The big pole, the BiS pole.
The “Big Iron Fishing Pole” is the best fishing pole obtainable for alliance, unless you are able to win the STV fishing extravaganza. I do not believe I will have even a slight chance at winning the event, so I consider this fishing pole to the best I could ever obtain in classic wow.
Today I thought I would give it my best shot to obtain it. The pole is obtained from "Shellfish Trap"s, which spawn just outside of Shadowprey Village, in Desolace. I’m a night elven druid and Shadowprey Village is a horde troll city. During my whole attempt I did not see even 1 other alliance hero.
According to online sources, the droprate of the pole is 1.5%, meaning that the expected number of traps I would need to open would be 67. Sixty seven is a big number, especially when talking about doing something right next to a horde village.
I started out just casually opening traps, hoping for the best. It quickly became clear that this would not be something that could be casually completed. I did not keep track of each trap at the start, if I had to say, I opened at least 20 before I started recording the number that I opened. However, for the sake of argument, let’s assume that I opened 10 before I started recording each trap I opened. After opening those 10 traps, I realized I wanted to keep track of how many I would open. So after I opened each trap, I drew a line on a piece of paper next to the computer.
Opening the traps was not easy to do. There were lots of hordes around, and also many mobs. In particular I would like to give a special mention to Lerus, the hunter with a boar pet. He kept ganking me several times, and also killed me at least twice. May you face the wrath of Elune whenever you meet any alliance in the world.
I must have died at least 5 times, a number much lower than it would have been if I hadn’t had aquatic form to run away, and potions to survive. I used at least 20 potions in my endeavor. The corpse run is around 3 minutes, slightly faster since I’m night elf and have wisp form. In total, I spent over 5 hours opening shellfish traps.
After five hours, I opened a trap, which looked just like all the rest, but this one contained the golden, wonderful, strong, “Big Iron Fishing Pole”. I screamed. Panted for a couple of seconds, then looted it, realizing i was in danger of being ganked. I have 59 marks on my paper, meaning that I opened at least 59+10 traps in this adventure (I attach a picture of my marks).
This all ended less than 1 hour ago and I’m still kind of shaky writing this. I can’t remember the last time an item drop made me feel like this. I love WoW, it feels so amazing. This all happened on Grobbulus, the best server there is. No other server has RP like us.
I attach a picture as proof that I got it. Have a wonderful day everyone!
https:// imgur. com/a/Iw4uVOg
https:// imgur. com/a/qAMO2Xe
TLDR; I got the “Big Iron Fishing Pole” after spending 5h+ outside shadowprey village opening shellfish traps.
