Question: Foraging / Fishing

[loramin]

Originally Posted by honeybee12874 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If I am correct, I believe I started out with a skill level of 50 in Foraging. I have done a little bit of foraging, but my skill level hasn't gone up. Is it just more rare for it to increase, or is it stuck at 50?

Every Wood Elf gets 50 forage, even Warriors. Every Druid gets forage also, but I'm 95% certain that, like all class skills, it's limited to 5 per level. Thus, the cap for a level 8 druid would, I think, be 40.

In other words, your druid level hasn't gotten high enough to raise your foraging maximum to above 50, so you can't increase it because the 50 you get from Wood Elf is higher. Give it a few more levels and you should be able to increase your skill.

Originally Posted by honeybee12874 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My other question is in regards to fishing. I've been doing a little bit of fishing, I believe I've been able to increase my skill to 30 or so in fishing. However, the only thing remotely fish-like I've caught was some fish scales once. Is there a skill level of fishing where catching actual Fresh Fish is more common? Or trivial even (aka, always catch a fish)?

There is no level where you always catch a fish. I have a very high (possibly max, I forget) fishing skill on one of my characters, and they still catch nothing, daggers, boots, and fish scales fairly often.

All the fishing skill does is increase the chance of getting something good. As your skill increases it will not only improve your chance of catching "Fresh Fish", but also increase your chance of catching zone-specific fish, such as Thunder Salmon in the Karanas or Cobalt Cod in Cobalt Scar. Several of these fish are actually used in-game (eg. Cobalt Cod can be used to make an oil that tailors need for certain Velious tailoring recipes).

But you should be warned: fishing is for fun, not wealth. Even if you manage to catch a stack of Cobalt Cod you'll get maybe 400-500 plat at most for it, and that stack will require a lot of fishing in a zone that's difficult to get to below 40.

Hope that helps.