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Comment by 179637

Its a pretty nice concept they put in here! You can sacrifice one of your rarer coins in order to recieve a 2 minute buff that increases your chance to fish more coins. I wonder how much the increase will be, or if it will be worth wasting a coin for.

Probably be useful when you get doubles of a certain coin.

Comment by omniami

You can without worries throw the gold coins in the fountain. You will keep the achievment for fishing them up.

Keep throwing them in there, and get your other coins faster.

Comment by Howell

I feel like this buff is simply a placebo, because I have definitely caught legions of goldfish in those fleeting two minutes.

Comment by 174527

From what I've seen it does not increases your chance to fish up coins. But the coins you fish up during the lucky buff do have a higher chance to be one you need for the achievement.

From the last 9 coins I needed 7 of them were fished up during the buff.

Edit: Too bad the best educated guess so far gets modded down...

Comment by Moleculor

This effect does not stack, as far as I can tell. I threw two gold coins in the fountain in a row, still only had two minutes on the buff timer, same as with only one coin.

Comment by 226165

Chance doesn't seem to be increased much.

Sometimes I got only fish during 2 minutes buff, no coin at all.
And there's once that I got only 1 fish in 4 minutes from 2 coin buff.

And there was once that coin buff timeout when my coin loot window still open, and I can't get the coin because it keeps saying "You can't loot that item now" or something like that.

edit :: confirmed

If the buff is still on while you open the loot window but ran off before you got your loot, you won't be able to get the item. It will keeps saying "You can't loot that item now"

Comment by 89799

I'd have to question how "lucky" this makes you as well, I had three golden coins and everytime I tossed one, the next two catches were Sewer Carp, every other time I fished the fountain w/o coins, I pulled in at least 6 coins in a ten minute span (length of the Aquadynamic Fish Attractor buff) and tossing in the three golden coins I had caught in my previous session, I caught a total of two coins, one gold one silver!

Comment by Priderage

It says "Increased chance", gentlemen. It helps, but doesn't ensure.

Comment by 186768

The lucky buff only works with the gold coins, do not ask me how I know it, I just know :p

Comment by Luoma

I think the buff just helps your motivation to fish for the coins, don't think the chance is increased by much. ;)

Comment by 107930

In then end it doesn't hurt to throw it in. They don't vendor much.

I leveled my Fishing in Dalaran from about 40ish to 389 at that point I collected all the coins. It appears that higher level fishing increases your chances to get coins, and I'm not just talking about the fact that your not collecting grays. from levels 40 to 300 I had collected all my silver coins all but 5 of my copper coins and only got like 4 gold coins. from 300-380 I was collecting gold coins faster than I could use them. in the end when I got my achivement I tost like 6 gold coins in becase I didn't need them anymore.

any way point is having a higher level fishing is more effective than the lucky buff. (as far as I can see, I don't plan on fishing that much again any time soon.)

Comment by waterboii

I made a little test, no biggie, so don't think of it as perfect data, but in 111 throws while i was under the effect of lucky, and at 580 fishing lvl i got the following...

Fountain Goldfish: 28
Copper: 42
Silver: 25
Gold: 8
Bend Fishing Hook: 6
In addition, I also received 1 Sewer Carp and 1 Drowned Rat

So I guess it improves your chances to get coins, however, in all these throw, I only got 1 of the last 2 gold coins i needed :(

Comment by 121958

Effect #1 - Dummy

Does absolutely nothing drop-rate wise.

Comment by grassynole

The 2 minute buff the gold coins provide gives the fisherman, on average 9-10 "Lucky" casts within the fountain.

Comment by Anuv

I can confirm that this does have some effect on coin rates. I'm not sure how much of a change it is, but whenever my "Lucky" buff falls off when I click my bobber, it sometimes won't let me take a coin (if a coin is there). It says I cannot take that item. So I'm thinking that it helps the RNG allow more coin drops to appear.

Comment by badassnewbie

I don't know about you guys but I caught nothing but coins after I got the buff.

Comment by Aerospace

While handy for boosting the catch rate of coins, it is unfortunate that for a buff of such short duration, it doesn't help with the fact that all of my casts seem doomed to bob at the very end of the casting time!

Oh if it would only bob a little bit sooner after I make a cast! I could have squeezed another whole cast in during the buff...

Comment by 310338

It does help to throw the gold coin. Here are the data:

Character level 80, fishing skill 450+25

Normal effect, 127 throws, roughly 26% chance to get a coin (15% copper, 7% silver, 4% gold)

Copper coin: 19
Silver coin: 9
Gold coin: 5
White item: 61
Grey item: 33

"Lucky" effect, 126 throws, roughly 51% chance to get a coin (23% copper, 16% silver, 12% gold)

Copper coin: 29
Silver coin: 20
Gold coin: 15
White item: 34
Grey item: 28

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2 minutes

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Cost

None

Range

30 yards (Medium)

Cast time

Instant

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n/a

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0 seconds

Effect #1

Dummy
Value: 1
PVP Multiplier: 1
Server-side script

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Mod Rating
PVP Multiplier: 1

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