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by Alex Ziebart 
Jun 17th 2010 at 9:00AM
The goblin fishing style is a reality. By way of El's Anglin', we've learned that you can indeed fish with dynamite in the World of Warcraft. EZ-Thro Dynamite to be specific. Watch the video embedded above to see it in action. There are some very strange limitations, however.
- Only EZ-Thro Dynamite (of both flavors) works for this. Other Engineering explosives do not!
- You must be between levels 10 and 19 to loot the items blowing up a fishing pool creates, no higher and no lower.
- Despite this level limitation, some of the items that come out of this are Burning Crusade era items such as Jaggal Pearls. Booze makes up most of the other items.
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 3)
DesertFox82 Jun 17th 2010 9:49AM
Blizzard, please make this happen for all levels. I don't even care if nothing of value is lootable afterward.
Just make this happen for me.
brandnewepisode Jun 17th 2010 10:17AM
Anyone can blow them up. Only 10-19 can loot.
dick Jun 17th 2010 9:53AM
lol
Nathanyel Jun 17th 2010 9:53AM
I don't know how dynamite fishing is viewed in the US, but the rest of the world's view of this, mostly shaped by TV and movies, is that it's "a redneck thing". I'd prefer subtler methods of fishing.
Mohsus Jun 17th 2010 9:59AM
Subtler? like as in using quieter dynamite?
Nathanyel Jun 17th 2010 10:39AM
As in using other methods of fishing.
Scilk Jun 17th 2010 11:03AM
Electrified fishing nets? Now that's an engineering recipe I'd want to get my hands on!
Alchemistmerlin Jun 17th 2010 11:03AM
Like C4?
Gillybean Jun 17th 2010 11:04AM
"a redneck thing"
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Hey Cledus! Y'all watch this! :p
brian Jun 17th 2010 3:14PM
Subtler? You mean like with a fishing pole?
Or are you talking Azeroth's Deadliest Catch?
Pat Jun 17th 2010 9:57AM
The fact that this has gone unnoticed by the majority for this long is just mind blowing! O.O
I'm hell keen to make an afternoon of this. Drink in game and rl with some buddys and net me some loot.
mneill Jun 17th 2010 10:00AM
Just tried, I can blow up the pools but it will not allow me to open containers. Fishing is maxed.
yarf Jun 17th 2010 10:14AM
Are you between level 10 and 19? Because if not, then perhaps you missed that little detail in the article?
Anyway, this is awesome. Does it actually level fishing?
mneill Jun 17th 2010 10:22AM
I had indeed missed that part, thank you for the heads up.
SpaceGoatPriest Jun 17th 2010 10:05AM
Makes you wonder what other little tidbits of stuff exist in the game that we don't know about. Either way as an avid fisherman in WoW, this is pretty awesome.
DigitalMonitor Jun 17th 2010 10:13AM
Just make sure you don't hold on the dynamite too long otherwise you'll end up with this:
http://www.wowhead.com/item=45323
yarf Jun 17th 2010 10:16AM
Maybe that's where it came from?
SamLowry Jun 17th 2010 3:15PM
So by helping the guy in Dalaran retrieve his arm we're just letting him go back to his redneck fishing ways?
Hmm, might have to think twice about doing that fishing quest anymore.
Ronin Jun 17th 2010 10:21AM
This is all kinds of awesome!
Thomas Prescott Jun 17th 2010 10:39AM
I think this is something Blizzard added intentionally a long time ago to see how long it would take for someone to put 2 and 2 together. Pretty sure they're laughing their asses off right now because something they put in several years ago finally was discovered.