I've been wondering as well.
I'm thinking proficiency may have some effect over it, but I don't know for sure.

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Also, if you snap your rod, does fishing prof go down?
And if you die does fishing prof go down too? Or is it separate from other profs

You have gained a rank in Fishing proficiency. (Rank: 1)



This post was edited by LilCanadian on Sep 25 2008 08:10pm

From what I've seen, fishing and cooking proficiencies don't drop.
I haven't intentionally died to test this, but on those occasions where I did die I saw no decrease.

What if the people that don't read the stickies are also too lazy to read this?!
Looks like a nice guide man

I thought about that right after I posted it, lol.
I must have been crazy thinking people would read this if they won't even read an official sticky.

Thanks.

My THEORY is that you do not lose prof when you die/break a rod... I could be lying when I say this, and I too haven't kamikazed to try this... but when I've died, it has seemed to affect my other ones. In fact, I don't think anything makes your fishing prof go down, but I'm too close to prof 2 to want to try this out.

About the fishing rods: Might want to mention they can only be found in catas/fishing, unless someone has found one soloing.
I had an unmodified (non-magical) pine fishing rod, I broke it around 10 times before I saw it go bye-bye... Just trying to add more data, no other point in me mentioning this though.

I was also thinking about writing a guide for fishing, I agree with everything that you're saying here though.

Several questions that need to be answered still (some of which were asked):
What can I do to prevent the fish from escaping the hook? (In my experience, it isn't always bad)
What exactly is the purpose of those monsters? The obvious answer would be they're kind of like a well boss?
I agree that a guide for Cooking is not needed, but what's the point of increasing prof in flaming? I think it's easy enough already... and so do most people, judging from the number of 100 Mana or life/100% Cooked fish selling for 10 FG on the MP
Any sort of muting recipes for rods and/or fish?

This post was edited by lncarnaxim on Sep 25 2008 09:08pm

I just saw a thread where someone stated they found a rod whilst fishing, so that kills my 'Multiplayer Only' theory, which I'm thankful for.
I hate how everything these days is Multiplayer only.
Thanks for all the input!

Yea, I just saw that too, and edited my post.

Using this method works well.

If you get lucky you get a bunch of snags and rip the fish out without a thought.

Thanks for the guide, one question tho.

Did anyone tried to well a non magical rod yet? Didn't ofund any rods myself so couldnt try so far.