I've dedicated the past couple of days to levelling my professions — namely Fishing and Mining.
It was soon evident that Mining was going to be the most difficult to level up because every man, mother and their litter of dogs were scavenging the lands for the mining nodes. I scoured the best places for Mithril and it took me hours just to get 15 measly mining points so I could get to Truesilver farming.
Let's just say that at this point of writing I'm still Truesilver farming.
At this rate, it'll be quicker to just buy everyone else's hard work and smelt it in order to get my Mining skill up and ready. I still might do that. I'll make back all the gold easily in Northrend, haha.
Fishing though! This is much better. At the moment anyway.
Instead of just standing in a body of empty water and slowly fishing up the "best fish for gold", I decided to make an adventure of it and fish from fishing pools instead. It's a bit more time consuming and less lucrative, but it's far less boring.
I wasted a little bit of time at one point. 😅 I didn't realise I had reached 225 Fishing until I fished up about 20 fish without a skillup and raised an eyebrow. Why? Why wasn't it levelling up? And I checked my stat sheet and realised, oh, right, I need to go train. xD
Woops.
But once that was rectified, I continued on and quickly finished Classic Fishing. Now it was time to return to Outland and start fishing there instead.
I got to this point on my Rogue and gave up, mainly because every time I tried to fish some douchebag would swoop down upon me and murder me. This time, on my Warrior, things were much better.
It probably helped that this weekend was supposedly a big weekend in Australia. The AFL grand final! WoooOooOooooo. I don't give a rat's butt about football and I didn't think most other gamers did either, but apparently I was wrong because the server was damned well empty.
Which was great news for me! 😄 I got to farm things in peace!
Instead of going to Outland to continue my fishing though, I thought that I would take one last look around the Felwood for Truesilver and to my great delight I actually find some. Not enough to level up my mining to Thorium, but enough to smelt in order to level up my mining to Thorium. xD
With that little boost beneath my pickaxe, I raced to Un'goro Crater and farmed up all the Thorium I could.
And at last, both my Fishing and Mining were at the Outland level! 😁
(And I'm just ignoring Blacksmithing for now. The gathering professions are much more important.)
With that complete, I raced to the profession trainers in Outland and bought the next level so I could actually complete my Outland training.
There were hardly any Fel Iron nodes around during prime time, so it was straight to Zangarmarsh to start the last leg of my fishing.
Fishing is what I personally consider the most important of my professions simply because I'm obsessed with the Sea Turtle mount I'll be able to fish up in Northrend — my favourite mount. So I'm happy to finish that before mining.
If you'd like to know how long it took to get from 300 fishing to maxxing it out at 375... I fished from 7pm to 9:30pm, then 8am to 11:30am the next day. So about 4 hours of fish, fish, fishing.
If I max out my mining in time, I might go fish in this lovely lake up here and try and catch the rare 'Magical Crawdad' pet that, in Retail, I lovingly named Mr. Stabby.
If I recall correctly, you can find him by fishing in the tree-top lake fishing pools that rarely show up because they share spawn-times with all the other fishing pools in the zone.
But in the meantime, it's time to try and complete my TBC Mining.
Unfortunately, after flying around the Fel Iron Ore mining routes of every zone, I didn't find a single ore node. Clearly everyone is hunting them at all hours, at all times, always. I'll be better off levelling my mining once Lich King actually arrives in a couple of days and everyone is farming up Cobalt instead of Fel Iron and Adamantite. I mean, maybe if I farmed at 2am I'd get something, but, nahhhh. I'm not crazy.
I managed to complete my fishing though, and that's the important thing. 🙂
The past couple of days of farming has yielded me an extra 500gold which is nice. Hopefully, by the time I hit level 80 in Lich King, I'll have a good 5000 gold which I need to buy the fastest flying.
Very important, especially for resource goblins like me. 😅
Until next time! 🎮
All screenshots in this post are courtesy of me, 