Fishing Buddy Forever

Fishing Buddy Forever

Fishing Buddy Forever is an all-in-one, modernized fishing companion built for World of Warcraft Forever & Classic Era: Smart casting, outfit management, a live floating HUD, pool map pins, a time-of-day fish radar, and an interactive 1–300 zone and leveling advisor.

Key Features

1. Smart Casting & Automatic Lures

• Double-Right-Click Easy Cast: Cast your line effortlessly with a double right-click anywhere on the water—with optional modifier keys (Shift, Ctrl, Alt).
• Automatic Lure Application: Automatically applies a fishing lure when your pole needs one or whenever a fish escapes ("Your fish got away!"), ensuring you never waste casts in high-skill waters.
• ** Bobber-Click Protection:** Automatically clears your current target while fishing so nameplates and nearby players don't block your bobber clicks.

2. Floating Fishing HUD

• 1-Click Lure, Cast & Gear Button: Apply your best bag lure, cast Fishing, or swap into your fishing outfit directly from the HUD.
• Skill-Up Catch Predictor & Rank Reminders: Tracks how many catches remain until your next Fishing skill point, and alerts you when you reach the 75, 150, or 225 rank caps with instructions on how to unlock the next rank.
• Live "What's Biting Now?" Radar: Shows the current server time, active 6-hour catch window (Nightfin Snapper vs. Sunscale Salmon), active seasonal fish (Winter Squid vs. Summer Bass), time remaining until the next window shift, and Sunday Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza status.
• Target Fish Watch Goals: Pin any fish to track a custom catch goal (such as 0/20 Nightfin Snapper) with a live progress bar and completion chime.
• Pool Respawn Timer: Automatically tracks the estimated respawn countdown of the last fishing school you fished in your current zone.
• Session Value & Bag Space Footer: Displays your current session's estimated vendor value, gold-per-hour rate, and remaining free bag slots at a glance.

3. Smart Zone & Leveling Advisor ("Where Should I Fish?")

• Live Catch Rate Calculator: Evaluates your Base Skill + Fishing Outfit + Active Lure and shows your exact catch rate percentage across every Classic 1–300 zone tier.
• Zero Get-Away Recommendations: Highlights where you can fish right now with 100% catch rate, and tells you when applying a lure in your bags will eliminate get-aways.
• Gold, Raid & Leveling Filters: Switch between For My Skill, Gold & Raids (Stonescale Eel, Nightfin Snapper, Sunscale Salmon, Winter Squid, Summer Bass, Oily Blackmouth, Firefin Snapper, Sagefish, Deviate Fish), and All Zones (1–300).
• 1-Click Goal Pinning: Click any fish tag inside a zone card to immediately set it as your Target Watch Goal.

4. Fish Codex, Browser & World Map Pool Pins

• Searchable Catch Database: Browse every fish you've caught grouped By Area or By Fish, or filter by name, zone, time of day (night, day), season (winter, summer), pool, cooking, or alchemy.
• Built-In Classic Fish Codex: Hover over notable Classic fish to see their active catch windows, habitats, and Cooking / Alchemy recipe uses.
• World Map & Minimap Pool Pins: Automatically records discovered fishing schools on your World Map and Minimap with catch breakdowns and estimated respawn status on hover.

5. Fishing Outfit Manager & Quick Utility Bar

• 1-Click Gear Swap: Save your dedicated Fishing Outfit and swap between your fishing gear and combat gear in one click—automatically restoring your exact main-hand and off-hand weapons.
• Live Bonus Score: Displays your total fishing skill bonus from your pole, hat, gloves, boots, fishing line, and active lure.
• Quick Consumable Bar: Access your best bag lures, fishing hats, Captain Rumsey's Lager, Elixir of Water Walking, and Find Fish directly below the paperdoll view.

6. Dual-Profile Audio Focus

• Automatic Bobber Audio Boost: Automatically boosts sound effects while your fishing pole is equipped so you never miss a bobber splash, while lowering music and ambient noise.
• Separate Focus ON & Focus OFF Volume Sliders: Customize your exact Master, SFX, Ambience, and Music volume levels for Focus ON (Fishing) and Focus OFF (Normal) independently in the Sound tab.

Slash Commands

• /ff or /fb — Open or close the Fishing Buddy Forever window
• /ff advisor or /ff radar — Open the Zone & Leveling Advisor + Live Time Radar
• /ff switch — Swap between your Fishing Outfit and normal gear
• /ff audio — Toggle Audio Focus on or off
• /ff goal clear — Clear your current pinned Target Watch Goal
• /ff current reset — Reset your current session catches and gold tracker
• /ff status — Display a quick summary of your current Fishing skill, outfit, and settings