Darkmoon Faire Fishing Changes, 10% Experience Buff Stacks with Anniversary Buff

Live Posted 2021/12/05 at 6:32 PM by RenataKane

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The bad news: you no longer earn Fishing skill from fishing off Darkmoon Island, even if your Fishing skill is only 1.

The good news: you don't need more than Fishing skill 1, since you no longer catch junk and can catch Darkmoon Daggermaw frequently. You also have a chance to catch the less common items, such as the Sealed Darkmoon Crate, wearable fish heads such as the Severed Crimsonscale Head, or the Sea Pony pet. This also makes farming Darkmoon Daggermaw for mounts, pets, and recipes even easier!

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Comment by sarahlogicFishing has been working like this since at least July. Is it a coincidence that I just posted this as a tip on a bug report on the forums 8 hours ago? lol

Edit: you also always have been able to catch crates from the pools with fishing skill 1.Comment by c11tWhen Pilgrim's Bounty came around this year, I think there was a similar article posted saying that the buff from Pilgrim's Bounty gave XP and stacked with the anniversary buff. This wasn't true, as Pilgrim's Bounty (was nerfed to?) only give rep.

The Darkmoon Faire does still seem to give XP though!Comment by EighjanThis puts the Fishing quest in a "must do" categoryComment by deathlavitzThis fishing change has been live for a while, at least since 9.1 I think. I was like "odd my alt with 80 classic fishing is getting this done in 5 casts instead of 25".Comment by ChaxtonSeconding deathlavitz; my current main was done with the quest in five casts back in Legion. No way did I get good RNG at level 1 fishing either. Still, it's a good reminder that it's a very low-maintenance quest that just takes a little over two or so minutes to do, with absolutely ZERO effort. Well, some effort if you're lazy and think lifting a finger is hard work, but still!

Also, this article should've been live earlier, don't you think? Kinda silly to tell us late into a day, or a day late in the early hours for players on the other side of the world.Comment by UnciaAmethiceFishing has worked like that since 9.1 as others have mentioned.

However, this article needs a correction: Fishing on Darkmoon Island DOES give you Shadowlands skill points if you have SL Fishing learned. If you don't have SL fishing learned yet, you will get no skill points for any other expansion. This was true since the 9.1 change, and I have just verified that it's still the case.Comment by UnciaAmethiceSeconding deathlavitz; my current main was done with the quest in five casts back in Legion. No way did I get good RNG at level 1 fishing either. Still, it's a good reminder that it's a very low-maintenance quest that just takes a little over two or so minutes to do, with absolutely ZERO effort. Well, some effort if you're lazy and think lifting a finger is hard work, but still!

Also, this article should've been live earlier, don't you think? Kinda silly to tell us late into a day, or a day late in the early hours for players on the other side of the world.Comment by lovs2build10% Experience Buff Stacks with Anniversary Buff
For 1 whole day, Anniversary Buff ends 12/6/ at 10am.Comment by deathlavitzActually, you get shadowlands fishing skill ups if you have shadowlands fishing unlocked. Not sure until what level, my shadowlands fishing is low but fishing up the fish gets me a level here and there. Maybe it ends at 150, 100, dunno.Comment by brionlFishing has worked like that since 9.1 as others have mentioned.

However, this article needs a correction: Fishing on Darkmoon Island DOES give you Shadowlands skill points if you have SL Fishing learned. If you don't have SL fishing learned yet, you will get no skill points for any other expansion. This was true since the 9.1 change, and I have just verified that it's still the case.Comment by HiImNeXiZThat explains the massive price drop on those Darkmoon Fishes. Sadge.Comment by Argus00Fun for the Little Ones also requires Archaeology skill 1 now, instead of 75.Comment by UnciaAmethiceFishing has worked like that since 9.1 as others have mentioned.

However, this article needs a correction: Fishing on Darkmoon Island DOES give you Shadowlands skill points if you have SL Fishing learned. If you don't have SL fishing learned yet, you will get no skill points for any other expansion. This was true since the 9.1 change, and I have just verified that it's still the case.Comment by SFFCorgiThe problem is a lot of vanilla fishing hasn't been working - I was hoping DMF would be a way to get that unstuck.Comment by barbasolFun for the Little Ones also requires Archaeology skill 1 now, instead of 75.Comment by TyrsenusUh, the Anniversary event doesn't last the whole week. It ends today at 10AM realm time, and it's already over for ET and CT realms. There was only a 34 hour window when the Anniversary and DMF overlapped.Comment by 36238810% Experience Buff Stacks with Anniversary Buff
For 1 whole day, Anniversary Buff ends 12/6/ at 10am.Comment by AphelyiteSuper sad I didn't realize this before now. Oh well. Got one dungeon done on my baby alt before the buff went away.Comment by TailleventThe problem is a lot of vanilla fishing hasn't been working - I was hoping DMF would be a way to get that unstuck.Comment by NakyangCool change for the fishing. Darkmoon Faire was good now it's better. Thanks.