UO Second Age

According to the archived stratics page given below, you should only be able to catch small fish (those that boost your primary stats for a short period of time or refresh stamina) with 80 fishing. This is not the case as I'm catching those right now (60.7 fishing) and did so yesterday with a freshly generated fisher (50 fishing).

http://web.archive.org/web/200003072300 ... ishing.htm

Publish - March 28, 1999:

-Based on your skill level, you now have a chance of pulling up the following (listed in increasing difficulty order)
-One of any of several types of boots
-Fish, as always
-Magical fish, which can boost stamina, strength, intelligence, or dexterity.
-Treasure maps
-Messages in bottles
-Sea serpents (on failure)
-Deep sea serpents (on failure, and if deep in the ocean)

http://www.uoguide.com/Publish_-_March_28,_1999

The items are listed in increasing difficulty implying at least that magical fish is harder to catch than footwear and regular fish. According to this: http://wiki.uosecondage.com/Fishing you currently need no skill at all to get magical fish, which is clearly wrong. The archived stratics page given in the first post states that in fact 80 fishing is required.

Thanks for the information on this. I'll try to speak with Derrick and have him correct this error.

221396056 wrote:Publish - March 28, 1999:

-Based on your skill level, you now have a chance of pulling up the following (listed in increasing difficulty order)
-One of any of several types of boots
-Fish, as always
-Magical fish, which can boost stamina, strength, intelligence, or dexterity.
-Treasure maps
-Messages in bottles
-Sea serpents (on failure)
-Deep sea serpents (on failure, and if deep in the ocean)

http://www.uoguide.com/Publish_-_March_28,_1999

The items are listed in increasing difficulty implying at least that magical fish is harder to catch than footwear and regular fish. According to this: http://wiki.uosecondage.com/Fishing you currently need no skill at all to get magical fish, which is clearly wrong. The archived stratics page given in the first post states that in fact 80 fishing is required.

and by that account, mibs before sea serpents????

Not exactly, especially considering the fact that you can't fail to catch something at GM skill. But, more specifically, here's the line from the stratics page:

When fishing in "deep water" (which means you must be at least 14 tiles away from all land) there is a chance a sea-serpent pops up if you are fishing with 80+ skill and you fail.