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Players say the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza bugged out two weeks running

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Players report the Schools of Tastyfish turn back into normal fishing pools well before the two hours are up, for the second Sunday in a row. Blizzard's November 13 hotfix increased how many players can win and said more tournament fixes are on the way.

What players are reporting

On Sunday 15 November several players posted that the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza stopped early again. In the in-game event data the tournament is weekly, running every Sunday at 14:00 realm time for two hours, with players fishing the coasts of Stranglethorn Vale for Speckled Tastyfish Speckled Tastyfish.

One player, Ace, gave the fullest account: about 25 minutes in, the Schools of Tastyfish he was fishing turned back into regular fishing pools, so he could no longer catch Speckled Tastyfish from them. He says he can't confirm whether it hit other layers or whether it was tied to the number of winners.

  • Merc says it's happened two weeks in a row: the tastyfish pools stop spawning after the winners are announced, when the event is meant to last two hours.
  • BigDeepers says a druid won and all the pools disappeared, and he'd expected to keep fishing for a message in a bottle.
  • On Reddit, Fontec says this week's winning time was over 14 minutes faster than last week, roughly two fish a minute.

Player reports, not a Blizzard change or statement. Fishing-node spawns are handled on Blizzard's servers, so the game files can't confirm what happened in any single run.

What the event is meant to do

The in-game event data says the tournament runs for two hours, and describes the grand prize going to the angler who catches forty fish first. So the grand prize is the first player to catch forty Speckled Tastyfish Speckled Tastyfish, not the first fifty to turn fish in, as BigDeepers asked. Players also keep fishing the pools afterwards for extra catches, which is what the “message in a bottle” above refers to.

What Blizzard has said

Blizzard's November 13 hotfixes touched the tournament. Under a Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza heading, Kaivax posted:

Improved the weekly fishing tournament by greatly increasing the number of players per ruleset who can win. Kaivax, Community Manager

The same note added a developers' line:

Developers’ notes: We continue to work on performance issues with the tournament, and we will deploy additional fixes in the weeks to come. Kaivax, Community Manager

So Blizzard knows the tournament has performance problems and says more fixes are coming. It hasn't said the pools are meant to vanish once winners are named.

Speculation. Players tie the pools reverting to the moment winners are announced, but Blizzard hasn't confirmed that is the cause, and Ace himself says he couldn't confirm it. Treat the link as the players' reading, not a known fact.

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