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This pages summarises the fish that can be caught in Dalaran. There are 3 different areas within this zone - Dalaran (Outside The Violet Hold), Dalaran (The Eventide Fountain) and Dalaran (The Underbelly):

About Dalaran

Dalaran (Outside The Violet Hold)

Catches in Dalaran (Outside The Violet Hold)
Water and AreaFishCatch RateNotesOther Rare Catches
% of CatchSample
Open Water - InlandShimmering Minnow58%
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Slippery Eel23%
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Half Empty Bottle of Prison Moonshine6%
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Half Full Bottle of Prison Moonshine6%
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Partially Rusted File5%
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Bloodied Prison Shank<1%-
Dustbringer<1%-
Rusty Prison Key<1%-
Bloated Slippery Eel-Quest Only

Images and Maps

Dalaran Map of Dalaran

Dalaran (The Eventide Fountain)

Catches in Dalaran (The Eventide Fountain)
Water and AreaFishCatch RateNotesOther Rare Catches
% of CatchSample
Open Water - InlandFountain Goldfish41-67%
817Lucky buff reduces catch rate-
Copper Coin13-28%
Lucky buff increases catch rate
Silver Coin8-17%
Lucky buff increases catch rate
Gold Coin6-10%
Lucky buff increases catch rate
Bent Fishing Hook5%
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With the Lucky buff (gained by throwing a Gold Coin back into the fountain - see Dalaran Fishing), the catch rate of coins approximately doubles, and the catches of other items are reduced by a third. Casts from the edge of the fountain may gain a fish from Dalaran's Underbelly - the sewer is leaking!

Images

Eventide Fountain

Dalaran (The Underbelly)

Catches in Dalaran (The Underbelly)
Water and AreaFishCatch RateNotesOther Rare Catches
% of CatchSample
Open Water - InlandSewer Carp54%
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Magic Eater29%
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Empty Vial7%
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Drowned Rat4%
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Partially Eaten Fish4%
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Leaded Vial2%
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Crystal Vial<1%-
Dustbringer<1%-
Enchanted Vial<1%-
Giant Sewer Rat<1%-
Imbued Vial<1%-
Corroded Jewelry-Quest Only

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Comments about Dalaran

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Dalaran really 525?

  1. Kemtgor, November 2008:

    Just curious if this is really the skill to avoid getaways... I'm sitting ~515, but I got all of 12 catches fishing for 10 minutes chain-casting. Even if each took 20 seconds, which it didn't, that's still 20% while only 10 skill short. Was I just having awful luck, or is it higher?

  2. Jbz, November 2008:

    Yep, its 525.

    Thats pretty terrible luck.

    :D

  3. metameat, June 2010:

    It is confirmed: you can catch the Giant Sewer Rat while fishing in the Eventide Fountain. I caught one before I managed to find my last gold coin on my level 15 Alt:
    http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=The+Underbog&cn=Rincewind

    I started fishing in the fountain at fishing level 1. Leveled all the way to 450 trying to get the Coin Master. The only place I have fished was that fountain. Woot!

  1. el, June 2010:

    Casts that land at the edges of the fountain catch Underbelly fish. Hence it is possible to catch a Giant Sewer Rat there, but only if your casts land at the edge. Much easier to catch it from the Underbelly itself.

  2. hoooyeeeaaa, June 2010:

    Thanks for that tip el I'm gonna start the coin master soon myself good to know you can go for the sewer rat at the same time.

  3. el, June 2010:

    Hoooyeeeaaa - in this case, it is more effective to fish separately for each. When fishing in the fountain, you'll want fountain catches all the time, otherwise you waste part of the benefit of the gold coin lucky buff. The lucky buff won't buff Underbelly catches like the Sewer Rat - it only applies to fountain catches like coins. It's also far easier to fish for the Sewer Rat in the Underbelly itself, because there's a lot more water to choose from.

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Dalaran fishing >580 to stop junk

  1. Speeddymon, June 2009:

    Just was doing the fishing daily 'Jewel of the Sewers' today and I caught junk with a +100 lure and my Mastercraft Kalu'Ak Fishing Pole, with stock skill of 450.

    With just those on, my fishing is 580, so it seems that to completely stop junk catches you may need 590, not 525 as the guide states. At any rate, I have not managed to bag the Giant Sewer Rat yet and I'm thinking that the junk I caught today was just that :-(

    Anyone else experience this?

  2. X-Rok, June 2009:

    the trash you got, it was the Drowned Rat, yes? I'm pretty sure that's a normal loot item for the sewers, i see it on a regular basis when i'm fishing for that daily...

  3. Azaguth, June 2009:

    ditto.

    Having fished the sewers before 3.1 and the "junk", I was catching the drowned rat without getaways.

  1. Speeddymon, June 2009:

    Actually, this was weeds that I caught.. I knew the drowned rat was part of the loot table as I had caught that in the sewers when trying for the Giant Rat as well..

  2. Noodleguitar, June 2009:

    Strange. I fished those sewers for 1000+ casts with 527 fishing skill and never caught any junk (unless I forgot to re-apply my +25 lure) apart from the greys which are only fished up from there.

  3. gotkevin, June 2009:

    I use +75 lures trying to hook the rat... Fishing is @ 558 (568 with Lager). Got about 4.5 hours logged, close to 1k casts... no Giant Rat. Had three others hook em around me :(

    UPDATE
    9 Hours fished
    2k + casts
    NO RAT! Uggg

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Slightly OT: Getting to Dalaran

  1. Gummo, September 2008:

    While the obvious/easiest way would be to ask a level 74+ mage for a portal, a level 71 mage (who can teleport to Dalaran) or any player in Dalaran (seen with /who dalaran) can get you there, assuming Blizzard doesn't change this:

    1. Group
    2. Have the person in Dalaran queue up as a group in all battlegrounds with the Dalaran battlemaster
    3. Enter first BG that comes up
    4. /afk out of the BG (or play it out) and you come back out at the Dalaran battlemaster.

  2. LinkyKeram, September 2008:

    Hopefully yes, that a mage can yust teleport you there, as pepol did this in BC's Shattrath :D

  3. el, September 2008:

    I believe the battleground "trick" requires you to be at least 70, since you need to be in the correct bracket (but I'm not sure what the lowest level is for AV now). I still don't understand why Blizzard insist on a level 74 quest for personal entry, but yet allow level 1s to portal/summon in.

  1. Gummo, September 2008:

    Right, the BG invite trick requires that you all be in the same level bracket, presumably 70-79 (or in some BGs 71-80?), similar to the current brackets.

    I bring it up because you'll see level 71 mages a lot sooner than level 74 mages after the WotLK launch; once level 74 mages are common, portals will be the usual method again. But there should be level 71 mages after a couple of days or so, while you won't see 74s much until a couple of weeks have gone by. And there's fishin' in Dalaran!

  2. Wyzo, May 2010:

    I first went to Dalaran at level 39, but it could be done at just about any level. Here's how:

    First, I made sure all of my items were at 100% durability. I took the ship from Stormwind Harbor to Valiance Keep. I left the keep and found the first thing to attack. I was killed. I then ghost ran from the graveyard down the road towards Dragonblight. I ghost ran through Dragonblight to Crystalsong Forest.

    Once you cross the border into Crystalsong forest, you get a spirit mount. You then fly as high as you can. When you get above Dalaran, you lose the spirit mount and drop in the city. I went as close as I could to the Violet Citadel because once you drop into the city, you need to go to the right of the stairs leading up to the Violet Citadel (as you're looking up the stairs). In the small graveyard there beside the Violet Citadel is a Spirit Healer.

    Log out, log back in.

    Get resurrected then go to the Silver Enclave and leave your hearthstone.

    I just completed my Coin Master Achievement. Man, it takes forever to get all those coins and I must have fished up every other coin at least four times, and some five or six times, before I got Archimonde's Gold Coin.

    :-D

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Dangerous in Dalaran?

  1. Gummo, September 2008:

    The WotLK fishing section says this about the fishing trainers:
    "However, all the Northrend trainers are safe to visit at low level, except Marcia Chase in Dalaran."

    I assume she's safe to visit at a low level, since you'd need a portal/summon, just not easy until there are more level 74+ mages. Or are the large rats hostile?

  2. el, September 2008:

    Dalaran isn't dangerous once you are there. It's just dangerous to reach without a summon/portal. In contrast the arrival "ports" can be soloed at any level - just don't go outside. I've updated the text, thanks.

  3. Gummo, September 2008:

    Actually, this made me think that ALL capital cities should have hostile rats about level 5. Real players could deal with them, and they'd eat the gold spammers.

  1. Bekkabakoo, September 2008:

    Dalaran was very dangerous when the beta was first opened up, and there were invisible holes you could step into and fall to your death down on the ground from a thousand feet up. But that was before you could actually catch fish anywhere.

  2. heraklen, September 2008:

    Gummo wrote:

    Actually, this made me think that ALL capital cities should have hostile rats about level 5. Real players could deal with them, and they'd eat the gold spammers.

    HAHA thats an awsome idea , please post it as a suggestion for blizz , could help us against those lvl 1 spammers in the big cities.

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Underbelly Shark

  1. el, January 2009:

    On the 3.0.8 Public Test Realm (and I assume, on live), there is a new angler fishing in Dalaran's Underbelly - Sebastian Bower. He says:

    I know, I know... "fishing in a sewer?" But you'd be surprised what you can catch down here. I've even heard stories of sharks, if you can believe it.

    Well, there is a large shark in the rogue area - but you cannot catch it. I've tried to confirm these "stories of sharks you can catch" during testing, but I did not catch anything new in over a thousand catches.

    But I'm still curious... Is there anything new lurking in the water?

  2. TheTacoMan, January 2009:

    In the WOTLK beta there was info for a 'baby shark' minipet, that you could only summon in the water. I assume that this was removed due to awkwardness. While a cool idea, a mini-pet tat you could only use underwater would be mostly useless.

    If they made it a 'magic shark' that could fly through the air, that would be cool (Come on people, dalaran IS the city of mages, it could happen)

  3. justicehand, April 2009:

    The name of the shark in the sewers is Segacedi i just swam down and killed him in the waters of the Black Market. He didn't drop anything for me. I was told this is a reference to the sega cd game "Sewer Shark".

  4. Leny, April 2009:

    Another idea is that the shark could be in a fish tank on wheels, this would be wheird but would explain how it could be used above water.

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Giant Sewer Rat in the Dalaran Fountain?

  1. Extreme Angler Velen, April 2009:

    So i was fishing for the coins today in the Dakaran Fountain when i came across our furry little friend at first i was happy because i finally caught the rat, but then a friend of mine and a fellow fisherman pointed out that i shouldn't of been able to catch the rat in the Fountain. So i decided to post it here to see if this happened to anyone else..

    -Velen

    P.s I'll post up a screen shot as soon as i find it in my SS folder >.<

  2. Extreme Angler Velen, April 2009:

    Screen Shot Inc....

    http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/9261/wowscrnshot041909223946.jpg

  3. Antonine, April 2009:

    The edges of the fountain count as the Underbelly. Don't worry, it wasn't a glitch. We've always known that you could catch a rat there in theory, it's just unlikely. Congrats, I've been wanting to see that happen in awhile!

    On another note, I wouldn't recommend showing the screen shot on the WoW forums. You could have easily caught it in the underbelly before heading up to the fountain to take the screenshot (as there's a significant amount of time between the catch and the shot)

  4. Gazsvyaz, April 2009:

    Yep. If youll notice sometimes you catch other underbelly fish in the fountain edges. sewer carp and picked clean bones, etc.

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Coin Achievements

  1. jbhbrook, February 2010:

    Just wondering if you have to keep all the coins until you get the achievement or if you can vendor them prior to completion?

  2. Garroch, February 2010:

    You can vendor them. Just don't vendor the gold ones! The buff is worth it!

  3. Runne, February 2010:

    Nah, sell them all you want. Keep the Gold ones for the buff and use them when it's down. It's a big help in pulling out the higher coins. The Achievement keeps up with them as you get them.

  4. SaltyBlood, February 2010:

    Well... Fishing for 3 weeks haha. AND. So many coins away... >.> catching Lots of coins just.. not the right ones /sigh@Luck

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