A New Salty on the Way

While I was mired by misfortune on some of the Fishing achievements on Koji, I am equally amazed by my good fortune on Rai. I dusted him off only a few weeks ago but have had surprising luck.

Last week at the Fishing Extravaganza, I was quite surprised to catch a Rockhide Strongfish on one of my first casts. This is among the rarest fish in the game. It is only caught from pools during the Extravaganza, and has a lower catch rate than the rare prize fish. It also happens to count towards One That Didn't Get Away. On Koji, it took thousands of casts in various areas before I had the fortune of catching a 15lb. Mud Snapper, so this came as quite a surprise. I had good fortune on Anguish as well. I got a 15 pounder on him in a few hundred casts, probably between 3 and 500, I wasn't counting.

That isn't the only hard achievement, however. It was probably just the one I had the worst luck with. Another tough one is Mr. Pinchy. On Koji, I think I caught 4 Mr. Pinchy's, using up 10 wishes before I got the pet. Rai, my first pool. And there he is. Of course, I was quite surprised. But remember, there are five potential results of your wish, remember how many Furious Mr. Pinchy's Koji got. How about that. Rai's now sporting a little lobster pet.

Okay, Okay. That's pretty serious luck. There is one achievement however that is certainly the bottleneck of the Salty title. That of course is the Extravaganza. Many have complained that it should be removed from the Salty title and given its own title since it is so based on luck and there are so few who can get it (52 a year). So, here I am. It's Sunday, my 2nd Extravaganza since dusting off Rai.

Yea. I can't really believe it either. All that stands before me now are a number of traveling achievements, like Northrend and Outland Anglers and Scavenger, as well as some very time consuming ones, namely the coin master achievements. Those however require no luck, no skill, just time. Heck. Rai's 72, he isn't even a Grandmaster, he can't fish in Dalaran! Give it a week, I'll probably have a Salty old Troll.