Start with yellow lures and grab one of each chum type while you're at it (chopped squid, sardines, mackerel, roosterfish, pike, and regular old chum). The badges are currency that you'll spend on lures and chum at a Blue Salt Brotherhood NPC. Once you've hit 10,000 proficiency, the sport fishing fun begins! At this point you'll have built up quite a stack of vocation badges (you'll earn three for each bait fish you catch, and you'll be catching a couple thousand of them before you hit 10K). Kick back and enjoy the XP, the view, and the virtual salt air. You can left-click it and then pick your casting spot manually each time if you really want to, but it isn't terribly efficient.Īnd that's it for ArcheAge's basic fishing tier. Be sure you have a dozen or more inventory spaces for the stacks of fish you're about to catch, and don't forget to right-click the fishing icon in the hotbar that pops up when you equip your rod. saltwater doesn't matter right now, as all you're going to do is auto-cast your way to 10,000 proficiency. Once you've got your rod and your worms, find yourself a fishing spot. On Tahyang, the price fluctuates, but I can usually find stacks of 100 worms for anywhere from three to five gold. Normally I find it quicker to buy bait from other players. You can buy seed bundles from the AH, or you can make your own bundles if you have access to a farmer's workstation on player-owned property. You can craft these as well, but you'll need to plant and harvest seed bundles to do so. Once you've got your rod, you'll need some worm bait. If you don't have the base materials, you can either buy them off the auction house or grow/mine them yourself. Once you've made these sub-components, make the final rod at the handicraft kiln. You'll need to make a sharp fishing hook at the kiln (base material iron ingot refined from iron ore), a bamboo fishing pole frame at the carpenter's bench (base materials bamboo stalks and wool or cotton fabric), a wooden reel at the carpenter's bench (base material lumber refined from logs), and basic fishing line at the loom (base materials cotton and wool). You may also save some time if there's an auctioneer NPC and a mailbox nearby. You won't get very far without a fishing rod, and why not use this opportunity to acquaint yourself with ArcheAge's crafting mechanics if you haven't already? Sure, you could buy a bamboo pole via the auction house, but then you'd be giving your hard-earned gold to another player when you could spend 10 minutes equipping yourself and scarfing up XP and crafting proficiency in the process.įind the nearest crafting area on your map and make sure it has a tailoring loom, a handicraft kiln, and a carpentry workbench. If you're not in it for the long-haul, you can opt for the usual/casual MMO fishing experience that in this case amounts to auto-casting for both fishing proficiency and leveling XP. If you're so inclined, you can make a virtual career of it as well as quite a pile of gold via high-level sport fishing. Getting started takes some doing, though, as ArcheAge's fishing mechanics are undoubtedly the most robust I've seen in an MMORPG. meatspace thing, is that this time I very much look forward to a couple of hours of angling and the lazy in-game lifestyle that fits it like a glove. One of the key differences, apart from the obvious digital vs.

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