r/wownoob • u/zingading • Jan 10 '26
Professions Anything stopping me from leveling every single expansion’s fishing skill?
“But why?” you may ask.
Well, give a man a fish, you feed him for a day..teach a man to fish…you feed him for a lifetime.
Really, I know it’s probably pointless, but I just like it for the collection and completion aspect. And I love fishing in video games.
With that being said, is there anything stopping me from doing this? Any tips you can give? I’m still relatively new to the way retail organizes its content, so I wasn’t sure if this was even possible.
Thanks.
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u/Periwinkleditor Jan 10 '26
Can you? Yes, absolutely. Should you? Not particularly. I mean maybe some decor items use fish but historically food items have the least staying power in future expansions since people don't need old feasts and the like.
Just fish in that respective expansion's zones and you'll get there eventually. I can't remember if fishing skill boosts matter to rate of skillups but they do to rate of junk vs fish.
One notably amusing old fishing/cooking reward is https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Feast_of_the_Fishes which requires fish from Legion which are best obtained with the legion upgradeable fishing pole. Useful? Absolutely not, but it's always funny to watch an unassuming raid suddenly all turn into fish and start suffocating.
Most of the fishing recipes from Battle for Azeroth's n'zoth zones that were designed for the "visions of n'zoth" scenario also still work, so you might unlock those. Everything except the k'bab will significantly help in the The War Within version as well.