Underlight Angler completly nerfed?

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Just went to equip my Underlight… Can’t.
Looked at it, as in really looked at it…
All the abilities have been stripped.
Seriously? WTF! I spent a month of my life to get it.
Now I can’t walk on water, can’t breath under water, can’t teleport to a fishing node, I have no bonuses.
I have “artifact power”, but no artifact abilities…

Who the heck thinks this was a good move?

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People who want to repackage that angler down the road.

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Still trying to wrap my head why they removed the artifact power of the pole considering that it wasnt even used to control sargeras sword “corruption”. :dracthyr_shrug:

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Hmm … I didn’t notice this because water walking and fish form on my Underlight Angler still work.

Odd thing to break. I wonder what they were doing and whether it’s another “display can be fixed with a magic line of LUA scripting” thing?

edit: there’s a recent wowhead comment on the Underlight Angler page with some scripts to check and spend AP. Clunky, but looks like our favourite artifact is still not dead yet.

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It goes in the fishing slot of your professions and still works, the powers are just not showing.

Google it and you will find some Reddit posts about how to apply more AP and unlock more powers.

Also given the achievements are account wide now, any alt can go fish up the pearl from any fishing pool and get the fishing rod with minimal issues.

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This is made better by the fact Blizzard once said the Underlight Angler would never be replaced - it would remain the best fishing rod in the game, period. Some of its powers do still work, but it’s far from the best rod in the game now.

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Traits still work for me. It’s important to note that they’re only active while you have your fishing equipment visible though.

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If you are hiding prof equipment the angler won’t work.

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I used mine yesterday. Everything was working as intended.

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Well … actually …

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Has to prevent the corruption with the power of a dead murloc you found.

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It seemed like a wiser idea than pouring all that dark power into Xal’atath.

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It still works for the water walking and shark water form. You have to cast once to activate it though. Stealth shark is still a go! I use it all the time.

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Just like I did in Dragonflight, I’m now shifting back to my Underlight Angler rod because of water walking and the stealth. Our current design with plus fishing and perception is a negative when fishing for the Slum Shark, the most valued fish in the game right now. I’m a little bitter about it, my TWW pole is almost to 100 in each category and I loved finding the various shore treasures; but it is (again) a negative when fishing for the most valuable fish.

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I use mine all the time. All of the effects only work if you can see it on your back though!

You can either make this happen by casting Fish for a split second, taking off and putting back on your angler (in the fishing journal), or using a macro like this twice (which does that, kinda):

#showtooltip Underlight Angler
/run PickupInventoryItem(28) did=0 for b=0,4 do if C_Container.GetContainerNumFreeSlots(b) > 0 then PutItemInBag(CONTAINER_BAG_OFFSET+b) did=1 end end if not did then PutItemInBackpack() end 
/equip Underlight Angler

I have this on my bar and I press it twice (when not in combat) to turn the effects on. It even works while I’m underwater (I instantly turn into a fish).

As for “the Artifact UI has no choices”, its just busted right now, unfortunately. Luckily if you have the (blank) UI up, you can still use /run commands to pretend to click on the invisible buttons and it works!

I did something like this first (WHILE THE BLANK ARTIFACT UI IS UP):

/run for i,powerid in pairs(C_ArtifactUI.GetPowers()) do sid=C_ArtifactUI.GetPowerInfo(powerid) print(""..powerid.." - "..sid.spellID) end

and it dumped something like:

1022 - 201880
1023 - 201881
1024 - 201882
1025 - 201883
1026 - 201884
1027 - 201887
1029 - 201944
1030 - 201945
1032 - 201948

This is showing you a mapping from power ID to spell ID. If you use this as your guide …

https://www.wowdb.com/artifact-calculator#9AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

You will see that you can middle click on any of those bubbles to be taken to a spell page, like:

https://www.wowdb.com/spells/201945-bloodfishing

Note the spell ID in the URL! 201945 maps to power ID 1030 from our dump earlier, so with the blank artifact UI up, we can do:

/run C_ArtifactUI.AddPower(1030)

and that effectively “clicks” on the (invisible) Bloodfishing icon in the UI. You have to use the website calculator and some “blind” clicking (/run commands), but you can see when you successfully spend AP in the UI, and you can buy your way all the way through the tree.

Anyway, good luck to a fellow angler owner. I have one on every alt and I did all of this stuff so I can waterwalk+swim on all of em, including an alt which did this entirely in TWW. Enjoy!

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