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Old 05-17-2018, 10:42 AM
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Default Fishing vs Begging - Which skill is more useless?

As a wretched, homeless, one-eyed dwarf that lives in the sewers and under the floorboards of Freeport I need something to do other than scaring the local children.

Fishing vs Begging.

Which one should I level up?

Begging sounds awesome. I remember thinking it was a legitimate skill, only to be one-shot by guards back in '99.

Can you make any money with it?

Help me roleplay as an unwashed vagabond. I suppose I should start on my Alcohol Tolerance as well.
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Old 05-17-2018, 10:48 AM
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I've got 200 fishing and haven't caught anything remarkable. I was talking to a rogue the other night that said occasionally they'd get a plat or two from begging. Been thinking about working it now since I should be able to atone off the agro from a crit fail.

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Old 05-17-2018, 11:13 AM
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There was a thread somewhat recently in here where people were listing all the things that fishing can actually be useful for. There were a surprising number of quests, iirc, that require fishing.

I remember reading, once upon a time (but on p99 I think, not all the way back to live) that begging can help a tank with aggro? NO idea if that's true or not though.
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Old 05-17-2018, 11:50 AM
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I remember reading, once upon a time (but on p99 I think, not all the way back to live) that begging can help a tank with aggro? NO idea if that's true or not though.
Yes, I definitely remember a time back in the day when tanks were advised to make taunt macros for: 1) taunt, 2) auto-attack off, 3) beg, 4) auto-attack on. Even then people didn't think it gave much agro, but it's what "the people in the know" did (even if those people might not have actually known anything).
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Old 05-17-2018, 11:55 AM
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Begging gives you a flat 1% chance to get some money from the targets loot/pick pocket pool, never any items

Fishing is at least used in some tradeskills, either just making fish, oils or what have you.
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Old 05-17-2018, 01:18 PM
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Begging sounds awesome. I remember thinking it was a legitimate skill, only to be one-shot by guards back in '99.
Part of the evil of EQ: start a newbie off with no coins, but give them a begging skill.
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Old 05-17-2018, 01:43 PM
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My wizard on live had a pretty good fishing skill, but quit begging after getting 1hit'd the 5th time, lol.
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Old 05-17-2018, 01:46 PM
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Fishing --> Othmir Prexus Totem
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Old 05-17-2018, 01:46 PM
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One of my fondest memories and most exhilarating experiences from live days was the first time I hauled in that rusty dagger from the pond in Halas - fishing > begging.
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Old 05-17-2018, 02:25 PM
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One of my fondest memories and most exhilarating experiences from live days was the first time I hauled in that rusty dagger from the pond in Halas - fishing > begging.
This, except my RL friend had given me a hundred plat, which I'd promptly spent on buying armor and weapons from the vendors in Halas (I had no idea what a waste that was at the time). As a result I was a bit less impressed (though still pretty thrilled) when I fished up my first rusty dagger from the Halas "moat".
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