Lineage II/Fishing

Basics
Fishing is easy... Unless you overtrain your skills (more on that later). You needing the Fishing, Fishing Expertise, Pumping, and Reeling skills. For equipment you need a fishing rod and some bait.

You'll catch fish and some other suff, which you double-click to turn into materials used in Common Crafting, or to turn into the fishing NPC for "Proof of Catching a Fish" (refered to as "proofs" from now on) that can be used to learn skills.

You'll also quickly go insane, it's booooooring. Luckily you don't need to fish all that much to get what you need.

How to Fish
Setup a hotbar with the fishing, pumping and reeling skills. I also put my weapon, the fishing rod, and fishing shots in there.


 * 1) Find any water where the breath guage shows up, stand near (not in) the water facing it.
 * 2) Equip the fishing rod and the bait.
 * 3) Hit your fishing key, and wait for the fish's HP guage to show up.
 * 4) Reel if the HP guage is going up.
 * 5) Pump if the HP guage is standing still.
 * 6) Pump and Reel until you catch it.
 * 7) Goto step 3 until bored.

That's it, it's really that easy. You will catch fish, treasure chests, and very rarely a monster.

Now for the messy details...

Costs
Fishing skills like other things in fishing, are very cheap. Dangerously so since it is tempting to overtrain them.

Fishing Rods
Rods work like any weapon, you need to use a rod that's your grade or lower, otherwise it wont work very well at all. When you're fishing, the damage you do to the fish depends on your weapon and on your skills.

Fishing Lures
There are 3 colors of lures, and 3 grades of each. Since the High Grade lures catch fish faster, and are more likely to catch better fish, they are the only ones you should spend money on - they are all very very cheap anyway. Don't waste time, buy the good ones.

Like all things, NCsoft has carefully calculated things so higher cost = higher returns, so Purple are the best in the long run. But if you're after a specific kind of fish for a specific material/recipe, you can try and influence the type of fish with the color.

Note: If you don't know how to properly add to and update these totals and percentages, please dont.

The Fish and Other Catches
Fish and chests get stronger as your expertise increases, changing color as they advance.

Each 3-level range of fish, has a color and a "Small", normal, and "Big" version of the fish and chest. You will catch one level below your expertise to one level above your expertise. This means you will need 12 inventory slots for fishing - 3 levels x 3 types of fish, plus 3 levels of chests.

Detailed per-fish info
That's the general overview, for the (obscenely detailed) details about the fish and what people have had them give in rewards, go to the Exact details about fish page. For the most part you should not worry about the details - you will be catching the fish low enough in level that you can easily kill them, and really only interested in gathering as many proofs as possible.

Spending the Rewards
You buy new abilities with your Proof of Catching a Fish. Normally you can train one level of the skill for every 10 levels of your character, plus one. So you can train Expand Inventory level 3 at level 20.

Expand Trade can only be trained to level 3, at levels 40, 55, and 65. Expand Dwarven Trade can only be learned by dwarves, at the normal skill trainer.