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Darkmoon Fishing Cap

Item Level 1
Binds when picked up
Unique

Head

Use: Summon a pool of Shipwrecked Debris. Requires the Darkmoon Faire to be open. (1 Hour Cooldown)
Equip: Fishing skill increased by 5.

Sell Price: 1

Fishing Locations

This item can be fished in Darkmoon Island (14).

Guides

An Angler's
Journey: The Extreme
Angling Collection Guide

Darkmoon Faire Made Easy

MoP Fishing and Anglers
Overview

Wowhead's Darkmoon Faire Guide

Comments

Comment by Tenjen

*puts on literal fish hat*

My life is complete. Satisfaction has been achieved eternally.

or...

Tirion! You hold a grim destiny in your hands, brother - but it is not your own!

Place the Fish Hat upon my head, Tirion. !

Comment by SirQuill

It's a fishing hat. That's an actual fish.

What more could you possibly want.

Comment by SirTeffy

Confirmed to be obtainable via fishing in Darkmoon Island - my friend just fished one up going after the Sea Pony.

EDIT: Uploaded 2 screenshots, one normal, one using the "Summon Pool" spell, as it has a special animation.

Comment by mcnulty2000

Just got one from a sealed crate, fished from a shipwreck debris at the Faire. It's a great look!

Comment by mad96

Just got one from fishing in open water at the Darkmoon Faire (directly at the docs). After looting it I had to test it immediately, and it did - exactly as advertised - instantly summon a "Shipwrecked Debris" in the water in front of me (in convenient fishing distance). Nothing special in there for me though, but I uploaded a picture of my toon fishing in Stormwind Canals with this beautiful cap on my big grey furry head :).

As shown on the item tooltip, summoning the Shipwreck Debris works only if the Darkmoon Faire is open, BUT as long as the faire is open, you can summon a Shipwrecked Debris in any fishable water - you do not have to be on the Darkmoon Island. Also, the "Shipwrecked Debris" counts as if you where fishing on Darkmoon Island - at least for the quest Spoilin' for Salty Sea Dogs - so while on the quest you will be able to catch Great Sea Herring anywhere in Azeroth at a rate of one or two fish an hour :).

Small side note: I nearly made a capital mistake by casting it directly at the docs. The "nice" orc lady standing next to me immediately tried to grab my debris. No luck for her though ^^

Note on transmogrification: You can NOT transmogrify another skin onto the cap. The same is true for e.g. Wrap of Unity , but that item can be transmogrified onto other cloaks. I also tried transmogrifying the cap's design onto another fishing hat (Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat), which unfortunately couldn't have worked anyways, as Darkmoon Fishing Cap has no real armor class and therefor can't be transmogrified onto anything that has an armor class. Transmogrification onto the only other fishing hat with no armor class that I could find (Nat's Hat) - and vice versa - failed too.

Comment by p4rk3rpwn5

I was fishing on one of my new alts to get to 75 fishing and caught this today with only 10 skill and was catching garbage. Also found out I could catch out of the debris with that little skill as well!

Comment by pushnupdazys

Originally it had no cool down but now has a 1 hour cool down ? Not in such a hurry to fish this up now. Nice vanity item but that is about it.

Comment by Necrowolf82

Got this item today, nice fun looking thing. I used the cooldown, and got a pool as mentioned before, it was easily within range. Fished up a sealed crate and then it was gone.

Comment by MartinThunder321

When you use Darkmoon Fishing Cap...

Allows a player to put a fishing pool in the water called, Shipwrecked Debris.
Allows a player the chance to fish up Sealed Crate from the wreck.
You must wait another hour before you can use it again.

Please note that...

Someone else has the ability to fish from your spawned pool.
This fishing pool may disappear a few minutes from
when it is put down.
Can not be used outside of Darkmoon Isle.
You have the same odds fishing from the Shipwrecked Debris,
as you would on any other part of the island.

Other hats with similar uses!

And may I suggest the use of a Fishing Chair with an order of the tastiest
Fish Feast in all of Azeroth? Fun as a novelty item sure, but the cool
down is a bit long for my "Speckled Tastyfish".

Comment by Mellro

Love the expression on that panda in the screenshot. He look's so satisfied with his life now that he got his brand new Fish Hat for his birthday.

You should get a fish hat for your birthday too, and wear it ~~all day~~ forever, just like Mr. Panda. You should join us...wear a fish hat today...be one of us..⊙_⊙ (it's good for you! סּᴥסּ)

Comment by Pomodorosan

The pandaren on the screenshot looks so relaxed.

Comment by Shashos

After some speculation that this item may be difficult to fish up on alts with 600 fishing skill, and indeed, I failed to get this cap after about 1300 casts today on my main, I took an almost never played alt that didn't even have fishing trained over to the DMF.

Got the Cap on my 10th cast.

Now I have to wonder if getting this cap may be bugged on those with max fishing.

Comment by Xalion

I just got this Cap today while fishing for the Sea Pony. I submitted a couple screen shots of my Warlock using the Cap.

The cap is of a deep sea fish that has one of them glowing 'fake' bait things hanging in front of its mouth. When you USE the use the cap to create the wreckage the little hanging bait 'Star' lights up and then your hand flings the light towards the direction you're facing and when the light hits the water the wreckage appears.

Comment by Turtvaiz

Darkmoon Fishing Cap
Item Level 1
Binds when picked up
Unique
Head
Use: Summon a pool of Shipwrecked Debris. Requires the Darkmoon Faire to be open. (1 Hour Cooldown)
Equip: Fishing skill increased by 5.
Equip: The wielder becomest the new fish king!
Hail to the fish king baby!
Sell Price: 1 copper

Comment by Torvoss

Has anyone fished this up outside of the Darkmoon Faire event? (ie leaving an alt on the island and coming back after the Faire has left town)

Comment by Strath

I've been fishing for about 15 hours now... no luck at all

Comment by Strath

Recieved this on a level 19 after about... an hour.

Info:

-Was a raw cast, not a school-
-Fishing level (220)-
>>>Trial Account<<< fml

Still yet to get this on my main twink after 20 hours

Comment by sintia1

4 days and a half fishing allready and still no cap...

Comment by weibe23

have many players with 425+ fishing on a paid account, no luck.

i log onto a trial account i have, and my level 20 paladin gets the hat within the 5 casts to catch the 5 fish needed to turn in for DMF fishing quest.

this is beyond RNG, don't wanna hear it...something is wrong

Comment by branbran

Just got it after an hour and a half outside of the rabbit cave while going for one who didn't get away. Was at 738 buffed fishing I level.

Comment by Huennin

I just got a Sea Pony from a pool created by this Cap while fishing outside the Violet Hold in Dalaran. So it seems like the pools function as though they're in Darkmoon Island waters.

Comment by thehavok

Has anyone who has gotten the fishing cap also have a Weather beaten fishing hat? ive seen alot of posts saying low lvl alts with no fishing are getting the darkmoon cap and it would stand to reason that they wouldnt have this item, but a lvl600 fishing person whos every did a fishing daily more then likely has it. alot of people have been saying it has something to do with the brawlers guild invitation how you can only see it if your 90, could there be somekind of fishing hat connection where if you've already gotten one you cant get another like with the sea pony?

this is my 4th fair fishing for this hat (i dont even want to know how many fish ive cought) :/

Comment by devilofanger

As long as the Darkmoon Faire is going on, consider using this at the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza to fool other players into thinking that it's actually a pool that contains Tasty Fish.

Comment by Auden

The fins on the sides wave back and forth and the star "lure" on the front bobs up and down.

I'm not totally sure what it says about me that I have my head stuck in a fish that has a lure like that. Did it troll me and I took the bait?

Comment by JonGhost52

Just got it while doing the Darmoon fishing quest, wearing Weather-beaten fishing hat and skill at ~460 ; so, happy to try it on, I create a shipwreck debris pool, in which I cast and Wham I get the Sea Turtle mount !
I'm on a roll : this morning I looted Moon Moon !

Comment by rhysdog

probably the most appropriate icon ever.

Comment by Sam97

Cute hat . I would like to have a similar hat with lobster or crab .

Comment by Myrli

I thought it was a joke...surely thousands of casts on your main would get it - and certainly a couple of casts on a lowly alt wouldn't get it.

...lo and behold - over 6000 casts on my main and nada. But my lowly alt at fishing skill of 30? 15 casts.

sigh.

Open water (not from a pool) near the docks.

Comment by Krusader

For some reason, you can't put it in the Lure Master Tackle Box

Comment by Annbeth

Okay, I browsed through the comments and haven't seen the answer I am looking for......Is the item carried over from one faire to the next? Or will it despawn like the Shimmering Moonstone mount from Moonfang?

Comment by furdude2

Odd, I had no idea this existed until I fished it up. I use wowhead uploader but it still shows the same amount of "Loot" numbers looted. It's nice to have though :D

Comment by symvhs123

Has anyone really fished up this cap with 600 skill?
2500~3000 casts on my main with 600 skill and I still haven't got one...
To get the cap I wouldn't mind to cast more if that's just because it's really rare.
But I've seen a lot of people claimed that they can't get the cap either with 600 skill...
Is this a bug? Has it been fixed yet?

Comment by Mgrifus

Seems a leveling toon has better rng with this item vs a capped toon =-(

Comment by Kagitaar

To add some more data, I got this earlier on my 88 hunter with just under 500 fishing (I think it was 495).

Comment by Yorfriend

I fished up this cap while I was farming for Sea Turtle in darkmoon island.

Comment by HobieDagon

I caught it at 600 fishing. My buffs lead it up to 725, but it is very doable. I got it on my 265th catch. Fishing buddy says .4% based on my luck.

I was fishing for the Sea pony, which my friend came on his alt and managed to get in 5 casts. His fishing was at 30 or so. I still have yet to get the fishing pony.

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