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The original was posted on /r/guildwars2 by /u/Catolyn on 2026-08-17 07:56:34+00:00.

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EDIT: The data I collected is in no way scientifically accurate. There are simply too many variables that can affect the results, such as the Fishing Tips buff, which wasn’t active for the entire experiment. Nevertheless, I think it can still serve as a useful reference point for the average player.

It definitely seems more worthwhile to fish during the daytime, as the overall yield appears to be significantly better. Still, I spent 8 hours on the Skiff and wanted to share my results.

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I had some free time and decided to spend it fishing in Kourna to get some actual numbers on how profitable it is and, what the Legendary and Ascended fish rates look like in practice.

In total I spent about 8h on the deck of my Skiff. I wanted to track the following metrics:

1. Fish caught per hour
2. Legendary fish per hour
3. Ascended fish per hour
4. Legendary fish per 100 catches
5. Ascended fish per 100 catches
6. Most Obviously: Overall gold earned per hour

I had seen very different numbers for Kourna fishing on various websites. Some sources claim around 12.5–25 gold/hour, while others report 35–40 gold/hour. That is a pretty significant difference, so I wanted to see what I could actually achieve myself.

After the session, I ended up with 705 fish caught. You can see the all the fishes cought below

-2 Bloodfish which i already used... or recycled what ever you wanna call it.

Screenshot showing the complete fish catch

I estimate that around 7–7.5 hours of the 8 hour session were actually productive fishing time.

• 705 total fish
• ~94–101 fish/hour
• 61 Legendary fish
• 35 Ascended fish
• 7.65 Gold of junk items

That works out to approximately:

• 8.65 Legendary fish per 100 catches
• 4.96 Ascended fish per 100 catches
• ~8.1–8.7 Legendary fish/hour
• ~4.7–5.0 Ascended fish/hour

So my Legendary rate ended up being approximately 1 Legendary every 11.6 fish, which was surprisingly close to the initial estimate of 1/10 which some fishers i asked in the map chat gave me. The materials and junk I obtained during the session were worth approximately 179.85 gold in total.

10 Ambergris from non Legy fish, 61 Ambergris from 61 Legys

Based on 7–7.5 hours of productive fishing, that's roughly ~24–25.7 gold/hour

This is quite a bit lower than the 35–40g/hour figures I've seen mentioned elsewhere, although it falls within the lower 12.5–25g/hour range of fast farming.

There are a few things to keep in mind before taking these numbers as a definitive Kourna fishing rate.

1. My setup was between 875-925 fishing power(depending on the fishing Tipps buff from the one fishing hearth in cantha). I used scorpions as bait for the highest legy and ascended bite rate.
2. As stated above i was on deck for exaclty 8h, but my active fishing time is a guess, I had to feed the cats and ate a bagel. therefore i subtracted 0.5 hours from the actual fishing time.
3. I am far from the most efficient fisher so there might be more gold in it for you.

I also wasn't running this as a laboratory experiment with every variable isolated. This is basically one player's real-world fishing session with a reasonably large sample size.

So take the numbers as anecdotal data rather than definitive drop-rate statistics.

Still, I thought the results were interesting enough to share, and I wanted to share that if you don't mind doing this kind of mindless farming, you can make some pretty good gold from it.