Angler's Atlas — TBC Anniversary

Angler's Atlas is a fishing companion for WoW Classic — TBC Anniversary. It's two things in one: a field journal for figuring out where to fish and what you'll get, and a live readout for while your line's actually in the water.

The Atlas

Everything's searchable and cross-linked — click a fish, see every zone it's in; click a zone, see everything you'll catch there.

• Fish — every catchable fish, with the skill you need, the skill where it stops escaping, vendor and (with Auctionator) auction value, and your own catch history for it.
• Zones — nearly 60 of them, with catch tables, skill requirements, time/season quirks, pool notes, and your own real numbers once you've fished there enough for them to mean something.
• Treasure — the containers, chests, and clams fishing turns up, and where they turn up.
• Cooking and Alchemy — fish-based recipes with where you actually get them, not just "made from fish."
• Gear — poles, lures, and Extravaganza rewards in one list, including what they actually do, not just where to find them.
• Daily Quests — Old Man Barlo's fishing dailies, The Rokk's cooking dailies, and the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza.
• Catch Filters — an opt-in list of fish you never want cluttering your bags; check one and it's gone a moment after you catch it, with a chat line every time so nothing vanishes without you noticing.
• My Atlas — this is the one that's actually about you. Your lifetime totals, an Angler Rank that climbs as you fish more (with a badge to go with it), personal records for your best sessions ever, your top zones and most-caught fish, and a running tally of every species you've landed. It also quietly keeps a list of anything you've caught that the shipped data didn't already know about, and any fish where your own catch rate has started beating the book's numbers.

Worth knowing: the rank ladder doesn't stop where it looks like it stops. Old Man Barlo's heard a few things he won't fully explain.

While you're fishing

A companion panel tracks the session as it happens — casts, catches, catch rate, fish per hour, vendor and auction value for whatever you've hauled in — plus a Bite Confidence meter that learns your typical bite timing per zone, so you get a feel for whether a bite's overdue instead of just staring at the water. It shows your real effective skill (base skill plus whatever your pole and lure are actually giving you, verified against the client rather than assumed), and how the current session stacks up against your own best for that zone.

Fishing time is tracked sensibly: a short interruption like combat just pauses the clock, real inactivity starts a fresh session, and a subzone change (a different bay, a different shore) stays part of the same session while an actual zone change doesn't. Sessions save automatically — up to 100 of them — so your records reflect what a zone's actually paid you, not just what it's supposed to pay.

The toolbox

A small floating panel keeps the essentials one click away — Cast, Details, Lure, Open, and a button into the Atlas itself — with a compact row underneath for the stuff you need less often: swapping gear, dumping a filtered catch, route, and settings. It remembers where you put it.

Sound

An optional Audio Focus system turns up the sounds that matter while you're actively fishing, then puts your normal audio settings back exactly where they were the moment you stop. Catch, Got Away, lure, and goal sounds are all optional, and any extra bite-alert cues are off unless you turn them on yourself.

Money

If you've got Auctionator installed, the Atlas uses it for real auction estimates on the fish and items it tracks; without it, vendor price fills in as an honest floor rather than a real estimate, and it says so. Either way you get session value, vendor/hour, auction/hour, and how a zone is actually paying you over time, not just what a wiki says it should.

Pools and routes

The Atlas quietly learns fishing pool locations as you find them, in the background, whether or not any of the map features are switched on. It'll tell you the nearest one it knows about, and Shift-hovering a recorded pin shows you everything ever recorded at that spot. Route planning is entirely in-house now — no separate addon needed for it — though the Toolbox's Route button and the minimap/world-map pool markers are both currently switched off while that part gets more testing; /aa route still gets you there directly.

What it remembers about you

All of this lives in your own WoW SavedVariables — nothing leaves your machine, no account required. That includes your session history, per-zone totals, personal bests (fish/hour, catch rate, vendor/hour, auction/hour, plus your biggest single haul, your longest day out, and your most valuable trip), lifetime earnings, your Angler Rank progress, discovered pool locations, and your active fishing goal if you've set one.

Commands

/aa opens the Atlas; /angler, /angleratlas, and /atlas all do the same thing. From there:

• /aa fishing — jump to the Fishing Log
• /aa toolbox — show or hide the toolbox
• /aa route — the route planner
• /aa pools — your pool info and the nearest known one
• /aa goal <amount> <fish> — set a goal, or /aa goal clear to drop it
• /aa conditions — what's currently affecting fishing (time, season, events)
• /aa records — your personal bests

Compatibility

Built specifically for TBC Anniversary (Interface 20505) — this isn't a generic multi-expansion addon awkwardly bent to fit. Bundles LibStub, CallbackHandler-1.0, LibDataBroker-1.1, LibDBIcon-1.0, and HereBeDragons (for the pool/map work) — nothing else required. Auctionator is optional and only improves price accuracy when it's there.

Bugs and feedback

Found something broken? Tell me your build/client info, the Atlas version, what you were doing right before it happened, any error text, and a screenshot if it's visual. Feature ideas are always welcome too.