There are many professions in World of Warcraft, but players can only have two at one time. There are a couple of often overlooked skills, though, that are considered to be secondary professions and these do not count towards that primary profession limit. These include cooking, archaeology and fishing. There are many benefits of training the World of Warcraft fishing skill, despite the fact that it is not required for players to learn it in order to complete quests or anything else.

World of Warcraft fishing is very similar to real life fishing. There are rules that have to be followed in order to be able to catch anything, including finding bodies of water that are deep enough or having a fishing pole. The primary goal of fishing is to catch fish, but players can also catch other objects on occasion like chests, herbs, low level equipment or even gems.

It is worth a player’s time to work on their World of Warcraft fishing skills, even though fishing does not have many benefits when it comes to leveling up or improving stats. Raw fish that was caught can be eaten directly or if a player possesses the cooking skill, can be cooked. Cooking improves the properties associated with fish. In addition, fish can be sold to vendors or through the auction house to other players needing the catch as a reagent, and cooked fish are also very valuable.

Learning how to fish in World of Warcraft is easy. Once a player has the right training and equipment, all that is needed is to find a body of water like a lake, river or pond. However, World of Warcraft fishing also applies to other liquid bodies like lava. Better results can be achieved by purchasing lures which come in many strengths and which are available at vendors that sell other equipment like fishing poles, recipes to cook your fish or even World of Warcraft fishing chairs.

When you are completely leveled up and your World of Warcraft fishing skill is maxed along with your cooking skill, you can make very good gold by selling cooked fish. Benefits of cooked fish include stamina, parry and dodge, spirit, intellect, agility, expertise, haste, crit, mastery or even an attribute known as useful when cooked. That just means that it will become the stat that is most important to the current player when they eat that particular food. There are even WoW fish and foods that will turn you into a pirate or ninja. The addons available to help you in your fishing, cooking and of course make a great gold are numerous, but the one that I recommend is Dugi Gold Academy.