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Treasure Hunter testing by Tristaenkun

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(May 12th, 2009)

Welcome.

Over the next few months I will be conducting extensive tests as to determine the effect of Treasure Hunter. I will only be using 2 scenarios at the moment but i will add more later as I level THF.

For now I will test with 2 different Job combinations.
TEST#1 60Red Mage/30Ninja (No Treasure Hunter.)
TEST#2 25Thief/12Ninja (Treasure Hunter I.) For my test I am not trying to see how often individual items dropped, I am trying to see if anything drops.

For this test I will kill 500 Crawlers in East Sarutabaruta. I will ignore day of the week but I will not kill on a Full Moon or New Moon.

Crawlers (No TH)

I will list 4 things.

How many times after killing a crawler did it drop something. (Example: If I killed 10 crawlers and 5 times it dropped an item then it drops something 50% of the time.
How many items total did it drop.
Percentage appearance of each possible drops.
True Drop rate for each items based on appearance and frequency of drop rate, using the equasion: (TDR = DP * IAR) where TDR is "True Drop Rate" which is the chance that you will see the item drop after 1 kill; DP is "Drop Percentage" which is the chance that any item will drop after 1 kill; and IAR, or, "Item Appearance Rate" which is the percentage chance that an item that dropped will be a particular item.

@ 50 Kills

Dropped an item 7/50 times which is 14% of the time.
Dropped a total of 10 items.
Total number of Crawler Calculus dropped was 6/10 items or 60%.
- True drop rate of Crawler Calculus is 8.4%.
Total number of Smooth Stone dropped was 1/10 items or 10%.
- True drop rate of Smooth Stone is 1.4%.
Total number of Silk Thread dropped was 3/10 or 30%.
- True drop rate of Silk Thread is 4.2%.

NOTE:Out of the seven times an item dropped from a Crawler, 3 of those dropped 2 items each. All three of these occurances were on Darksday. As such I will refrain from killing on Darksday for the remainder of the test.

@ 100 Kills

Dropped an item 7/50 times which is 14% of the time.
Dropped a total of 10 items.
Total number of Crawler Calculus dropped was 6/10 items or 60%.
- True drop rate of Crawler Calculus is 8.4%.
Total number of Smooth Stone dropped was 1/10 items or 10%.
- True drop rate of Smooth Stone is 1.4%.
Total number of Silk Thread dropped was 3/10 or 30%.
- True drop rate of Silk Thread is 4.2%.

@ 250 Kills

Dropped an item 7/50 times which is 14% of the time.
Dropped a total of 10 items.
Total number of Crawler Calculus dropped was 6/10 items or 60%.
- True drop rate of Crawler Calculus is 8.4%.
Total number of Smooth Stone dropped was 1/10 items or 10%.
- True drop rate of Smooth Stone is 1.4%.
Total number of Silk Thread dropped was 3/10 or 30%.
- True drop rate of Silk Thread is 4.2%.

@ 500 Kills

Dropped an item 7/50 times which is 14% of the time.
Dropped a total of 10 items.
Total number of Crawler Calculus dropped was 6/10 items or 60%.
- True drop rate of Crawler Calculus is 8.4%.
Total number of Smooth Stone dropped was 1/10 items or 10%.
- True drop rate of Smooth Stone is 1.4%.
Total number of Silk Thread dropped was 3/10 or 30%.
- True drop rate of Silk Thread is 4.2%.

Source entry: Treasure Hunter testing by Tristaenkun. Cached on this server on 4 November 2026.