For saltwater fishing, you can use cooking to craft Roosterfish, Sardines, Pike, and Mackerel into buckets of chopped fish from each of their respective varieties each of these buckets can be used to lure a different type of saltwater sport fish. Once you’ve found a school of fish, you’re going to need to induce a frenzy by chumming the waters this is where the fish you caught earlier come in. The radar is extremely helpful, but with the fishing ship’s costly construction materials, most will be doing it by sight for a long while.

On the sea, where sport fishing is most profitable, these locations are marked by flocks of seagulls circling above the area, which can either be seen from a distance, or tracked using the fishing ship’s radar. Unlike AFK-fishing, sport fishing can only be done by tracking down a school in the wild. Once captured, these fish can be turned in at a fish stand similarly to a trade-pack for gold. The higher proficiencies and the better quality rods that come with them will make it both possible and quicker to catch the much more lucrative medium and large fish. Though it can be attempted earlier, I would personally recommend attaining at least 10,000 proficiency before attempting sport fishing, and grinding to 30,000 before getting too serious about it. This quest chain will send you AFK-fishing through several zones and climates, rewarding you with a pair of Treaded Wellingtons, which increase your fishing proficiency by 500 while equipped, and the title Discriminating Tastes, which provides you with another 100 proficiency while active.ěig Game FishingĪfter a long and arduous grind, you’ll eventually be able to sail out in the ocean and begin sport fishing this is where the money is made. During your early grind, you should pick up the fishing quest found in Ezna Harbor for Western players, or Lute Song Harbor for those on the Eastern faction. These boxes are rare enough that while their contents provide a nice bonus, over a long enough time-line they are not sufficient to make AFK-fishing profitable. In addition to fish, lock boxes can also be acquired and usually contain Gilda Stars and Nui’s Tears (said to be removed when 1.0 hits), rare crafting reagents, or some pieces of gear. Some species of fish are used to create chum buckets by the cooking profession these are used when sport fishing to prep the waters. However, the market value of Dawn Lake Light Essence is not materially greater than the vendor price of the fish, so, given the tremendous burden hoarding fish puts on inventory space, most choose to simply vendor them for gold. Multiple fish of the same species can be combined to create Dawn Lake Light Essence, a reagent used in alchemy, with the quantity required to do so lessening as the quality of the fish rises. While disheartening given the thousands of worms you’re going to need simply to begin sport fishing effectively, it makes sense if it were profitable, gold farmers and botters would have a field day.Ī beautiful shot of me throwing my money into the sea.ĪFK-fishing rewards players with basic fish of white, green, or blue quality, as determined by the fish’s species.

Worms, which are acquired by farming seed bundles or buying them from other players, are quite pricey AFK-fishing will always result in a net financial loss. This initiates auto-cast mode, in which, external interference aside, your character will continually fish until your labor or worms are consumed. Fishing begins with what is colloquially (and accurately) known as “AFK-fishing”, a simple activity initiated by right clicking on the fishing ability and left clicking in water while having worms in your inventory. If you’re shy of grinding or light of pocket book turn back now, because there’s a long and pricey road between you and any semblance of profit. While the end goal is exciting, fishers in ArcheAge must start from humble, simpler beginnings. No, in ArcheAge, fishing is a fully fledged profession where you brave the dangerous oceans, seeking out bigger and bigger fish to turn in for cold, hard cash – that’s a fishing profession even I can get behind. I’m not a big fan of mini-games, and I’m not particularly fond of cooking professions, but as it turns out, that’s not what fishing in ArcheAge is about at all. My hobby within my hobby, fishing in ArcheAge breaks new ground in my MMO playing history for the first time in forever, I’m enjoying this fishing stuff.

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