[loramin]

Sorry I'm late to the party; I've been up in Alaska on a cruise and just got back.

Baler's half-right: while I never made a formal guide, I did camp the hell out of that Ferocious Shark for quite awhile and take notes in a spreadsheet for about 300-odd kills. I think I might have posted my results in the forum at some point (thus the "guide" Baler referred to), but rather than put the whole spreadsheet on the wiki I just summarized my findings:

Originally Posted by http://wiki.project1999.com/Driftwood_Treasure_Chest

Since approximately 1/10th of the cauldron hammerheads respawn as ferocious hammerheads, and since approximately 1/10th of the ferocious hammerheads drop the chest, you can expect to kill approximately 90 cauldron hammerheads and 10 ferocious hammerheads for each dropped Driftwood Treasure Chest.

Originally Posted by danceparty [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Saw two Ferocious in about 12 hours and the second one was pay dirt. I consider myself lucky. =)

Well, my results aren't big enough statistically to prove anything, but if they're something like 1 in 10 on average, getting 1 in 2 is definitely lucky [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Originally Posted by Hakubi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why would you guys even want that trash?

I'm a Barbarian Shaman: even without casting Focus I can carry all my gear, six driftwood chests and a few hundred coin, and still have 20 stones of encumbrance left over. And if I have Focus ... well I can carry a lot more coin.

So while it took me a very long time to get those chests, because I was able to do it while working all it really cost me was a few more minutes of work at the end of the day (or a few less minutes of goofing off on the forums) to get 6 "free" tink bags. Good deal in my book.


As for which camp is worse, it's really apples and oranges since the chest takes longer but the courier requires more active playtime. In a way I think the courier is worse because it has lower odds and thus more variability. Personally I've never gone even 150 sharks in a row without getting a chest, whereas with the Courier it's a complete crapshoot: you can luck out early, but usually you sit there for hours and hours knowing you might still have to sit for hours and hours.