I just noticed that fishing still doesnt have its own equipment slots like every other profession in the game. Is there a reason?
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It has two pieces of gear, the Fisherfriend (which is applied in the equipment slot) and the fishing cap (which you wear when you are fishing).
However, I agree that I dont see the logic of having to swap in and out of wearing the hat when it could just as easily have its own slot.
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Fishing has room to equip a Fishing Pole in the Fishing Journal. It’s mining that doesn’t have a slot to equip a pick.
Yes I am asking about the hat. Since why would I want to swap it on and off just while landing to fish?
It almost like a little bit of a copy from Final Fantasy - that game is set up so you have to actually equip a set of gear to do professions. As if, say, you were a blacksmith and had to put on gloves and goggles and a leather apron, etc to work at the anvil. I always found it incredibly irritating to have to keep swapping in and out of sets to do things. So this is a little bit of Blizzard adopting that.
Imagine if we had to do it with our crafting equipment/gear every time we wanted to make something… at least its not quite that bad. 
I’m not aware of any official answer, but back in DF beta, fishing had slots for hats and boots for a few updates, but the “on use” abilities of legacy gear in those slots made a horrible mess and after a couple of updates that broke the items in new ways the slots were removed entirely.
I don’t know why they haven’t done it. It really needs to be a thing because changing that hat all the time truly sucks. I would have thought they would have done better this time around.
Post above yours says why they did it. On use borked the system.
They need to fix that or let it just be only new equipment going in so that old crap doesn’t mess stuff up. Honestly it is a fail on their part that they haven’t already done so.
I agree, its the same for cooking. I mean seriously, what’s with the hat for cooking? You can’t just put in an extra slot so you can equip the hat?
If they were going to approach all professions this way, then you’d have to change your robe for tailoring, your cap for alchemy, your weapon for blacksmith, etc. Why do it for two and not for all?
Its ridiculous.
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July 2025 and no space for hat as a fishing tool yet…
August and still no hat spot
There’s a lot of legacy fishing gear, hats, boots, rods, lures. etc.
It really kind of sad that it’s all pretty useless now. Fishing bonuses only mater until you max your skill, and even then not that much.
Used to be a lot of work to go get that really good fishing gear, now you just buy the latest rod from the professions templated system.