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Angelic Rod
Catch 75,000 fish and/or junk! No time limit, any number of lakes. You don't need to keep the fish or junk. Rods are granted once a week on Sunday at around 5 am PST.
Angelic Rod Plus
Catch 150,000 fish and/or junk and you must have a regular Angelic Rod in your inventory! No time limit, any number of lakes. You don't need to keep the fish or junk. Rods are granted once a week on Sunday at around 5am PST.
If you don't have a rod at the time of the weekly granting Logan will check your inventory every week until you have a rod in your account on the grant day and then he'll replace your regular Angelic with a Plus.
Special Note: When the script to grant the rods is run, it only checks for those who have fished during the current month. If you reach the required amount and stopped fishing at the end of the month fish at least one bucket during the next month to get your rod to grant on the following Sunday.
Math Time!
75,000 fish/junk is equivalent to 4167 buckets.
If you fish 5 buckets a day every day it will take 834 days or about 28 months.
If you fish 10 buckets a day every day it will take 417 days or about 14 months.
If you fish 20 buckets a day every day it will take 209 days or about 7 months.
If you fish 30 buckets a day every day it will take 139 days or about 4.7 months.
If you fish 40 buckets a day every day it will take 105 days or about 3.5 months.
If you fish 50 buckets a day every day it will take 84 days or about 3 months.
If you fish 100 buckets a day every day it will take 42 days or about 1.4 months.
Also... fishing 20+ buckets a day is a good way to earn a trophy (though not always guaranteed depending on the competition) which can help keep you motivated!
Fishing 5 buckets a day can take as little as 25 minutes (if you don't spend much time chatting, catch everything you hook and don't take pauses between casts). Although with captchas and other factors it is more likely to take around 30 minutes of focused fishing time. All in all, it means that you'll finish a bucket about every 5-6 minutes if you catch everything.
10 buckets would be about an hour.
20 buckets would be about 2 hours.
30 buckets would be about 3 hours... etc etc...
Plan to add extra time to that if you are going to spend time multitasking and/or filtering.
So, if you've got two hours most days (and maybe a bit more on some days) not only can you make good headway into your Angelic Rod quest, but you might get yourself a trophy each month in the process.
Old info relating to Angelic Rod
So what do we know for sure?
You need to fish to earn the rod. And you will need to fish to earn the upgrade.
It is not based on the number of trophies you have or haven't won. The quality of your bait is not a factor either, as people who almost always junk have gotten the rod. There is nothing you can do or post to get the rod. You simply have to FISH. And fish a fair amount at that.
And, the rod will continue to be handed out on a weekly basis.
And a dev update:
What do we speculate?
That when you catch somewhere around 75k fish and junk (which is equivalent to about 4167 full buckets) you'll earn the rod. Though, we can't get an official response on this, thats pretty much where it stands...
Do note that if your trading pass is disabled or you don't have one... chances are pretty good you won't get your angelic rod till you have a working pass. D;
What do we need from you?
Nothing as of right now! It seems we've nailed down the 75k fish/junk requirement for the angelic rod. Once the plus rod gets enabled, we will be collecting data again!
You can feel free to share your stats if you want to, but at this point it is unnecessary until the upgraded version comes out.
Catch 75,000 fish and/or junk! No time limit, any number of lakes. You don't need to keep the fish or junk. Rods are granted once a week on Sunday at around 5 am PST.
Angelic Rod Plus
Catch 150,000 fish and/or junk and you must have a regular Angelic Rod in your inventory! No time limit, any number of lakes. You don't need to keep the fish or junk. Rods are granted once a week on Sunday at around 5am PST.
If you don't have a rod at the time of the weekly granting Logan will check your inventory every week until you have a rod in your account on the grant day and then he'll replace your regular Angelic with a Plus.
Special Note: When the script to grant the rods is run, it only checks for those who have fished during the current month. If you reach the required amount and stopped fishing at the end of the month fish at least one bucket during the next month to get your rod to grant on the following Sunday.
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Math Time!
75,000 fish/junk is equivalent to 4167 buckets.
If you fish 5 buckets a day every day it will take 834 days or about 28 months.
If you fish 10 buckets a day every day it will take 417 days or about 14 months.
If you fish 20 buckets a day every day it will take 209 days or about 7 months.
If you fish 30 buckets a day every day it will take 139 days or about 4.7 months.
If you fish 40 buckets a day every day it will take 105 days or about 3.5 months.
If you fish 50 buckets a day every day it will take 84 days or about 3 months.
If you fish 100 buckets a day every day it will take 42 days or about 1.4 months.
Also... fishing 20+ buckets a day is a good way to earn a trophy (though not always guaranteed depending on the competition) which can help keep you motivated!
Fishing 5 buckets a day can take as little as 25 minutes (if you don't spend much time chatting, catch everything you hook and don't take pauses between casts). Although with captchas and other factors it is more likely to take around 30 minutes of focused fishing time. All in all, it means that you'll finish a bucket about every 5-6 minutes if you catch everything.
10 buckets would be about an hour.
20 buckets would be about 2 hours.
30 buckets would be about 3 hours... etc etc...
Plan to add extra time to that if you are going to spend time multitasking and/or filtering.
So, if you've got two hours most days (and maybe a bit more on some days) not only can you make good headway into your Angelic Rod quest, but you might get yourself a trophy each month in the process.
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Old info relating to Angelic Rod
So what do we know for sure?
You need to fish to earn the rod. And you will need to fish to earn the upgrade.
It is not based on the number of trophies you have or haven't won. The quality of your bait is not a factor either, as people who almost always junk have gotten the rod. There is nothing you can do or post to get the rod. You simply have to FISH. And fish a fair amount at that.
And, the rod will continue to be handed out on a weekly basis.
And a dev update:
Panagrammic
Angelic Rods Granted
All angelic rods have now been granted to everyone that should have received them.
Lots of information and caveats below:
- only users that had logged in since 2010 were on the grant list
- rods for newly qualifying fishers will be granted on a weekly basis
- if you're coming back to the site after over a year, you'll need to fish again to show up and be checked for the weekly angelic rod grant.
There were some questions about the exact qualifications. For reasons of gameplay we would prefer not to divulge exact numbers, but we will say this:
- the rod does not require particular fish to be caught, nor does it depend on winning a trophy, nor does it depend on random events. It's fair from the standpoint that if you land enough fish, you'll get it.
- that said, the Gaia Fishing forum is converging pretty quickly on a fairly accurate guess, so if you're really interested there are some pretty canny guesses as to the requirements.
All angelic rods have now been granted to everyone that should have received them.
Lots of information and caveats below:
- only users that had logged in since 2010 were on the grant list
- rods for newly qualifying fishers will be granted on a weekly basis
- if you're coming back to the site after over a year, you'll need to fish again to show up and be checked for the weekly angelic rod grant.
There were some questions about the exact qualifications. For reasons of gameplay we would prefer not to divulge exact numbers, but we will say this:
- the rod does not require particular fish to be caught, nor does it depend on winning a trophy, nor does it depend on random events. It's fair from the standpoint that if you land enough fish, you'll get it.
- that said, the Gaia Fishing forum is converging pretty quickly on a fairly accurate guess, so if you're really interested there are some pretty canny guesses as to the requirements.
What do we speculate?
That when you catch somewhere around 75k fish and junk (which is equivalent to about 4167 full buckets) you'll earn the rod. Though, we can't get an official response on this, thats pretty much where it stands...
Do note that if your trading pass is disabled or you don't have one... chances are pretty good you won't get your angelic rod till you have a working pass. D;
What do we need from you?
Nothing as of right now! It seems we've nailed down the 75k fish/junk requirement for the angelic rod. Once the plus rod gets enabled, we will be collecting data again!
You can feel free to share your stats if you want to, but at this point it is unnecessary until the upgraded version comes out.
