Endlessly Mining for Fish
This morning Chesapeake got its first real frost of the season. Combine that with a very light fog, and the drive to work was just generally washed out a bit. Just a little bit dim and faint, as though the world was fading in around me and had gotten stuck at 98% complete.
On the other hand, at least I got to make the entire drive with the sun up. This has nothing to do yet with the longer days, but with the fact that the new kitten fall asleep on my chest this morning as I read the night’s email. I can’t blame it on the kitten – she weighs substantially less than a pound – but she was certainly a contributing factor.
Did you know you can program your computer to play World of Warcraft for you while you’re not there? Pretty pointless of course, and Blizzard and the rest of we players would like it to stop because it messes up questing and the economy, but it can be done. I decry the practice – decry, decry – but the one place I’d consider it is the Fishing hobby.
You can level up your character’s Cooking skill by standing in front of a stove for a few minutes with all those critter parts you’ve been collecting while you killed everything. You can do the same for your First Aid skill by spending five minutes making bandages from all the cloth the bad guys dropped. But leveling up Fishing takes hours and hours and hours and hours of staring at the little float on your fishing line. The higher Fishing level you reach, the larger number of hours you’ll be spending for the next 25-point gain.
WoW fishing is fairly useful in the game, and I wish I had a higher level in it, but this is just too much realism for me.
EDIT: Just to be clear, I will repeat that using the autoplay programs will get a player banned from the game, and myself I agree with Blizzard’s reasoning on the matter. On top of all that, it’s also lame. You don’t want to be lame, do you?
Tags: cat, mistymina, weather, world of warcraft
Programming your computer to play WoW for you and getting caught at it is a perma-ban, though, so if you actually care about the character you’re doing it at risk.
Some people say fishing is good and Zen, or that it’s the thing to do if you log on and just want to chat. I don’t get it myself, but there are enough people who do that I suppose… The main reason I want to do it now is for the achievements. One of the guys in our guild got the title Salty for getting all the Fishing achievements done. That’s just insane.
Yeah, I meant to mention the perma-ban, but my mind skipped ahead in writing the entry. Not only is it antisocial, but it is a violation of the WoW account agreement – Don’t Do It!
Starr really enjoys fishing, in fact, but it’s the same reason we never do instances or raids – not enough time in the week for as much WoW as we’d like. I’m like you, I want the achievements – and the ability to fish a pool or two in Northrend if I feel the urge. Unfortunately, neither my main or my primary alt can even fish Outland yet 🙁
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Fishing.
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(admittedly, I have not gotten hooked on World of Warcrack.) 🙂
There are a lot of really good reasons to play WoW – I was pretty dubious about the game when I started myself. but I became a casual fan after just a couple of sessions.
The Fishing mini-game is not one of those reasons. (On the other hand, Starr loves it, and will happily while away the hours. So, everyone likes different stuff, I guess!)
My solution to fishing:
Step 1. Only fish where there is nobody else fishing.
Step 2. Turn up your sound and turn off the music.
Step 3. Get a good book and cast your line. After you cast, go ahead and put your mouse directly over your bobber.
Step 4. Read your book.
Step 5. When you hear the splash sound, click without looking up from your book.
Step 6. Repeat steps 3-6.
Step 7. Sell to vendor, PROFIT.