#gondor is region 4; same region as forochel angmar and the misty mountains but my drop rate is consistently about 5% better in gondor

[rohirric-hunter]

The more I fish in Gundabad the more I come to hate fishing in Gundabad

With a cookable fish drop rate of less than twelve percent, it’s the worst place for getting cookable fish, except for Mordor, where they just don’t drop at all. Also for some reason almost half of the cookable fish I did get were catfish, which are otherwise the rarest cookable fish. So. I don’t know what’s up with that.

I’ve tentatively divided the various in-game regions into “Fish Regions” to group them together with regards to the type of fish they drop*. For example, Bree-land, Ered Luin, and the Shire make up Region 1, where you will find Dace and Catfish. The Lone-lands and the North Downs share Region 2, where you can still find Dace and Catfish, but might also encounter Perch and Trout. The Trollshaws and Evendim are in Region 3, where you might reel in Golden Mullets, Perch, or Trout. And so on and so forth. Some later regions, most notably the Vales of Anduin and the Wells of Langflood, have regions that seem to be combined drops from other regions. Those two specifically share a region that seems to be a combination of Region 2 (Dace/Catfish/Trout), Region 4 (Carp/Flounder/Golden Mullet/Largemouth Bass/Sturgeons), and Region 6 (Dace/Catfish/Trout/Lake-master fish).

Gundabad’s region is totally unique. It seems to be a combination of all the regions prior to it, but with Trout cut out. As all regions (excepting Mordor) average out to 30-40% cookable fish, combining them pushes that percentage even lower and results in an abysmally low drop rate, which is made even worse with the Trout removed.

All this to say I very much don’t recommend fishing in Gundabad for any reason, unless you’re trying to finish your Sturgeon and Darter deeds at the same time, in which case Gundabad is the only place you’re going to get both.

*These regions are subject to change due to low sample sizes in some regions that may have led me to misinterpret data.