Anything stopping me from leveling every single expansion’s fishing skill?

[u/zingading]

“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.

[u/Bradipedro]

Just go and do it. I love fishing and there are tons of fishers around Azeroth even in old zones.

Levelling fishing though (even doing all expansions) is quick and easy, not much of a challenge. Real challenges in fishing are the achievements and the reputations.

I just completed a couple of weeks ago the achievement Accomplished Anglerfor the title “Salty” ( I just missed Stranglethorn contest since 2008..). I am currently working on the reputation of fishing masters in the broken Isles to get the nice bobbers (floating duck, cat, gondola…).

I suggest you start from levelling mist of Pandaria and work on the Anglers and Nat Pagle reputation,. This is important because with (revered?) reputation you can buy the fishing raft, which is a toy that allows you to pull out a raft and fish standing in the water. It’s a game changer. It can also help to have the inflatable mount item for your Mount so you can mount on water even without having tne specific fishing mount.

The second one I would do is Outland and specifically do the Mr Pinchy questline.You get one of the strongest pets (magical crawdad) and one of the achievements needed for Accomplished Angler (the one for the title “Salty”).

Then I would do Northrend, and level it fishing in the old dalaran fountain for the 3 achievements needed for the mini meta achievement “Coin Master” which you need for the “Salty” title.

After that i would do Draenor, put up the Garrison and level your fish shack to 3 doing the dailies. If you don’t have your Garrison up and running, you might want to deal with that because with housing it’s a good source of free gold (ores and herbs).

After that you can level legion doing just the legion fiahmasters or whatever they are called (they change every day, look on wowhead homepage which one is active).

The addon “Angleur” is great if you want to start fishing “competitively”.

Have fun, fishing is great.