I thought this information might be useful to people. I did some research on regular fishing vs. bare-handed fishing (after barbarian training).

 

 

 

I used 10 Ibis to time each method precisely (6 hrs. 20 mins.). For both methods, I was level 97 (100 w/ Ibis +3). I fished sharks in Burgh de Rott to lower interference from other players.

 

 

 

With barehanded, I averaged 14,059 exp./hr.

 

With regular, I averaged 14,464 exp./hr.

 

 

 

Not sure if this enough information for the site, but it suggests to me that the two methods' effectiveness are statistically the same. It might be helpful to include that information in the fishing or barbarian training guides. From my observations here, bare-handed is better because of the small Strength bonus.

 

 

 

Just thought I'd share.

Useful stuffs, not entirely sure where we could put this on the site, any thoughts?

probably barbarian training so people can realize that it's better to bare-hand it.

probably barbarian training so people can realize that it's better to bare-hand it.

 

 

 

 

 

except its not? looking at his data he got 400exp extra with the regular method, though this could be considered at statistically insignificant. statistically significant difference is normally 10% or above difference, anything below could be attributed to random chance.

 

 

 

(14400/14000)*100=102.87% a 2.87 percent difference, which could be easily attributed to chance.

Getting several hundred less exp by 1 test doesn't prove anything. That would just be a few fish give or take. The numbers are far too close to compare if one method is indeed faster than the other one. The only hypothesis I would have is that you sacrifice fishing speed at the gain of strength experience, but again, I can't prove that.

I agree with manoman - I do not believe any substantial difference was experienced when the training was released. Also your level (97) may or may not play into it - we'd need several people of different levels to try it out.

 

 

 

I'd be interested in knowing if barbarian rod fishing (leaping fish) is faster or slower xp than other types of traditional fishing (monkfish or fly fishing) ... that would also be useful.

 

 

 

We can leave this thread open for a while to see if anyone else can provide data on this subject or others ... or we can archive it and watch for someone else to post.

 

 

 

Thanks VERY much though o_knames for making the effort and recording your xp. I know how difficult it is to accumulate data, and we are always thrilled to hear from helpful users like you! It's super!

 

I'd be interested in knowing if barbarian rod fishing (leaping fish) is faster or slower xp than other types of traditional fishing (monkfish or fly fishing) ... that would also be useful.

 

 

 

I have an unconfirmed report that you can't actually use the hand fishing in the Piscatoris Fishing Colony.

sorry I didn't mean by comparison to the same type of fishing ... I meant comparing the xp per hour of barbarian ROD fishing to other types of speedy xp fishing: which are fly-fishing and monkfishing (possibly not in the running compared to the other two, I dunno). But absolutely producing different types of fish and at different locations. The idea would be to identify the ultimate best fishing training per hour. :)

 

 

 

Barbarian Rod

 

vs.

 

Fly-fishing