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1.	I'll Try Anything!
2.	The One That Got Away

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Commento di NobodyYouKnow

Just in case you didn't *quite* get the quest, try jumping into the lake he is fishing in. You should see some "water plants". They will sparkle the same way a chest or other quest objective does.

Interacting with the water plants will cause a Forsaken Spy, a Caldemere Snapper, or a Northern Barbfish to spawn. What you want to spawn is the northern barbfish. It seems there is a 33.33~% chance for either of the three to spawn. Luckily there is a 100% drop rate - if a northern barbfish spawns, after you kill it and loot it it you have 100% chance at getting a northern barbfish in your bag.

Commento di thelaks

Wasn't 33% for me....about 70% snapper, 20% spy, 10% fish. Won't be doing that one again.

Commento di 21836

don't do this quest

Commento di 15528

By my estimations, there was 1 Barbfish for every 3-5 plants, so it's right along the 33% chance here.

However, factor in the swim time and need for breathing and you have yourself a pretty long quest. If you're trying to speed-quest, this is one to skip.

Commento di 88783

I must have just killed about 30 crabs and Forsaken spies put together until the first fish spawned from the water plant. Enjoy your grind.

Commento di 184526

Completed in about 10min, without using any kind of pots or buffs. Being melee, you can just swim backwards toward the next plant while killing whichever mob spawned. Longest I went without a fish spawning was 4 plants (2 crabs, 1 forsaken, then the fish).

Commento di Chanticrow

After the third barbfish I noticed that they were appearing from plants right next to rocks. I started only beating plants next to rocks, and had only two additional spawns other than barbfish. These were times that there were two plants next to the rocks, and it was always on the second plant that I got a non-barbfish.

This seems kind of crazy though. Maybe I just got lucky on the rolls.

Someone want to give this a try and confirm or refute this?

Commento di Spasticon

The drop rate on this quest is really irritating, mostly because it has to be done entirely underwater where movement is very slow.

By the time I finished I had killed:

7 Northern Barbfish
5 Forsaken Spy
20 Caldemerre Snapper

Commento di 246475

Now that was a aweful quest, too low droprate, and if it's crowded, don't even considering doing it ! If empty lake, then maybe, if you have the stamina for it

Commento di 64829

took 8 minutes no one around though...

Commento di shockwaver

Simple way of doing it as a mage. Blink out at the moment you finish attacking the plant. If there is crab or spy, ignore it. If there is a fish you are at the right spot to attack it. Didn't take more than 5 minutes this way.

Commento di 90582

Very frustrating quest, not worth the time or effort imo.

Commento di 200529

Wow they really need to check their lake if there is spies lol.

Commento di 281261

As a hunter I dismissed my pet and dropped a freezing trap. If the plant didn't drop a fish I moved off to another plant and feigned. Rinse and repeat to get the fish within a reasonable time.

It took me only 10-15 min to finish with no unnecessary fights. I can't confirm any different drop rate based on locations of the plants. It was about 50% crabs 25% fish and 25% forsaken.

Commento di 285424

I am currently doing this quest and I have to say that my rate of getting a fish to appear is absolutely terrible. I have gotten one fish per 10-12 plants. That means that I'll have to search between 70-84 plants to find 7 darn fish. I don't think this quest is worth doing at all.

Commento di bbeckley

Poor drop rates, i would suggest skipping the quest if your trying to level fast, and come back later when you have time, or want to work on the acomplishment for the fjord

Commento di 133340

As pretty much has pointed out, the spawn rate of fish is absolutely horrible. After like 20 minutes, I had pretty much ready to drop the quest. If you're going to do this quest, my only recommendation is to stick with the plants near the quest giver as much as possible. If you don't get a fish, run ashore and let the guards kill the mob, loop right back around and start hitting another plant, while the guards take care of the trash.

Commento di mrdummy

Here it goes well, enough fish spawned. Low chance of spy (funny to find a spy in plants) or crab.

Commento di Farrar

Great quest thanks to tip from Chanticrow, this and the next quest took less than 10 mins all in (second nagrand cherry hadn't run out), great XP nice and fast, just pick off the plants by the rocks.

Commento di Xarlequin

The fish are random, it dosn't matter if the plants are close to the rocks or not. I had luck while I did this quest and finnished pretty quickly.
Sure, it can be a really mean quest, but you get exp from killing the mobs if your unlucky - and exp is what matters so dont go feeling sad if your not getting luck with the fish.

Commento di MackStaples

There is an interesting issue with the NPCs spawned in this quest: they can all drown. Yes, drown.

This applies to all three of the possible spawns, the Forsaken Spy, the Caldemere Snapper, and the Northern Barbfish. Just root them (trap and fear probably work, too), and leave them alone. Takes about a minute.

This may not be the most useful information, but it's funny to just root the spawns, move on to more plants, and go back in a minute once the NPC has drowned. The corpses are lootable if they die in this manner.

Commento di Staticforce

This quest seems to be part of the prerequisites for March of the Giants and The Book of Runes.

I skipped it initially because the spawn rate was frustrating, and neither of the questgivers had those quests. I completed this quest, lo and behold, I could get both the quests.

Commento di 302653

need to take 50 Water Plants to get all 7!

Commento di 129453

I got fourteen Forsaken Spies, eleven Caldemere Snappers and (of course) seven Nothern Barbfish. The drop rate sucks (especially seeing as eight of those spies and five snappers showed up before I got my hands on even ONE barbfish), but it's a pretty easy quest. There doesn't seem to be anything freely lurking in the water, other then what you summon from the water plants, so it's a pretty safe quest.

Also, quick note-- If you're doing the Down to the Wire quest, I found that the best place to find these feathers is just north of the lake, along the shore line. I finished this quest as I finished the barbed fish one.

Commento di 156308

I had done this quest as pretty much everyone else had, getting terrible drop rates. I went to do it on my second character and read through the posts here first. The one from Chanticrow about getting better drop rates from plants right by rocks seems to be dead on. I went from 15% drop rate last time to 7 of 9 plants being Northern Barbfish. And those 2 were Spys and from second plants by a rock. It may have just been luck with the RNG, but it seems a few people have had similar results. If more people could try this and post it would help clarify the theory.

Commento di ysalimiri

2 hours after staring this quest and several full circuits of the lake killing ridiculous amouts of mobs, i still have not got 1 barbfish to drop, the quest has been abandoned and accepted 3 times, its either bugged or i'm the unluckiest person playing this game

Commento di 206346

I noticed alot of comments say percents, that they spawn better here than, and lastly skip the quest. I have now done this quest on 7 chars. The first 2 times I got them 9 plants and 11. Every time since then it has take at least 40 and I have gone 100+ once also. I have taken notes on each plant I did and have not seen any difference in percentage by where the plants were located. I'd say the drop rates are : Caldemere Snapper 60%, Forsaken Spy 25%, and Northern Barbfish 15%. All in all, this quest sucks, but I disagree with skipping it. If you do not complete this quest you fail to get its follow up, The One That Got Away. This will cost you the xp of two quest which you'll have to make up later.

Good Luck ;)
May the Northern Barbfish fall for you everytime!

Commento di 82529

Cristopher Sloan... The book Eragon was written buy a dude named Cristopher and in the book there is a charcter named Sloan...

Commento di MarsJenkar

From what I'm reading here, the chance of a Forsaken Spy is either higher than or equal to the chance of getting a Northern Barbfish. If you ask me, that ain't right. Forsaken Spy should be an occasional surprise, because after the second one it's lost any novelty it had, and stretches my suspension of disbelief to the limit. Alliance counterintelligence can't be *that* bad.

Commento di Carnagefiend

If you do not complete this quest; 3 questlines, starting with March of the Giants, The Book of Runes, and The Enigmatic Frost Nymphs, will not become available.

This is absolutely incorrect. Down to the Wire activates these quests, not this fishing one.

Skip it.

EDIT: Why is this voted down? Because I suggested you skip it and save yourself the trouble of this quest and its follow-up? This quest does not activate the series of quests lottimer claims it does, yet I get voted down?

Commento di Obolon

The spawn rate for fish was great for me. 7 fish, 2 crabs, 2 divers.

Commento di 47217

i believe they changed this quest in the last patch, upping the drop rate, and lowering the number required (from 8 i think, down to 5), very nice!

Commento di Hwang

Looks like they probably did up the drop rate, previous two toons took forever to do this quest. I just did it and got all 5 fish in 5 picks, which is probably lucky, but indicative of an increased drop rate. In fact, it almost took me longer to type this than the quest itself took.

Commento di 89636

Took me 8 plants to finish the quest. No question about it: upped the drop rate.

Worth doing? Absolutely. This chain was completed in less than 10 minutes and it gave over 30k exp.

Commento di rogueyay

just keep swimming, just keep swimming.

Commento di Dragoonman

Yeah, for me it went like this...

Forsaken Spy
Forsaken Spy
Crab (Caldemere Snapper)
Crab
Crab
Crab
Northeren Barbfish
Forsaken Spy
Northeren Barbfish
Crab
Crab
Crab
Crab
Northeren Barbfish
Northeren Barbfish
Crab
Forsaken Spy
Crab
Crab
Crab
Northeren Barbfish.

Needless to say, it took a while.

Commento di Allakhazam

All you do is jump off the dock swim around for Water Plants, and you have to get alot every 4th or so one had the fish. you will kill crabs and spy's and get the fish you need

Commento di tebtengri

I'd much rather quests double or triple the amount of needed items and make the drop rate 50%. It'd at least feel like you're doing something other than beating your head against underwater rocks.

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I'll Try Anything!

Christopher Sloan at Fort Wildervar wants you to bring him 5 Northern Barbfish.

	Northern Barbfish (5)

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I never want to see another barrel of salted fish as long as I live! Filling barrels day in and day out, and there are still more to be filled!

I wish I hadn't used up all that bait I bought from Nat Pagle. Worked like magic, it did. Now I'm lucky if I can catch a fish an hour!

I hear the northern barbfish make pretty good bait, but who's crazy enough to dive into a freezing cold lake and hack up the water plants in search of them? Not me... but maybe, just maybe, I can persuade you to...

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