Prifddinas Waterfall Fishing

Prifddinas Waterfall Fishing
Released		21 September 2015 (Update)
Members		Yes
Location		Prifddinas
Teleports		Skill portal Waterfall fishing teleport
Music		See this article
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Prifddinas Waterfall Fishing is a Fishing activity that is located at the Prifddinas Waterfall between the Meilyr and Crwys Clan districts in Prifddinas.

The waterfall features 3 tiers:

• Tier 1 is located west of the grapple shortcut, requires level 93 Fishing and gives small crystal urchins.
• Tier 2 is located north of the grapple shortcut, near the fisherman, requires level 95 Fishing and gives medium crystal urchins.
• Tier 3 is located just north of the tier 2 spot, requires level 97 Fishing and gives large crystal urchins.

There is a bank chest on the tier 2 platform by the fisherman and Prifddinas Waterfall Fishing Shop in bottom section where the climb up the waterfall starts.

Getting there

• Players must climb the handholds set into the rock face to reach the top of the waterfall. A grapple shortcut, requiring level 90 Agility, Ranged, and Strength, must be traversed in order to reach the fishing spots. Temporary boosts such as extreme strength potions, extreme ranging potions, or overloads will allow the user to access it with level 76 in the respective stats. Players with a lower Herblore level can buy the tradable grand strength potion and grand ranging potion, which will suffice if the player has level 78 Strength and Ranged. For the Agility requirement, a stamina potion will boost 6 levels making level 84 Agility enough; alternately, a particularly fortunate pulse core blast can raise the player's Agility by 7 levels. Unless players have an enhanced grappling hook stored on their tool belt, they will also need to bring a mithril grapple and crossbow. Otherwise access can be gained if the player has built the nearby hidey-hole, which requires a rune crossbow, mithril grapple, and 4 mahogany planks.
• Players who meet the requirements can teleport here by attuning a skilling portal in the Max Guild Garden to this location which will teleport them to the tier 2 platform next to the bank chest. This requires at least one skill with level 99 or the Quest Cape to access the Garden and 90 Agility, Strength and Ranged to use the teleport. Boosts cannot be used to tune the portal, even if you would otherwise be able to boost your levels to access the waterfall normally.
• Players can also purchase Waterfall fishing teleports from the reward shop (for 300 urchin points) which can be used to teleport to the top of the waterfall near the bank chest. Using these teleports does not require 90 Agility, Strength or Ranged.

Strategy

Experience that is gained from waterfall fishing is not affected by the Voice of Seren. Using the following items and buffs will grant up to around 225,000-250,000 fishing experience per hour at level 99 Fishing:

• Fury shark outfit including the Fishing outfit
• Crystal fishing rod with Honed perk 6 and Furnace perk 4
• Supreme call of the sea aura
• Decorated fishing urn with an urn enhancer
• Perfect juju fishing potion
• Superior whopper-baiting scrimshaw
• Granite lobster
• Clan xp boost 6 %
• Wise perk 4
• Ring of Whispers
• Handing in Large crystal urchin in the Prifddinas Waterfall Fishing Shop for 3k fishing xp per 300 points
• Skilling effigies from the Effigy Incubator may be used instead of urns if unlocked

Points and distractions

The urchins obtained from fishing count as crystal urchin points which in turn can be spent on rewards from Mhistyll's Prifddinas Waterfall Fishing Shop. Small urchins are worth one point, medium urchins are worth two points, and large urchins are worth three points each.

While fishing at the waterfall players can encounter random events: big urchin, leaping urchins and geyser.

Big Urchin

When a big urchin appears, players must pull a big urchin out of the water together. Players who manage to pull it out of the water are awarded 300 experience and 300 experience, along with 30 small crystal urchins, 20 medium crystal urchins, and 10 large crystal urchins, equivalent to 100 crystal urchin points. After unlocking everything in the shop, this is equivalent to 1,000 experience.

Leaping Urchin

The leaping urchin event consists of leaping urchins that players can try to catch. When the urchins appear, a player has to click it in time to catch it to get a certain amount of small, medium or large urchins. This will also yield 300 experience and 300 experience.

The possible rewards for catching one are:

• 30 small crystal urchins
• 20 medium crystal urchins
• 10 large crystal urchins

The total being equivalent to 100 crystal urchin points, or 1,000 experience from the shop.

Geyser

When a geyser appears, it sprays stacks of crystal urchins around the waterfall area which can then be picked up. 

Small, medium and large urchins appear in random quantities between 1 to 14. 93 Fishing is required to pick up any of these urchins, however this can be bypassed by using Area Loot.

Fishing benefits

• The Hermit crab is a pet that may rarely be caught while fishing crystal urchins.
• Prawn balls and prawn crackers can be obtained at all fishing spots on top of the waterfall.
• The levels to access the waterfall and the Fishing level can be boosted.
• Building the grapple hidey-hole requires the same levels as to access it. It can also be boosted to build it.
• Dwarven instinct aura does work.
• Decorated fishing urns and skilling effigies from the Effigy Incubator do work.
• Strange rocks can be obtained.
• Access to the Fish Flingers minigame.

Gallery

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  Prifddinas Waterfall Fishing concept art

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  Concept art of a player fishing

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included—see here for how to help out!

• ninja 21 May 2018 (Update):
  • An item to teleport to the Elf city waterfall fishing area has been added to Mhistyll's shop.

• ninja 17 July 2017 (Update):
  • The click zone has been enlarged on the fishing spots at the Prifddinas waterfall.

• patch 12 September 2016 (Update):
  • It is no longer possible to place certain objects, such as Achievement banners, down in the Waterfall fishing area.

• patch 7 December 2015 (Update):
  • Fixed a typo when examining hand holds near the Prifddinas waterfall.

• patch 5 October 2015 (Update):
  • The tree at the high level Prifddinas waterfall fishing spot has relocated to east of the fishing spot.

• patch 28 September 2015 (Update):
  • You can now find strange rocks from Waterfall Fishing.

Trivia

• The idea was the winning suggestion on RuneLabs in April 2015.
• When choosing the option to climb down the handholds, you just carefully jump down instead.