You have to keep going out of water and selecting / re-selecting an expansion, unequipping the underlight angler from your fishing journal, putting it in your bag, then back into the fishing journal slot after EVERY time you kill a low level fish.
Seriously?
Inb4 blizz shills swarm this thread. I know. I’m stupid. I’m doing it wrong. Working as intended blah blah.
Fishing Buddy won’t do it automatically?
We shouldn’t need addons to fix features they broke.
Perhaps not, but you should use fishing buddy just for the general QoL anyway.
Yeah, its fairly annoying. I’ve been using this macro to unequip and reequip it recently and it works pretty well:
#showtooltip Underlight Angler
/script PickupInventoryItem(28) for i = 0, 4 do local x = C_Container.GetContainerNumFreeSlots(i) if (x > 0) then PutItemInBag(30 + i) end end EquipItemByName(133755)
Put that on a button and hit it twice.
What even is this?
I ask because I use the Underlight. It’s equipped in my fishing journal and I have “always display fishing gear” selected. All I have to do is cast from the shore, or my raft once. Then I’m in Jesus / shark mode until I go into combat. I don’t use a fishing addon or macro, and it works.
Not trying to shill, I’m trying to help you find the solution.
It’s an easy fix for a minor inconvenience in an imperfect world.
That’s my point. Every time we kill a low level fish or get into combat with any low level creature, we have either have to open our fishing journal, then open our bags, then put the fishing pole into our bags then back into the fishing journal slot… OR…
we have to go up above the water after every time you get into combat, cast our raft, then cast our fishing pole, then click on the raft on the top right to undo it, THEN go back under water.
After every single time you go into combat.
Which is stupid. Previously, it would automatically put you back into shark form after you got out of combat. We didn’t have to do a million and one things to re-activate it after every single time you get into combat or anything aggros you.
Arturas had a decent bandaid fix, but it’s only a bandaid fix.
Please look into this.
Fishing or farming stuff underwater with Underlight Angler is stupid now… and extremely frustrating for players who have earned the Underlight Angler fishing pole and unlocked the perks.
Also, previously, we could equip it outside of water and immediately water-walk. Now we have to dive in, use the Nat Pagle fishing raft, cast a fish, then un-click the raft icon up the top to be able to water walk or use and activate Underlight Angler at all.
If I don’t mention this, maybe no one else will… and players who wish to get the Underlight Angler in future will have a hard time with it and end up completely ditching it. It’s such a nice feature with how easy it made fishing, water-walking and farming ores and herbs underwater even in combat.
I’d hate to see it get ignored.
From my chair, the only thing it’s useful for anymore is increased underwater swim speed.
And I still use it for that. But not tricks needed. Just enter the water, click the rod and … done. Once you’re done, you click on the new fishing tool, the game swaps them out and … done.
It kinda stinks replacing the Underlight Angler with a generic green fishing pole.
You don’t have to open the fishing journal anymore to equip the rod, for what it’s worth. Simply right-clicking it from your bag will automatically swap it with your currently-equipped rod.
It’s still annoying, no doubt.