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Commento di 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 il Maledetto, who hurled it into the river long ago.

Commento di CloudsongTV

Got mine after ~800 casts

Commento di 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 Progetto: Spallacci di Scaglie d'Oro 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.

Commento di Toena

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

Commento di Chenkow

1700 casts atm and still nothing...

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

Commento di 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?

Commento di xShoqz

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

But dont know what to do with it :p

Commento di exodix

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di weakEPC

214 casts after speaking to the lich/mage

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di Brugalter

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

Commento di fallensinner

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

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

Commento di TantrikGH

1033 casts for me

Commento di 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?

Commento di captainloozer

So far I have

Trota Irideax1417
Pescegatto Irsutox834
Pescegatto da 7 kgx6
Pescegatto da 9 kgx3
Pescegatto da 10 kg
Anello di Basalto
Pantaloni dell'Aurora
Pozione di Manax4
Pozione Superiore di Curax3
Zaino Grande

No Shard of Darkness yet....

Commento di 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

Commento di 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. >.>

Commento di Andreakos

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

Commento di livezor

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di kellyislame

It finally dropped for me.

Trota Iridea x 2308
Pescegatto Irsuto x 1266
Pescegatto da 9 kg x 14
Pescegatto da 7 kg x 10
Pozione di Mana x 13
Pozione Superiore di Cura x 7
Trota Rigonfia x 1
Scheggia d'Oscurità x 1

Grand total: 3,620 casts. 800 base fishing skill when I started. Cappello da Bevute di Nat and Canna da Pesca di Sottoluce 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.

Commento di 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

Commento di arthasbg

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

Commento di 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

Commento di Dominatorz

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

Commento di Cokanovic

I got it after 609 casts!

Commento di Nexsa

Took me 701 casts.

Commento di sdpGotar

Got it after 3239 casts

Commento di RajahSummercry

23 casts

Commento di 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.

Commento di Dreamslave

72 casts, got mine!

Commento di Rhiak

I got mine after 4,082 casts.

I looted:
Trota Iridea x 2,567
Pescegatto Irsuto x 1,473
Pescegatto da 7 kg x 7
Pescegatto da 9 kg x 9
Pescegatto da 10 kg x 4
Pescegatto da 12 kg x 1
Trota Rigonfia x 2 (which both gave Giada)
Pozione di Mana x 10
Pozione Superiore di Cura x 8
Scheggia d'Oscurità 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

Commento di 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.

Commento di sness

246 Casts

Commento di captainloozer

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

Commento di GeekTactics

3808 casts.

Commento di Gnarfoz

1195 casts \o/

Commento di Xerim7

Freedom after 3347 casts

Commento di Kelxin

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

Commento di BlazeStoneZ

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

Commento di 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

Commento di col0r

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di Flowmy

Got it after 998 casts

Commento di Leftkeywest

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

Commento di Gwelwenant

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

Commento di Grortraugh

1500 casts. Good luck all.

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di ThatWhichSmashs

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

Commento di 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

Commento di YUreca

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

Commento di Arnathon

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di Yurnero

51 casts.

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

Good luck, everyone. :)

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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!

Commento di 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.

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

Commento di Lightstylez

My Results

Caught Scheggia d'Oscurità on my 1,067th cast
Started at lvl 700 fishing and hit 800 about half-way into fishing
I used Canna da Pesca in Grafite di Seth with Verme Supremo bait - Although from current results it appears fishing skill doesn't matter, it's all RNG.
Make sure to go buy some Galleggiante Eccessivo It will make your fishing bobber much easier to click :) Lasts 30 min

Loot:
370x Pescegatto Irsuto
681x Trota Iridea
3x Pescegatto da 7 kg
3x Pescegatto da 9 kg
6x Pozione Superiore di Cura
1x Pozione di Mana
1x Martello di Sequoia
1x Anello di Corniola
1x Scheggia d'Oscurità

Good Luck Everyone! Hope this helps

Commento di 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. >:(

Commento di 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?

Commento di 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.

Commento di Chevron

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

Commento di 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 !

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di Bluedraenei

Just got it with 2587 casts. Was getting so many Uncommon items and 22, 19 & Pescegatto da 7 kg. I thought I'd never catch it. Then I fished up something purple... Scheggia d'Oscurità at last! Keep at it, everyone!

My loot, specified:

- Trota Iridea x 1638
- Pescegatto Irsuto x 917
- Pozione Superiore di Cura x 9
- Pescegatto da 9 kg x 8
- Pozione di Mana x 7
- Pescegatto da 7 kg x 2
- Pescegatto da 10 kg x 1
- Trota Rigonfia x 1, which contained Pietraluna Minore x 1
- Spadone del Tagliapietre x 1
- Ascia Selvaggia x 1
- Mantello con Glifi x 1
- Scheggia d'Oscurità x 1

Commento di 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.

Commento di Nothudor

Took me 2,496 casts.

Trota Iridea x 1,573
Pescegatto Irsuto x 900
Pescegatto da 7 kg x 6
Pescegatto da 10 kg x 2
Pescegatto da 12 kg x 1
Pozione di Mana x 9
Pozione Superiore di Cura x 2
Tonaca degli Anziani x 1
Stivali del Predatore x 1
Stivali dell'Infiltrato x 1
Scheggia d'Oscurità x 1

Commento di 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

Commento di Thalas95

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

Commento di 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 Scheggia d'Oscurità. 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.

Commento di cruelwild

I just looted the Shard of Darkness.

Took me 704 cast to get it.

x443
x257
x2
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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.

Commento di 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!

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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. :)

Commento di 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

Commento di 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 :)

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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?

Commento di 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.

Commento di Mymindaway

698 casts and it dropped for me!

Commento di proKuehlt

Took me 2229 casts. Finally got it.

Commento di 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.

Commento di hitsilent

known bug

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di Chestas

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

Trota Iridea x 793
Pescegatto Irsuto x 578
Pozione Superiore di Cura x 10
Pescegatto da 9 kg x 2
Pescegatto da 7 kg x 4
Scheggia d'Oscurità x 1

Commento di Noxial

1698 casts! stay strong highlords!

Commento di 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.

Commento di Colsheppard

618 fish caught to get mine

Commento di 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

Commento di HeebiJeebus

2883...but worth it.

Commento di Darkrey00

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

Commento di lennux

2521 casts

Commento di adorina

300 casts exactly.

Commento di 844704

got it on 327 cast

Commento di 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.

Commento di Saltychip

575 casts and counting posting here for RNG hype life

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di Loreylan

1200 and nothing..

Commento di blaaker

3235 casts... finally got it.

stay strong friends.

Commento di Nathalanti

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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 Scheggia d'Oscurità
1 Bastone dei Saggi
1 Trota Rigonfia (containing one Giada)
2 Pozione Superiore di Curas
4 "X" Pound Catfish (2x17,1x19,1x22) Held in off-hands
8 Pozione di Manas
342 Pescegatto Irsuto
623 Trota Iridea

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.

Commento di victorvilnerdk

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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?

Commento di CNellemose

900 casts and still going strong.

Commento di 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).

Commento di Oixio

Will to live diminishes with every cast ...

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di Punches

Killed the Grande Fanghiglia Vile after rolling restarts today.
38 Total Casts with 800 Fishing + Artifact Fishing Pole
23 X Trota Iridea
14 X Pescegatto Irsuto
1 X Scheggia d'Oscurità

I was also wearing Camicia Fortunata

Commento di JakkFrost

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di V3rtige

Got it after 114 fishes... :p

Commento di 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

Commento di 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?

Commento di 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

Commento di Takius

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

Commento di ShadowProphet

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di oren248

1887 catches, 7hours, day wasted fishing.

Commento di Gillrien

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

Commento di Clique05

Got it after 40 casts....

Confirmed drop rate is buffed.

PROOF:

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

Commento di 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 :/

Commento di Leandoer

Got it in about 300 casts. FeelsGoodMan

Commento di 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)
Trota Iridea (1818)
Pescegatto Irsuto (1036)
Pescegatto da 9 kg (7)
Pozione Superiore di Cura (6)
Pescegatto da 7 kg (3)
Pozione di Mana (2)
Pescegatto da 12 kg (1)
Giada (1)
Pescegatto da 10 kg (1)
Scheggia d'Oscurità (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.

Commento di marekslv

This RNG killing game fun!

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

GL all!

Commento di 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

Commento di 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.

Commento di masterAragorn1

Well i got extremely lucky mine dropped after 60 casts.

Commento di 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.

Commento di Indypendnt

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

Commento di Dorrim

Just got Scheggia d'Oscurità, 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!

Commento di Gadoink4

Got it today after 5717 casts. Results:

3670 Trota Iridea
1976 Pescegatto Irsuto
17 Pescegatto da 7 kg
14 Pescegatto da 9 kg
7 Pescegatto da 10 kg
1 Trota Rigonfia (containing a Giada)
15 Pozione Superiore di Cura
11 Pozione di Mana
1 Giada (separate from the one in the Bloated Trout)
1 Pantaloni Durevoli of the Eagle
1 Pantaloni degli Anziani of the Eagle
1 Guanti dell'Evocatore of the Whale
1 Guanti del Predatore of the Owl
1 Scheggia d'Oscurità

Commento di 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!

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di Xiosgold

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

Commento di ScarTierII

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

Commento di TrisarA

1534 Trota Iridea
677 Pescegatto Irsuto
6 Pescegatto da 7 kg
3 Pescegatto da 9 kg
2 Pescegatto da 10 kg
1 Trota Rigonfia with a Giada
8 Pozione Superiore di Cura
4 Pozione di Mana

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...

Commento di 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.

Trota Iridea x 1945
Pescegatto Irsuto x 1128
Pescegatto da 7 kg x 2
Pescegatto da 9 kg x 4
Pescegatto da 10 kg x 2
Pescegatto da 14 kg x 2 (at least I got Questo non è scappato)
Pozione Superiore di Cura x 7
Pozione di Mana x 5
Scheggia d'Oscurità 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. :)

Commento di chisse91

i got Lucky got it after 653 casts

Commento di 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 Scheggia d'Oscurità 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. :(

Commento di timmy1080

Trota Iridea x1890
Pescegatto Irsuto x1056
Trota Rigonfia x1
Pescegatto da 10 kg x1
Pescegatto da 9 kg x5
Pescegatto da 7 kg x8
Pozione di Mana x6
Pozione Superiore di Cura x3
Scheggia d'Oscurità

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!

Commento di 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)

Commento di 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.

Commento di Patral8

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

Commento di Moonwired

My stats

Trota Iridea x 1968
Pescegatto Irsuto x1063
Pescegatto da 7 kg x3
Pescegatto da 9 kg x7
Pescegatto da 10 kg x2
Pescegatto da 14 kg x1
Trota Rigonfia x2
Pozione di Mana x7
Pozione Superiore di Cura x6
Bracciali della Sentinella x2
Modello: Sacca di Seta Verde x1
Cinturone a Piastre da Campo x1
Stivali Jazeraint x1
Scheggia d'Oscurità 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

Commento di 1045563

Fished up on 984th cast
639 Trota Iridea
337 Pescegatto Irsuto
4 Pescegatto da 9 kg
3 Pozione Superiore di Cura
1 Scheggia d'Oscurità

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

Commento di 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

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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

Commento di ForeverSol

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

Commento di ladorna

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

224 Trota Iridea
132 Pescegatto Irsuto
1 Hacking Cleaver
1 Pescegatto da 9 kg
1Citrine

Commento di GarinH

maxed out on fishing, it took me 1162 casts

Commento di aviaticlol

Took me 1314 Casts.

Commento di 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:
Trota Iridea x 3047
Pescegatto Irsuto x 1686
Pozione di Mana x 9
Pozione Superiore di Cura x 8
Pescegatto da 7 kg x 4
Pescegatto da 9 kg x 11
Pescegatto da 10 kg x 5
Pescegatto da 12 kg x 1
Spallacci di Cuoio di Scaglie x 1
Scheggia d'Oscurità x 1

Commento di 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!

Commento di 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 Scheggia d'Oscurità

Commento di Serbanr

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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!

Commento di ilostmahbucket

430 casts.

Commento di 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

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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!

Commento di DonStronk

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

Commento di Extort

3200 casts...

Commento di lordgax

Dropped for me right after i got 600 fishing skill

Totals : ~558 casts

353 Trota Iridea
194 Pescegatto Irsuto
2 Pescegatto da 10 kg
3 Pescegatto da 9 kg
1 Scheggia d'Oscurità

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

Happy Hunting !

Commento di 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!

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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..

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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

Commento di brandoncogs

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

Commento di 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 :(

Commento di 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.

Commento di baloonknot

took 1,015 casts

Commento di Chaos911

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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!"

Commento di 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!

Commento di Tecc1229

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di 1274466

I know I got lucky:

278 casts
Trota Iridea x170
Pescegatto Irsuto x98
Pescegatto da 10 kg x1
Pescegatto da 9 kg x1
Pozione Superiore di Cura x1
Scheggia d'Oscurità x1

Commento di 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.

Trota Iridea x 1104
Pescegatto Irsuto x 613
Pescegatto da 12 kg x 1
Pescegatto da 7 kg x 1
Pescegatto da 9 kg x 3
Pozione di Mana x 1
Pozione Superiore di Cura x 5
Scheggia d'Oscurità x 1

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

Some final useful information:

Use Galleggiante Eccessivo 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.

Commento di 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!

Commento di 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.

Commento di addekallstrom

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

Commento di 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!

Commento di 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).

Commento di DingoVad

1000 casts, no luck...

Commento di LadyLarren

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

Trota Iridea x768
Pescegatto Irsuto x462
Pozione di Mana x3
Pozione Superiore di Cura x3
Citrino x2
Pescegatto da 7 kg x3
Pescegatto da 9 kg x1
Pescegatto da 10 kg x1
Pescegatto da 12 kg x1
Pescegatto da 14 kg x1
Stivali di Maglia da Combattimento x1
Bracciali dell'Aurora x1
Scheggia d'Oscurità 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.

Commento di 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!

Commento di Rhoxors

Patience and perseverance is our virtue fellow Dinians

582 Trota Iridea
316 Pescegatto Irsuto
2 Pescegatto da 7 kg
1 Pescegatto da 9 kg
1 Scheggia d'Oscurità

901 Total Casts

Fished up while wearing the Canna da Pesca di Sottoluce

Commento di 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

Commento di Pupsader

I am a masochist and a collector of useless things, which is... inadvisable. Nevertheless, I fished up a second Scheggia d'Oscurità because I thought it would be amusing for Ser 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 Scheggia d'Oscurità 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.

Commento di Qubi

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

Commento di 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

Commento di desperta123

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

Commento di ashpifiretree

Got it on cast 308.

Commento di 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, Canna da Pesca di Sottoluce (+60), Cappello da Pesca Consunto (+5), and the lure it gives you (+75). Total fishing time was probably around three hours.

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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 ^.^

Commento di 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....

Commento di Danail

Dropped for me after the following:

1,041 x Trota Iridea
582 x Pescegatto Irsuto
6 x Pescegatto da 9 kg
6 x Pescegatto da 7 kg
3 x Pozione Superiore di Cura
3 x Pozione di Mana
1 x Pescegatto da 12 kg
1 x Trota Rigonfia
1 x Ricetta: Elisir della Forza degli Ogre
1 x Scheggia d'Oscurità

1,645 total casts.

Good luck to all.

Commento di 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)

Commento di Naturehax

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

Commento di 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

Commento di 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.

Commento di Reilentless

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

Commento di Xcore

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

Commento di 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

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di Paloria

got it on cast 52

Commento di 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?

Commento di moskwa1980

got mine in around 60 casts, happy day :)

Commento di Dragovarious

4327 casts. Absurd.

Commento di AngusBeef1

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

Commento di 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...

Commento di Stealthbombr

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

Commento di Eothaki

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

Commento di 1501258

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

Commento di 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 :-)

Commento di AddictedPoi

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

Commento di 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

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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

Commento di Alteisen

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

Commento di 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

Commento di ceylina

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

Commento di Wolverrine

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

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

Commento di 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

Commento di 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.

Commento di goodmrtumnus

I got this after 89 casts.

Commento di Pathani

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

Commento di ssdisfaster

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

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

Commento di rowent

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

Commento di atofinado

Got it after 32 casts.

Commento di thompson888

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

Took me 77 casts.

Trota Iridea x52
Pescegatto Irsuto x24
Scheggia d'Oscurità x1

All in all took about 30 min.

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

http://imgur.com/a/MShQm

Commento di TemporalAnarchy

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

Commento di kutisjan

great luck for me (70 cast)

http://imgur.com/a/FfY0W

Commento di 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!

Commento di cybeles93

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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 :)

Commento di astha

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

Commento di zaccie

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

Commento di cgilm2526

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

Commento di JohnPWest

Got on cast 38. Woot!

Palindare of Gnomeregan

Commento di 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.

Commento di thereaping

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

Commento di DerpyFrog

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

Commento di Adanos13

50 casts here (7.3)

Commento di 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

Commento di Vaeku

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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!

Commento di Kujarok

Only 103 casts .. dropped O_o Holy moly!

Commento di tenares

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

Commento di AtomicWalrus911

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

Commento di 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

Commento di johnmobley2008

Took 12 casts to get it.

Commento di Bulo

Extreme luck on my paladin get is for 63 cast

Commento di Niculove

43 casts here.

Commento di Nelinde

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

Commento di sclaudiu85

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

Commento di fraeda

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

Commento di 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

Commento di Ruuds

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

Commento di jermbug1

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

Commento di cerradwyn

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

Commento di brudarek

1021 fishing, 1 cast, suck it RNGesus

Commento di dharris99

Got it on my 89th cast today!

Commento di 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!

Commento di Mountandrew

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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

Commento di 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...

Commento di 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.

Commento di Snuffered

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

Commento di YoSaperstein

Lucky me:

Pescegatto Irsuto x2
Trota Iridea x7
Scheggia d'Oscurità x1

Only 10!

Commento di runswithwands

2 casts for me.

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

Commento di Utena

For the historical record, starting with 1 fishing skill:
45xTrota Iridea
35xPescegatto Irsuto
1xPescegatto da 9 kg
1xScheggia d'Oscurità

Commento di 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

Commento di 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.

Commento di Octayvius

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

Commento di Hezar

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

Yep, drop rate has been buffed by alot.

Commento di mannyu78

Starting from 0 fishing skill. No pole, no lure

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

Commento di Bubbleebutt

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

Commento di 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?

Commento di Xavriel94

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

Commento di Elitecookie

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di frankiecm

42 Casts and got it. Around 7 minutes fishing.

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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

Commento di 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. :);;;

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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

Commento di 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?

Commento di Caras

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

Commento di Csofe

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

Commento di loopiz

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di khaziago

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

Commento di bruenir

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di EncaitarFirestar

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

Commento di 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)

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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 Cassa di Galleggianti Pepe di Legno. Good luck to you!

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di Wragth

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

Commento di Ploxius

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

Commento di AlexL1118

Exactly 90 casts for me.

Commento di 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?

Commento di nelsonj1998

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

Commento di ZachyKinz

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di Vygoth1

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

Commento di 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

Commento di Grizmatik

Took exactly 100 casts in 8.2.5 for me.

Commento di 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.

Commento di Monomatapa

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

Commento di 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!

Commento di Okkadok

It took me 5 minutes.

Commento di Tnax

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di Goidemar

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

Commento di Mresa

Got it after 85 casts.

Commento di 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.

Commento di Uteesh

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di Bobndude2

1st cast....

Commento di 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.

Commento di CorvoN7

Got this shard after 26 tries

Commento di 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.

Commento di lelandwhitehead

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

Commento di Eaglenez

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

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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.

Commento di retzeke

got it in 8 attempts drop chance must be buffed

Commento di Bword

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

Commento di Motorcharge

Got it after 99 casts today, 0 fishing skill.

Commento di 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

Commento di 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.

Commento di 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

Commento di Vsszz

november 10th, 2022

dropped after getting 88 items from fishing on the river.

Commento di Krass619

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

Commento di Vonathan

90 casts in Dragonflight pre-patch

Commento di 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.

Commento di Novhakin

Patch 10.0.7. took me 52 tries!

Commento di Heatmn

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

Commento di 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 !

Commento di Aytirios

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

Commento di Greyfingers

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

Commento di 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!

Commento di Clawmedaddy

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

Commento di Clawmedaddy

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

Commento di Lordaeron

10.1.5 took 41 casts

Commento di Shadere

60ish casts

Commento di 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.

Commento di Embersong

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

https://imgur.com/a/soUQmXw

Commento di Ranadicus

45 casts on the date above

Commento di Arcticlobster

74 Casts on Date above

Commento di 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.

Commento di WitchFenris

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

Commento di Shapingus

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

Commento di 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 :)

Commento di 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

Commento di SkySnap

Got it after 60 casts in 10.2.5.

Commento di SkySnap

Got it after 60 casts in 10.2.5.

Commento di shamokens

10.2.5

52 casts - WM on .

Commento di 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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