Master Baiter Pro

The Glow

New in 2.3

The panel shines like deep water at night. A soft aura round the glass follows your session: dim while you rest, green when you are ready, bright fast water while your line is out, red in combat and gold when you are on record pace. A spark with a comet tail races round the rim, bubbles rise through the glass, stars twinkle over the title and a band of light sweeps the buttons. Every catch throws a burst of coins out of the haul counter; rare catches and jackpots light up the whole window, the catch card glows in the fish's quality colour, and the session summary opens in a shower of gold. The leaderboard glows too.

Prefer it calm? /mbp glow off stops the moving lights and keeps a still glow.

The One Key

Cast, hook, repeat

While a session runs, your chosen key (F by default) casts Fishing when you are idle. The moment your line is in the water, the same key becomes Interact, which reaches the bobber through the game's soft-interact targeting, so there is nothing to aim. Loot it and the key turns back into a cast. Outside a session your key is exactly what it always was.

Sessions begin when you press Start, type /mbp start, or simply cast Fishing. Loud splash mode turns sound effects up and music down while you fish, and gives every setting back when you stop.

Auction House Prices

Every fish, priced

Open the auction house and Master Baiter Pro quietly looks up the current lowest price of every fish you have caught, one at a time at the game's own pace, and remembers it. A Price my fish button sits on the auction house window too. If you run Auctionator or TSM it uses their prices between visits, and vendor value only until it knows better. /mbp prices lists them all.

The Haul

Gold you can watch grow

Every catch slides in as a toast with Blizzard's own icon for the fish and its price. A big gold counter rolls up your session haul, gold per hour races a meter against your best hour ever, and anything worth your jackpot amount (100 gold by default) sets off a golden burst and a raid-warning shout.

Top Five Catches

Icons with prices on hover

Your five most valuable catches sit on the panel as their item icons, framed in their quality color, with a count, a value and a bar showing their share of the haul. Hover one for its auction price each, how many you caught, the total and where the price came from. Switch between this session and all time. The summary card at the end of a session shows them too.

The Leaderboard

Compete with every angler

Every copy of Master Baiter Pro quietly finds the others, so the panel shows how many anglers are online right now. Open the leaderboard to rank everyone by fish caught, by most valuable catch or by this week's catches. Each row shows who is online or fishing this very moment, their count, and the icon and value of their best fish; hover it for the item and its price. Gold, silver and bronze for the top three, and your own row is highlighted.

It works over a hidden chat channel that carries only addon messages and never appears in your chat windows, so it reaches everyone on your realm and its connected realms. Players you have seen stay on the board (greyed out) when they log off. Since 2.2 each angler also shares their best gold per hour. Prefer to stay hidden? /mbp network off.

The Export

Your records, on a website

New in 2.2: /mbp export opens a window with your records (fish caught, gold caught, best catch, best gold per hour, streaks, your ten most valuable catches and your latest jackpots) and every angler your game has heard on the network, ready to copy with Ctrl+C. The same export is kept in your SavedVariables file after a /reload.

That is what fills the Anglers of the Coil, our fishing leaderboard, where every catch is priced at this hour's Moon Guard auction house. Send your export to an officer to join it.