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Commento di winnoe

These fishing traps can be found near the Horde town of Shadowprey Village.

Alliance chars will normally farm these cages as the the +20 fishing pole is found in abt 1/40 traps.

Horde chars won't normally bother as the NPC in Shadowprey gives a horde-only quest for a +25 fishing pole (easy quest too).

Be careful of drowning as some of the Murkshells (Crabmen) have a frost shock proc which will slow you down greatly.

Commento di 28465

I found best time was 6:30am-7:00am i got 4 of the Iron fishing rods
one after the other from these traps. It would help to have swim speed and underwater breathing potions or spells.
These can be a little boring if you have to go to the fissures after every trap and this will take alot of time to do if you are trying to collect for mount (horde only)

Commento di UndeadKnight

theres a bubbling fissure near the docks so u can just go there when ur low on breath

Commento di 66167

If you're looking to farm these, just invest 50s and buy a Water Breathing potion from an alchemist. Or, if you're a druid or Warlock, use water form/waterbreathing.

Also, opening one of the traps may spawn a Murkshell instead of drop loot. Be careful, as their frost shock can hurt and slow you down a lot, causing you to drown - another reason you should just use a potion.

As others have said, the only reason to farm the pole is if you're alliance side and can't get the +25 pole, or you're looking to sell it. I guess you could use it between 35-47ish, when you get the +25 pole, however.

Commento di 116197

I did this quest today, and i got in one of them (boot).

I did it for the reward from this quest: (Fish in a Bucket), and i used the reward for another quest: (Catch of the Day).

Commento di 134628

note that around half of the time these will contain nothing (i wasn't on the quest btw) and instead will summon a Drysnap Crawler ( https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/npc=11562 ). Beware.

Commento di 113656

The really best thing you could use would be this weapon from Gnomeregan
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=9452
15 frost resistance and underwaterbreathing, all you need.

Commento di 142783

Took me two days to get the fishing pole, and my bags ended up with:

185 Shellfish
11 Reinforced Chain Boots
6 Cuirboulli Boots
1 Cross-stitched Sandals
1 Rusted Engineering Parts
Countless Empty Trap

Really unlucky with this.

Commento di Thottbot

These things have the oddest tendency to drop Cross-stitched sandals....I've found 3 of them in 7 traps.

Is this just coincidence, or something pertaining to the story, or just funny?

You decide. The polls are open!

Commento di Thottbot

Just got my Fishing Pole after, at least, one hour of swimming. I had 3 x 10 min underwater brething by elixir, but after that another 30 to 45 min swimming without any potions. Befor this trip, I'v been harvesting traps once before for about 30 to 45 min at the time. So total harvesting time was maybe two hours :(

When I used no potions, I was able to optimize my route to speed up the harvesting. I swim my route with 9 traps 1-3 traps in a row and then breathing on the surface or on the Bubbly Fissues.

My route without potions: Trap T; Bubbly Fissue B; Surface S

T 22.75 => T 23.77 => T 24.77 => S => T 23.80 deep area => B 22.80 => T 20.79 => B 19.77 => T 18.77 => T 17.76 low area => S => T 19.76 => T 20.75 => B 21.75 => back to start.

During opening the current trap I turned (but not moved) to the direction of the next point. I opened the traps from abowe, as far as possible, to avoid Crawlers to aggro.

Before rechieving my pole on this last try I'v had 126 Shellfish, 4 pairs of Reinforced Chain Boots, one pair of Interlaced Gloves, and one Rusted Engineering Parts on traps and Crawlers had dropped money, maybe totat 1G, 1 green and several normal things.

I did that on Ally warrior (lvl 63) so Crawlers from traps, or surroundings, hardly ever aggro. I they did aggro, I was able to kill them with 3-4 hits, so I didn't effect my route plan :)

Commento di Allakhazam

2 hours straight and still no rod!

Edited, Tue May 30 00:50:43 2006

Commento di Allakhazam

After 2 hours of grinding (9AM to 11AM):

159 Shellfish
5-6 Reinforced Chain Boots
1 Cross-stiched Sandals
5 (!) x Rusted Engineering Parts
3 x Cuirboulli Boots
0 x Big Iron Fishing Pole

From the mobs on the way:
Items for a total shop value of around 2g (5 green and 2 trash weapons)

1 x drowned (due to inconcentration)

My plan: AH FTW!

Commento di Allakhazam

I was doing part of the Artisan Fishing quest in Desolace. Once I caught my quest fish, I decided to try farming for a pole since I had never tried it before. Here are my results from looting 50 traps:
Shellfish x46
Cuirboulli Boots x4
Rusted Engineering Parts x1
Reinforced Chain Boots x1
Big Iron Fishing Pole x2

I found my first fishing pole in the 29th trap. The second came on the 50th.

Also, 14 out of the 50 traps spawned a Drysnap mob. The loot from those mobs:
Sweet Nectar x2
Hardened Leather Bracers x1
Shiny Fish Scales x13

I did not receive any blues or greens.

My most useful piece of advice: Farm Viscous Fallout in Gnomer until you get the Hydrocane. It makes this and every other underwater venture so much easier (for those classes that can use staves).

Commento di Allakhazam

i have to be the most unlucky in world! 100traps, and almost always a attacker inside! on top of that i drowned and almost crushed my keyboard in anger!

Commento di Allakhazam

I was fishing for 10 min and got 2 poles in 3 tries. Very easy. By using the map above it worked perfectly

Commento di Allakhazam

I have tryed a few times to get a pole for my wife after i found one in AH for a gold, I have open a LOT of traps and so far all i have looted is shellfish and a pair of grey shoes. Theses poles are now in AH for 40 gold on my server, and yes, i can afford it, but why when i can farm it. So , does anyone have a time of day , precentage rate or any help on the drop rate more than what is listed here?

Commento di Allakhazam

collective 3 hours now and I've gotten everything on that list except the damn rod! Bah!

Commento di Allakhazam

I got one after 6 minutes of farming.

Commento di Allakhazam

I went later during the night, and the horde camp next door was no problem at all, twas pretty much deserted... I even ganked one of the horde npc's just for kicks.

The drop rate for this item is kinda lame, i believe i opened 20 traps before i got my first pole.
Kept going, and after prolly a grand total of 50 traps and still only one pole i decided to call it a night.
However.. during that time i got a total of 3g from kills and a blue item that sold on the Shadowsong AH for 15g.

I'd say its worth it, special if you really need a decent fishing pole.. as i did. :P

Edited, Jul 16th 2006 at 8:53am EDT by Gelandria

Commento di Allakhazam

Well just did this one ...

Pros: There are alot of traps around down there. and they respawn very fast.

Cons: The drop rate is so bad. It's close to a horde camp.

I opened about 40 of these traps and got 3 Big Iron Fishing Pole's ... So now i also got 1 for my alt and then 1 i can sell :P

A little word of advice ... bring a lock or some underwaterbreathing potions so you can stay down the whole time :)

Commento di Allakhazam

What key do i need to open thoes?

Commento di Allakhazam

YES! I got it.. 72shellfish :P!

Commento di Allakhazam

first one i opened i got one, i laughed so hard

Commento di Allakhazam

got it after 20 min. didnt remember the wather breathing pot though...
never was a problem with the horde town

Commento di Allakhazam

200 shellfish, 10pair of boots... i dont like this

Edited, Nov 28th 2006 4:09pm by poisonbot

Commento di Allakhazam

MAN THIS WILL SUCK GOING THER FOR A DAM FISHING ROD! I'm ally so going by a horde town will b the part that sucks

Commento di Allakhazam

got it on my second cage :)

Commento di eskna

57min after i got my Fishing Rod

Commento di Hopesedge

Took me 45 minutes, I had 68 Shellfish by the time I finally got the Fishing Rod, also got about 1g worth of boots in that time.

Commento di Avionic

There is a quest for Horde members to get shellfish out of these traps, so I was constantly battling horde doing this which is no fun to do underwater.

Commento di Bengarion

For those wishing for a more 'planned' route, here are the location of the cages.

Note: This requires the addon TomTom. Use the app Twitch to download and install it.

Due to limitations of the macros, the location list is split into two macros. The '/cway' at the end of the second macro tells TomTom to go to the next closest point.

The pole drops from the trap NOT from the occasional lobster that pops. Alliance players: The Shellfish can be safely tossed No vendor value. (They're used for a Horde quest.)

Occasionally TomTom won't go to the next point, even though it's showing 0 yards. Right click the TomTom arrow and select Remove Waypoint.

GL!

First macro: Traps 1:
/way 17.7 70.9
/way 20.3 71.3
/way 20 73.7
/way 20.7 75
/way 19.8 76.2
/way 18.9 77.3
/way 18 76.3
/way 22.5 75.2
/way 23.4 77.1
/way 24.3 77.5
/way 20.1 79.1
/way 20.7 80.5
/way 21.8 81
/way 23.1 80.9
/way 18.6 81.6
/way 19.5 82
/way 20.9 82.5

Second macro: Traps 2:
/way 18 84.5
/way 18.1 86.5
/way 19.8 85.5
/cway

Notes:
If you have the mount Brinedeep Bottom-Feeder it makes it go a tad faster. Hot key the mount.

Horde players: you will have to accept the quest Fish In a Bucket before you can loot the Shellfish Traps. No clue if the traps are lootable if you have already completed the quest. Alliance players: The traps are lootable without having a quest. Yea!

The pole has a 5% drop rate. If you believe that, with 20 traps listed above you should get your pole in two runs (40 traps). Yeah, right...

Commento di wxcopy

Can rogues detect if the trap has a mob in it or not? I'm watching this rogue and he is skipping some for no apparent reason, until I open it and always find a mob in it.

Commento di ladyofthemasque

Alliance Players:

The shellfish ARE valuable...to the Horde. If you sell them on the neutral AH in either Booty Bay or Gadgetzan, you will want to sell them for 5-8 silver apiece. If you sell them for 10s or more, the Horde players won't buy them, as the hand-in for a stack of 5 shellfish is 55s. (Yes, that's 11s per fish, but you gotta factor in the cost of flying to Shadowprey after taking the boat from BB to Ratchet...so there's a point of diminishing returns where they won't find it profitable.)

It SUCKS that allyside doesn't have a similarly valuable repeatable quest to the horde quest...BUT if you arrange with a fellow player to harvest them hordeside and sell them on the neutral AH so the allyside can sell them on their faction AH, it can be worthwhile.

Especially if you sell stacks of the Shellfish to your friend for 1c and they sell you fishing poles for 1c...and then turn around and sell that pole in Stormwind, etc, for several gold. >.>*

Commento di Danieltoon

Since I didn't see anybody confirm this yet. You do not need to be Horde, and you do not need to have the quest to get the Iron Pole.

Took me 33 shellfish to get it. Doing this in the past on Horde made me think it was easier than this, but the grind wasn't too bad.

Commento di Ezerina

Farmed these traps for about 4-5 hours yesterday strictly for shellfish, and ended up with 4 fishing poles. Now I just have to cross my fingers that they will sell. Currently, they sell for a little over 3g on my server (Thunderfury).

Commento di AlphaThreat

Took me about 50-70 pots to find one..... Recommend using some Waterbreathing potions from the AH. Took less than an hour....

Commento di Smindigo

Cage respawn rate is roughly between 1 and 2 mins.

Commento di Etreum

Seventy-One Shellfish and no Big-iron-fishing-pole

But at least I had a consolation prize. Necromancer-leggings dropped off one of the pyncers.

Commento di ZiNez

This is such Bull$%^&, Blizzard fix your $%^&!

Allience can loot as many as they want when ever they want.
Horde need to have the quest to loot the traps, IF you leave in the Quest you can NOT open more cages/traps.
Chould only loot 5 Shellfishes then I had to abandon and retake the quest.

Commento di Eromee

I looted a pair of leather Agile Boots from one of these traps tonight. Still no pole though.

Commento di rottenzombie

Awful awful %^&*ing design.

Hopefully whichever genius thought up of putting a rare loot together with quest item in the same loot pool never gets to work on any video game again.

Commento di Realto

Alliance on Grobbulus TBCC.

Farmed for a lil over 2 hours. No one around. I opened at least 200 traps as I had around 300 Shellfish. I had 9ish pairs of the Cuirboulli Boots, 8 pairs of the sandals and 1 Rusted Engineering Parts. Pole drop rate def under 1% if I had known I def wouldn't have attempted. Smh these percentages wack.

Commento di Emeraldroots

The "Contains" List isnt accurate. I have been trying to get the fishing pole. I just looted from these traps Seer's Boots. Not sure if I will find anything else or not but FYI

Commento di njry

To anyone attempting a Big Iron Fishing Pole farm in the SoD 25 level bracket:

- be ready for a painful, slow, dangerous grind
- the gold reward from turning in the shellfish was removed, so that will reduce more incentive to do this, but i found the fish reward vendor price was able to cover my repairs
- if you are not undead or warlock using underwater breathing, you WILL want underwater breathing potions
- before you approach traps, plan your escape route
- not every trap can be looted without aggroing the nearby makrura patrols but most can
- putting a marker on the nearby makrura patrols can help you in gauging aggro distance before you go in to loot. i would also recommend an addon like 'rangedisplay'.
- get as far away as you can from the trap while still able to click it
- if the trap spawns a makrura, there is a brief moment after spawn where it can't aggro and you can use this to stealth, or blink away sometimes and make enough distance to not aggro.
- the spawned makrura is not going to be killable, just run
- use every defensive tool your class has and as much armor, health and possibly frost resistance you have available. if you do not strafe move so as to not present them your back, they will daze you and almost certainly kill you, so only use strafe movement to run away.
- as a mage i made sure to use frost armor, arcane int, dampen magic (for frost shock), mana shield and blink. regeneration chest rune could be used to heal when i get low after breaking aggro while still in water
- i found the spawned makrura would be despawned by the time i looped around again to the trap that spawned it.
- i'm probably 2+ hours in with no drop so like i said, this will not be fun.

Happy hunting.

Commento di M1XGear

Farmed 195 Shellfish to get 1 Big Iron Fishing Pole

Commento di caconym

When you open a trap and a mob spawns, it's always in the same position and orientation relative to the trap model, so you should plan your escape in the opposite direction.
The door of the trap is the side with the padlock. The mob always spawn in front of that door but rotated 90 degrees to the right. You plan your escape in the direction of the side of the trap 90 degrees counter-clockwise from the door side.

Commento di Slushi

SoD, got a Dervish Boots of the Eagle from a Shellfish Trap, wasn't listed so I thought I'd mention it. Also I think I've put like 12ish hours into opening these cages and no pole drop yet.

Commento di Klingo

In SoD, took me roughly 3.5 hours and 208 Shellfish to get one Big Iron Fishing Pole (and almost 20 shoes, two out of which where greens).

Commento di Sknilegap

3.5 hours, 192 shellfish, 16 boots, 0 poles, 1 sanity lost. Send elp.
edit: literally got one 2 traps after posting. sometimes I really believe this works lol.

Commento di Acquisitor

180 Shellfish
5 Rusted Engineering Parts
6 Curibouili Boots
3 hours
1 Big Iron Fishing Pole

There are 6 traps close enough to the village that I was able to run back to it if there was a lobster that spawned. As a warlock, I just had my blueberry out to tag aggro from me. I'd swim half way to the village, call back my pet, and it would drag the makura with it to be killed by the guards. This ensured that after I did my loop, the mob wouldn't be sitting on the respawned trap.

Good luck out there, all. I think it took longer than it should have because there was competition out there for a while. At one point there were 2 mages, a druid, and another lock along with myself all farming those traps.

Commento di cryjack

just got mine pole. on 3th trap xd.

Commento di ren115

15 minute grind watching The Hobbit Extended Edition.

22x Shellfish
1x Cross-stitched Sandals
1x Cuirboulli Boots
1x Reinforced Chain Boots
1x Rusted Engineering Parts
1x Stonecutter Claymore of the Monkey
1x Big Iron Fishing Pole

"A Big Iron Fishing pole is never late, it arrives in a Shellfish Trap precisely when it means to"- Gandalf

Commento di imazilaphone

so far im 4/5 traps and only got 2 shellfish from the one that didnt spawn a crab.
i think ill just buy it off the AH.
this is straight hell.

Commento di RabbleRouser

11x Shellfish out of 9 Shellfish Trap opened today. 1 Trap spawned a mob, the rest were all Shellfish. Not sure if something changed for Season 2 of Season of Discovery or I just got lucky, but I'll take it.

Commento di Jemikwa

In SoD P2, this took around half an hour with a 5 crate loop. I ended up with 50 shellfish, so maybe around 60 crates?
Hydrostaff from Gnomer plus Azure Silk Belt made this a pleasant experience.

Commento di superwafflefry

I don't know what the fuss is all about, I went to farm these things on my warlock expecting it to take hours, and got the fishing pole on the first crate :P

Now to get a 2nd for my alt.

Commento di mizael13

15min. and about 20 Shellfish and i got Big Iron Fishing Pole.

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