One of the biggest problems in WoW right now is a huge section of the population that “get off” on being a slacker. You know how some people play the AH and that’s “THE GAME” for them? For a lot of people, queuing for content only to afk through the whole thing is FUN for them. They chuckle at the end about how it’s “all so stupid, I did such-n-such content and didn’t even have to do anything.”
Not EVERYONE is like that, so when I see someone doing horrible dps in a LFG, I give them benefit of doubt. “Hey Hunter… do you have Fishing Pole equipped?”
I ask that, because I’ve made that mistake PLENTY of times! (before I made a macro that auto-swaps my Fishing Pole to my weapon on Mortal Strike. Every time I cast Mortal Strike, it insures I have my weapon equipped)
Posting because I was just running a TW and the Healer was doing 700 dps… and the Hunter was doing 600.
I didn’t call him out for low dps. This wasn’t a “BigD” issue. It’s just a fact some people ARE trying, but they make a simple mistake. That’s all I asked “Do you have Fishing Pole equipped?”
Of course, I got kicked.
I guess the majority vote read it as a BigD dps complaint, but nothing about that simple question is that.
Just tired of slackers whose every comment about being a slacker is “pffft whatever man, it doesn’t matter.” If it “doesn’t matter”, then don’t effing queue. Out of the 5 Timewalks I’ll do this week, 3 of them will be like this. There will almost always be someone afk-auto-attacking with the attitude of “pfft. who cares, it’s just TW.”
You don’t have to come Flasked with pots and +stat food, but at least play your chr. That’s not asking too much.
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Haha! I’ve been that tank, not only Fishing pole but helm and overalls too.
Thing is I’d have laughed not kicked you.
Dude, you know the game as well as I do, you know that pug life is THE WORST, so don’t take it to heart.
You did nothing wrong, grab a coffee and go laugh about it!
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Fortunately, I tend to quickly notice that my fishing pole is not considered a ranged weapon.
(Although really, it should be)
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i think i started a few MC’s with a fishing pole. that, and forgetting to buy candles.
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Thanks, I’m trying. I guess the frustration of TRYING TO HELP… only to get kicked is what flipped my switch.
+cheers+ 
edit: To help anyone else that fishes while waiting for a queue to pop… only to forget they were fishing:
#showtooltip Mortal Strike
/equip [worn:fishing pole] Corrupted Gladiator’s Greatsword
/use Lightning-Forged Augment Rune
/cast Mortal Strike
(I updated it once I got the LFAR so that I now always have that active, too)
The combat macro is coupled with the fishing macro:
#showtooltip Fishing
/equip Underlight Angler
/cast Fishing
So whenever I fish, I have Underlight. Whenever I’m in combat, I have my weapon.
In pugs I’ve seen so much stupidity I don’t even run dungeons anymore, I am just tired of it. I’ve seen people kick a group member for a reason that was only 2 letters and it made so sense even if it was some kind of made up acronym. I even asked my guildmate if they ever heard of this as if it was an acronym and none of them knew it (this was asking 50 people).
I just took the time out and left, I am not dealing with people that kick for no reason. Now I just enjoy questing in the world on my own with no more nonsense from people.
When I did do dungeons to avoid getting kicked myself I just never talked to anyone, just kept my dps up with everyone else and played my role and leave soon as it was over.
uh, I don’t fish, is there a reason you would bother to equip a fishing pole?
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You have to… to fish. Is this a trick question? lol
edit: Now you mention it, maybe they DID change that to “just fish.” But there are benefits to the Underlight Angler, so that’s why I do that.
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you don’t, you just use the spell
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The +fishing skill on a pole makes a difference when fishing in open water. How much it affects your chance of rare drops is a bit fuzzy (it used to be fairly well-understood but between various tweaks and skill re-organizations I’m not feeling confident I still understand)
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This is why Equipset macros are your friends.
My recommendation is to have a /use Repurposed Fel Focuser macro for when you’re not doing consumable demanding content, and stick an /equipset [nocombat] set at the end to make sure you’re good to go.
You can work [spec:x] modifiers into the /equipset part too if you’ve multiple specs with gearsets you play regularly.
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Have you been posting this great advice since Legion, and just not updated it? 
I had to “update” it when they slapped an arbitrary level ceiling on the
That was a separate infinite buff you could double up on.
Thing is, it’ll probably happen yet again to the 50k BfA version.
I have done it for part of a dungeon before. I was either really drunk or really tired…