Talk:Smoke over the Coast

That job relationship sounds like wild speculation based on one person's experience (and mine would be quite the opposite). I'm putting a verification flag on it, but it should probably just be removed completely. --JoQuo711 04:31, September 14, 2010 (UTC)

I had this happen to me, on PUP I got 8 PUP seals, 4 SCH 3 RDM 2 DRK with 4 stacks of sausages being traded. Orenwald 04:34, September 14, 2010 (UTC)

SCH seal dont drop, assuming you meant RNG? Been trading on RDM, and I've gotten 4 PUP, 2 RNG, 2 DRK, and 1 RDM out of ~35 repeats so far, so totally the opposite for me. Random is random, or so it seems. Unless almost everyone has had the same job-related experience? --JoQuo711 04:45, September 14, 2010 (UTC)

8 RDM seals all obtained as DNC also got 20 RNG 25 PUP and 15 DRK --Ashera 07:39, September 14, 2010 (UTC)

Do you need to be 85 or have Trials active?LeonCloud 08:21, September 14, 2010 (UTC)

So are you guys saying you can just trade him a regular sausage with out cooking it? Kariana 11:07, September 16, 2010 (UTC)

My results

Traded 5 stacks (60 sausages). Got 7 x RDM seals, 6 x DRK, 3 x PUP, 3 x RNG. So my drop rate was around 30%. Also - possibly random, but ... - I had a higher incidence of RDM seals drop on Earthsday and three straight PUP seals drop on Watersday. Moon was New 7% for about half of the missions and Waxing 14% for the remainder.

Traded 1 stack of NQ sausage and got 2x pup then 1 stack of +3 sausage and got only Cruor, totally random and current job has no effect as i traded all as 85RDM Calatilla 20:49, September 14, 2010 (UTC)

Just noticed this info. I had exactly the same. More RDM Earthsday, more PUP Watersday and then I started getting RNG and DRK on Windsday. -- Orubicon 15:40, September 16, 2010 (UTC)

A Theory

Still testing this, but I think that what time you turn in the quest determines what kind of seal you get as a reward. I turned in a +3 at 11-12 twice on Windsday and obtained 2 Bale seals in a row. I tried turning it in again during the 12th hour on Iceday and recieved a Bale Seal again. I also picked up 2 estoquer's seals, both on the 13th hour on windsday and iceday. Still testing and will try again on the next day to see if this works still. --Derriku 00:17, September 15, 2010 (UTC)

Lightiningsday 12:15 - Bale Seal: Legs

RDM seal - 17:00 Lightday

RNG seal - 18:50 Lightday

RNG seal - 20:30 Lightday

RDM seal - 21:40 Lightday

PUP seal - 23:00 Lightday

Seems unlikely. Skjie 02:20, September 15, 2010 (UTC)

I don't know, to be honest. It seems to drop certain seals in phases, along with the cookbook quest. I've done about 60 each of these two quests alone over two days and I've seen a discernable pattern - even your list above shows that.

Today I started the quests run on Earthsday (as Lv.85 RDM, my targets were RDM from this and WHM, BST, SAM from the cookbook). A rough drop pattern was RDM > RDM > nothing for a long time and then PUP > PUP > PUP > RNG (rarest for me) > DRK > PUP.

In a similar pattern for the cookbook, I went BST > BST > BST > nothing for a long time > WHM (rarest) > BST > SAM > SAM > SAM > and then so many THF dropped I just stopped (was Windsday when I left). I don't believe it's 100% random. Part of it might be, like a percentage chance of a particular seal at a time/day/moon phase, but we need a lot more test results to try and get a better perspective.

At the end of two Abyssea trips doing this (two sets of 120 mins) I have received: 4x RDM, 2x RNG, 4x DRK, x8 PUP - from Sausage quest. 8x SAM, 6x BST, 2x WHM, too many to count x THF - from cookbook. -- Orubicon 15:25, September 16, 2010 (UTC)

Cooking the Sausage

Just a note for those who need it; if you fail at getting a +1/2/3, and get a -1, but don't have the inventory to pick it up, talking to the campfire again after the lack of inventory message gives you a regular sausage.

Testimonies

-14 Sausage Stacks: 134xNothing(79.8%), 12xRDM(7.1%), 12xPUP(7.1%), 9xDRK(5.4%), 1xRNG(0.5%). Going for RNG. (Thanks SE, I love zoning in and out 168 times!)

(moved from the main page as it provided personal opinion unnecessary to the quest.--not original poster)