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Commentaire de 250508

Pour les nouveaux arrivants en Norfendre (qui ont une compétence de pêche à 375 ) je vous conseille d'augmenter votre métier en commençant par pêcher dans les égouts de Dalaran , de mémoire je l'ai looté ma compétence devait être entre 400 et 415 (soit une moyenne de 400 poissons pêchés environ )

C'est aléatoire , on peut le looter au bout de 2 essais comme en étant 450 en pêche. Mais quite à augmenter sa pêche autant le faire là pour avoir une chance de l'avoir. Et puis il est beaucoup plus simple à avoir que le minipet de M.Pince-mi (déjà il faut le trouver et ensuite avoir une chance sur les 3 souhaits d'avoir l'écrevisse ) car là si vous le lootez il est d'office dans l'inventaire ^^

Il est aussi gros qu'un gnome et super mimi.

Compétence requise = 430 en pêche. ( looté avec 375+ appât 100 + canne à pêche 20 )

bon courage

Commentaires

Commentaire de 21795

Rare catch from open water in Dalaran's Underbelly (sewers). May take hundreds of catches to find. El's Anglin' information.

Commentaire de 144071

I hope it will teach Speedy martial arts.

Commentaire de 177789

The rat is roughly the same size as a gnome.

Commentaire de 162546

give the rat some of these. But bring 24 friends with you before doing so.

Commentaire de 208863

and another reason to lvl fishing :-D

Commentaire de 199400

*cracks knuckles* I know where I'll be spending the time I'm not fishing in Dalaran's fountain...

Commentaire de wevans

says small model as the Rat Cage. So is it bigger then the rat I already have?

Commentaire de 184853

At LEAST 1000 catches from the Dalaran Sewers, and I've yet to catch this one. Its very rare indeed.

edit: finally caught him at 12:20am, 10/11/08. Probably after about 1500 casts in total. Good luck!

Commentaire de Gnowo

This is basicly the new Mr. pinchy

Only difference is that you don't need a specific pool of fish to catch it from.

Commentaire de 248634

Just thought I'd mention what I managed to drag out of the sewers. :)

81 Sewer Carp (53%)
48 Magic Eater (31%)
8 Empty Vial (5%)
9 Partially Eaten Fish (6%)
6 Drowned Rat (3%)
1 Leaded Vial (1%)
1 Giant Sewer Rat (1%)

154 Total

Commentaire de 249686

Caught this guy around 7AM Server time on 11/17. It was fairly quick and unexpected. Took him to the pet shop and gave him a quick cleaning.

Commentaire de 81645

i just got mine today
dont know how many casts but heres my loot list:
163 sewer carp
58 magic eaters
11 drowned rats
11 partially eaten fish
14 empty vials
and 1 enchanted vial

Commentaire de 249050

Got mine today (11/ 18/ 08) took me 324 catches in The Black Market area. Not that bad of a grind.

Commentaire de 250642

Scilla server, 5am-6:18am (took a 15-20 min break)
fishing on the dock in cantrips & crows
210 successful casts, 4 misses
125 sewer carp
15 drowned rat
18 empty vial
7 leaded vial
34 magic eater
10 partially eaten fish
1 giant sewer rat
wore +25 fishing pole (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=19022), +5 fishing hat (https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=33820), +2 fishing enchant on gloves, and +75 fishing lure
450 fishing skill to start

Commentaire de 193368

I caught the Giant Sewer Rat last night. It took a little over four hours, I burned through 20 sharpened fish hooks and caught over 800 fish/items. I was also able to complete the fishing achievement Cath 1000 Fish.

Commentaire de thecomicpimp

don't forget it's BOP. I just caught him and have auto loot on. Had already cast the next line out before i realized what i was doing and didn't get to loot him

no longer prompts you, and will auto loot

Yeah, I know this is no longer the case. Now thankfully autoloots

Commentaire de 253252

This takes more luck than skill. I was just fishing in the sewers and caught him on my 6th fish after 4 fish got away. My fishing skill is at 379, I was using a +20 fishing pole, and I put a +100 hook on the pole. I also caught him from the dock in the Cantrips and Crows section of the sewers.

If your fishing skill isn't maxed don't let that stop you from trying. Happy fishing!

Commentaire de 244579

Have been fishing after this one for 3 days now, and still nothing. Maxed out my fishingskill and fished over 1100 fish. Probably just my bad luck as allways. Gonna update when i get it (if i do!).

Update: Finally got it now, 2029 catch's later. I just have one thing to say; Never give up!

Commentaire de g1ts

Just caught mine.

Started: fishing 393 + 20 rod + 100 lure
Ended: fishing 450 + 20 rod + 75 lure

16 hours fishing, 2587 catches later - 1 Giant Sewer Rat

Fished by the bank area and the shark area, eventually caught him in the shark area.

(as stated above BOP so careful on the quick recast, always check your catch (pop up confirmation box on rat catch) before recasting)

Good luck and keep at it, it does arrive!

G

Commentaire de opiuman

Still working on this one on the SE part of Cantrips past the Fishing Vendor. Since a lot of people got it recently I hope I'll get mine soon. Over 2000 casts now.

Commentaire de 152448

I got this while doing the coin achievement, so you don't have to fish in the underbelly, you can also fish from the fountain.

Commentaire de 254463

Caught this today. It's large for a rat, but not overly large for a non-combat pet or anything. I'd say it's a little smaller than the 4th anniversary baby blizzard bear, since everyone and their mother got one of those a couple days ago in the mail and can relate.
I was talking to a guy who was expecting it to be a very large pet and that was the only reason he was fishing for it. Figured it merited a mention due to that. Still pretty darn nice tho as far as I'm concerned :)

I only went through 3 lures before I caught him by Cantrips at the end of the dock there where people commonly fish. Reading here and talking to some guys while fishing, I realize I was very lucky. As being lucky is very odd for me, I'll take it!

I was getting quite a few get-aways as my skill wasn't anything to brag about. When I finally caught him my skill was only 369, so with pole and lure total my total skill was sitting at 489 when I snagged him.

Good luck!

Commentaire de Faileas

If your bobber lands on the outer edge of the fountain, then you will be getting the sewer open water loot table and not the fountain loot table. I think you were just very lucky about getting the Rat when you just happened to cast on the edge of the Fountain's water zone.

Commentaire de 20300

I think this is really rare but... 92 casts and I caught him! Keep trying, fellow fishermen!

92 catches
20 magic eaters
57 sewer carp
1 Empty Vial
1 Leaded Vial
1 Drowned Rat
11 Partially Eaten Fish
1 Giant Sewer Rat

Commentaire de 168407

Took me around 1000 casts to get this rat and got me to 350 exclusively fishing in the sewers before I got it. However, a friend went fishing for 20 minutes and caught one. That's the RNG for ya.

Commentaire de wombatt

Caught mine last night. 224 fish + other stuff caught in all, skill went from 375 to 403 in the process.

Commentaire de 36063

Just caught it from the dock of Cantrips & Crows. I was expecting it to take forever, got lucky.

Total Casts 198

Commentaire de 201180

Fished for 45 minutes by Cantrips & Crows and had to log out. I logged in a few hours later and caught it on the first cast. I sat there in shock for about 30 seconds not believing my luck.
After I sat in a catatonic state staring at the screen for those 30 seconds, I realized I hadn't looted it yet and clicked before I got DC'd or some other horrible thing LOL

Commentaire de 252340

Approx. 1200 casts, around 10hrs in total. Did 8hrs in one sitting- was very depressing.

Just this morning after a server restart, I got my little buddy in 6 casts!

Keep at it! :)

Commentaire de pokyhawk

Got him right next to the inn @ 33/50 Cantrips & Crows. Took a while. Breakdown is like this:
Item / Number/ Percentage/ Items per hour

Sewer Carp 147.0 50.8651% 76.28658
Magic Eater 76.0 26.2976% 39.44068
Empty Vial 21.0 7.2664% 10.89808
Partially Eaten Fish 18.0 6.2284% 9.34121
Drowned Rat 15.0 5.1903% 7.78434
Leaded Vial 8.0 2.7682% 4.15165
Crystal Vial 1.0 0.3460% 0.51896
Enchanted Vial 1.0 0.3460% 0.51896
Imbued Vial 1.0 0.3460% 0.51896
Giant Sewer Rat 1.0 0.3460% 0.51896

Nice pet for your collection. Good Luck! :>

Commentaire de 174102

I got two in the time it took me to level fishing from 378 - 404. The first didn't loot because I was shift-clicking the bobber then hitting a hotkey to fish again and the cast closed the BOP confirm dialog box.

Commentaire de Mikey7047

Does anyone know if you are able to catch the rat in the shallow water next to the room where Cantrips is (Where the arena vendor and whatnot are)?

Commentaire de 42435

1783 casts ~10 hours

Sewer Carp - 997 - 56%
Magic Eater - 466 - 26%
Empty Vial - 117 - 6%
Drowned Rat - 92 - 5%
Partially Eaten Fish - 85 - 4,7%
Leaded Vial - 34 - 2%
Enchanted Vial - 2 - 0,1%
Imbued Vial - 2 0,1%
Giant Sewer Rat - 1 0,05%

Caught it at Cantrips & Crows, doesn't matter where in the Underbelly you stand.

Commentaire de 217206

I just got mine after exactly 787 casts. At one point I was getting really bored and decided to have some fun so I took off all my gear except my fishing hat, boots, and cloak and got the sewer rat within 5 casts of doing so.

Coincidence?

Ha ha hell yeah it was, but it was pretty funny. Good luck everyone.

Commentaire de 278472

After about 800-1000 times fishing off the docks for this thing, I caught it and immediately cast my line again like I had been doing by habit over and over. Of course I want to pick it up! Ask me if I want to pick up a drowned freakin rat, now THAT i would say no to. I guess Ill be one of the first to catch it twice /sigh

Commentaire de 260859

I like fishing next to Darahir. Every now and then, he will sell mana pots so you can check it every time you put on a new lure.

Commentaire de Ronniemex

Know what's funny when your farming for this guy? Watching some nub run up near you and throw out one cast... then seeing his achievement proc for catching the rat. Very discouraging!

Commentaire de Vinkinglord

ok after 4 days of Fishing for the Giant Sewer Rat these are the numbers I come up with.

Item Name.........Total Items.......%
Crystal Vial..............(15)..........0.67%
Drowned Rat............(100)........4.49%
Empty Vial...............(162)........7.27%
Enchanted Vial.........(5)...........0.22%
Giant Sewer Rat.......(1)............0.04%
Imbued Vial..............(6)............0.27%
Leaded Vial..............(51)..........2.29%
Magic Eater..............(574).......25.76%
Partially Eaten Fish...(106).........4.76%
Sewer Carp...............(1208)......54.22%
Total.........................(2228).........100%

I did my fishing by the Inn in the Dalaran Underbelly (Cantrips & Crows), a Fishing Supplies Vender which sell bobber's is right by the end of the dock which makes for a short trip to restock and sell off fish/crap.
I was using my Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole with a Spun Truesilver Fishing Line and a Bright Baubles sadly I ran out of my better hooks long before I got the rat.
450 fishing + 30 + 3 + 75 = 558 fishing ( need atleast 525 fishing to avoid " Fish got away").

Wowhead Links to items Used
https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=44050
https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=34836
https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=6532

Happy Hunting and Good Luck, you will need it.

Commentaire de 288272

Just caught the Giant Rat,after 2 days of fishing,total time 520 minutes
742 Sewer carp
326 Magic Eater
110 Empty vials
31 Leaded vials
7 Imbued vials
6 Crystal vials
3 Enchanted vials
78 Drowned rats
75 Partially eaten fish
Went from fishing skill 375 to 450
Caught him on the dock by the small boats,outside cantrips inn in the sewers
+25 fishing rod,and +75 lures
Good Luck
Gralinok,Crushridge server

Commentaire de 239300

tried for 4 days around 2 hour / day. over 1000 casts still no luck

time to write a post and pray to wowhead god. lol

Commentaire de 290325

Alright, so i got mine in 4 trys by casting at the waterfall like thing to the far right of the dock by the inn. it said target not in sight a few times but, if you keep going itll cast right at the edge

Commentaire de lmh86

Fishing for the rat provides a great occasion to use Underbelly Elixir; a 1/3 chance to get the Hungry Tuskarr buff, giving a +50 fishing boost, which might just push you over the 525 mark if you're fishing for this early.

Commentaire de 220544

I fished here and there but never put in alot of effort until today, I started fishing in the Black market and after 10 casts snagged one, but I had auto-loot on and was a dummy and recast. 5 mins later I decided to keep trying, but this time I went to Cantrips and Crows and after 40 casts snagged another one. Maybe I'm just really lucky for once, or this has a pretty good drop chance.

Commentaire de Karadros

Caught mine just the other minute. On the 1999th cast... after installing Fishingbuddy anyway. Who knows how many lines I'd cast before then...

Commentaire de 96421

450 sewer carp
372 magic eater
42 vial (all kinds)
56 bones (drownded rats and eaten fish)
1 rat

Total : 921 casts

I fished by the bank.There is a lure vendor near and ive seen 2-3 ppl get the rat there.
lvled fishing from 385-450 while fishing for the rat.
Total time spend 7hours
Advice: Be patient i was about to quit several times but i realy wanted the rat.Put some nice music on this might take you some time.GL

Commentaire de quebmb

Fished all day for this bad boy while I was working from home (yay remote tech support employment). Was fishing off the end of the pier in Cantrips and Crowes outside the inn. Just before the end of my shift the rat popped up on my screen.

Time Fishing: about 10 hours (on and off between work calls).
Total Catches: 292
Fish Got away: about 4 when I forgot to reapply a bauble.

Broken down:
154 Sewer Carp
82 Magic Eater
24 Empty Vial
15 Partially Eaten Fish
9 Drowned Rat
3 Imbued Vial
2 Leaded Vial
1 Crystal Vial
1 Enchanted Vial
1 Giant Sewer Rat

And one happy (and exhausted) Priest!

Commentaire de 255074

Ok here is the break down on fishing in the Underbelly of Dalaran. There are 3 places to fish, The Black Market, Circle of Wills, and Cantrips and Crows. The Giant Sewer Rat can be caught in any of these 3 locations.

I fished all 3 locations with Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole, Weather Beaten Fishing Hat, and Nat Pagle's Extreme Anglin' Boots. I used the +75 Fishing Skill boost you get by using the hat to apply a lure to the pole. This gave me 565 fishing.

The Black Market

Sewer Carp = 54.9%
Magic Eater = 23.1%
Empty Vial = 7.1%
Drowned Rat = 7.1%
Partially Eaten Fish = 4.9%
Leaded Vial = 1.6%
Crystal Vial = 1.1%

Circle of Wills

Sewer Carp = 77.4%
Magic Eater = 18.0%
Empty Vial = 2.3%
Reinforced Crate = 1.5%
Crystallized Water = 0.9%

Cantrips and Crows

Sewer Carp = 61.4%
Magic Eater = 15.7%
Empty Vial = 8.4%
Partially Eaten Fish = 4.8%
Drowned Rat = 4.8%
Imbued Vial = 1.2%
Enchanted Vial = 1.2%
Crystal Vial = 1.2%
Leaded Vial = 1.2%

Commentaire de nihmue

When you have the pet out, the rat will make very soft squeaking noises while running or swimming (listen carefully, I only noticed this after some days myself haha)

Commentaire de Zukiji

Actually managed to drop! Didn't give up hope, and after only 1366 casts, I caught the furry little bugger :P

Commentaire de 254300

3400 fish and crap caught, but it was worth it! ^^ Just keep fishing!

Commentaire de Unlocky

From what I can read on these pages and by talking to ppl on my server, the rat has been confirmed caught in 4 particular places:
- The edges of the Dalaran Fountain
- Cantrips & Crows Inn
- The Black Market
- shallow waters at Arena Battlemasters
~~I have yet to get confirmed that Giant Sewer Rat can be caught in area with the Arena Battlemasters~~. There is no obvious reason that It can't be caught in this place, but imo go the safe places if you want to fish for it.

Took me 2 days of fishing in the Sewers.
First day I was in the Cantrips & Crows area at the fishing supply npc on the dock. Fished there for ~2 hours straight, no catch.
The day after I fished at the exact same spot for ~2 hours straight again, when I finally decided to try my luck at The Black Market. ~30 casts and I got the little shy bugger.
This does not prove anything rather than its luck and RNG based like many things in WoW.
Took me around 4½ hour.

On a sidenote: I just love to show up in the above mentioned areas and throw my fishingline 1-3 times and link the rat in /s and say something like: "Lol, didnt even know I could catch one" and then wait for all the whispers: "Wtf dude!"
Happy times.

Edit: It has been confirmed that Giant Sewer Rat can be caught in the waters at the Arena Battlemasters. And believe me, when people have been fishing and starred at their screen non-stop for 2 hours and you post the rat, they generally miss the archievement from others :o)

Commentaire de 259532

A guild mate caught this in three catches while fishing off the dock at Cantrips and Crows. I figured I'd go for it too. I fished in the same place. 1300 casts later, it was mine.

So be patient and it'll be yours. :)

Commentaire de 296189

Got lucky, caught the little rodent after 729 casts. Coolest pet ever.

I got the Lurker Above and Old Crafty on the same day. O.O. Not a bad haul, I think. :)

Commentaire de 144572

I have been very lucky this time, not like when i fished Old Ironjaw ----> posted here my catch.

Sewer Carp x26
Magic Eater x23
Empty Vial x3
Partially Eaten Fish x2
Drowned Rat x1
Leaded Vial x2
Drowned Rat x1

Giant Sewer Rat x1

Total = 59 casts

Used Nat Pagle's Extreme Angler FC-5000 + Aquadynamic Fish Attractor.
I have 390 skill, plus the bonus... 515 total skill. Just a few fishes got away.

Commentaire de 286836

I actually got it TWICE. Just a warning for those that mindless click with auto-loot in fishing buddy. I had it pop up that this item would bind to me and got too excited and double right clicked and recast my line. This automatically cleared the loot option and I was unable to pick it up. Sent a note to GM and they said they couldn't recover this item. So I went back to try to fish for it again and got it back in about 15 mins.

Commentaire de 161867

with 354 fishing
a +100 lure
and a +25 rod
I caught after about 45 casts and 30 actual catches. So ~2-4% chance for me. Took me all of 12 mins to catch him in the end.

Commentaire de 15906

Anyone else have over 4k casts on this thing in cantrips?

Commentaire de 296846

Hilariously enough, while i was fishing for my Titanium Seal of Dalaran a stray cast caught me one of these out of the wishing well!
I usually am pretty lucky with drops and stuff but never thought i would get THAT lucky...lol, probably after about 8 stray casts while i was fishing at the well got me one of these, Good luck to everyone else!

Commentaire de Teuz192

I've been fishing near the inn in Cantrips & Crows, got mine after 420 casts, which makes about 0,2380952% (don't have numbers for the rest i caught i'm sorry, neither the time it took)

Commentaire de Raydawn

You guys are gonna kill me, but I got it in what had to have been less than 200 casts at Cantrips & Crows. He's pretty big! I've been having good luck lately. Maybe I should go for the Hyacinth Macaw? =)

Commentaire de phantomeagle

I finally got mine. Took about 500 casts. This got me to 50 Vanity Pets, so I got Stinker to boot.

Commentaire de 197483

caught it in 5 cast

Commentaire de UncaToddly

Luck was pretty good for me I guess. I decided to start trying for this after someone linked it in Trade Chat when they got it on Dalaran. Fishing at the bottom of the ramp that goes down to the water to the left of Rin Duoctane in Cantrips & Crows (33.5, 46.6). I started out with 422 base skill (545 modified) and cast for about an hour on Friday and then a couple hours or so on Saturday after work. End result? 449 Base (572 modified) and...

Sewer Carp--------------156
Magic Eater---------------83
Empty Vial----------------25
Drowned Rat--------------20
Partially Eaten Fish----14
Lead Vial---------------------2
Imbued Vial-----------------2
Enchanted Vial------------1
Giant Sewer Rat----------1

Total Casts--------------304

I hate people like me :)

Aaralene

Commentaire de Darkmeat

i caught him my first cast with a fishing lvl of 470 lol i own

Commentaire de smiley001

I can call myself lucky I guess, just got mine :)

I used this combination:
+5 Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat
+20 Seth's Graphite Fishing Pole
+100 Sharpened Fish Hook
+50 Underbelly Elixir
+10 Captain Rumsey's Lager

My "tactic" for these type of achievements is basically never to spend more then 10 minutes on them at a time.... I feel that for example trying to catch this rat, its not such a big deal if you dont catch it when you planned to fish for 10 minutes.

But when fishing for 2 hours straight... that just makes it that much harder to stop at all, since you've spent so much time on it already. If you stop at that point, it feels like all time spent till that point has been a waste ^^ I started taking some achievements more lightly ever since I (as an alliance character) caught Old Crafty.... but was then struck by the apparently known issue "You cannot loot that right now."

Commentaire de 305883

I feel so lucky, got the rat on my third cast today =D

Commentaire de 306345

Finally caught mine on the 2190th cast in the Cantrips.

Commentaire de AlexBristow

Was idleing around Dalaran, thought i'd try my luck, never been fishing into the sewers before, after 10 casts i got this bad boy :> perhaps i'm lucky.

Commentaire de 292786

I might have just been lucky, but I got the rat after only ~870 casts while fishing on the dock next to Cantrips & Crows. I had fished for hours the day before to no avail, but got him within about 45 minutes after a server restart.

Fishing skill at 630 using:

Base Skill 450
Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole
Sharpened Fish Hook
Underbelly Elixir

The Underbelly Elixir gives a random buff which may change you into a Hungry Tuskarr with +50 to fishing skill.

Commentaire de 318309

I was really lucky got it fast :)
This is what i got while fishing for him:

Magic eater 11
Partially eaten fish 1
Drowned rat 5
Leaded vial 1
Empty vial 1
Sewer carp 27
Giant sewer rat 1

Was fishing at the dock at fishing supplies at Cantrips and Crows

HF

EDIT: Was using Mastercraft Kal'ak fishing pole +30 fishing and Bright baubles +75 fishing AND i had 450 fishing = 555 fishing skill, didnt have any fish got away messages!

Commentaire de 312299

Around 3 hours. I did think it would take longer and was very happy it didn't.
Max fishing with a hat lure. Off the dock facing the sewer entrance, killing the little rat every time it went by. I'm superstitious by nature so once one thing is done I have to go with it heh

87 Magic Eaters
180 sewer carp
36 misc vials
21 Partial eaten fish
15 drowned rats.

Commentaire de heftybags

Took my 1,446 catches.

Commentaire de 327172

got mine 3rd cast =P

Commentaire de 196066

This pet is awesome. It has a great idle animation, where he stands up and looks around, at which point is is just a few hairs shorter than a gnome. Hes overall one of the biggest pets out there, both length and height wise. Only thing bad about him is that he lacks a swiming animation, which is strange considering even the Smolderweb Hatchling and Stinker have one.

Commentaire de 248978

Hahaah!

Finally got him after about 10 hours in total of fishing in at Cantrips & Crows! Hearing people getting him in approx. 2-3 hours, I thought I'd give it a shot last night, ended up doing an 8 hour fishing marathon since I'm crazy like that. :p
Late in the evening, still no catch on the rat, some random troll mage came by and started fishing alongside me and 5-10 mins into his fishing he got it. That just disheartened me enough, so I went to bed.

Today afternoon, approx. 2 hours into fishing it, same results without the rat... and I finally got the bugger and my oh my was it worth it. My guild kept cheering me throughout the night and this afternoon to just keep fishing for it.

Happy rat owner! :D

Commentaire de 255786

Looks like an ROUS .....and I don't believe they exist.

Commentaire de prozak

Caught him today, by reading all the comments I think I got really lucky, I was 376 fishing and missing most of my cast, fished 3 and the 4th one was the rat :)

Was fishing near the Inn in the sewers

Commentaire de Mairin

Cantrips & Crows, 2512 total casts over 3 days.

Never fished in the sewers before so here's the fishing buddy display from start to finish.

Sewer Carp (1431: 57.0%)
Magic Eater (602: 24.0%)
Empty Vial (169: 6.7%)
Drowned Rat (123: 4.9%)
Partially Eaten Fish (118: 4.7%)
Leaded Vial (50: 2.0%)
Crystal Vial (11: 0.4%)
Imbued Vial (5: 0.2%)
Enchanted Vial (2: 0.1%)
Giant Sewer Rat (1: 0.0%)

The moral being even if the RNG isn't playing nice keep going and you'll get the little bugger eventually =)

Commentaire de Carnella

300 Sewer carp
29 Drowned rat
138 Magic eater
50 Empty vial
15 Partially eaten fish
14 Leaded vial
1 Crystal vial
2 Enchanted Vial
2 Imbued vial

And finally 1 Giant sewer rat

Fished in the deep water off the ramp on the other side of the room from the fishing vendor in the Cantrips & Crows area.

Commentaire de Tarpan

This pet seems like a normal sized rat when seen next to a tauren. :)

Commentaire de zetapoo

A short story about this rat and my proof that the probability gods love me:
About 3 months ago I caught one in the sewers in under 5 casts, I was so extraordinarily lucky and everyone hated me for it.

Recently, a guildie of mine has been trying to get it and has spent many hours down there trying to fish it up. Often times when he would say things about the low chances of catching it are my typical response was to go down into the sewers with my sewer rat out and /dance or something. Today when I went down there I noticed he was fishing in such a direction that his bobber was going through the dock, I said "what the hell that looks cool" and decided to toss out a lure for myself to see if I could also fish through the docks. Below is a screenshot of what I got on my first cast.

http://www.teambattle.org/images/lolrat.jpg

Thats two Giant Sewer rats in about 5 casts. \o/

Commentaire de Berret

107 casts and nabbed the bugger :)

Commentaire de Danaan

Well finally I got it after 2500 catches approx. and 3 days of pure fishing.

Well THIS one was my hardest one to catch. Let's sum it up:
-Magical Crawdad (107 catches and then at the first wish)
-Dark Herring (22 catches)
-Old Ironjaw (after 300 catches, none and counting)
-Old Crafty (221 catches, none and counting)

Well after that I decided to farm a Disgusting Oozeling. Got it after 700 kills and 39 bags.

Now on my list:
-Dark Whelpling
-Tiny Crimson Whelpling
-Tiny Emerald Whelpling
-Captured Firefly

Hard stuff, but doable.

Keep on hunting and never give up! It will show when you are least expecting it!

Commentaire de Lockturnal

This pet took me 4430 casts. Which took about 20 hours, GL people this one is hard to grind unless you get lucky!

Commentaire de CthulhuDragon

277 Casts for me. I thought this would turn out to be like Old Crafty which took me over 1500 casts. But just shy of 300 isn't too bad.

And unlike fishing for coins in the fountain I didn't have anyone sit on a warmammoth in the water so I couldn't see my bobber.

Commentaire de YoufeelDrunk

This Rat can be fished in the Stewers and you need 430 Fishing skill for start fish there and 525 for don't fail.

his chance to drop is around 0.2%

Giant Sewer Rat 1 0.2% -----> Info from El's Extreme Anglin'

well i've fished the rat after 6 cast.. is pretty easy to find.. :) if you are not lucky you just need patience.

Commentaire de 256123

I feel sorry for those people who have been fishing for this thing for days, meanwhile I get it within 10 minutes. I joined up in a raid with some guildies and noticed one fishing in the sewers. I didn't have very high fishing but I figured with the Hungry Tuskarr buff I could fish there. I managed to fish with a base skill of 336 and a bonus of 163 with lures, the buff, etc. meaning I had a total of 499 skill. Now the fishing guildie had been fishing for a week with no luck... and I get it within 10 min and 3 Magic Eaters, 4 Sewer Carp, 1 Empty Vial, and 1 Partially Eaten Fish. Man was he angry... Good luck to all those still farming this pet, and just so you know I was fishing off the end of the dock near the inn.

Commentaire de 142565

I fished one up after approximately 20 casts, right at the end of the dock near the "Cantrips & Crows". I'd call it luck, except I just spent approximately 3,000 casts getting Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider's Gold Coin for The Coin Master, so instead I'll just say that justice has been done. :)

Just be persistent, everybody. Sooner or later it'll come your way.

Commentaire de Aisenfaire

That addon also ignores bop warnings when grouped, making it dangerous if you forget to turn it off before going on a run.

A better addon that only ignores bop warnings when solo is http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info11404-cAutoConfirmLoot.html#info

Commentaire de aleols

Started fishing 1/75 after 3.1 hit and got this with a fishing skill of 217 with a total of 480 caught fish (all fished in the sewers). Just to point out you don't need that high skill to actually fish it up. In a raid at the time I got it.

Commentaire de Ramokk

Got mine today. Fished in the sewers for an hour yesterday, didn't get it. Today the daily fishing quest was for the sewers, and up pops the rat after about 10 casts. I'm never this lucky. Believe it or not, three casts later I pulled up another one! (Second one is useless since their BOP). As karma for that, I'm sure I'll lose my next 20 loot rolls :-)

Commentaire de 263517

Got it today on same cast as I got my daily quest item.
Shame I already had it :(
But when I turned it in my luck continued with getting the new fishing pole reward :D

Commentaire de MikadoGG

I do not have new 3.1 data for this pet but it is possible they have increased the drop rate somewhat in the last patch. 4 of my guildies got it within an hour or so the day after the patch hit. RNG is random but they may have changed the drop rate.

Commentaire de exorr

I've been trying for this for awhile as well and got it today on the same cast as the corroded jewelry. It seems I'm not the only one. This may be a similiar "bug" as Crocs in the City and Old Crafty was for a long time (which is now fixed). I highly recommend if you don't have the rat you get the daily and fish for it using the same strategy you'd use for Old Crafty. Do not loot the Jewelry until you've gotten the rat.

Although, they are rebooting the server now so I'm wondering if they see this and are fixing it.

Commentaire de 354776

dun suppose any1 can confirm whether or not theyve fixed the bug? i tried for a little while they finally gave the right daily but 100 or so casts no rat :( destroyed the quest item like 6-7 times. i do usually have terrible luck with these sorts of things so if any1 has gotten it in last day or so while doing the dialy id appreciate the post :)

Commentaire de wowaddict123

958 Catches in "Cantrips & Crows"

Good Luck.

Commentaire de 353869

Caught standing in a boat at the end of the dock in Cantrips & Crows... caught it after my lure wore off, fishing skill was at 360.

Commentaire de 360552

i fished this up after 2 casts one night while doing the fishing daily....lucky me i guess

Commentaire de 298303

To all you suckers who caught this after 100 casts,

I'm on 4880 things caught (of which probably 4500 is trying to get the rat), so far I've seen 4 people around me get it and I still haven't! HAHA BEAT THAT!

BTW anyone remember what skill you need to start fishing in the sewer?

Commentaire de xris

By Matsumi

You need at least 430 to cast and 525 to avoid get aways.

Further up the page. =D

Commentaire de Incinerator

Caught this tonight, with only 292 fishing skill and a +100 lure and +20 fishing pole. Took me only about 12 casts to get it, so obviously does not require the 420+ to avoid get aways

Commentaire de 150562

Spent 2 hours last night fishing for this King of Rats in the sewers, off the end of the dock by the Cantrips with no luck and maxxed fishing skill.
Spent another hour tonight with no luck while reading the ridiculous trade chat. Just as I was about to call it a night, I fished it up and was so surprised.

I'm really surprised how quickly this took me to fish up, considering I spent a week farming the EPL for the Disgusting Oozeling with NO luck at all.

Commentaire de 363618

Fishing at the end of the dock past the inn is where i caught mine. Took me exactly 168 casts and on the 169th i caught the rat. It is auto-looted with no BoP box.

Commentaire de Idwa

It took me 1885 casts to catch mine, I fished in the Cantrips & Crows area FYI.

Commentaire de 365464

Dunno about drop rates vs items fished but my fishing skill is 450 plus all the lil extras for +fishing total time fished for this fat rat was maybe 4 to 6hrs over the last week or so but a horde DK came close to where i was fishing and caught 1 his skill was 247 I was heartbroken : ( Thinking id never get 1 but just 45 minutes later my son was getting rdy for school and offered to cast a few times and giving him all the credit here HE caught the rat on my toon ) i used a potion of waterwalking and was under the docks in cantrips, I hope this gives others hope for catching their Rat )

Commentaire de 367329

After about 800 casts I finally caught this! I fished this from the Underbelly in the Blackmarket area heading toward the end of the sewer to the right. Be careful standing on the planks on the left of the room where there are multiple merchants, the shark below does jump up and attack you from time to time (could cause you to lose your cast).

I started fishing this at a lvl 311, I was a lvl 391 when I finally obtained the pet. It is also true that you can have your settings on Auto Loot - it will pick up properly.

I found that fishing with the bright baubles did help to pull up other rare items from the water, so it may help in bringing up the rat - especially if you are lower level on your fishing. The higher my level got, the more of the crystal vials and drowned rats I received which according to what I've read is an indicator you're in a good area to get the pet to drop.

Commentaire de 368164

I caught this little cutie at 322 fishing with nothing more than a white fishing pole and bright baubles!

All I did was grab the fishing skill and started leveling it up in the sewers.

You really don't need all the extras.

Commentaire de siewen

Well obviously im doing something wrong. I have caught both ironjaw and crafty which both took about 6-7 hours each. This rat however, I have been trying to get for about 3 days now for a total of 10 hours or so. My question is, waht if someone caught him recently? would that matter? would he reset or am i just like totally unlucky?

Commentaire de 335390

This is the results of my hunt for the Giant Sewer Rat. I used the Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole.

Loot gained:

Magic Eater:128
Sewer Carp:217
Tattered Cloth:13
Partially Eaten Fish:11
Drowned Rat:19
Weeds:21
Old Boot:1
Rock:1
Driftwood:18
Sickly Fish:16
Tangled Fishing Line:21
Empty Vial:27
Leaded Vial:9
Crystal Vial:1
Enchanted Vial:1
Imbued Vial:1

Total successfull casts:505

Items used:

Sharpened Fish Hook:19
Captain Rumsey's Lager:50

Fishinglevels gained:57

Commentaire de Cyoung638

Total of 7 casts. Guess I'm just one lucky bastard huh?

Loot:

Sewer Carp: 4
Magic Eater: 1
Empty Vial: 1
Giant Sewer Rat: 1

Items used:

Aquadynamic Fish Attractor: 1

Commentaire de reamaree

There is NOT a level requirement for catching this pet. As long as you have fishing skill 1 and are fishing in the sewers of Dalaran (or other little exploit spots mentioned in other comments), you have a chance to catch this little bugger.

Commentaire de 376898

I have been fishing for this thing for nearly 2 months now, and I am approaching just about 3000 casts. It's nice to know that there's a bunch of people who've obtained this damn thing, but many of us rat lovers are strugglin'. QQ

Commentaire de 379229

Got mine today with 278 + 20 pole 298 fishing skill 780 casts, at Cantrips & Crows. Started with fishing skill 50 there. Frostwolf US Server.

Commentaire de 166613

RNGs have no pity, or sense of fairness.

Confirmed catch from Cantrips and Crows; not off the docks, but off the side near the bank. Skill 419, Kalu'ak Pole, fishing hook (+100) lure.

Commentaire de sped13

well this might be my luck but i was doing the daily today and on the third cast caught one after doing a small happy dance another 2 casts and i get another one with a 384 skill +140 with my pole and buffs but didnt get the jewel but did i just get insanely lucky or did the drop rate go down on it

Commentaire de 363932

Sat down last night and decided to go for it. Here's my stats: http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/7987/wowscrnshot062009035853.jpg

Commentaire de 148693

..After a long journey i ended at the Dalaran Fountain for some fun & relax..
did some casts - got 2 coins..when it hit me to go at the sewers. I knew that it needs a high efficient fishing skill & i was only at 337 but i was feeling confident with my why Weather Beaten Fishing Hat & the Kalu'ak gift.

So, went downstairs.., picked my spot by the "fire" and started..
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - *FLASH* Oo

There it was! just like that..i thought it would take ages of tries!
/Thanks Elune!
Now i can sit and watch my giant hairball *snif* around like crazy :P

/cheers all! :)

Commentaire de 219762

after 3000 cast,still don't get it

Commentaire de 232770

I just got it today. I was fishing in the fountain for coins. It was completely unexpected. I had been there for about 10 minutes. My friend was fishing for the rat and didn't get it.

Commentaire de 254283

Just got this on my fifth cast with the corroded jewelry quest! I had never tried getting it before and whoop, there it was! got the jewelry on my 11th cast I think. I told people on trade and they all replied with "$%^." : (

Commentaire de 389865

today has been a great day for me with fishing!

on today's daily quest in northerend-- the bag gave me
that pole just looks nice but i have the pole from kulu'ak so it doesn't really matter besides that it has wings on the pole.

fished up from the highland mixed schools, however i didn't get magical crawdad box on that charge... will see if the other ones will give me the pet..

and just a few minutes ago i fished up the giant sewer rat... right when i was about to go to bed. and i gasped! there it was the rat! i fished there before with no luck but today was different! i think it was about 50 to 70 casts.

Good luck everyone!

btw. im a pet collector. soo i was super excited!

Commentaire de 422158

got it today... 356 fishing and it auto-looted perfect!

Commentaire de 422268

Amazingly I caught this at the Dalaran fountain with while leveling fishing. My skill level was 82 when I fished this guy up, made everyone else wonder how the hell I got it. So if you really want this guy and haven't done anything with Fishing it's not impossible!

edit: this makes me think it is a pure % chance drop and that the chance of fishing it up will not be increased by fishing skill or buffs.

Commentaire de 379363

Took me about 1000 casts or around five hours of fishing over the course of several days with the walrus people's fishing pole, a +100 glow worm, and on the day I fished up the rat I had the weather beaten fishing hat.

Commentaire de Krateros

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/5427/wowscrnshot072009011151.jpg

and im at 1335 casts with no luck lol.

Commentaire de 382631

Yeah I got lucky with this item and got it at the end of the dock in the sewers at a grand fishing skill of 183!

Commentaire de triggz

I advise against spending time strictly trying to fish this pet up, unless you REALLY want it right away. I went and got mine early right when it was available, failed to click 'ok' to the soulbind box and had to catch 2 of them (ugh). I have since caught 2 more while doing the fishing daily for corroded jewelry. >.< It seems pretty easy to get.

Commentaire de Palatrino

Lovely,

I finally have some luck with the RNG in this game. It drops after 100 throws or so.
And what happens? Tons of servers go down, including My server ofc.

The odds of getting this is quite small, but the odds of having a massive server downtime while getting it to drop is even smaller.

I took about 5 screen shots of it dropping, since I wanted to send it to my friend. For mocking him that I got it after such a short time.
Guess they wont work as proof either, not sure if I got it or not. Can only wait and ticket a GM or something.

Only thing I can do meanwhile is laugh. : ) God really hates me...

PS. I stood in the Black Market fishing.

EDIT. Server(s) were back up, so I logged in again. And I had the achievement and the pet, feels quite good.
Good luck to the rest of you! I'm going to Mr. Pinchy next time...

Commentaire de 45715

Something that annoys me.. I was farming for this pet, and passed the 30 minutes mark, and this level 73 or so comes down, starts ranting why he doesn't get Corroded Jewelry, and he keeps linking every piece of trash he gets. Then after about 25 throws, he gets the Corroded Jewelry AND the rat in one single catch -.-" talk about horrible luck, eh?

Commentaire de decker12

It is possible to catch this Sewer Rat from the fountain. While fishing for coins, a player next to me pulled the rat up (and I saw the achievement pop-up):

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9370/wowscrnshot081409010416.jpg

Commentaire de ryanred500

I got this lil' (well, maybe not so little) beast on meh 10th cast, 153 skill with a +100 buff

Commentaire de 109421

Putting in my 2 cents here. I've found that after Patch 3.2 they removed the BoP Window pop up when looting the rat. I just got mine 10 mins ago, no window came up as well as having auto loot. Instantly went into my bags.

I'm finally thinking my bad luck is turning around....or maybe I'm just very persistant?

Commentaire de oliilo1

I got this today, while skilling my fishing at 404 skills ;)
I did use bright baubles though, so you could say it was 484 (+5 on fishing rod too)

Commentaire de 44203

As of patch 3.1 it is now possible to catch with less then 300 fishing. I would know since I just caught it with 266 fishing.

Commentaire de Smobu

Got it after about one hour :P

Commentaire de 282054

Took my about 1800 casts to get o.O
But finally, a tauren sized pet ^^

Commentaire de 452543

I decided that it was time to give in and actually take up fishing. I went from level 1 fishing up to 411 fishing skill, including achieving the "catch 1,000 fish" before I got this little guy. Quite honestly, it would have been about 3-4 thousand casts and also using lures and buffs to boost fishing bonus skill until he finally showed up, and I least expected it by this point. When I was logged in, he was my sole purpose. I put in at least 10 hours over this weekend until I got him.

A bit excessive? Probably. I was so happy to see him appear that I don't regret a single moment of it. Now for the decision of whether I should try on my other toons.

Good luck to those who are trying. I got him off the end of the dock in Cantrips and Crows, near the inn and where the fishing supplies NP is.

Commentaire de 81167

Giant Sewer Rat found IRL:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/07/giant.rat.papua/index.html

Commentaire de Bobrik

From what I've seen, and experienced myself, I believe that catchrate of Giant Sewer Rat is somewhere between 0.1% and 0.5%, my guess being 0.2% (1 in 500).

Edit: And thanks for downrating me for saying something that hasn't been said anywhere, answering the question most people want to know answer to, when searching for this item. :)

Commentaire de Woth

Took me 16 minutes, fishing in Cantrips & Crows area.

Commentaire de 433385

I just fished this up a few minutes ago, much to my surprise since this was the first time I'd even attempted to get the little fella.

Here's the pertinent info.

Location: End of the docks @ Cantrips & Crows
Base Skill at time of catch: 324
Relevant Items: Mastercraft Kalu'ak Fishing Pole + Bright Baubles, giving me a total adjusted skill of 429.
Total length of time to snag him: 89 casts in around 30 minutes
Nickname: Splinter

Next test - Polymorph: Turtle a mob and see if my rat teaches it ninjutsu.

Commentaire de 456934

Im asking the wowhead gods for help after 5 hours of nonstop fishing.
Please gods help me and give this pet.

Commentaire de 442966

Took me 2 casts to catch this. I hunted around for underbelly elixir to get the kaluak fishing buff. Got the kaluak fishing pole. Drank some Rumsey lager, and used a sharpened fishing hook. My total fishing was 643.

Pretty lucky it was the second cast, I was prepared to sit there for hours to get it.

Commentaire de 464706

I have a pretty funny story on how i caught this "little" guy. Earlier in the day that i caught it, i had managed to get mr. pinchy's magical crawdad box on my first try. So i thought i was feeling lucky, so me and my guildies made a bet on who can catch the giant sewer rat first, and whoever won gets 300g from everyone participating. Within the first 20 minutes of fishing for it, not only did i catch him but i won 900g :D. I had Seth's Graphite Fishing Pole, 450 fishing, and a glow worm.

Commentaire de burns91

I leveled my fishing to 200 before I started fishing for the rat, doing the daily fishing quests in BE and WoLK. I've also been using Seth's Graphite Fishing Pole plus Sharpened Fish Hooks that I received from the dailies.

Went from 200 to 431 before I finally got the rat. I was starting to think it was never going to happen. I had been fishing off the dock at Cantrips & Crows, then tried The Black Market, but ended up getting it at Catrips & Crows. The rat is so worth it though - he's way bigger than I expected! =)

Commentaire de jlarss

I just got one on my first throw today, 203 skill. I guess I'm pretty lucky

Commentaire de 278567

advice:

is this an easy achievement?
Yes. its very easy, the only thing you need is alot of time. (and some fishing skill, and a pole of cause..)

how to do this the fastest way?
make sure no one will disturb you (use "/dnd fishing, leave me alone" for instance). get alot of coffee. turn on some music. try to relax. and keep telling youself that there is a small chance everytime you catch something, that its a rat =)

do you need any special equipment?
no :) i did this with strong fishing pole (+5 fishing) and +75 lures. and 450 fishing ofc.. which makes a total skill of 530.

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and yes... i know some people caught this the first time they fished in the sewers... but dont think everyone is that lucky :P took me 2667 casts ^^

anyways, Good luck fishing :D

im off to get that damn turtle :]

Commentaire de SOADisnotforBATH

I know this is anecdotal evidence, but I just got my Giant Sewer Rat after about 20 minutes of fishing.

So there is hope that the grind wont be grueling! =p
I also got mine near the Cantrips and Crows

Good luck everybody! =)

Commentaire de 467895

Got this on the 605th cast.

Commentaire de 465424

I got this drop not so long ago. In total i made many many casts but without the tedious long stretches of fishing. If you want to obtain this pet and have the attention span of a puppy on Redbull, I would say just set your hearthstone to Cantrips & Crows Inn and fish out a 10 minute lure every time you hearth. xD Happy hunting.

Commentaire de 471080

Just caught this bad boy in Cantrips prepost. I am level 79 now and ive been fishing off the cantrip docks since 66. Also, I had 730 fishing when I finally got him, although everyone says level doesnt matter.

Commentaire de Maleren

I finally got the Giant Sewer Rat last night in Cantrips. I'd been fishing there for about 2 hours a day for the last couple of weeks and after about 20 casts last night, I finally caught it. It's worth the wait. It's a pretty cool looking pet. Good luck to all still trying to get it, don't give up.

Commentaire de jzerbini

Wow. You're lucky, Woth.

It took me like 1 night and 1 morning to catch mine. I started with around 365 fishing skill, ended with 413, fishing with my Seth's Graphite Fishing Pole.

After huge amounts of Magic Eater and Sewer Carps I finally got mine, 2 minutes ago.

Was fishing on the Circle of Wills, sitting next to Nixi Fireclaw.

Commentaire de Swifteye

Just got mine! I don't have a fishing addon to tell me exactly how many casts or how much other crap I caught, but I do know I bought a stack of Bright Baubles at the outset and was on the very tail end of the 19th one when I caught him (breaking this "grind" into several session, but making sure to be fishing the Underbelly and ONLY the Underbelly every second that my baubles were active). So 19 lures x 10 minutes = just a hair over three hours to catch the little bugger.

I fished off the end of the dock by C&C for about half the grind, and the area *under* the inn with all the beams for the other half (this underside is where I actually caught him).

This actually felt like the easiest fishing grind I've done, having also completed Old Ironjaw and The Coin Master. My advice would be to find a spot where no one else is fishing (so the only bobber splashes you hear are your own), pop in a movie on the TV and just fish by ear, only looking at the monitor to reposition mouse over the bobber. Yeah, really standard advice and I'm probably gonna be lambasted for being Captain Obvious, but this seriously made this achievement feel like no effort whatsoever to me.

Good luck, everyone! :)

Commentaire de 271356

I fished the Dalaran Underbelly for a total of 15ish hours for 2 consecutive weeks before i received this illusive little guy. nobody in my guild was online so next raid were gonna do I'm gonna pop him out and feed him some growth snacks and make make him bake me a pizza... or a pie.

Commentaire de Vellus

Caught this on my FIRST cast ever in Underbelly. Started doing dailies today. Good luck I suppose.

Commentaire de 111373

All relevant information has already been said, but I just wanted to add that I got it with a fishing skill as low as 153. Oh, one thing I think wasn't mentioned is that when you get the rat, you only get the rat, it's not like those special fishes or the corroded jewelry that you get in addition to a regular fish (to whomever this might be useful).

Commentaire de sawier

800+casts and still nothing :(

Commentaire de 526843

Been fishing on and off for this critter, sometimes an hour and sometimes 30 minutes. Then while waiting in dalaran sewers for arena, i decided to cast where the big rat and turtles sit in the shallow water, i casted right next to him and after 5 casts i caught it !

Commentaire de lordlight

Doing the fishing daily on my rogue with 179 fishing and ought this. I was very surprised. guess you can catch this at any level of fishing.

Commentaire de 503502

Anyone knows if this can be caught when you're in a raid?

Since it's not a questitem I would say yes, but I am not sure.

Commentaire de Grendel9

Earned Achievement "I Smell a Giant Rat" fishing from Cantrips & Crows; in the Underbelly of course.

Stats from Fishing Buddy;

Fishing Skill: 450 + 118 buff = 568
140 Casts
Sewer Carp: 86 @ 61.4%
Magic Eater: 40 @ 28.6%
Empty Vial: 6 @ 4.3%
Partially Eaten Fish: 3 @ 2.1%
Leaded Vial: 2 @ 1.4%
Drowned Rat: 1 @ 0.7%
Crystal Vial: 1 @ 0.7%
Giant Sewer Rat: 1 @ 0.7%
Failed attempt (2) (IDK what this is but Fishing Buddy listed it)

Ynal, Druid (Ravenholdt), Protector's of the Light

Commentaire de applebear

Farmed this for a few days non stop in the sewers with nothing but bags and bags of sewer carp and magic eaters. I got to the point where I was sick of it and decided to go fish coins out of the fountain. I read there was a slight chance to get a rat there, but it seemed very slim so I put it out of my mind and just focused on coins.

Got down to my last gold coin for all 3 achievements and sure enough, I got the rat. My bobber was no where near the edges, was more in the middle. Either way, it was a nice surprise and I'm still annoyingly trying to get my last coin. ><

On that note, if you are going to do the coin achievements too....I'd start with those, because you may just get lucky and get the rat and not have to do as much junk fishing.

Good luck all

Commentaire de odayaka

Caught mine at 5:20 server time doing my Jewel of the Sewers daily. Fished it up with the corroded jewelery. I consider myself super lucky because I was fishing for weeks on another character for this pet, and I got it in three casts on this one.

Commentaire de Braxillian

So I just spent the past hour and a half trying to catch the last Gold Coin out of the fountain I needed without success. So I decided to read the posts on this sewer rat. After doing so I went to fish for him standing on the boat by the Inn there and just caught him on my FIRST cast. This makes up for the wasted time trying to get that coin.

Commentaire de AceXwilD

Pretty happy got mine today on my second sitting. I didn't have Fishing Buddy addon the first go so I didnt get any data. But this is my results for today.

Sewer Carp: 241 (57.1)
Magic Eater: 100 (23.7)
Empty Vial: 30 (7.1)
Partially Eaten Fish: 20 (4.7)
Drowned Rat: 16 (3.8)
Leaded Vial: 9 (2.1)
Imbued Vial: 3 (.7)
Crystal Vial: 1 (.2)
Giant Sewer Rat: 1 (.2)

That was 451 Casts.

Commentaire de dopfeldecker

Woo, just got this after roughly 30 casts. \o/

Commentaire de 558526

Took me 3 throws to catch this, was doing the daily and it came up.

Commentaire de Hywell

Took me 30 mins continuous fishing at maxed fishing skill with lures.

Not bad at all!

Can confirm the BOP dialogue box no longer happens, it just auto-loots into your bag.

Commentaire de 439283

You guys are going to hate me but I fished up this pet after 3 tries.
*Edit*- With around 150 fishing skill

Commentaire de 567744

So yesterday I spent four hours straight fishing for this stupid rat. Someone comes up at the end of that four hours and under ten minutes later DING! they get the achievement. *expletive expletive expletive!* Including last night I must have cast about 800 - 1000 times. I will let you know if I ever get this thing.

3/30/2010 Fished for 20 minutes straight...nothing
3/30/2010 Fished for 2 hours then came back and fished for another hour...someone comes up to me and after ten minutes gets the rat...continuing to fish I'm on my 4th enchanted vial...make that 5 enchanted vials
3/31/2010 I got exalted with the kalu'ak and got my fishing pole...the fishing daily is Jewel of the Sewers....I fished for 10 minutes and I got the rat

So...my advice would be to get exalted with Kalu'ak and get the fishing pole and try to fish when the daily is Jewel of the Sewers! I had also turned off auto-loot just in case. I had no lures or anything...just the fishing pole and the fishing hat. My fishing level was 450. I was at the pier in Catnip and Crows...three dropped including mine over three days.

Commentaire de pyrotool

if you have 400+fishing sit down then fish should be caught within your first 10 casts.

Commentaire de mrdumplings

450/450 fishing here with weather beaten fishing hat and nats boots and the kalu'ak pole and havent caught it yet, been tryin for months

Commentaire de 580524

Caught this leveling up my fishing in the sewers of Dalaran. At skill level 24. Yes Twenty Four. No lures, using the grey fishing pole. So it appears as though you can catch this at any level.

Commentaire de 582405

I've always wanted this pet (I have pet rats IRL), and got it today. I was doing the Dalaran daily in the sewers, not even thinking about getting the pet, and got it on my third cast. Cue the chorus of jealous WTF's around me. :D

Commentaire de 223475

It is a great vanity pet ... it looks so awesome ...
it is much larger than common rats...
too bad i catched him with my ... rogue
interfering with vanish and stealth ...
it keeps following me when i turn invisible!

ps: all vanity pets do that to the stealth classes

Commentaire de 585801

I started fishing at level one for this pet, and today, one cast after getting trained in grandmaster fishing, I caught it. I woke up my roommates yelling, "WOOOOOOO!"

Commentaire de 482086

I got pretty lucky catching this bad boy a few weeks ago on my main, a Level 80 Druid. My fishing skill was at around 65, (low, I know, but I get bored with fishing.) and I didn't have any lures on my pole. I was just attempting the Dalaran fishing daily Jewel of the Sewers. I wasn't even paying attention, because I didn't even think this amazing pet would show up. Definitely a catch of luck.

He has a cute idle animation, where he stands up and kind of looks around. (: I'm happy I caught him, though.

Commentaire de MrInfluXion

I just caught this in the Dalaran Fountain. Wtf.

Commentaire de 613711

Got extremely lucky, fished it up within 10 casts

Commentaire de Bliksem

Also just caught this pet in the Dalaran fountain.

Commentaire de 502983

I got mine today while, doing the corroded jewellery fishing daily was so happy considering I had won the mammoth mount from VoA 10 min previous, anyway beyond a boast of my lucky, this catch inspired me to start farming old iron jaw and the others, I get bored quickly fishing so wap on the TV watch something you like, beyond that after about 250 casts i'd move from one achievement to the next, I was doing old iron jaw for about an hour, I then moved on to try and catch a dark herring, then moved on to old crafty and then mr crawdad, 4 hours nothing else for me, but the traveling breaks up the boredem a bit.

good luck to everyone after the pet :)

Commentaire de dahajack

Got it on my 25th cast, took me 6 minutes of trying!

382skill. +30 from rod, +50 from Underbelly Elixir and +100 from Aquadynamic Fish Attractor.
Nomnom.

Commentaire de 564150

off and on i fished for an hour here and there, then the other day, as my companion collection is nearing its end, i decided to just bang this one out. I fished for around 7 hours had about 1000 casts or so and gave up for the night, as i had to work a bit later. I got ready for work and had 10minutes to kill so i logged in, did 2 casts and bam! got my rat. Thing is huge hah. i Caught him in the shallow waters in the arena dudes' room. as a fun note, u can use underbelly elixir's and fish as a wasp or a tuskarr +50 fishing. If your a wasp, he holds the fishing rod in one of his little bug legs.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I was fishing next to the fishing sales man, under dalaran. I don't know if this may help you catch him, but i caught it at about 3pm, and i was fishing there for about 5 minutes. caught him on my 18th cast i think it was. so i guess i got very lucky. good luck.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Caught on my level 70 hunter with 450 fishing and +75 fishing hat lure. Doing daily Dalaran quest in sewers. Was standing on the boat at the dock. Didn't even know it existed and I get a BONG that said I completed the achievement for getting it ("I smell a giant rat").

Not complaining! ;)

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Where is this found? I have no idea where cantrips and crows is.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

This is a very rare catch - be prepared to fish ALOT to get this one. I've read some people have been fishing 2000+ catches and still no rat! I caught mine after a total (over many sessions) of about 600 casts. Was fishing at the end of the jetty in Cantrips and Crows, maxed out fishing with a +20 pole. Interestingly I decided to lure nightcrawlers (rather than the standard lures) and caught the rat in about 5 casts (in fact, just after I had a "fish got away" message). It may be a coincidence, I don't know. Good luck getting the rat - it is well worth it in the end!

Commentaire de Allakhazam

....it's all random... My 80 mage, fishing off one of the pilings at the end of the dock next to the Inn in the sewer, with +20 rod and +75 lure, caught the rat... 220+95 fishing... Shocked the hell out of me when I saw it....

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Ok, well, went from 417 - 450 all from fishing in the sewers on different days; got the 1,000 fish achievement along the way.. no Rat yet...

A guildie.. 2 different toons... got his each under 25 casts..

will update if i ever get one

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I fished with the Aquadynamic Fish Attractors (made by my engineer), from the same place (edge of the pier, Cantrips and Crows), with fishing maxed at 450, with a +25 pole, and +2 fishing enchant, it took me close to 1400 casts and catches (only missed a single catch, early on when I didn't notice my lure run out).

I did this in 2 days of VERY OCD-like, trance-state, fishing.

I have to say that this is now my favourite of all my non-combat pets.
He truly is a GIANT sewer rat. On my B.Elf hunter he comes up to his waist.
And his run animation is totally adorable.

No picture I've seen of him really does him justice. He is, in my opinion, the most "life like" of all the vanity pets. His run animation is very cute too (he runs pushing with his hind legs). He doesn't look like some blur speeding behind you to keep up.

Edited, Jan 13th 2009 12:07pm by capcanuk

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Got him today (Tuesday 27th Jan) after only 5 casts in Cantrips and Crows end of the pier (near fishing supplies) but I was fishing there loads on different days. I gave up for a while and then stated fishing for him again. I used Nat Pagle's Extreme Angler FC-5000 and 100% lure with fishing 450, I didn't have anything else like the hat or fishing line. I didn't count how many casts or misses I did cause it would have put me off I think. But I agree that it's best to fish a bit in spare time eg. waiting for BGs to start, rather than sitting there for hours on end ever day.
I don't know if this makes a difference but it was about 14:15 GMT and I was on Darkmoon Fair (server). I was fed up cause the BGs were taking over 25 mins (hardly anyone on)to start so I decided to fish while I waited.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

I've been fishing a few days trying to catch this while waiting for various things in-game. Nothing so far. My husband, however, caught TWO of the darn things within the timespan of one lure! Pity they're soulbound. Hoping for better luck following this post.

Commentaire de Allakhazam

Gonna post here to see if it helps.
03-02-09 12:12 a.m. PST. 5 hours nothing
Fishing is 354

03-03-09 6:00 p.m
Fishing 368

Here goes.

DV

Edited, Mar 3rd 2009 12:13am by Dulcinia

Edited, Mar 3rd 2009 2:17am by Dulcinia

Edited, Mar 3rd 2009 6:29pm by Dulcinia

Commentaire de Allakhazam

200 casts over 2 days. I ploped down next to the Three Fingered Bandit pulled the rat up and went to bed.

Edited, Jan 18th 2009 5:47pm by THEABOLISHER

Commentaire de Allakhazam

This took my horde character a little over 2000 casts to get him. I saw people walk up on more than one occasion to catch him within an hour. I was using the sharpened fishing hooks from the fishing daily from Shattrath the entire time. I got several stacks of magic eaters that I gave to guildies (gives random buff food or turns player into a random animal for a minute) plus lots of grey junk. The best place to fish him in my opinion is off the dock from the inn in the dalaran sewers. You can sell the junk to the fishing guy so at least you get some money and if you are lucky and need a lure you can get a fish attractor +100 lure. In addition the dalaran lag is less in the sewers but can still get bad. Be prepared for the usual set of obnoxious players who want to run afoul of your lure and fishing.

Happy Fishing and good luck in catching him.

Commentaire de Lovethebooty

Fished it from the Circle of Wills after 2523 casts.

Commentaire de Bowmann

Contrary to the older comments looting the rat DOES give you the confirmation window, make sure you wait with re-casting fishing until the item reaches your bags, Lost the rat by re-casting from reflex after roughly ~2.5k casts.

Commentaire de Djeinera

Dropped for me during the Jewel Sewer Quest.
Got it after 2 casts before the quest item.

Commentaire de Mandiblez

I'm gonna just say since I don't notice it explicitly stated but:

You CAN get it from the Circle of Wills (the arena areas with the battlemasters)

Fished here because I like having something to watch aside from my bobber now and again.

Commentaire de Infers

So I was just fishing for my daily fishing quest Le joyau des égouts and on my last cast when I fished up the Coroded Jewelry, this just popped on my screen:

https://i.imgur.com/Cqgfkmv.png
I guess I was really lucky!

Commentaire de Chippyboi

This can be fish up in the fountain in Dalaran, got while doing coin achievements

Fishing Buddy proof https://imgur.com/a/mofiVv1

Commentaire de ShanoCorporation

I was fishing in Dalaran Sewers for several hours after I found out about this Achievement. My fishing is on button 1. After so many fishes, after I catch one, I automatically press 1 for the next. So you guess , I caught the rat, didn't press OK to pick it up, pressed fast "1" for the next fish.... The story of my life bro...

EDIT: Tried 11h later. Got it on my 4 cast !

Commentaire de Orron

CLASSIC P1 gamers BEWARE. When the rat drops the game WILL prompt you to click OK. Casting again will cause you to lose it. Just happened to me. ;((

Commentaire de DDM225

Took me 1123 casts! woo hooo!

Commentaire de Fenva

Took me 2962 casts with a skill of 595. Never doing this again. Went to Howling Fjord afterwards to fish for the Dark Herring, got the Sea Turtle instead after 97 casts.

Commentaire de mekadyn

It took me 718 casts to get the rat in 3 hours and 7 minutes. :) Good luck!

I got:
325 Sewer Carp
141 Magic Eater
60 Crystal Vial
35 Partially Eaten Fish
32 Tattered Cloth
29 Drowned Rat
28 Tangled Fishing Line
27 Sickly Fish
23 Weeds
19 Driftwood

Commentaire de nickdead

Took me 2 try to get it. Extremely lucky
Got 1 sewer carp and the pet

got 450+ 125 fishing skill near ajay green the inkeeper

Commentaire de Cyprus69

Got my Sewer Rat today after roughly ~2,165 caught fish.
Level 25 hunter - 300 Fishing / +3 Fishing pole (Blump Family Fishing Pole)/ +75 Bright Baubles
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Commentaire de Daieniceis

The drop rate is 1 in 1400. Currently at 700 casts and only halfway there. Rarity is an add on that tells you how many times you've tried for mounts/pets/toys. Took me 211 runs in ICC for Invincible, but was able to track how many with the add on.

Commentaire de Zkout

Fished it today on the blackmarket docks where Segadeci swims.

Segacedi

I spent 1 Hour last night before bed fishing up by the Arena in the waters opposite side of the PvP vendors.
Then I spent 31 minutes, today before I finally caught it.
Total fishing time would be 1Hour 35minutes for me.
This was with 450 + 120 Fishing skill.