Far as I know it's just luck of the draw. It's been a few months now so I'm forgetting which one is the common one - but according to Allakazam he was the tough one. NOT true, imho. He was a freaking cream puff. The rare one was the beast. But that's not the maddening part. The thing that will drive you MAD is getting your faction up, so save those bone chips & have a friend handy to keep hailing the guy in Qeynos so he'll stop walking away from you as you're trying to do turn ins.
If your faction isn't high enough the quest guy will take your stuff and give you nothing, or that was the deal on Live. Don't do that. Con HIM, not the bone/gold guy, who's happiness level with you goes up faster than quest guy. PITA.
You'll read some things as well that turning in the fish gives more faction. May be true but you can't kill them with the char trying to do the quest else you'll get a huge Life faction hit. Most people make a level 1 wizard to farm fish. You'll get a few, then you'll get ahold of 'The Fish that Cannot Be Killed!' because he's been buffed out the wazoo and has about a billion hps
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Have fun! it's worth it tho, LOL