Ferocious Hammerhead
 

Blue Server:

Something is wrong with the spawn rate of the Ferocious Hammerhead in Kedge Keep. Yesterday I killed the ph approximately 25+ times (spent around 10 hours camping it) and the Ferocious never spawned one time.

Perhaps the spawn rate should be looked at. According to the wiki, the Ferocious has a 5% chance to spawn, with a 10% chance of dropping the chest. If a player had to kill 20+ ph's for every Ferocious, then see on average 10 Ferocious before one drops a chest, that would mean a player would need to camp, on average, 4,620 minutes, or 77 hours, before looting a single chest.

Doesn't that seem to be a little too rare for an inventory item that isn't even armor or a weapon??

It's a free (almost-)tink bag: it's supposed to be hard :)

But as the person who killed over 500 of those sharks to arrive at that wiki number, I can assure you that the game's random number generator is streaky: you can absolutely go for 20 (if not 30 or 40) non-nameds in a row on a spawn point that has a (roughly) 1 in 10 chance of producing a named.

Just keep killing and eventually you'll get your chest. Loramin is carrying around like five of them, and I've given a couple to alts and sold some also; you just have to commit to the camp for the long haul (long enough to make a 500-entry spreadsheet ...)

I agree. I have camped it for weeks 8 hrs a day at work or more - and only ended up with 2 or 3. Can easily go a whole day with no named, and many wands before a chest.

take loramin's words for a grain of salt

dude doesn't even play blue anymore

Yep. Started camping again today since this morning. Still no spawn in 14+ hours.

You have a very weird obsession with me. It ain't healthy bro.

Very few people go to the length of logging hundreds of kills. Anyone who has, intrinsically understands the nature of probability more than the average player. 10% drop chance does not feel like 1 in 10.

you should make a wiki article about me

*cons aggressive to loramin! :D

Day 2:

10 more spawns, no Ferocious. That's 35 - 40 spawns over two days without a single Ferocious.

loaded up my logs, as I just undertook this camp this summer/fall. it was brutal. here are my results:

07/01/21 - 10/31/21
(222) A cauldron hammerhead
(12) A ferocious hammerhead

got the treasure chest on the 12th ferocious. camp fuckin blows, but it's also mostly afk so w/e...

had stretches where it'd go days on end with no pop, and had one stretch where it spawned 3 times in a row (wand each time tho HEHE). it's eq baby, you know you love it.