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Comment by jjanchan

This information is current as of September 8/16 on Live servers.

TIP #1: There are groups in the group-finder that fish together on Margoss' Retreat; this greatly increases the number of Mark of Aquaos that are fished up, and with enough people you can chain them back-to-back, increasing your rate of Drowned Mana acquisition dramatically!

TIP #2: Take advantage of reputation buffs, like WHEE!/Darkmoon Top Hat while the Darkmoon Faire is active, or similar buffs listed in the guide below during holidays to speed this grind up!

Conjurer Margoss

Conjurer Margoss is a new Fishing-related NPC located on a floating island (Margoss' Retreat) around Dalaran. This island has a pool of water on it from which Drowned Mana can be fished up.

As a "Friend" NPC, there is an associated faction and reputation associated with Margoss - Conjurer Margoss (similar to Nat Pagle or the Tillers NPCs).

Getting to Margoss' Retreat

The island on which Conjurer Margoss can be found is just North of Dalaran. Note that this small island isn't shown on the map of Dalaran - it is outside of the bounds of the in-game map (therefore coordinates are not helpful!)

There are a number of ways to get to the island:

Flying
Once flying is unlocked in Legion, this will be an easy way to get to the island.
Emblem of Margoss
Emblem of Margoss is a consumable item that teleports you to Margoss' Retreat. It can be fished up in the Dalaran Underbelly from the Swirling Whorl pools around the Black Market Auction house - in the Underbelly.
These items are consumed when used - so to use this method again you have to fish up another.
Manually Reaching the Island
It is possible to get to the island using unconventional means.
First, go through the gap in the Dalaran wall at , between the Violet Citadel and the Magus Commerce Exchange (you can see it if you follow the grass to the right of the Violet Citadel stairs). You'll see the pet trainer on the ledge below, and in the distance you will see Margoss' Retreat, recognizable by the pool of water in the center. From this ledge you can reach the island through the following means:
- As a Demon Hunter, you can use Glide.
- As an Engineer, you can use a cloak with Goblin Glider attached.
- Any race/class can use Goblin Glider Kit (crafted by Engineers).
- Any race/class can use Emerald Winds (Toy obtained from the achievement Hatchling of the Talon in Highmountain).

You can get back to Dalaran by speaking to Conjurer Margoss - he will teleport you back on request.

Obtaining Drowned Mana

Drowned Mana has a two-fold purpose:

Can be turned in to Conjurer Margoss to obtain reputation with him.

Can be used as a currency for a number of items he sells.

Note that any Drowned Mana spent on items from Conjurer Margoss will not grant any reputation. Conversely, any Drowned Mana turned in for reputation is consumed and cannot be used to buy merchandise.

Drowned Mana can ONLY be fished up from the pool on Margoss' Retreat.

Notes

Mark of Aquaos

Mark of Aquaos is an item you can rarely fish up on Margoss' Retreat (roughly 1 in every 100 casts). Using it will summon Aquaos the Unleashed, an Elemental that will attack you, that you must kill.

Fishing Tests

LOW FISHING SKILL: Fished from a skill of 19 to 119 (Total 100 casts)

Total yield: 28 Drowned Mana

6 casts yielded 1 Drowned Mana
11 casts yielded 2 Drowned Mana
Overall 17 casts yielded some Drowned Mana (17%)

HIGH FISHING SKILL: Fished at a skill of 904, with some Fishing gear and lure (Total 100 casts)

Total yield: 27 Drowned Mana

9 casts yielded 1 Drowned Mana
9 casts yielded 2 Drowned Mana
1 cast yielded a Mark of Aquaos
Overall 18 casts yielded some Drowned Mana (18%)

VERY HIGH FISHING SKILL: Fished from a skill of 1115 to 1152, with best possible Fishing gear and lure (Total 200 casts)

Total yield: 51 Drowned Mana

15 casts yielded 1 Drowned Mana
18 casts yielded 2 Drowned Mana
3 casts yielded a Mark of Aquaos
Overall 39 casts yielded some Drowned Mana (19.5%)

Overall this is a fairly low sample size; however, based on the information, it appears that Fishing skill has little to no effect on Drowned Mana catch rate. Further testing is needed to see if maxed fishing will yield different results.

Reputation with Conjurer Margoss

Reputation with Conjurer Margoss will allow you to purchase the various items he has for sale - including a pet and a mount!

There is a one-time quest (Drowned Mana) that you can complete by fishing up and turning in 1 Drowned Mana for 250 reputation. Thereafter, the only way to obtain further reputation is to turn in Drowned Mana for 50 reputation per mana.

There are 5 levels of reputation before Best Friend, which is the maximum reputation. Each of these levels has 8400 reputation.

To improve the rate of reputation gain, keep in mind the following buffs (note that some of the following buffs stack):

WHEE! or Darkmoon Top Hat, available during the Darkmoon Faire

WHEE! is available by riding the Darkmoon Carousel
Darkmoon Top Hat is granted by the Darkmoon Top Hat item, which can be purchased for 10 Darkmoon Prize Tickets. It can only be used while the Darkmoon Faire is active.
WHEE! and Darkmoon Top Hat do not stack with each other.

Grim Visage/Unburdened, available during the Hallow's End Holiday Event
The Spirit of Sharing, available during the Pilgrim's Bounty Holiday Event
Diplomacy, one of the human racial abilities
The Council's Wisdom, available to Frost Mages with Ebonchill from various NPCs in Dalaran

Below is a summary of the levels of reputation with Conjurer Margoss:

Reputation Level	Reputation Amount	Drowned Mana Required to Reach Next Level	Total Drowned Mana Required	Total Drowned Mana Required (with 10% buff)*
Stranger	0-8400	163**	163	148
Pal	8401-16800	168	331	301
Buddy	16801-25200	168	499	454
Friend	25201-33600	168	667	606
Good Friend	33601-41999	168	835	759
Best Friend	42000	-	835	759

*Each level of reputation requires just over 152 Drowned Mana with a single 10% buff. Stacking buffs will further the effectiveness.
**This level requires fewer mana turn-ins due to the one-time quest.

Spending Drowned Mana

Conjurer Margoss sells a number of items for Drowned Mana, as below:

Item	Reputation Required	Drowned Mana Cost	Description
Arcane Lure	-	1	Consumed on use. Increases your chance to catch bait in the Broken Isles by 100% for 10 min. These baits are used to fish up Rare fish for the achievement Bigger Fish to Fry.
Murloc Bobber X 5	Friend	25	Consumed on use. Replace your fishing bobber with a cute murloc head for 30 min.
Squeaky Duck Bobber X 5	Friend	25	Consumed on use. Replace your fishing bobber with a squeaky duck for 30 min.
Crate of Bobbers: Squeaky Duck	Friend	100	Toy. Replace your fishing bobber with a squeaky duck for 1 hour. (15 Min Cooldown)
Crate of Bobbers: Murloc Head	Friend	100	Toy. Replace your fishing bobber with a cute murloc head for 1 hour. (15 Min Cooldown)
Sting Ray Pup	Good Friend	50	Battle Pet. Aquatic. Adds the Battle Pet Sting Ray Pup to your collection.
Brinedeep Bottom-Feeder	Best Friend	100	Mount. Can be used only in water.
Trashy	Best Friend	50	Battle Pet. Critter. Adds the Battle Pet Trashy to your collection.

Here are some numbers for total Drowned Mana required for certain items (includes reputation turn-ins and currency requirement):

Crate of Bobbers: Murloc Head and Crate of Bobbers: Squeaky Duck - 599 Drowned Mana required for one, 699 Drowned Mana required for both.
Sting Ray Pup - 717 Drowned Mana required
Trashy - 885 Drowned Mana required
Sting Ray Pup + Trashy - 935 Drowned Mana required
Brinedeep Bottom-Feeder - 935 Drowned Mana required
ALL Pets and Mount - 1035 Drowned Mana required
ALL Toys, Pets and Mount - 1235 Drowned Mana required

Comment by Neuport

Took 2372 casts to become best friends with Conjurer Margoss (with 11 extra mana). Started at fishing level 703 with +220 fishing most of the time +150 hat lure. Completed on 8/31/2016.

1081 - Silver Mackerel
855 - Drowned Mana
342 - Big Fountain Goldfish
30 - Mark of Aquaos
64 - "World" fish caught after using Mark of Aquaos

Comment by Frostaphim

If you want to get to this guy DONT use Rocfeather Skyhorn Kite as soon as you get close you get kicked off because you enter a bit of "The Great Sea" and this kite is only for the broken isles so that means the kite doesn't work.. Just putting it out here i got pretty frustrated have to swim now and take a FP back to dalaran because i just used my hearthstone.

Anyways goodluck!

Comment by Mydge

Light Feather will not work.

Comment by Kurasu

People have compared this character to grinding with Nat Paglle. However, the grind is considerably more difficult than Nat.

For one thing, getting to the island is difficult, and that specific island is the only place that you are able to catch 'Drowned Mana'. So in order to get mana from him, you need to be in a specific location.

Secondly, that 'Drowned Mana' needs to be turned into him, rather like the lunkers. However, *unlike* the lunker turn-ins, you do not get an item for it. You simply get reputation.

*AFTER* you have the amount of reputation you need, you need to fish up *more* drowned mana in order to get his goods, rather than having the 'mana' that you spent on him in order to get to Best Friend.

In other words, you need approximately 1000 drowned mana to become best friends, and *then* you need another 150 to get both the pet and the mount.

.... happy fishing.

Comment by TrenoNeoKnight

Coincidentally this gentleman shares the exact same look with the Washed-Up Mage from Northrend's Dalaran, despite the latter being identified as Barnaby Fletcher from Mists of Pandaria.

Comment by lunamoonraker

Be aware that he will happily continue to offer the option and accept Drowned Mana even when you have hit Best Friend maximum reputation.

Comment by vindurza

fun fact he seems to be the washed up mage found in the sewer during wrath who gives you the recipe for kunga'loosh off his arm, or at least related to him in some way do to the same over all look and the fact fishing usually involves heavy drinking if we use nat as an example. he also seems to be a little crazy since he constantly refers to his manaling as kadghar and the manaling begs you to save it

Comment by tigernest

Your progress towards reputation with this guy can be found under Steamwheedle Cartel.

Comment by Elder82

Mages, and people who have a mage available next to them, don't need any special tool to get to the retreat: just cast slow fall, mount up and run towards the island to land on it easily. :)

Comment by SoCalWoWGal

In Patch 7.1.5, Trashy will be sold by Conjurer Margoss at "Best Friend" reputation for 50 Drowned Mana.

Note: At the time of posting this comment the Wowhead database had not yet updated the vendor information.

Comment by JDanger

Fishing skill level one and I don't get anything more than my fish got away.

Comment by pat33

BEST ADVICE EVER:

DO A PREMADE: Drowned mana farm!

When in 40 man raid you get Mark of Aquaos non stop resulting in endless rain of DROWNED MANA!

Comment by Vetchinkin

Aquaos was supposed to be easy to kill, it took me a while...oh wait...fishing pole equipped.

Comment by Kiingy

I wrote a small WeakAura for the Broken Shore fishing factions.

Whenever you catch one of the rep/currency items it'll display a small popup for 4 seconds showing your current count (plus any in bank). It's set to only show once you have 80+ and a sound alert will play once you have 96+.
It'll also alert you with a sound and display a persistent clickable button when you catch one of the items that spawns the mini-boss. This will only show while you have a fishing rod equipped.

All sounds can be changed or disabled and thresholds for when to start showing can also be changed (or set it always show).
The aura itself will only load on characters that have learned the Fishing ability.

Screenshot:
http://puu.sh/wroTf/92cabd14bc.png

Since the WeakAura import string is quite long I've posted it below on pastebin.
https://pastebin.com/LxLpWDsK

All updates to the aura are also noted in the above pastebin link.

Comment by Boxofbeer

Conjurer Margoss can be found on small floating island north of Dalaran.
He's Legion version of Nat Pagle, teaches you fishing and sells some stuff.
Currency is Drowned Mana. There's also the same quest - Drowned Mana.

Store list:

1	Arcane Lure	Drowned Mana x 1
2	Brinedeep Bottom-Feeder	Drowned Mana x 100	Honored
3	Squeaky Duck Bobber	Drowned Mana x 25	Neutral
4	Murloc Bobber	Drowned Mana x 25	Neutral
5	Sting Ray Pup	Drowned Mana x 50	Friendly
6	Crate of Bobbers: Squeaky Duck	Drowned Mana x 100	Neutral
7	Crate of Bobbers: Murloc Head	Drowned Mana x 100	Neutral
8	Trashy	Drowned Mana x 50	Honored

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Conjurer Margoss spot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyCU2XClAGY

Comment by Arcangel777

My Dear "Best Friend" Margoss

After 1591 fishing casts and hours of bonding with you, may you drown in the 1134 Drowned Mana I have have provided to this trade friendship.
May we not convene again in the near future!

Incincerely

Your no longer 'Best Friend'!

Comment by Lungtau

Nothing worse than expending the inordinate amount of time working on this reputation, where a blown cast could mean 80-100 more casts, and especially while the Mark of Aquaos buff is counting down -- than to auto-loot your hook and cast again too soon.

For me, this results in "Internal Bag Error": lost loot, plus no mail waiting for me in Dalaran saying "Recovered Items".

Auto-looting in general should be transactional. Once initiated, it should complete before anything else can be initiated. If your bags fill, it should loot what it may before anything other action can begin.

If you say, "But if I loot and a boss spawns right beside me and I need to stop looting", I will say "Bad place to loot."

Hey, if Blizz detects an error - and says out loud it is an "error" - why not provide some sort of some sort of payback? If it's impossible to restore the lost loot, do something else. Give the player a 1 minute "lucky" buff.

I have lost at least seven Drowned Manas today alone from being too fast on my action bar. I could have lost a Mark of Aquaos during any of these bag errors...

Imagine: a melee-based game where you are penalized for quick reaction times.

Comment by Shirouma

Sit/stand close to him while you're fishing and keep the shop window open. If you get a Mark of Auaos when you already have one in your inventory already, just sell the one in your inv to him then go to the buyback tab and get it back when you're ready to use it. That way you don't have to unnecessarily delete them just because you can only have 1 at a time. (Dumb mechanic imo but hey at least there's a simple workaround atm.)

Comment by deepspace8

You come here to try and find out where the guy is, and that's the one thing that no one says. Despite the header, he is NOT in the Dalaran sewers. He's on a floating island just north of Dalaran, part of the city (the Broken Isles Dalaran, not WotLK).

Comment by horehound

Legion Timewalking buff does not seem to increase the rep gain. Even though it's a "repeatable quest" to turn in mana, seems like it should count.
Also I had an Aquaos in my bag and when I fished a second one, it did not get sent to my mail like it *should've* because all the time when i loot a second unique item it gets sent to my mailbox, but not Aquaos.

Comment by marig0ld

to anyone trying this rep post legion: during legion timewalking, you can buy broken isle fish delivery for 25 tw badges. they usually contain 1-3 drowned mana per and can help finish this rep/buy lures and save you some time if you have nothing else you care to spend badges on. its not much, though

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