/natural way, and so by the time I started catching Rare Fish for the +5 skill, I was already 92/100 Legion Fishing.

So I would suggest you buy the Rusty Queenfish Brooch off the AH if it's available. Fly to Azsuna and use the Brooch in the water right where the map says NARTHALAS ACADEMY. You will see Ghostly Queenfish Schools appear, and you can fish them for 100% catch rate.

Commentaire de Mookosh

The character must be level 45 (Max level for Legion content) or higher to be able to fish up the Perle lumineuse in addition to having 100 Legion fishing and completing Passons aux gros poissons on THAT character.

Commentaire de Soldiersbane

First time fisher, long time wow player so I'm doing this with little done in 2025.

First to get the meta achievement done. I did it in about 10 lures doing the following.

Fish in pools
Keep Arcane Lure Up
Fish with whatever bait you have, even if you have the fish. The Queenfish Brooch and the Vykrul ring made those zones go by fast.

After you get the artifact, farm AP and do the following.

In 2025 underlight is broken and if you are just now getting it you're going to struggle putting artifact points in. Here's some commands you can run to put points in. Get to 2725 AP before doing this

/run C_ArtifactUI.AddPower(1021) Undercurrent
/run C_ArtifactUI.AddPower(1030) Bloodfishing
/run C_ArtifactUI.AddPower(1023) Mossgill. Max out by putting in 3 times.
/run C_ArtifactUI.AddPower(1029) Water Tension (water walking)
/run C_ArtifactUI.AddPower(1032) Underlight Blessing (Fishform)

https://www.wowhead.com/artifact-calc/EogWNJAGP9AT_gE_8DQFAUBg*!@B

And if you want to go to the "stealth" node. Get to 6500 total AP

/run C_ArtifactUI.AddPower(1024) Salmon, do it 3 times
/run C_ArtifactUI.AddPower(1028) Better Luck Next Time
/run C_ArtifactUI.AddPower(1033) Way of the Flounder

https://www.wowhead.com/artifact-calc/Gu2RNJAJP9AT_gE_8DQAA0BAFAUBQGAUCAFAkBA

And to fill out the Artifact

/run C_ArtifactUI.AddPower(1025) Stormray x3
/run C_ArtifactUI.AddPower(1026) Runescale koi x3
/run C_ArtifactUI.AddPower(1027) Barracuda x3

https://www.wowhead.com/artifact-calc/IVEZNJAMP9AT_gE_8DQAA0AQNAIDQDA0BAFAUBQGAUCAFAkB

Sources
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/underlight-angler-completly-nerfed/2002506/17
https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/underlight-angler-artifact-tree/525603/5

Commentaire de NatsurIGH

Can confirm as of today, Patch 11.2. - TWW, this is still obtainable. Just got my Underlight Angler!

The Underlight Angler - A Step by Step Guide to Obtaining Legion's Fishing Artifact

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