Lineage II/Fishing

The Basics and How to Fish

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.

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. Pump if the HP guage is going up.
5. Reel 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...

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.

Fish Level	Fish Color
1-3	Green
4-6	Jade
7-9	Blue
10-12	Yellow
13-15	Orange
16-18	Purple
19-21	Red
22-24	White
25-27	Black

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.

Level	Expand Inventory (6 slots/level)	Expand Warehouse (6 slots/level)	Expand Common Craft (6 slots/level)	Expand Dwarven Craft (6 slots/level)	Expand Trade (1 slot/level)
1	4,000	4,000	2,000	2,000	10,000 (at level 40)
2	8,000	8,000	4,000	4,000	20,000 (at level 55)
3	20,000	? 20,000 ?	6,000	6,000	40,000 (at level 65)
4	20,000	? 20,000 ?	10,000	10,000	N/A
5	60,000	? 60,000 ?	10,000	10,000	N/A
6	60,000	? 60,000 ?	10,000	10,000	N/A
7	???	???	? 20,000 ?	20,000	N/A
8	???	???	? 20,000 ?	20,000	N/A