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Kommentar von Erovila

hab mit 562er Angelskill angefangen + Seths Grafitangelrute + Wettergegerbter Angelhut + Aquadynamischer Fischanlocker

325x Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle
162x Roher Stoppelfühlerwels
2x Großer Heiltrank
1x Manatrank
1x 19-pfündiger Wels
1x Oberbrigadierstiefel
1x Pläne: Sengende Goldklinge
1x Majestätische Schärpe
1x Splitter der Finsternis

also nur schlappe 495mal geangelt, damit kann ich schon sehr froh sein, andere Paladine haben 1300-3200 Fische in der Tasche bis der Splitter dropte.

Geangelt bei (TomTom)
/way Westliche Pestländer 69.4 46.22 Splitter der Finsternis

Kommentar von Yondaimekage

Beim 131. mal.

Kommentar von Cytrox

Wochenlang für den Schleim gebraucht und dann 31x geangelt und ich hatte den Splitter der Finsternis

Kommentar von Imiona

Do i have to have the Asbringer equipped and not the FIshing Rod? 2336 Casts and counting.....

Kommentar von Zeronas87

Habe 4 Minuten und 30 Sekunden gebraucht.
Angelskill von 975
Tiefenlichtangler + Aquadynamischer Fischanlocker + Geschärfter Tuskarrspeer

Kommentar von Karpata

Vielleicht 50 mal Angeln. Skill um die 250 sonst nix. Einfach die holzangel. Vermutlich wurden Spawn Rate des Schleims und Droprate des Splitters gebufft. Schleim ging auch nur ca. 20 Minuten bis er wieder da war.

Kommentare

Kommentar von Mithrawn

Part of the "Corrupted Rememberance" Hidden Artifact Appearance for Retribution Paladins

This Item is fished from the Thondroril River after a conversation with Timolain der Verfluchte, who hurled it into the river long ago.

Kommentar von CloudsongTV

Got mine after ~800 casts

Kommentar von aeonarial

Paladins trying to fish for this should expect to have their patience tested. This is probably going to be the longest part to complete as it seems to have a very low fish up rate (I got Pläne: Goldene Schuppenschultern before getting mine and at the time of writing I'm coming up onto 800 casts) I'd suggest not being in any kind of group just in case it isn't lootable while in a group. If possible, try to find something to watch on netflix or youtube while fishing. Don't just do nothing as you may end up getting bored and giving up!

Edit: Finally fished mine up at 860 casts! Also went from 700 fishing to 800 fishing and I was using a bone fishing pole, but a friend of mine got his at closer to 400 with 800 and a normal pole so level may not be a factor.

Kommentar von Toena

Got my shard after over 1,300 casts. Be ready to be bored.

Kommentar von Chenkow

1700 casts atm and still nothing...

http://i.imgur.com/LHPjvB2.jpg

Kommentar von AragonJenkins

Does anyone mind telling me if you have a timer to fish it up?, like if you kill the slime and that does it have a timer in which you have to fish it up?

Kommentar von xShoqz

Got it after 350 times :D http://prntscr.com/co9my4

But dont know what to do with it :p

Kommentar von exodix

I've got it after 4542 casts! ... a whole day of farming :D

Kommentar von Sabretann

I believe many of the commenters here just killed the blob without looting it for one or the other reason (might be faction tagged by other faction etc)

You need to loot the blob, use the item and talk to the old mage that appears for 5 minutes. After that you can start fishing for this shard.

I got mine on the 82nd cast which seems a bit on the lucky side, but 4K+ casts seems unlikely.

Kommentar von weakEPC

214 casts after speaking to the lich/mage

http://i.imgur.com/t966mSI.png

Kommentar von Blaze1337

552 catches before i picked it up. If Lord Maxwell Tyrosus is out on a mission looks like your waiting till he comes back to use it.

Kommentar von Brugalter

2500 casts in no end in sight. Use the script have the prerequisites done...

Kommentar von fallensinner

~~Finally got mine after 2,898 casts.~~

EDIT: Sorry, I missed some. It was 2,987 casts

Kommentar von TantrikGH

1033 casts for me

Kommentar von captainloozer

For anyone who has already looted this from fishing, I have a question:

When you finally get this, does it make you confirm that you want to loot a BOP item before you loot it? I'm using auto loot but I'm so afraid it is going to do this and out of habit from the last 2k+ casts just cast again and lose it. Does anyone know if this goes straight into your bags or do you have to manually loot it?

Kommentar von captainloozer

So far I have

Rohe Mithrilkopfforellex1417
Roher Stoppelfühlerwelsx834
17-pfündiger Welsx6
19-pfündiger Welsx3
22-pfündiger Wels
Basaltring
Aurorahose
Manatrankx4
Großer Heiltrankx3
Große Reisetasche

No Shard of Darkness yet....

Kommentar von Vegedock

"Let's make the ooze take several hours to spawn....yes yes..... Oh and the item...lets make it a 1/10k chance while fishing...yes..." - Blizz HQ

Kommentar von haybrah

So, I'm that guy who got it on the 12th cast.
I rushed back to my class hall with joy and excitement, only to find Maxwell on a 12Hr mission.

The one time I get ridiculous luck in this world, and I shoot myself in the foot.

For the rest of you, just don't send maxwell out on a mission, you never know when you might get lucky. >.>

Kommentar von Andreakos

Another player i was fishing with, got it at 862 fishing casts / collected, meanwhile i am still here, 1100+.

Kommentar von livezor

guys just wondering what level of fishing do you need for this ?

Kommentar von sahails

Around 2050ish casts for me. Spent most of the day fishing. Had another Paladin in my group that got it within an hour (maybe around 100-200 casts).

RNG is not your friend here.

Kommentar von kellyislame

It finally dropped for me.

Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle x 2308
Roher Stoppelfühlerwels x 1266
19-pfündiger Wels x 14
17-pfündiger Wels x 10
Manatrank x 13
Großer Heiltrank x 7
Aufgedunsene Forelle x 1
Splitter der Finsternis x 1

Grand total: 3,620 casts. 800 base fishing skill when I started. Nats Trinkhut and Tiefenlichtangler equipped which equated to 1,020 skill. When your main spec is protection and you spend 36+ hours of game time farming for an artifact appearance for a weapon you will rarely (if ever) have equipped... #feelsbadman.

Kommentar von sheleronk

It took me roughly 2450 casts. Good luck to everyone!

http://imgur.com/a/6WHig

ps: i was fishing on the other side of the river

Kommentar von arthasbg

6+ hours of fishing and still nothing. Thanks RNGesus.

Kommentar von kwstakis

2300+ and still dont have loot from yesterday , anyone know what the drops chance might be on this ?

Father ! Is it.. over ?
No fisherman fish forever my son...
I see... only fishing .. before mee!

2800+ and nothing yet

Kommentar von Dominatorz

2300+ and nothing still...
Update: got it after this comment by 5 more Lol
http://imgur.com/a/ciXDG

Kommentar von Cokanovic

I got it after 609 casts!

Kommentar von Nexsa

Took me 701 casts.

Kommentar von sdpGotar

Got it after 3239 casts

Kommentar von RajahSummercry

23 casts

Kommentar von captainloozer

For anyone wondering if you're ready to start fishing, give this macro a shot. It'll tell you if you've done all the prerequisite parts:

/run local p,q,t=print,IsQuestFlaggedCompleted,tostring p('Talked to Prince Tortheldrin: '..t(q(43682)))p('Talked to Alexia/Bardu: '..t(q(43683)))p('Slime can drop Timolain: '..t(q(43684)))p('Shard can be fished up: '..t(q(43685)))

If all four lines return true, you're ready.

Kommentar von Dreamslave

72 casts, got mine!

Kommentar von Rhiak

I got mine after 4,082 casts.

I looted:
Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle x 2,567
Roher Stoppelfühlerwels x 1,473
17-pfündiger Wels x 7
19-pfündiger Wels x 9
22-pfündiger Wels x 4
26-pfündiger Wels x 1
Aufgedunsene Forelle x 2 (which both gave Jade)
Manatrank x 10
Großer Heiltrank x 8
Splitter der Finsternis x 1

This took approximately 17 hours worth of fishing. It was a good grind, and I wish good luck to others seeking this item!

Screenshot of my spoils

Kommentar von andreaszero0912

798 casts here. It's pure luck.

Also, fishing skill plays no role, guy next to me with 1 Fishing got it in 10 casts while it took 798 casts for me with 550 Fishing.

Kommentar von sness

246 Casts

Kommentar von captainloozer

Just got it this morning, start of the 4th day of fishing. Around 9k casts.

Kommentar von GeekTactics

3808 casts.

Kommentar von Gnarfoz

1195 casts \o/

Kommentar von Xerim7

Freedom after 3347 casts

Kommentar von Kelxin

160 casts I got it, maybe they raised the drop rate?

Kommentar von BlazeStoneZ

Do you need to have Legion fishing?
Because i'm at cast 9K + and still nothing.

Kommentar von Reixes

EDIT: Okay, so according to this tweet, they managed to fix the tapping issue. Thank GOD for that. https://twitter.com/Muffinus/status/783441317196029952

INCOMING SALT, KIDS.
tl;dr version: this was a poorly designed miniquest and I hope all of you still trying to get your phylactery drop/crystal fished up get it soon.

I got the hidden appearance today. After DAYS of fishing, I finally got this sucker. But I really have to ask...does Blizzard REALLY think this is fun?

Like, for real, let's be honest here: one of the major criticisms WoW has gotten during its lifespan is when it starts to feel less like a game and more like a job, so why the hell make getting a hidden appearance like this such a major pain?

Yeah, I get it. They wanted to pay homage to the old hoaxes surrounding the Ashbringer and how to get it, but the very INSTANT your game becomes a grindfest and a USELESS one at that (note how you get NO fish of use from this. They could've made it so that the narrative said it washed to a zone in the Broken Isle where you could get materials of use at the same time AND progress on your fishing artifact), itstops being fun and it becomes work- You know, I don't even know if I can call it work, because there's at least decent payoff to working. It felt more like a waste of time.

WAITING for a mob to spawn and hoping your faction got the tag and that you're one of the five lucky people who got the party kill (and come on, we have the coding for mobs to give credit to ALL who tag it and even level scaling, so what was the deal here?) is the ANTITHESIS of fun.

Fishing for THOUSANDS of casts, and I know it's RNG but for GOD'S sake they could've had nodes you could have fished in or a '100/100 casts reeled in' check point in the quest, is the ANTITHESIS of fun.

Even if you can boil down world quests and getting artifact power to grinding, at least that feels kinetic. At least I'm exploring the world and DOING something. It has momentum and a feeling of progress.

Sitting on my rear for HOURS on end, HOPING I get lucky does NOT instill a feeling of discovery. The Disc priest hidden appearance? Where I go about, trying to piece together parts of a lost tome from all over the world? THAT SOUNDS LEAGUES MORE FUN. At least I'm EXPLORING THE WORLD. At least I'm MOVING. At least those monster you have to kill are there and NOT something you have to COMPETE for. There are SO MANY different ways this could have been made more fun, more involving, and more intuitive. But no. This was a disappointment.

This? This was bad design, and to the people who are still waiting for the slime to spawn and drop the phylactery for them, who are high in their lines casted numbers, I'm sorry, and I hope you get your progress soon. They need to change these numbers up, really.

/end rant

Kommentar von col0r

Got it after around 400 casts. Very lucky I guess. Also I got to kill the slime the second I got there

Kommentar von Aruzar

I managed to snag the vile slime right after doing Halls of Valor after dungeon resets on 10/4/16 at approximately 08:30 PST and then only after 4 casts I received the shard.

I'm not sure if fishing level makes any difference, however, I was at 800. I'm guessing I got extremely lucky.

Good luck to everyone trying to obtain their skin!

And a friendly reminder:

If Tyrosus is on a mission you cannot complete the follow up until he's done!

I have to wait 9 hours to get my skin now.

Kommentar von Flowmy

Got it after 998 casts

Kommentar von Leftkeywest

This seems to not be dropping for me as of yet.

Kommentar von Gwelwenant

Using the Artifact Fishing Pole with a Fishing Skill of 860 this took me exactly 875 casts to fish up.

Kommentar von Grortraugh

1500 casts. Good luck all.

Kommentar von MorbidDawn

Got it after around 600 casts. Also DO NOT send Maxwell on a mission when farming for this, or else you'll have to wait for it to be over until you can get your weapon. I learned that the hard way.

Kommentar von TheUltimate3

Started with 130 or so fishing, with no special rod.

Currently sitting at 459 casts. Trying to see how much an effect a non-Fishing artifact has on this.

Kommentar von ThatWhichSmashs

Got it on my 58th cast. Base 800 fishing skill, using the stick to fish with.

Kommentar von Frostybolts

PSA: You do NOT need to be right by where the slime spawns to get your shard

I just got it south of the bridge, at 69,53 (since a bunch of fake Horde Paladins were camping the slime spawn area)

Also heard from a Paladin on discord (so unconfirmed) that he obtained it while in a raid

Kommentar von YUreca

254 fishing skill and around 400 casts and it fished,owm to pick my cool skin,good luck guys

Kommentar von Arnathon

411 casts, using the artifact fishing pole and worm supreme, not sure if it mattered!

Kommentar von Krowe

1423 casts for me.

My friend next to me got it after just 231. I have seen people get it in both a 5 man party, as well as while we were in a raid...so you can get it in both.

Kommentar von Afriman

"You see mystery is an intellectual process, for suspense is essentially an emotion"

Thank you for the Script. At least i know i'm doing it right.

Kommentar von Yurnero

51 casts.

Screenshot for proofs: http://imgur.com/a/SklIH

Good luck, everyone. :)

Kommentar von Leorius

4200 and counting.

I'm probably a few hours away from resorting to blood sacrifice to get this shard.

Edit: 4224 casts , I got the shard within 24 casts of using my little boston terrier Greta's paw to push my fishing button.

Her RNG is pretty awesome apparently.

Kommentar von 1676658

Disable your add-ons! I was 2600 fish deep with nothing meaningful to show for it. I could swear I had seen purple letters in my loot window out of the corner of my eye before auto-loot closed it on me several times. I admit I wasn't the most attentive fisherman, so I brushed it off.

Others are reporting auto-loot issues with fishing lures, and that they've seen the shard show up like I have, and likewise haven't gotten it. I think an add-on may be to blame here!

I disabled all of my add-ons, fished up literally five fish, went afk to grab a snack, then fished up the shard on my first cast back!

I don't think it actually has as low a drop rate as we think. I could be wrong. It could be a complete coincidence. I hope I'm right, though! Good luck, brothers and sisters!

Kommentar von kilahpaladin

Spent 4 days total on fishing for this ridiculous, ridiculous item. I found myself at times cursing the game, wondering if my quest is actually working (Kept running the macro for progress.. SHARD CAN BE FISHED UP: TRUE always lol).

I have to iterate what other people have said here. This is the furthest thing from FUN in a very long time.

This felt tedious, arduous, and completely un-necessary. Like what about making a REAL bad-luck system? If you don't fish it up in 1000 casts, youll get a 10% increased chance to fish it up on the next cast, etc. Some kind of mechanic to actually know you are working TOWARDS something.

My biggest fear was that this would wind up in my Zin'Rokh bag of gigantic F yous in this game. Spent 3 months working the RNG on Zin'Rokh and I still never found it.

---
Shard took 4 days, 20 hours, and over 3500 casts.
---

Lenny Kravitz's "It ain't over till it's over" was my mantra here for the last week.

Good luck and godspeed Paladins, just because you are on the last part of the quest DOES NOT MEAN YOU WILL EVER GET IT.

I feel like that should be the preface to this quest. You simply may never find it. Period.

----

Couple more details:

I started at 0 fishing. I had 800 fishing before it came up. I grinded 0-800 doing this.

I only spent about 2 hours after hitting 800 before it showed up. I'm not convinced fishing DOESN'T have something to do with your luck or chances here.

I had auto-loot on, and when I clicked the bobber, the loot window opened, and STAYED open. Shard of Darkness looking at me in the face, requiring me to manually loot it and put it in my bags.

The ending quest to this is fantastic, provided you ever see it.

Kommentar von Lightstylez

My Results

Caught Splitter der Finsternis on my 1,067th cast
Started at lvl 700 fishing and hit 800 about half-way into fishing
I used Seths Grafitangelrute with Extraordinärer Wurm bait - Although from current results it appears fishing skill doesn't matter, it's all RNG.
Make sure to go buy some Übergroßer Schwimmer It will make your fishing bobber much easier to click :) Lasts 30 min

Loot:
370x Roher Stoppelfühlerwels
681x Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle
3x 17-pfündiger Wels
3x 19-pfündiger Wels
6x Großer Heiltrank
1x Manatrank
1x Mammutbaumhammer
1x Karneolschleife
1x Splitter der Finsternis

Good Luck Everyone! Hope this helps

Kommentar von Gammosh

I got it in under 40. This other guy who looted slime with me got it in 2 casts. He looted phylactery and linked Shard of Darkness within 20 seconds. However, his Tyrosus was on mission for 4 hours so I ended up beating him to the sword skin. But at 2 casts, that guy is in the Hall of fame.

And you better not down vote this. Cuz you will just be down voting the truth. >:(

Kommentar von Rhagus

Fun fact: you can fish up second Shard of Darkness, even if you already obtained Corrupted Ashbringer skin.

But why would anyone in their right mind even attempt that?

Kommentar von Cobopolies

Got mine after 388 casts so I was fortunate. My advice is to install the fishing buddy addon, put WoW into windowed mode and set it to a split screen with a browser. I was able to pass the time more easily while reading things on the interwebs.

Kommentar von Chevron

32 casts only. I got off easy as with the Slime.

Kommentar von Alienatedflea

2100 casts until I got it. But basically, if the RNG gods are in your favor then you wont have to spend DAYS fishing this up. Best of luck !

Kommentar von aeminence

I got it after about 200-350 casts.

I only spent like, 2-3 in game hours on it. Keep it up guys, its very RNG.

Kommentar von SiliconX

1085 casts and finally it dropped. I've done a lot of grindy stuff in this game including pre-Cata Insane in the membrane, pre-Cata Loremaster and a whole slew of other mindelssly terrible grinds that I've supressed the memories for and I can honestly say this felt like one of the worst.

Good luck to all you Pallies still on this part of the quest, I hope you get it much quicker than I did because I feel dead inside.

Kommentar von Bluedraenei

Just got it with 2587 casts. Was getting so many Uncommon items and 22, 19 & 17-pfündiger Wels. I thought I'd never catch it. Then I fished up something purple... Splitter der Finsternis at last! Keep at it, everyone!

My loot, specified:

- Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle x 1638
- Roher Stoppelfühlerwels x 917
- Großer Heiltrank x 9
- 19-pfündiger Wels x 8
- Manatrank x 7
- 17-pfündiger Wels x 2
- 22-pfündiger Wels x 1
- Aufgedunsene Forelle x 1, which contained Geringer Mondstein x 1
- Steinfräserclaymore x 1
- Wilde Axt x 1
- Glyphenverzierter Umhang x 1
- Splitter der Finsternis x 1

Kommentar von Dhajire

might as well add to it....

2301 casts,
I stood in the EPL zone while fishing.

was fishing lv 800 with artifact pole (860 total)

good luck fellow paladins.

Kommentar von Nothudor

Took me 2,496 casts.

Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle x 1,573
Roher Stoppelfühlerwels x 900
17-pfündiger Wels x 6
22-pfündiger Wels x 2
26-pfündiger Wels x 1
Manatrank x 9
Großer Heiltrank x 2
Ältestenrobe x 1
Jägersmannstiefel x 1
Spitzelstiefel x 1
Splitter der Finsternis x 1

Kommentar von Skannerz22

fishing buddy addon shows it has 0.2% drop chance right after i looted it from the river
604 casts TOTAL on different days

Kommentar von Thalas95

Commenting to up my luck. This is getting out of hand, help me.

Kommentar von LoboMDQ

I fished at the side of the river about 1000 fish, until I saw a black ghost at 69.29 44.94, like those hovering in the basements of Karazhan.

Wanted to target but could not, so it was not a NPC but rather a map animation. I went to the exact spot where he was, used rod and I get Splitter der Finsternis. I am more than convinced that taking the place of that black ghost u fish this item.

Just need someone else to check this and also check out other coordinates besides that. Good luck and hope to help them.

PD: Sorry for my bad english.

Kommentar von cruelwild

I just looted the Shard of Darkness.

Took me 704 cast to get it.

x443
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You should maximize your fishing skill, because you will catch fish faster.

With 1000+ fishing skill, I sometimes caught fish about 3 times faster, than my friend who started with close to zero skill.

If you play on a pvp server. I would highly recommend that you move to the southern part of the Thondroril River.

Kommentar von clinique

I play two paladins, one alliance, one horde.

My alliance pally fished it up in under 300 casts.

My horde pally took 4,337 casts total over 3 days...

The drop rate is definitely all over the place, good luck to everyone!

Kommentar von 1690022

Warning to all those farming :
When fishing, make sure you receive your loot before casting another line because it will cancel the loot even if you autoloot. I saw the shard and pressed my fishing button before it got in my bags so I didn't get it. Postmaster didn't send it to me either.

Kommentar von chonginese

Can confirm that this sum^&*!@ does, indeed, exist. Rather than a drop rate, I think this item is connected to some sort of despair meter (like how the Xavius fight has a corruption meter). I was literally one cast away from losing hope when I finally saw the purple.

Took about 2400 casts with a few frustrated prematurely canceled casts that may or may not have contained the shard.

Kommentar von LegacyZA

Fished just a little over 400 fishes, got tired, logged out, logged back in, 30 fishes later I got it, I don't know if it was coincidence... Perhaps that makes the game register the "SHARD CAN BE FISHED UP: TRUE"?

Who knows... anyhoo good luck peeps. :)

Kommentar von Derock

Got it after 1337 casts.

Getting it wasn't that fun, but at least i got a laugh out of it.

also started it with no fishing skill or a pole. ended with level 524

Kommentar von imkoreanlawl

About 2300 casts, and still nothing. The light is fading.

Update: About 15 mins roughly 100 casts after I posted I got the shard, gl all :)

Kommentar von Mayia

Almost at 3k casts i am well and truly "over it" this and the rogue rng drops are just so $%^&ed up
Its either epic and takes you days, or some !@#$ty noob its lucky with the spawn and gets the shard first cast, and its not ^&*!ing epic at all.
Blizzard should've either made a fill the shard with a higher drop chance of pieces, and made the slime spawn lower, or just not !@#$ed with us so much.

I was hoping to see some more suggestions or tips upon visiting the page but all of today people who've got it have been at random points in the same bit of river.
only suggestion i do have is fish on a pve server there are some twats about ganking for the fun of it because most of us aren't paying much attention.

Kommentar von Cleric75

Can anyone explain to me why it takes Retribution Paladins thousands of fishing casts and hours of gametime (during which your toon is not advancing, during which you gain no useful items), but Beast Master and Marksmanship Hunters can buy their appearances for 8,000g and 1,700g, respectively?

Kommentar von antbanks51

2,237 casts over a 4 day span and still nothing. Hopefully they improve the odds of fishing this up in a future patch. Most frustrating thing I've ever done on WoW.

Kommentar von Mymindaway

698 casts and it dropped for me!

Kommentar von proKuehlt

Took me 2229 casts. Finally got it.

Kommentar von hitsilent

there is known bug for loot this item, when you got pop up window, even you set auto loot or right click, it still not put in to your bag, i already file a ticket for it , but my friend has same issue, but GM help nothing. gonna let request blizzard give us a result.

Kommentar von hitsilent

known bug

http://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20749725028

Kommentar von Elnaris

782 casts. Turn on a movie or a show you need to catch up on and just don't watch the clock. GL guys.

Kommentar von Chestas

Took me 1388 clicks ... was FUN .. thank you netflix !

Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle x 793
Roher Stoppelfühlerwels x 578
Großer Heiltrank x 10
19-pfündiger Wels x 2
17-pfündiger Wels x 4
Splitter der Finsternis x 1

Kommentar von Noxial

1698 casts! stay strong highlords!

Kommentar von SadHyena

For the love of the light, have autoloot toggled on! I had gotten so used to just clicking the fishing button over and over and over that I clicked it again when the shard dropped... And an unlooted shard is like a fart in the wind.

Kommentar von Colsheppard

618 fish caught to get mine

Kommentar von Ermik13

1000 fish and still nothing
a guy i was with got it after 2400 fishes
will keep updated

Edit: shard dropped at 1350 give or take
good luck to all exept blizz dev team

Kommentar von HeebiJeebus

2883...but worth it.

Kommentar von Darkrey00

500+fishes within 2 hour farm, could say i got off easy with RNG

Kommentar von lennux

2521 casts

Kommentar von adorina

300 casts exactly.

Kommentar von 844704

got it on 327 cast

Kommentar von Cubanmex

After over 1,800 cast I decided to take off auto loot since there were several instances where I would get a "you cant loot this item" error.
Low and behold I got the Shard of Darkness 15 minutes later, not 100% sure this was the reason but it may have been so I hope this helps.

Kommentar von Saltychip

575 casts and counting posting here for RNG hype life

Kommentar von Kijo

Finally got it after 2700 casts and it was an horrible yet interesting experience..

I never had so many random conversations with nice people and so many hordes around me without a fight starting every 5 minutes.

Good luck to you all paladins.

Kommentar von Rotting

the RNG really sucks on this Shard 400 casts in and nothing and ive seen 3 people kill the slime sit fishing for 20 minutes or so then have it drop come on blizz fix this i could be lvling my druid.

Kommentar von Loreylan

1200 and nothing..

Kommentar von blaaker

3235 casts... finally got it.

stay strong friends.

Kommentar von Nathalanti

I got this today after about 615 casts, so it may take a few hours to get.

Kommentar von Zeraphiel

I managed to get mine tonight in exactly 129 casts. I don't know if fishing skill is involved, but mine is maxed out, and I used the Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat and the Bone Fishing Pole to get a +104 to Fishing. Again, not sure it helped, but this is what I did.

Kommentar von 1058959

Can be fished up while IN A RAIDGROUP.
I was on the bench for our Mythic push and did half of my casts during that time, during which- I fished up the Shard of Darkness.
In total: 981casts
1 Splitter der Finsternis
1 Weisenstock
1 Aufgedunsene Forelle (containing one Jade)
2 Großer Heiltranks
4 "X" Pound Catfish (2x17,1x19,1x22) Held in off-hands
8 Manatranks
342 Roher Stoppelfühlerwels
623 Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle

In the light, we are one/Be excellent to each other, and PARTY ON DUDES!

EDIT: Remember to DROP FROM RAID if you are doing the next step of the quest, as being in a raid-group will stop quest credits, even though you will be able to accept new quests into your log.

Kommentar von victorvilnerdk

56 casts.
Terrible sorry lads, guess my RNG is preeeetty good sometimes.

Kommentar von Sabbotage

this is seriously pissing me off, i have spent 10 hours non stop fishing and STILL cant get this god damn Shard.....im getting very very angry about this.....wasting all my damn time.

Kommentar von WoWplayer001

1,196 casts. Finally got it.

Auto-Loot didn't grab it. Out of habit (after having done this 1,195 times), I immediately hit my cast hot key again. I saw it in the loot box. And because auto-loot failed to pick it up, I lost it.

I opened a petition to see if a GM will help. If they don't, then F this from the bottom of my heart. Hours and hours wasted. What is this, EQ?

Kommentar von CNellemose

900 casts and still going strong.

Kommentar von WoWplayer001

Per WoW GM:

1) Turn off auto-loot while fishing for this
2) Don't use add-ons (they say that for everything - I don't use them anyway)
3) Shard not looting is a known issue
4) We won't give it to you

As a former GM myself, I know for a fact that when items are "fished" they are essentially put into compartmentalized, non-existant "chests". Each chest has an ITEM ID in the logs. All they need to do is pull up log files for the day, do a search for the Shard of Darkness' item id, and they'll find it in one of the "invisible chests".

Very shocked to see they wouldn't help. I used to do stuff like this all the time, especially when Tank loot bags for random dungeons would disappear or fail to appear in the tank's inventory after the dungeon was completed (this was a huge problem during Cata).

Kommentar von Oixio

Will to live diminishes with every cast ...

Kommentar von Dehir

Got mine around 1000 cast. So when ppl report getting around 3k i consider myself lucky.
As i got the book easily and slime spawned while i entered area stayed there around 30 minutes then quit to install server hop.

After logged back the boss was right there didn't even need to use server hop. Soloed slime ilvl862 without buffs.

Kommentar von Daibosa

They might have changed the drop chance of the shard. I did my hidden artifact quest last night and got the shard on the 18th cast. If anyone has any concrete proof of the change, link it in the reply. Otherwise, it might be one of Blizzards ghost changes or I used all of the luck up within my lifespan.

Kommentar von Punches

Killed the Großer übler Schleim after rolling restarts today.
38 Total Casts with 800 Fishing + Artifact Fishing Pole
23 X Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle
14 X Roher Stoppelfühlerwels
1 X Splitter der Finsternis

I was also wearing Glückshemd

Kommentar von JakkFrost

Don't know if it made any difference, but I used the artifact fishing pole Tiefenlichtangler, and got my shard in around 20 casts. I may have just been lucky though.

Kommentar von ShadowFlayer

RNG Loved me today, as i spent about 10 minutes waiting on slime spawn and then recieved my shard on my Very first fishing cast.

Kommentar von V3rtige

Got it after 114 fishes... :p

Kommentar von Deadprime

337 casts for me, just don't give up. I'm luckier then most but I was preparing for the worst, keep your head high and it'll all be ok in the end

Kommentar von unpallied

So i hate to ask but are there any devs that could let me know if applying a fishing rod, and items that increase skill affect my chances of getting the stone or not?

Kommentar von Razorgrace

Got it on my 15th cast. Proof.

Some facts:

Learned fishing 10 mins ago in Ironforge
Was fishing at the same place where the slime was killed
No lure, no line, no fishing gear or any kind of enchant/food/etc.
No fishing pole -- just was casting whatever is provided by default
Casting was bound to mousewheel; no automation beyond this, no addons
Auto loot was enabled
Was not in a group

Kommentar von Takius

Got it after 1738 casts. Not too bad I suppose.

Kommentar von ShadowProphet

Found it after a little over 1200 casts. Don't lose hope fellow fishers!

Kommentar von Drazor47

This thing is awful to farm, and just awfully design. I get that they wanted to pay homage to the Vanilla design for "getting" Ashbringer, but this is ridiculous. An insanely large spawn time for a slime that may or may not spawn once a day, if you get so lucky, and then a 1 in 10k chance while fishing?

"Yep, that totally sounds like a good time." - Blizz Dev

And I pray you aren't like me and play on a PvP server. When your patience is already hair-thin, nothing is worse than the one group of paladins on the opposite faction waiting for the slime to spawn, and since they cant farm the slime, they choose to farm you.

Blizzard, if you actually read the reception of this quest, the person who thought this would be a great idea, and that people would actually enjoy this, should be fired.

Kommentar von Dirk84

Got it in around 8.200 casts (in the pic below u will find around 8.040, the rest like potions, greens, non stackable rare fishes, etc.. was trashed for inventory reasons).
The actual probability, for me, is 0,00012% and almost 25 hours of fishing.

Proof

What i suggest to "enjoy" the journey is:

Turn off auto loot (atm some players experienced the "cannot loot item" which prevents them from looting the fished shard)
Turn off all addons
Buy giant bobbers from fishing vendors (that will help a lot when playing in windowed mode)
Configure WoW for windowed mode
Reduce the game window to its minimum size
Turn off all audio setting apart from effects (u need to know when to click the bobber)
When in position zoom to max so, in front of you, there will be only water and the bobber
Put wow window in one of the screen corners and watch film/tv series until u're done

Good luck.

Kommentar von oren248

1887 catches, 7hours, day wasted fishing.

Kommentar von Gillrien

Got it on my 1822nd cast, don't give up hope.

Kommentar von Clique05

Got it after 40 casts....

Confirmed drop rate is buffed.

PROOF:

http://imgur.com/a/rZUCZ?

Kommentar von dzur

didnt read any comments before started fishing, after 870 casts i couldnt loot it due to auto-loot bug. dont do this to yourself, disable auto-loot :/

Kommentar von Leandoer

Got it in about 300 casts. FeelsGoodMan

Kommentar von dythe

I both congratulate and envy those who got theirs in less than 1000 casts. At the same time, I'm like... if only you knew...
You know what they say. Stare long enough into the abyss and the abyss stares back into you.

I fished for maybe 30 minutes before installing Fishing Buddy. Here's the info from Fishing Buddy upon fishing up the Shard:

Total time spent: 14:00:51
Total casts: 2876. Skill: 741. (Was using basic vendor fishing pole)
Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle (1818)
Roher Stoppelfühlerwels (1036)
19-pfündiger Wels (7)
Großer Heiltrank (6)
17-pfündiger Wels (3)
Manatrank (2)
26-pfündiger Wels (1)
Jade (1)
22-pfündiger Wels (1)
Splitter der Finsternis (1)

I did this WITH autoloot on; it autolooted to me without any issues. I use ElvUI with XLoot - maybe one of those makes it work. I also had all my addons (many) enabled. However, it is better safe than sorry. Also was ret spec with ret loot spec.

Did this while watching youtube videos and movies in sessions spanning 1-2+ hours at a time. It ended up taking me 15 days from getting the fishing stage to completing it. Obviously, many days I didn't fish. I also missed a lot of catches due to not hearing (even with Fishing Buddy) and/or not paying attention.

However, in the session I got it, I had only been fishing for 11 minutes and got it on my 46th catch. I've seen a lot of posts mentioning getting it right away, or getting it after returning, and it seems there is potentially something to the theory that a fresh session may have a better chance... however, that is not provable nor would I advise approaching this quest like that.

Fishing buddy, videos/movies, and heaps of patience. I only really did it when I had nothing else I wanted to do ingame. Please save your sanity.

Kommentar von marekslv

This RNG killing game fun!

Fishing 0-769,more how 3k trys and finally get Shard.

GL all!

Kommentar von SwiftHunter

Just finished.
Fishing skill after I finished was a 98/700
Used basic Fishing Pole

I got after 80 casts
45x Raw Mithril Head Trout
33x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
1x 17 Pound Catfish
1x Shard of Darkness

Here is the screenshot of what I got.
Screenshot

Kommentar von Durso89

Got it after 2,3k throws. Got it on my 3rd throw, just AFTER the server reset. Here's my theory. To limit people with corrupted skin on the server, shard of darkness will drop only up to a certain number in a week, meaning the later in a week you try to fish it - the smaller your chance.

I thought about it yesterday and it worked just now. Try it out yourself.

Kommentar von masterAragorn1

Well i got extremely lucky mine dropped after 60 casts.

Kommentar von o0ark0o

I got pretty lucky at 843 casts. Do not give up! And make sure to have auto loot OFF when you fish for this!
Also, when you get it, don't announce it to the others around you... makes them... salty.

Kommentar von Indypendnt

After 975 casts I obtained this bad boy. 11:25pm West Coast time.

Kommentar von Dorrim

Just got Splitter der Finsternis, 28/11 06:11 after around 1.1k casts. Have auto loot on with no problem looting. Now I just have to wait for 8 hours for Maxwell to return from mission.

I wish everyone else happy fishing and good luck!

Kommentar von Gadoink4

Got it today after 5717 casts. Results:

3670 Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle
1976 Roher Stoppelfühlerwels
17 17-pfündiger Wels
14 19-pfündiger Wels
7 22-pfündiger Wels
1 Aufgedunsene Forelle (containing a Jade)
15 Großer Heiltrank
11 Manatrank
1 Jade (separate from the one in the Bloated Trout)
1 Haltbare Hose of the Eagle
1 Ältestenhose of the Eagle
1 Beschwörerhandschuhe of the Whale
1 Jägersmannhandschuhe of the Owl
1 Splitter der Finsternis

Kommentar von StormGryphon

This sucked so hard. I'm pretty sure there is a bug right now that will prevent you from looting it if you have auto loot on. Twice I got a message saying "You cannot loot this item right now" and though I did not actually see the shard in the loot window, I can only guess it meant that since there was never an incident of my not looting the fish I'd caught. So for those of you still working on this, I will offer you this friendly piece of advice:

TURN OFF AUTO LOOT WHILE YOU ARE FISHING FOR THIS ITEM

I fished for almost 8 hours straight, catching well over a thousand fish, went from 350-something in fishing to 781, but it is worth it in the end when you feel that sense of triumph when you - finally - fish up the shard.

To everybody still working on the rare spawn and the shard, I wish you the best of luck. Don't give up! It's totally worth it in the end!

Kommentar von gunsrequiem

Can confirm that fishing level has nothing to do with this. I was in the low 100's and finished up right around 240. Took me about 150-170 casts.

I feel terrible for all of those who have spent days fishing for this! I met a bunch of them while fishing and I truly hope they get theirs soon. I guess RNG is just more forgiving for some.

Kommentar von Keydiam

Do you know that the Church of the Holy Light has three basic virtues in their belief? One of them is patience. And you will need a whole lot of it, when you try to do this part of the quest chain.

Kommentar von Xiosgold

Took me about 18,000 cast to get my Sea Turtle & Riding Turtle from my Garrison, so Shard, come at me bruh.

Kommentar von ScarTierII

Well i got lucky, it only toked me 542 casts.

Kommentar von TrisarA

1534 Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle
677 Roher Stoppelfühlerwels
6 17-pfündiger Wels
3 19-pfündiger Wels
2 22-pfündiger Wels
1 Aufgedunsene Forelle with a Jade
8 Großer Heiltrank
4 Manatrank

And still going... Went from early 300s to maxed out 800 fishing on this...

My will is no longer my own...

Madness has consumed me...

Kommentar von jkierkegaard

And I'm usually not even very patient. I knew there could still be potential thousands of casts before I'd get the shard, but I was reaching my limit. At least I have a second monitor so I could watch stuff at the same time.

Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle x 1945
Roher Stoppelfühlerwels x 1128
17-pfündiger Wels x 2
19-pfündiger Wels x 4
22-pfündiger Wels x 2
32-pfündiger Wels x 2 (at least I got Einer, der nicht entkam)
Großer Heiltrank x 7
Manatrank x 5
Splitter der Finsternis x 1

Almost 3100 casts. Worth it? Dunno, but now at least I have an appearance very few people have.

Now at least I can start focusing on other stuff again. :)

Kommentar von chisse91

i got Lucky got it after 653 casts

Kommentar von Devanika

I know it has been mentioned before, but I feel like it's worth reaffirming to people that you can absolutely fish this up anywhere along the river.

I fished up my Splitter der Finsternis within sight of Tirion Fordring's old house. Took me a lot of casts to get, but I didn't mind too much... It occurred to me that Tirion probably sat there doing the same thing to put food on the table back before we met him for the first time in Vanilla.

... you're sorely missed, old friend. :(

Kommentar von timmy1080

Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle x1890
Roher Stoppelfühlerwels x1056
Aufgedunsene Forelle x1
22-pfündiger Wels x1
19-pfündiger Wels x5
17-pfündiger Wels x8
Manatrank x6
Großer Heiltrank x3
Splitter der Finsternis

DONT LOSE HOPE... i did multiple times watching other pallies walk away with the shard after waiting for the spawn then catching it <100 casts....
you can do it! i believe in you!

Kommentar von Malicious1

1,047 casts.

Raw Mithril head Trout. (682)
Raw Whisker Catfish. (357)
Bloated Trout. (2)
19 Pound Catfish. (1)
Mana Potion. (2)
Greater health Potion. (1)
Nightly Sky Orb. (1)
Shard of Darkness! (1)

Kommentar von Exavier

~2200 casts to finally get. Hours of my time I'll never get back.

I find it ironic that an NPC remarks "I thought it was just a myth..." after turning this in. I was beginning to think it was too.

Kommentar von Patral8

Do you have to fish it up the same day or can you come back another time?

Kommentar von Moonwired

My stats

Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle x 1968
Roher Stoppelfühlerwels x1063
17-pfündiger Wels x3
19-pfündiger Wels x7
22-pfündiger Wels x2
32-pfündiger Wels x1
Aufgedunsene Forelle x2
Manatrank x7
Großer Heiltrank x6
Schildwachenarmschienen x2
Muster: Grünes Seidenpack x1
Feldplattengurt x1
Jazeraintstiefel x1
Splitter der Finsternis x1

This was a horrible experience for me, my RNG was especially bad, higher then average.
However there'ss another reason besides all the for mentioned ones.
I'm on a PvP sever, and as this quest is becoming more mainstream, its attacking the attention of some truly horrible people. I got well annoyed with getting interrupted all the time. And there where several moments where I had an entire team of gankers on me. Cause of-course 1v2 fights are way to risky for these cowards.
6v1 from time to time. Using consumables and all kinds of dirty tricks for the sole purpose of interrupting progress on this. This isn't world PvP. Its Harassment and blizzard if you're going to do a stupid RNG quest like this atleast make it a PvP freezone.. thanks

fwi twisting nether people I'm coming for you

Kommentar von 1045563

Fished up on 984th cast
639 Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle
337 Roher Stoppelfühlerwels
4 19-pfündiger Wels
3 Großer Heiltrank
1 Splitter der Finsternis

I did not farm continuously, but only every few days.

Kommentar von nikkaz

Probably people will hate me for this and down-vote me but that's life..I wanted to share that it only took me 16 casts of fishing and i literally just got the profession..I am not saying this to brag but only so that people know its pure RNG and u might even get it with the First cast

Kommentar von rimjus

As I'm fishing, I'm wondering if anyone has tested the drop rate with the Underlight Angler (the Fishing Artifact). I wouldn't put it past Blizzard to almost require that for a decent drop rate. Especially with the rest of this whole quest line.

Kommentar von grafspe806

As of 12-16-16 i have 7 hours and 30 minutes of nonstop fishing and still nothing , saw the slime spawn 2 more times and ppl killed it. Sorry to say but this is horrid game design , you are in no way making any progress to a goal only wasting time and hoping for RNG . The thing i would like to say about Blizz for this can not be said here

Kommentar von ForeverSol

I got mine after 255 casts. Was really fun talking to other paladins from other servers. Good luck folks.

Kommentar von ladorna

359 casts to fish up the Shard. Fishing skill of 800 with no buffs.

224 Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle
132 Roher Stoppelfühlerwels
1 Hacking Cleaver
1 19-pfündiger Wels
1Citrine

Kommentar von GarinH

maxed out on fishing, it took me 1162 casts

Kommentar von aviaticlol

Took me 1314 Casts.

Kommentar von Shauolin

Here is my experience with fishing this, THING! I lost track of the hours I was stood there but I saw 3 slimes spawn while I was online and saw various people come and go, I saw people fish it up in under 1000 which burned me inside knowing I was THOUSANDS of casts ahead of them. The RNG on this item is ridiculous!
Thanks to all the other Paladins who kept it amusing to fish with!

Casts:
0-1000 - was expected
1000-2000 - Hmm ok...
2000-3000 - COME ON!
3000-4000 - The cake is a Lie!
4772 - MY PRECIOUS!

I caught:
Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle x 3047
Roher Stoppelfühlerwels x 1686
Manatrank x 9
Großer Heiltrank x 8
17-pfündiger Wels x 4
19-pfündiger Wels x 11
22-pfündiger Wels x 5
26-pfündiger Wels x 1
Lederschuppenschultern x 1
Splitter der Finsternis x 1

Kommentar von huxark

1334 casts give or take.
fishing skill 200 when I started.
Took me like 5 hours with breaks.
Fished at slime spawn point. Help some other palas with their slime when it spawned.
Good luck!

Kommentar von hstella

they pretty much Nerf Spawn time of Slime now, must be 15-20 Min

also for me, fishing shard was pretty fast not even hit 800:

fishing skill went from 580 to 789

930 cast no more than 2 hours total of fishing

drops were the same of other post: bunch of fish, couple of potions, some off hand cat fishes and Splitter der Finsternis

Kommentar von Serbanr

Got it today.
Only cast my fishing pole 382 times. :)

Kommentar von trelliema

If you're like me, and haven't leveled fishing on your Paladin, the fishing trainer Clyde Kellen (Horde only) is just a short flight away in Tirisfal.

Kommentar von olania

Less than an hour for the slime to spawn, followed by getting the crystal in 21 casts.

Going to be a long expansion now that I've used up all of my RNG for the next couple of years.

Also - fishing skill definitely has zero bearing, as my paladin in question hadn't even trained the skill yet when she got the phylactery off of the slime. Had to go back to Dalaran, train apprentice fishing, then go back to the river.

Kommentar von Nimel

Can be done in raid group.
You don't need Ashbringer equipped, I was fishing with fishing pole and fishing hat.
Levelled fishing from 700 to 754 skill.
Only 219 casts. My friend with me was at 330 and starting to cry.
Pure RNG luck!
Stay strong Highlords!

Kommentar von ilostmahbucket

430 casts.

Kommentar von colalicious

I can confirm your fishing skill DOES NOT MATTER. Prior to seeking this appearance out, I didn't even have fishing on my paladin. I managed to fish up the item with only 217 casts (pic link below). It's 100% RNG.

http://imgur.com/a/DJezc

Kommentar von Kyuuen

This accursed thing took me about 1875 casts; including fudged ones, to finally get. But I do have a question, is the Phylactery meant to be consumed? I used it which initiated a cool down as though it could be used again and thought nothing of it. Logged back in today and it was altogether missing.

Kommentar von Aysuna

For anyone that is curious fishing skill does not matter
after 190 casts I got the shard. My skill is only 166 and started at 0.

Raw Mithril Head Trout x113
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x73
19 Pound Catfish x1
Insignia Cloak x1
Shard of Darkness x1

Hope knowing that skill doesnt matter and that it can drop before getting
the skill to 800 helps. Happy hunting!

Kommentar von DonStronk

I literally got it just now on my 20th cast, unbelieveable...

Kommentar von Extort

3200 casts...

Kommentar von lordgax

Dropped for me right after i got 600 fishing skill

Totals : ~558 casts

353 Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle
194 Roher Stoppelfühlerwels
2 22-pfündiger Wels
3 19-pfündiger Wels
1 Splitter der Finsternis

In total the quest took me roughly ~6 hours (i got incredibly lucky on the slime & the casts)

Happy Hunting !

Kommentar von Phantasmii

31 hours into farming this, I work 6am to 3pm everyday and my time from 4pm till bed is filled with this.... 4 days now.. and hope is slowly slipping away. What's funny is that the first day I started I decided to take a break and do a random heroic and I got my first legendary off the second boss of Black rook and this paladin was only 110 for a day. LOL RNG gave me one gift and forsakes me on the second!

Kommentar von Shael

After...

675 x Raw Mithril Head Trout
384 x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
2 x Mana Potions
2 x Greater Healing Potions
1 x Jade
1 x Whipwood Recuvre Bow
5 x 19 Pound Catfish
1 x 22 Pound Catfish
1 x 17 Pound Catfish
1 x 26 Pound Catfish
1 x 32 Pound Catfish

... I fished up The Shard of Darkness. Total Casts: 1074.

Kommentar von TexityTex

Just wanted to add my numbers to the pool...
Raw Mithril Head Trout x 1855
Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish x 963
Greater Healing Potion x 7
Mana Potion x 21
17 Pound Catfish x 32
22 Pound Catfish x 5

Cool thing is, and while it wasn't worth it... I got 8 uncollected appearance one-hand and two-hand weapons..

Kommentar von tarax

I would really like someone from Blizzard explain to me how this grind is considered compelling game play. I mean they use this term all of the time as an excuse for some really stupid things. This being one of them. While I haven't reached the cast count of some above this post.. I'm still sitting at about 2000 casts as of this writing. I don't want to leave because i've wasted so much time as of this point if I don't fish up the shard it would make this waste of time even worse.. But seriously. I mean I'm questioning my subscription as of this point if this is what I have to do that is compelling..

To anyone from Blizzard that might read this.. This isn't compelling game play. And using any excuse like 'We've learned things' or your other garbage jargon talk is nothing more than a cop out.. You guys seriously are sadists.

Kommentar von noristori

At least 900 casts...

316 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
577 Raw Mithril Head Trout
6 19 Pound Catfish
3x Mana Potion
2x Greater Healing Potion

Kommentar von brandoncogs

1-800 Fishing exactly 2345 casts rng is rng! Stay strong and good luck!

Kommentar von Thongpo

Dropped for my pally today after 1140 casts. Pity I didn't turn off auto-loot earlier. Maybe it would drop a lot faster(or maybe not).
What surprised me is the thing, after flying to the Ebon Hold the speech of Max and Horsemen is not voiceacted, which is SAD and strange as generally everything since MoP(?) is voiceacted on a huge scale. Pity :(

Kommentar von pjrulez

Does it make sense fishing while waiting for the Large Vile Slime to spawn? it seems we need to kill the slime and use Timolain's Phylactery and only afterwards Shard of Darkness becomes fishable, correct me if I'm wrong please.

Kommentar von baloonknot

took 1,015 casts

Kommentar von Chaos911

Finally got it after 1103 casts. Used my normal fishing gear, addons and auto loot enabled.

Kommentar von Morg08

My day getting this skin.
Hardest part was the Slime. I camped for about 3 hours, downloaded and used a server hopping tool. Closest I came was seeing its corpse and about 50 paladins standing on it. I logged out eventually and then played an alt for a few hours, logged back in and there it was. No one fishing, no one to help kill it... So I Solo'd it - but not an easy fight at ilvl 840ish. Then Fishing. it took 150 casts, taking my fishing skill from 20 to 75 (capped there as I didn't go and train) using a basic fishing rod and no bait.

I got in about 15-20 casts once I moved to the spot on the shore directly behind where I talked to the ghost. I'm wondering if success rate is positional based... be right in that spot not up or down stream or on the other side of the river etc... but directly behind where the slime spawns and the ghost appears to chat?

At any rate, only took me a day I was quite pleased after reading so many horror stories.

Kommentar von TheLustful

Frost Mages: Take a portal
Frost Death Knights and Restoration Shamans: Kill a world boss
Shadow Priests and Survival Hunters: Kill a raid boss
Beast Mastery and Marksmanship Hunters: Buy a schematic
Protection Warriors: Loot a pile of gold
Unholy Death Knights: Use Army of Dead then run a scenario.
Blood Death Knights and Protection Paladins: Loot a chest after a daily quest.
Retribution Paladins: Do a battleground, farm a dungeon, go across the world, do a vanilla raid, talk to a woman, go across the world again, talk to a guy, go across the world a third time, talk to another woman, read a book, wait around for a rare mob, talk to a ghost of a guy, fish for a few days, talk to a third guy, go to a place, talk to some more guys.

For almost every other spec, getting your hidden artifact involves doing something you're liable to be doing anyway. But retadins get attunement 2.0. "Hey, everyone enjoyed running in and out of Blackrock Depths all day right? Let's do that again!"

Kommentar von giovannicaloro

For anyone interested I created a macro:

/cast Fishing
/say Boring!

It's useless, but makes me feel better.
:-)

p.s.
after around 3800 catches, is mine!

Kommentar von Tecc1229

Got it at 2573 casts. Leveled fishing as I went. Used oversized bober to make it a bit easier to click. GL

Kommentar von sowozup

Took me 3720 Casts. Also i had to wait 26 hours for the Vile Slime.
A very disturbing experience.

Blizz should definitly do something about that mess.

Kommentar von 1274466

I know I got lucky:

278 casts
Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle x170
Roher Stoppelfühlerwels x98
22-pfündiger Wels x1
19-pfündiger Wels x1
Großer Heiltrank x1
Splitter der Finsternis x1

Kommentar von brunin

It dropped for me after 1729 casts. I did this while watching videos and it was a farm split in two or three days.

Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle x 1104
Roher Stoppelfühlerwels x 613
26-pfündiger Wels x 1
17-pfündiger Wels x 1
19-pfündiger Wels x 3
Manatrank x 1
Großer Heiltrank x 5
Splitter der Finsternis x 1

Here is a screenshot of my inventory: http://imgur.com/PWr4eLR

Some final useful information:

Use Übergroßer Schwimmer to make easier to click while alt+tabbing;
Spec and loot spec don't matter;
I didn't use auto-loot just to be sure (people here in the comments said it causes trouble);
Be sure you did all the requirements up to this step.
The drop is really low, just keep the fishing grind and it will drop eventually.

Kommentar von dmonroe

Looks like I was kinda lucky. Started with fishing level 1, and got my Shard of Darkness on the cast that earned my Master Fisherman title at 375. I was going to quit for the night after that cast because I had to go to the trainer. Only took 563 casts!

Kommentar von Foolya

I found it after 558 casts. Started out with level 1 fishing and went back to train shortly after maxing each skill tier. Ended up with 347 fishing skill.

Kommentar von addekallstrom

927th cast. Good luck fishing my friends! :D

Kommentar von Katamai

2291 casts later, i finally got it. Do not lose hope guys. Just watch YT or something and spread it over a few days. Took me 3 but it was worth it!

Good luck!

Kommentar von iam5p4m

20 casts.

Having read a lot of posts here, I feel for you with so much time.
Just to confirm however that this is complete RNG. Skill 701 (I learned legion fishing right before I started fishing for the item).

Kommentar von DingoVad

1000 casts, no luck...

Kommentar von LadyLarren

Hi everyone, figured I'd add my catches for any average calculations.

Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle x768
Roher Stoppelfühlerwels x462
Manatrank x3
Großer Heiltrank x3
Citrin x2
17-pfündiger Wels x3
19-pfündiger Wels x1
22-pfündiger Wels x1
26-pfündiger Wels x1
32-pfündiger Wels x1
Kettenkampfstiefel x1
Auroraarmschienen x1
Splitter der Finsternis x1
Total casts 1248

Went from 700 to 800 in fishing while doing this, but like other posters have mentioned skill level doesn't seem to affect the RNG chances. Also didn't have any fishing gear equipped, not even a fishing pole.

Kommentar von kps25

After spending the better part of today fishing for this item, on and off for about 13 or 14 hours, I can gladly say this:

I AM NEVER F***ING FISHING AGAIN!

Kommentar von Rhoxors

Patience and perseverance is our virtue fellow Dinians

582 Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle
316 Roher Stoppelfühlerwels
2 17-pfündiger Wels
1 19-pfündiger Wels
1 Splitter der Finsternis

901 Total Casts

Fished up while wearing the Tiefenlichtangler

Kommentar von Holycowbatmann

Camped the slime for 3 days. Now I have been fishing for 2 streight. 6245 fish in my bags plus the random greens, potions and junk I got. I started at 1 fishing. I'm now at 725. I decided an hour ago wtf I'm going to be here until I die I might as well go train legion fishing and finish it. I know RNG is RNG but damn near 6.5k or more casts is just rediculous

Kommentar von Pupsader

I am a masochist and a collector of useless things, which is... inadvisable. Nevertheless, I fished up a second Splitter der Finsternis because I thought it would be amusing for Lord Maxwell Tyrosus to say, "I feel a dark presence nearby..." every time I walked by him.

As it turns out, this does not occur after you've completed the appearance. Maxwell does, however, permanently turn away from the command table while Splitter der Finsternis remains in your bags (or even your bank). If your intent is to keep it forever, do not under any circumstances click his dialog option again (I've recovered a dark, but powerful crystal, Maxwell.) as doing so will consume the item.

Yes, I fished it up a third time.

The screams deep within are mine.

Kommentar von Qubi

1459 casts still nothing...
They definitely haven't upped the chance.

Kommentar von NuxasWoW

Finally, after 21 hours of fishing i finally got my Shard.
Here's my stats:
2509 Trouts
1142 Catfishes
23 Weapon catfishes
3 Healing potions
1 Jouster's Wristguards
1 Murphstar of Intellect
1 Large bear tooth
1 Bear flank
1 Lesser moonstone
1 Citrine
3 Mana potions
2 Bloated trouts
1 Shard of darkness
God damn, xD

Kommentar von desperta123

0.03 - 0.01 % drop ----- GGWP ..... 136 casts -> Picture provided

Kommentar von ashpifiretree

Got it on cast 308.

Kommentar von hersfold

Just in case someone's analyzing this information somewhere...

I fished up the shard on cast 504. At the time I got it, I had an effective fishing skill of 940, between max Legion fishing, Tiefenlichtangler (+60), Wettergegerbter Angelhut (+5), and the lure it gives you (+75). Total fishing time was probably around three hours.

Kommentar von rubyrabble

Personally, I find that the RNG of the Shard of Darkness really ruins the experience of acquiring the hidden appearance. I was really engaged and immersed in the story.....and then I spent five hours fishing with no shard. I was super lucky with the holy drop (20 min of farming after AK4) and have had the other three colors unlocked for Ashbringer through that for a while now. I feel for those who fished even longer (or camped that slime!), that commitment needs applause. I don't think it should just be handed out, but for the love of all that is holy, that drop rate needs an increase. I still don't have a shard, and maybe I'll go back in a few months and try or maybe three colors is just good enough.

Kommentar von cstober2010

Took me 658 casts, I wasn't expecting it this soon! I would normally do 100 casts a day, but today I farmed a few hundred and got it. Pull out your tablet and watch some videos, plus talking with your fellow paladin friends makes it go by quicker. Good luck ^.^

Kommentar von Aiuor

1151 cast and took about 7+ hours of fishing for it. Happy i got it and mad at the same time as i got off got on my phone app to send my followers on mission then got back on and on my first cast got the shards of darkness only problem was i sent Maxwell Tyrosus on a mission and i need him to turn in the final part....

Kommentar von Danail

Dropped for me after the following:

1,041 x Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle
582 x Roher Stoppelfühlerwels
6 x 19-pfündiger Wels
6 x 17-pfündiger Wels
3 x Großer Heiltrank
3 x Manatrank
1 x 26-pfündiger Wels
1 x Aufgedunsene Forelle
1 x Rezept: Elixier der Ogerstärke
1 x Splitter der Finsternis

1,645 total casts.

Good luck to all.

Kommentar von Tylriel

8 casts, not $%^&ting you.

Define "extreme luck"

(I've already done this once on my old account with like 2000 casts, this made me scream)

Kommentar von Naturehax

Got this after 63 casts. Like the guide said, it's RNG based, so I was extremely lucky.

Kommentar von GreenSausage

There might have been a change of drop rate with 7.2 - either that or I was just dumb lucky to get mine after 50 casts: imgur.com/a/XUXp0

Kommentar von Khaledra

I do not know if they have increased the drop rate in 7.2 or if they added bad luck protection or if I was just insanely lucky, but I was able to fish up the Shard of Darkness in 174 casts. I am amazed, but super happy to have this appearance!

I do not know the entire inventory of what I fished, because the first time I fished (100 casts) was right when this hidden appearance was added. Back then I had added the item to the addon Rarity to keep track of attempts. Today I installed fishing buddy and followed the tips others have given. I also used the oversized bobber, turned on some music and started fishing. 74 casts later... :D

http://imgur.com/SM16sAd

It looks like I got an achievement because that's what Rarity does when you get something it tracks.

Kommentar von Reilentless

I got lucky with this today, only did 87 casts and got it <3 !

Kommentar von Xcore

I'm guessing they nerfed it with 7.2. I got mine after only 66 casts.

Kommentar von Xaviermacbeth

Had around 50 casts, before I decided to get in here to read about my chances. When I saw ppl had like 1500 to 4000 casts, I cried alittle. Then I went to my garrison to ramp up my fishing skill, and went back to get the shard. Took be around 10 casts :D

Kommentar von Namennaj

Finally, RNG is on my side. Got it after 80 casts. I don't have Ashes or other mounts, but at least I got this quickly.

Kommentar von SashaWS

I got this item today from my 19th cast with the fishing pole.
I thought I would have to stay for a hundred years to find it.

Kommentar von Paloria

got it on cast 52

Kommentar von elynea

I'm so sorry, but I just got this on try 36, happy fishing!

Edit: I did help another pally tag the slime, so karma?

Kommentar von moskwa1980

got mine in around 60 casts, happy day :)

Kommentar von Dragovarious

4327 casts. Absurd.

Kommentar von AngusBeef1

42 casts - did they change the drop rate or was I just extremly lucky?

Kommentar von phynex

The drop rate had to have been buffed... Had to have been. Got it on my first cast with a fishing level of 15...

Kommentar von Stealthbombr

44 casts today 4/29/17
pretty sure the devs implemented bad luck protection for all of the hidden appearances

Kommentar von Eothaki

Today was the first day I went fishing for it AFTER the latest patch; got it after 86 casts.

Kommentar von 1501258

Got mine today (29.04.2017 AD EU) after 1623 casts (with and without fishing pole). Good luck!

Kommentar von Katakaia

Got mine today (US Detheroc 69.3 44.5) after only 54 casts. I consider myself lucky after reading what the average has been for others. Good luck everyone :-)

Kommentar von AddictedPoi

53 casts using Underlight Angler.
Import this to track in Rarity addon:
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

Kommentar von rphalange

So I just got mine in 37 casts.

= 13
= 23
= 1

Shame. I was all set for a Netflix binge.

Fishing level = 800. No fishing gear or pole equipped.

Was sitting on the fallen tree, fishing toward the northwest.

https://68.media.tumblr.com/768a18471d8298b022130a7f03e886ab/tumblr_opqp54R4Cl1u84174o1_1280.jpg

Kommentar von gandalin1306

Just got this after 11 casts. I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. It definitely seems like the droprate has been buffed.

Kommentar von akkajr

I Just got it after about 12 cast's 6 a week ago 6 today.... Seem's they have upped the drop rate.
Chemdawg-Deathwing US

Kommentar von Alteisen

Just got it on my 85th cast on Thrall server. Certainly won't complain about that.

Kommentar von radienlee

As of 5/28 11:53pm I got this after 7 casts not sure if extremely lucky or just way easier to get now. 2 catfish 3 Trout

Kommentar von ceylina

5/31/17 - 37 casts with a cheap pole and starting at no fishing skill

Kommentar von Wolverrine

Fishing up after 86 casts, started at level 1/800 fishing.

Either I was really lucky or the drop chance got increased.

Kommentar von Brobot8

Omg im simultaneously the least and most lucky person
First shard came within 20 casts, didnt loot properly and was lost, 120 casts later, i got a second one

Two words: good luck

Kommentar von AkumaNCN

They seem to have raised the chance for getting this...either that or I got extremely lucky. Got the shard on my 20th cast.

Kommentar von goodmrtumnus

I got this after 89 casts.

Kommentar von Pathani

This may have been made easier by 7.2.5. I got it in 37 casts, less then 15 minutes.

Kommentar von ssdisfaster

Dropped at exactly the 50th cast. Maybe they increased the drop rate or I was just lucky.

http://i.imgur.com/sFMBBDR.png

Kommentar von rowent

26 cast for me. They must increase drop rate. After hours waiting for slime, this was nice surprise.

Kommentar von atofinado

Got it after 32 casts.

Kommentar von thompson888

FYI - I am super lucky so don't take my comment as something that will happen for you.

Took me 77 casts.

Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle x52
Roher Stoppelfühlerwels x24
Splitter der Finsternis x1

All in all took about 30 min.

Here's my bag if you need proof to believe.

http://imgur.com/a/MShQm

Kommentar von TemporalAnarchy

19th cast here. Was a pleasant surprise after the horror stories I'd heard.

Kommentar von kutisjan

great luck for me (70 cast)

http://imgur.com/a/FfY0W

Kommentar von Nejosan

Got it on my 68th cast, didn't loot it because autoloot issues; kept fishing and finally got it on my 147th cast. Pretty easy!

Kommentar von cybeles93

Sorry to tell you all with the thuosands of casts, but I got mine after 21...

Kommentar von Mormolyce

You do not need max fishing (800) for this. I started from 1 fishing on my Paladin and got it by 63. So don't worry, no casts are wasted.

...also, I'm sorry.

Kommentar von Sozelo

After 27 of Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish and 43 of Raw Mithril head Trout, that means about 20 minutes of fishing, the Shard of Darkness droped. I guess im a very lucky man :)

Kommentar von astha

after 54 mithril head trout and 34 catfish i got it.

Kommentar von zaccie

Don't know if the drop chances have been upped, but this dropped after just 116 throws. (7.2.5)

Kommentar von cgilm2526

8/3/17 - Got the shard after 75 casts. Hopefully, Blizzard listened to everyone and increased the drop rate.

Kommentar von JohnPWest

Got on cast 38. Woot!

Palindare of Gnomeregan

Kommentar von threepwguybrush

As someone pointed out must be nerfed after 7.2.0 I've completed mine after 80 casts. Thus I got the slime right after server weekly restart.

Kommentar von thereaping

Fished it up on the first cast after 7.3 hit. Not sure if the drop rate was buffed.

Kommentar von DerpyFrog

I can confirm that fishing skill doesn't matter.Got it with around 100 fishing skill.

Kommentar von Adanos13

50 casts here (7.3)

Kommentar von Confusedhawk

WTF ... i just had god tier luck... i paid 10k for one of NATs books on the AH .. went to Altrec to get the other, got it first game.. ok ? nice
so i go find the slime... and its there! awesome! no waiting around.. i go fishing and i get the gem on the 3rd cast? Well there goes my luck for the next 5 years

Kommentar von Vaeku

Took me 7 casts after 7.3 hit. The drop rate may have been buffed.

Kommentar von ntabiblaze

This Item dropped for me around cast Number 30. BUT I was rapidly re-casting fishing because I thought I would need over 1,000 casts before it dropped. So when it DID drop, I re-cast fishing too fast and I did not loot it... now I'm on cast number 200 and I think I need to jump off a cliff now.

Kommentar von ashry0303

I got it after about 110 casts. No fishing exp either, beginner pole, with a lure on, right off the shore where I killed the slime. Good luck Pali's.

Kommentar von Brynthia

Must have super buffed the drop rate as I got it on the first cast. Of course after rejoicing I ran out and picked up a lottery ticket... stay tuned!

Kommentar von Kujarok

Only 103 casts .. dropped O_o Holy moly!

Kommentar von tenares

just got the shard after 50 casts O_o and i thought i had to sit longer haha

Kommentar von AtomicWalrus911

TFW you get it on the first cast of your line FeelsGoodMan

Kommentar von Tyrodael

Got this on my 75th cast.. I feel so very bad for you unlucky bastards that had to fish here for several days

/salute my friends

Kommentar von johnmobley2008

Took 12 casts to get it.

Kommentar von Bulo

Extreme luck on my paladin get is for 63 cast

Kommentar von Niculove

43 casts here.

Kommentar von Nelinde

93 casts....
800 fishing +60 from Artifact fishing pole....

Kommentar von sclaudiu85

Took 67 casts, with a basic fishing pole, and starting from Fishing skill 1. Right where I killed the slime.

Kommentar von fraeda

Either they nerfed the drop rate or this little Pally got lucky. ~60 casts...

Kommentar von GreenSix

I think they may have buffed the drop rate, still I feel extremely lucky just getting it at the 53rd cast (or in fact more casts because I also failed to catch anything on some casts).
Also checking for the Large Vile Slime at 7 AM on new years eve seems to have been a good bet :D
32x Raw Mithril Head Trout
20x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
1x Shard of Darkness

Kommentar von Ruuds

Took me 120 Casts was pretty quick for me maybe nerfed?

Kommentar von jermbug1

I really hate to say this but I started at fishing 1, got it at fishing 33

Kommentar von cerradwyn

Only had fishing at 75. Took about 40 casts to fish this up. Good luck!

Kommentar von brudarek

1021 fishing, 1 cast, suck it RNGesus

Kommentar von dharris99

Got it on my 89th cast today!

Kommentar von xkorpis

After all i read here i was preparing for a nightmarish grind.
Sat comfortably on my chair, popped a soda, made a long lasting list on spotify and began fishing. After the first 50 casts i was reading a comment regarding a pet somebody summoned and brought him luck.
I thought what the heck...it wouldn't hurt would it? I summoned Corgnelius and proceeded with the task ahead. I was fishing along with three other guys from the Horde side and all was unusualy quiet.
This silence was broken by the barking of my companion 27 casts after the initial 50...I thought nah...it couldn't...clicked the hook and... the Shard was in front of me!
I still can't believe my luck. It took me 77 casts and maybe the luck Corgnelius brought me! Good luck to all still trying!

Kommentar von Mountandrew

Eyyyyyy 26 casts! :D Damn am I lucky...

Kommentar von ancarsmith

For those of you who are way behind like me. I just got mine, fished up in about 20 mins and less then thirty casts. Hope they fixed the RNG on this and the rest of you guys get it quickly. Also I didn't have to wait for slime but still haven't seen it respawn so timer is still probably long.

Kommentar von GizdaHUN

I fished up 80 fish + healing potion and then about 82. give me the item.
I m not sure but maybe Blizzard increase the drop rate! :O

Kommentar von Epimedium

Did the drop rate got buffed? I got it on my 31st cast... Not sure if it got changed or I just used all the luck I need this year on this shard...

Kommentar von lizzurd

Took me 51 casts. Definitely increased the drop rate since release. Took my S/O about 150 casts when he did it back in 2016.

Kommentar von Snuffered

Just adding to the good comments making it look like the droprate was upped, took me 41 casts

Kommentar von YoSaperstein

Lucky me:

Roher Stoppelfühlerwels x2
Rohe Mithrilkopfforelle x7
Splitter der Finsternis x1

Only 10!

Kommentar von runswithwands

2 casts for me.

I had and equipped for a total of 1000 fishing skill.

Kommentar von Utena

For the historical record, starting with 1 fishing skill:
45xRohe Mithrilkopfforelle
35xRoher Stoppelfühlerwels
1x19-pfündiger Wels
1xSplitter der Finsternis

Kommentar von Stormbridge

Starting with 1 fishing skill (Dalaran vendor pole + 2 oversized bobbers):

50x Raw Mithril Head Trout
35x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
1x 19 Pound Catfish
1x Shard of Darkness

Kommentar von MapleWarrior

You guys seriously must be fishing in the wrong place, it only took me 31 casts. (May I forever be tormented by the ghost of Gary Gygax if this is a lie.) I was at 68/45, just north of the bridge.

Kommentar von Octayvius

12 casts and then I got it. I can confirm the drop rate is upped higher than ever.

Kommentar von Hezar

63xRaw Mithril Head Trout
31xRaw Bristle Whisker Catfish
1xShard of Darkness

Yep, drop rate has been buffed by alot.

Kommentar von mannyu78

Starting from 0 fishing skill. No pole, no lure

Shard picked up with skill of 64, 40 Trout and 23 Catfish

Kommentar von Bubbleebutt

Not sure if I just got lucky or the drop rate increased, but I just fished this up after 42 catches.

Kommentar von Solfira

Pretty sure I got really lucky on this too. I fished it up on my 7th cast. Fishing skill was 773. Not sure if this helps, but I started fishing it up while Timolain was still standing there after talking to him. After fishing up the item he despawned. Maybe they're linked?

Kommentar von Xavriel94

May have increased chance to fish this up. I got mine on 34th cast.

Kommentar von Elitecookie

Took me 60 casts and i have THE absolute worst luck in this game. That says something.

Kommentar von Karpata

Took roughly 50 casts. Fishing skill around 250 - no extra buffs and the default wooden stick fishing pole. They probably increased the spawn rate of the slime and the droprate of the shard. It only took about 20 minutes for the slime to respawn after it was killed.

Kommentar von frankiecm

42 Casts and got it. Around 7 minutes fishing.

Kommentar von pugmatron

Wow! After reading this all this comments I have consider my self very lucky!
Started the quest last night, got to the slime part, logged in at 7 am today, the slime was there.
and it only took me 17 casts to get the shard.
Not sure if the whole thing was recently nerfed or I should go buy a lotto ticket.

Kommentar von Chaos1812

Results for my fishing
1x Shard of Darkness
22x Raw Mithril Head Trout
2x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish

30 casts, I missed 5

Easiest part of the chain for me.

Kommentar von 1639804

Got this in 7.5 minutes of fishing (turned on a youtube video to time it/zone out thinking this would be painful).

Looks like maybe Blizz upped the drop rate? Just to be safe, I turned off auto loot and disabled Fishing Buddy, as per older comments about losing the item to auto loot or addons.

Kommentar von Tomhap

I just came here to Wowhead to check upon this item's droprate. As I tabbed into the game for one more cast I got it along the 100 fish achievement. Talk about lucky.

Kommentar von Esperi

I almost feel guilty reading these comments.

25 casts with a skill of 71 (96 at the end).

16 Raw Mithril Head Trout
9 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
1 Shard of Darkness

Kommentar von Exodizer

I'm, uh, not sure if they nerfed this cast in 7.3.5 but I just got it in... uh... two casts.

I know this is anecdotal, but maybe it bodes well. Hope others find it this easy now too. :);;;

Kommentar von PATTYSLAP

I feel really.... really bad for posting this ... especially after reading through these comments for a good long while... I finally got the slime after a few days... went over to the water and got the shard on the second cast. Goodluck all, come rub my belly for good luck.

Kommentar von centurionh

As of today I got it in just over 100 casts. Not sure if they buffed it but I saw someone else get it in a similar time.

Kommentar von Viserate

After reading so many posts about the length of time to fish up this shard, I was ready with a movie and a snack and the darn thing drops in 225 casts. I believe they upped the chance. Continued luck to all who pursue this skin.

Kommentar von Faosoab

Created an account just to say I got it in 9 cast, awesome

Btw the giant slim was already here when I came along the river

Kommentar von Bsnipexy

Just got the shard, it dropped after 53 tries.. got it in 20 minutes!

Did they raise the percentage or am I a lucky boii?

Kommentar von Caras

~100 casts for me after prepatch, for those who might be concerned about accidental nerfs to the droprate.

Kommentar von Csofe

101th cast on 22nd of July after BFA pre-patch. GL all

Kommentar von loopiz

don't know if it's patch or insane luck, but got the shard in under 30 attempts.

Kommentar von orflarg

Started today at lvl 0 fishing and got the item at lvl 21. Not sure if it's one cast = one level, but i spent maybe 5 minutes in total fishing. Seems like they buffed the drop chance. Otherwise I need to go to the casino.

Kommentar von khaziago

I succeeded in my twenty-sixth attempt. Drop chance appear to bee boosted on 8.0.1 patch.

Kommentar von bruenir

78 casts here. Max fishing skill so that doesn't seem to matter.

Kommentar von AveryZan

Want to try and give info that I can to help people still going for this.

First and foremost I recommend double checking to make sure you have the steps completed to fish this. This macro from captainloser will let you do that.

For anyone wondering if you're ready to start fishing, give this macro a shot. It'll tell you if you've done all the prerequisite parts:

/run local p,q,t=print,IsQuestFlaggedCompleted,tostring p('Talked to Prince Tortheldrin: '..t(q(43682)))p('Talked to Alexia/Bardu: '..t(q(43683)))p('Slime can drop Timolain: '..t(q(43684)))p('Shard can be fished up: '..t(q(43685)))

If all four lines return true, you're ready.

Now for my information to help you out.

This is available after the BFA prepatch: I was able to fish this up as of 8/2/2018 on U.S Realms after the BFA Prepatch.

I recommend fishing at location approximately 69, 46 Western Plague Lands a bit above the bridge and past a broken tree you see a big rock across the stream kinda point out. It has the broken tree hovering over it. Can confirm this is the area I got it from.

Fishing Skill does not seem to matter: I fished this with a very low fishing skill I think around mid 40s. ended up getting it when I was at 113 meaning your skill doesn't seem to matter for those wondering (should also give an idea on time reference too).

Highly recommend turning off Auto loot: I did turn off auto loot once I read comments suggesting it and I suggest doing the same, before I read those I was fishing and I think I possibly did see the shard but didn't have it looted to me. So be on the safe side and turn off auto loot for this.

Fishing Bobber is fine: I used the legion cat head fishing bobber because my eye sight sucks and makes it easier so if you have that concern it worked for me fishing with it.

Based on all the comments I have read since pre patch it does seem like the drop rate is a bit better than in the past, but can't be certain. Hopefully it is better now but you should still be ready to put in some time for this was not instant for me, but not unbearable as some of the past posts players had reported.

Good luck to those still going for it, hopefully this helped answer questions you may have had.

Kommentar von EncaitarFirestar

Was fishing near Tirion's old shack. 58th cast for me.

Kommentar von Azakael

Hello,
I got this today after 51 casts. It is all RNG and you fishing skill don't matter. ( I have no fishing skill)

Kommentar von psychoviolent

Got mine after 58 casts, I was located right next to the Large Vile Slime so don't go too far away from that point. 50 seems to be the new average based on the recent comments but is still RNG, don't give up if you're still fishing for the item.

Kommentar von leafeknight7

Confirmed for BfA. If paladins are still wanting to obtain this. It's complete RNG, but I got mine in 10 casts with fresh fishing skills. Also just for luck used my Kiste mit Schwimmern: Hölzerner Pepe. Good luck to you!

Kommentar von Comocosono

I got mine in 40 casts.
on the 39th cast I was like well he did say he was being eaten and threw it into the river, he probably couldn't throw very far. So I walked in a straight line between the slime and the water and fished in that spot right at the water's edge with the bobber. (had to use fishing raft to do it from the middle of the river so fishing right click wouldn't make me attack the patting new slime instead of clicking bobber).
Sure enough, the next cast it fished right up.
Try fishing there.
Like in my experience fishing under bridges in open water gives me more catfish than loaches rather than a 50/50.

Kommentar von wutru

Not sure if they changed the drop rate in BFA, but I got it on my 18th cast. Here's a screenshot if you don't believe me. https://imgur.com/a/3JiLgai

I didn't use anything special either. Had no fishing pole or hat. Just the regular default fishing skill.

Kommentar von Wragth

Finally got it after 6835 casts.
only 93 since the start of bfa. I had given up back then.

Kommentar von Ploxius

Just started to get this tonight and got it on my 36th cast

Kommentar von AlexL1118

Exactly 90 casts for me.

Kommentar von LazyLaeth08

Must have been really lucky. I got to the slime and he was spawned, no waiting! Then only took 77 casts to get this. Maybe they patched it?

Kommentar von nelsonj1998

Shard can still be fished up in Battle for Azeroth. Took me 79 casts in 8.1

Kommentar von ZachyKinz

as of 8.1.0 (Jan 19th) was able to fish this up in 83 casts.

Kommentar von Vexas

I just completed this on my Zandalari Paladin during patch 8.1.5.
Went from fishing skill 1 to 97, so probably roughtly 200 casts total.

Kommentar von Vygoth1

Fished this up after 44 casts in bfa, judging by the comments it looks like they buffed the drop chance.

Kommentar von Turambar2

Be sure to disable autoloot, i didn't see that in the previous comments and it took 84 casts for the first drop which only auto-looted the fish!
luckily got another after another 20 casts

Kommentar von Grizmatik

Took exactly 100 casts in 8.2.5 for me.

Kommentar von Eighjan

On this day, I fought & killed the slime & fished up the Shard after 15 casts -- I'm not normally lucky, but I feel that today I was & will never be again for many moons to come.

Kommentar von Monomatapa

It took me only 3 casts, but I've heard horror stories of over 2000 casts...

Kommentar von scharky

exactly 68 casts...not terrible.

don't listen to people's BS about "fish the narrow part" or "try by the fallen tree", or "use a certain lure", "you need max fishing skill", etc. that's nonsense, and they're trolling.

you just need to be in the Thondroril River area--it'll say "Thondroril River" over your mini-map.

i got mine with 150 fishing skill, a standard cheapo rod, and no lures or anything.

just be patient. put on some good tunes or netflix and keep casting. you'll probably get it sooner rather than later. good luck!

Kommentar von Okkadok

It took me 5 minutes.

Kommentar von Tnax

Took me 13 casts (fishing lvl 1 at beginning) and a friend of mine 62 casts.

Kommentar von Munzta

65 casts and I had it.

Having spent that much luck in one go, I fully expect to be struck by a meteor any second now.

Kommentar von Goidemar

47 casts from level 1 fishing, definitely not a long wait for anyone doing this. Worst part is the Large Vile Slime.

Kommentar von Mresa

Got it after 85 casts.

Kommentar von Steinberg

Idk if they changed the drop rate, but just today in 9.0, I got it in just 28 casts. Also was pretty lucky in that just when I first logged in today, the slime was immediately up.

Kommentar von Uteesh

Just fished it up on cast #66, from right next to the Slimes spawn.

Kommentar von DaemoniKira

Took me 48 casts at the same spot where the Rare Slime spawns. I had 0 fishing skill, though I trained all regions of fishing before starting to fish for this item.

Kommentar von Bobndude2

1st cast....

Kommentar von Suitmonster

Just did this, Shadowlands, fished it up in 40 casts.

Also the ooze was up in the first place I looked, right where wowhead said I would find it.

Kommentar von CorvoN7

Got this shard after 26 tries

Kommentar von Valxd

I don't know if the rate has been increased, but fished this bad boy on my 17th cast.
Fished right next to the rare spawn with 1 Fishing Skill.

Kommentar von lelandwhitehead

Either the RNG has been buffed or I was very lucky, as I got this in 72 casts today.

Kommentar von Eaglenez

Got it at the 90th cast, seems like it has been buffed drop rate as people have said

Kommentar von skyline33

95 Casts
81 with auto-loot on, then read comments about disabling in-case it doesnt loot/you miss it.
killed slime, summoned NPC, and fished all at the same location.

Kommentar von S4m0th

Today i dropped the shard after 96 casts.
With the Legion fishing at 1/100.

It was pretty fast, when i've seen an old video and the guy just spent like 8 hours fishing it and 2000+ casts.

Kommentar von retzeke

got it in 8 attempts drop chance must be buffed

Kommentar von Bword

Took me about 30 attempts, just fished right where I killed slime

Kommentar von Motorcharge

Got it after 99 casts today, 0 fishing skill.

Kommentar von Commandor90

13/10/2022 patch 9.2.7, got it after 45 casts. Either I was super lucky or they did in fact increased the drop rate like other people said.

45 Casts

Kommentar von FabulousFerret

Read all the comments about how long this was going to take. Grilled up some food, settled in with a show and some snacks. I was ready for the long haul. Lvl'd my fishing to 37 and got it.
31 Mithril Head trout
9 Bristle Whisker Catfish
1 19 Pound Catfish
1 Shard of Domination

Either they increased the odds or I got damn lucky.

Kommentar von Darkdefender

Not sure if anyone else tried it, but I went to fish on the *Eastern* plaguelands side of the river for a bit and had nothing. Went to Western again and got it within 5 casts. Oops

Kommentar von Vsszz

november 10th, 2022

dropped after getting 88 items from fishing on the river.

Kommentar von Krass619

Was allright exactly 100 Fisch jusst next to the slime kill. seem to be Buffed over the Patches

Kommentar von Vonathan

90 casts in Dragonflight pre-patch

Kommentar von Joovoo

Dragonflight pre-patch at around 500 casts and still nothing. Seems to have been buffed for some people but the bad luck is still out there.

Kommentar von Novhakin

Patch 10.0.7. took me 52 tries!

Kommentar von Heatmn

I got it in like 20min or under.
Not even 100 pulls i guess (I was semi afk)

Kommentar von Solidusnake

As of today 28/02/2023 I just got that cristal after 56 catches and for the Slime, I switched on WM ON and the rare was waiting for me at the exact point.

A ce jour, le 28/02/2023 je viens juste d'avoir l'éclat après 56 prises et pour la gelée, j'ai activé le mode Guerre et il m'attendait là tranquille.

If in case that might help my fellow brothers in arms.

Si en cas ça peut aider mes frères d'Arme.

For the Light !

Pour la Lumière !

Kommentar von Aytirios

Took me 1,986 casts in Legion for one. And 90 casts in Dragonflight for another, on a separate account. Yay!

Kommentar von Greyfingers

Just got this in 2 casts. Not sure if they increased the drop rate or something from what the 2016 guide said.

Kommentar von KrackaWoody

Adding my comment even though it could be a fluke, took me 101 casts.
In all honesty I got to about 98 Casts and my dumbass realised I only had Classic and DF fishing and no other expac.
Idk if you need Legion Fishing because it doesnt say you need it for this but I went back and got it and then got the gem 3 casts after that.
(It still only leveled Classic fishing but my assumption would be you need legion fishing for it to be in the drop pool).
Hopefully this helps any future dumbass like myself!

Kommentar von Clawmedaddy

For future seekers, as of 10.1.5 it too me only 20 casts with picking up Fishing right before the slime.

Kommentar von Clawmedaddy

For future seekers, as of 10.1.5 it too me only 20 casts with picking up Fishing right before the slime.

Kommentar von Lordaeron

10.1.5 took 41 casts

Kommentar von Shadere

60ish casts

Kommentar von Regroot

As of September 17 , 2023 , i fished the shard after 50 casts only , i dont know if im lucky or the drop rate been increased.

Kommentar von Embersong

11 casts and I got. I can't believe my luck.

https://imgur.com/a/soUQmXw

Kommentar von Ranadicus

45 casts on the date above

Kommentar von Arcticlobster

74 Casts on Date above

Kommentar von Norrix115

Doing this quest chain for the appearance. Started fishing last night, spent about an hour or so fishing, got nothing. Started fishing again tonight, got it in under 5 casts for the night and under a 100 in total. I feel bad that I got extremely lucky.

Kommentar von WitchFenris

46 casts for me. If it means anything, I did not pick up Legion fishing, I only had DF fishing somewhat leveled.

Kommentar von Shapingus

Just fished it up after 22 attempts. Skill in Classic Fishing was 22.

Kommentar von Spankypants

For anyone wishing visiting this page wanting to see how long it took people on average, I'll add mine to help. 64 casts :)

Kommentar von Nunooh

Using Rarity addon to count the attempts, it only took me 105 casts, no clue if they have buffed or not since a lot of newer comments are getting with less and less casts than previous stated in legion

Kommentar von SkySnap

Got it after 60 casts in 10.2.5.

Kommentar von SkySnap

Got it after 60 casts in 10.2.5.

Kommentar von shamokens

10.2.5

52 casts - WM on .

Kommentar von DaylightSlaving

Pro tip here guys: You need to kill the slime and use the phylactery/summon Timolain to trigger the next part that allows you to fish up the shard. (Timolain goes into detail about the importance of the shard; the interaction advances the story line.)

I was fishing for an hour or so after killing the slime and looting the phylactery, but, I didn't use the phylactery. I thought you'd combine the items or something later on down the road. Boy, was that not good. I ended up just leveling up my fishing from 0-190. I used the phylactery after realizing my error and within 20-35 casts I fished up the shard. I now have four hundred fish, five chonky catfish and two healing pots. Don't be like me. lol

Good luck, have fun!

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