What the easiest way of getting fishing rod

[Borch TrzyKawki]

I was reading in the web about it though lots of information is 1 year+ so i decided to ask for up to date information. I know i can get rod from yellow/red drops, that big alpha squid or swamp cave. I was going to go try swamp cave but im still newb and in early game and i heard its a lot harder than it used to be. So please guys guide me :D

[Boomer Voncannon]

My guidance would be don’t expect fishing rods to be especially useful. While you can get some decent things from them, I have never found them to be worth vs other ways of pursuing whatever you’re trying to get. If you just wanna try it for the novelty go for it.

[Borch TrzyKawki]

so in therms of gathering blueprints its not better than orbital drops?

[Boomer Voncannon]

I have not yet begun to play Extinction so I can’t speak to OSD’s, but they are nothing special compared to higher end regular drops on other maps.

[Borch TrzyKawki]

i play on the island for now. and i would like to get some blue prints for weapons tools and armors, should i stick to orbital drops or something else?

[Boomer Voncannon]

Drops are the way.

[Boomer Voncannon]

Tools you can only get via killing alphas.

[Nokim]

theres are no orbital drops on the island that i know off. if you want tons of BPs of good quality , grab yoruself a frog, a croc, a whale...a dolphin....damn near anything that can swim and do the easy water cave.

the easy water cave in the island is famous for giving you all kinds of bps of high quality.

[Wansin]

You missed the Alpha Mosasaurs can drop a good fishing rod, and yeah with honey, you can get some decent BP for guns, some armor, and some random saddles, for rex or gigas saddles for example, not, it's better try to get from red drops in the caves or underwater, the problem with fishing, it's very hard try to get one good in early game, and when you will be able to get one, maybe you don't get the desired ascendant, and if you get one, you have to fish hours..hours and GG you can open your BP market, it's boring and relaxing aswell, worth it?? in my opinion no, if you play in sp or your dedicated, you can improve fishing quality loot, and for the rod you can try the mod upgrade station, to upgrade your primitive rod, just for test how works fishing ;)

[fractalgem]

if you're still early game you probably CAN"T get through this, becuase you need a bare minimum of midgame gear just to survive the poison gas even if you rush it for the artifact (scuba gear mixed with ghillie armor or a gas mask with whatever gear)

Truth be told I do not recommend the swamp cave unless you have a good (400%+ or so? I used a 700%) longneck rifle, a couple masks, excellent (500+ armor per piece) flak, a gasmask, and you can afford to lose everything. Oh and a good supply of cactus broth and bug repellant and focal chile. Oh and stimberries/stimulants to manage torpor. Oh and probably a good melee weapon too for when you start getting overwhelmed...and a number of grapple hooks

WEll, you could try rushing it with just cactus, repellant, and scuba gear with ghille boots and focal chile, but you'd better be able to afford to replace all that repeatedly just in case.

Bugs and snakes are relatively fragile and do relatively little damage compared to the absurd creatuers in the Ice cave, and there's not exactly anything there that will flat-out stunlock you with no save (unlike the evil deathbadgers), but there are STILL fairly high level bugs and can STILL take you out even if you have amazing (1000+ armor per piece) flak or if you forget to munch your stims.

Arthroplueras take a TON of damage from a good logneck shot so they'll die in one hit usually IF your logneck is good enoug; these are likely your biggest threat becuase of their insane antiarmor abilities. If you can kill them in one hit the others will not aggro on you when you shoot (it's a quirk of how ark handles agro); anything else that swarms you you can melee in a pinch but not these guys because they do reflect damage against melee.


alternatively mix a frog and logneck rifles, i guess. Frog for aoe and gathering cementing paste, longneck for damage.

Originally posted by Borch TrzyKawki:

so in therms of gathering blueprints its not better than orbital drops?

It's probably better IF you already have some decent gear, or at the very least frogs for dayz. If you're just starting out...probably not. I'ts supposed to have a better quality within the red drop range, so it's probably a good place to hit if you're looking to get some good fur armor to prep for the ice cave, but not so good if you're, as you said, still in the early game because you'll die too much.