Bran
Neophyte
Question: I'm new to fishing, do you have to be at comp to fish up MIB or is there a way to macro fishing up MIBS afk? or is this is this even legal on this server?
Let's do some fishing shall we!
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Dewderonomy
Grandmaster
AFK fishing is legal. If you're using a program to auto-loot however, you're breaking some policy as Razor's the only allowed 3PP to be used (AssistUO/UOSteam is now disallowed).
Nukeworker
Apprentice
Thx a many!! that did help alot
Olivier
Master
Yes, you do!
If I should be completely honest, I never fished SOS's with less than 120 fishing, so I can't say whether or not it was possible to get him at a lower skill.
Indeed, the part where you fish up the bottles is the only bottleneck so to speak. However as I mentioned earlier, you can purchase them for a market price around 3,500 gold which still makes it profitable. I myself try to get on a boat with some friends who also have a fisherman, and we tend to do rounds, since you're allowed to stand AFK and fish. So basically we get two-three fishermen on a boat and only one of them will be responsible for the loot, this makes it a bit faster and easier to get your bottles!
Bromista
Grandmaster
Learning a lot.
I assume 120 improves your chances of fishing these guys up over 115 because that seems logical.
I assume 120 improves your chances of fishing these guys up over 115 because that seems logical.
Olivier
Master
I would guess so too, however I can say that with higher fishing skill you get more special fishing nets/t-maps/bottles whilst fishing comparing to a fisherman with only GM fishing.
Messremb
Grandmaster
the way I understand it, it works like this. at GM fishing you have something like a 1/70 chance of pulling a sea serp, the sea serp has a 1/3 chance of dropping a MIB. at GM this gives you a 1/210 chance of getting a MIB every time you fish. assuming a good fishing macro with 0 down time you can fish every 8 seconds. roughly this equates to 1 MIB every 30 min. (no a guarantee of course). this is where people get the 1-2 MIBs per hour at GM.
I'm not sure how much is cut off for each point past GM, but I know with my 115 Fishermen I pull up about 4-5 MIBs an hour. using that I reversed the formula and got the following. I have about 1/37-1/30 chance of pulling a Sea Serp, with the same 1/3 chance of MIB.
Also I can confirm that you can pull osiredon at 115 fishing.
Oliver, this is excellent. I would say if anything your numbers are on the conservative side.
I Personally make 100-120k per hour, just off Gold and vendored items. I get about 10-12k per chest, just off that.
Thanks for putting this all together.
I'm not sure how much is cut off for each point past GM, but I know with my 115 Fishermen I pull up about 4-5 MIBs an hour. using that I reversed the formula and got the following. I have about 1/37-1/30 chance of pulling a Sea Serp, with the same 1/3 chance of MIB.
Also I can confirm that you can pull osiredon at 115 fishing.
Oliver, this is excellent. I would say if anything your numbers are on the conservative side.
I Personally make 100-120k per hour, just off Gold and vendored items. I get about 10-12k per chest, just off that.
Thanks for putting this all together.
AnsemUO
Grandmaster
Dewderonomy
Grandmaster
Oh, maybe so. I'm not much into the macros, was always told you can't create loot macros with Razor.very good point sire, but you can loot with razor if you're smart
Either way, not sure killing and looting the serpents is protected under Fishing's exemption of AFK resource gathering, though.
AnsemUO
Grandmaster
All I know is I've asked about AFK Fishing in DETAIL and everyone says it's legal sooooooooooo unless I get raped by a serp or the black wind rolls up on me, i may or may not be at my computer (unless a GM tells me otherwise)
Olivier
Master
I use archery and usually kill the serpents before they even reach to the boat so I'm just going to guess that it would be hard to create a looting macro for something that isn't within looting range.
Yes this sounds quite accurate comparing to the MIB fishing I've done, It's a huge difference between GM fishing and above.
very good point sire, but you can loot with razor if you're smart
how do you loot with razor?
proof or you don't know how!
Yoar
Adept
Maybe you can loot using a restock agent?
That would totally ruin the fun of looting good stuff though, I'd imagine
You can cut hides on the ground, I found that by accident. I can smelt things on my packhorse, another accident. I havent tried looting, but maybe I will tonight.
Maybe you can loot using a restock agent?
That would totally ruin the fun of looting good stuff though, I'd imagine
dont think you can use restock agent from a monsters corpse, from what i know you cannot use restock agent from even a packhorse here?
Dewderonomy
Grandmaster
I've gone an hour getting zero bottles. I think my highest record was something like... 10 casts, 8 serpents, 5 of which were bottles. All in a row. Then I got some more bottles that same hour.
There's definitely a superstition at sea, like RL sailors have, interestingly enough haha. If we aren't fishing up much, and I forgot to put my tricorne on, the crew will often start yelling at me to put the hat on (because in the past we've done some of our best fishing/
If you're wondering if the PSes are worth it, every 5 points I've added to Fishing I've noticed a change, the biggest jumps being from GM to 110, from 110 to 115, and 115 to 120 (though not with Osiredons - I haven't "felt" like there's been much of a difference in Osiredon rates with 120).
AnsemUO
Grandmaster
the 204 mibs ive looted suggest otherwise
You can do just about anything with razor.... my macro fully automates the fishing process...