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The Sailing combat uniques (ray barbs, swift albatross feather, narwhal horn, echo pearl, bottled storm and broken dragon hook) used to only come from fighting sea creatures on your boat. On Veridia you can also get them from salvage, courier tasks and giant clams, which means you can finish the Sailing Miscellaneous page of the collection log without doing any boat combat if you'd rather skill for them. Every unique you get from these sources is added to your collection log.
Salvage can give combat uniques
Every salvage type except small salvage has a chance of giving one or more combat uniques when you sort it at a salvaging station. The chance is rolled for each salvage you sort, so sorting a full inventory gives you 28 chances. The level shown is the Sailing level needed to salvage that shipwreck. You can sort any salvage you are holding, even salvage from a wreck you can't salvage yet (E.g salvage dropped by a sea creature).
Salvage | Shipwreck | Sailing level | Uniques (chance per salvage sorted) |
|---|---|---|---|
Small salvage | Small shipwreck | 15 | None |
Fishy salvage | Fisherman's shipwreck | 26 | Ray barbs 1/120 |
Barracuda salvage | Barracuda shipwreck | 35 | Ray barbs 1/80 |
Large salvage | Large shipwreck | 53 | Swift albatross feather 1/150 |
Plundered salvage | Pirate shipwreck | 64 | Echo pearl 1/600, Inky paint 1/5,000 |
Martial salvage | Mercenary shipwreck | 73 | Bottled storm 1/1,000, Broken dragon hook 1/1,000 |
Fremennik salvage | Fremennik shipwreck | 80 | Narwhal horn 1/200, Bottled storm 1/750 |
Opulent salvage | Merchant shipwreck | 87 | Echo pearl 1/400, Broken dragon hook 1/750, Dragon cannon barrel 1/1,000 |
You can check every salvage table in game with the drop viewer, which also lists the full loot for each salvage type.
Bigger courier tasks can pay a sea trophy
Courier tasks that pay a large or huge reward bag have a chance of including a sea trophy along with your payment. A sea trophy is one of the combat uniques or a dragon cannon barrel. Smaller tasks don't roll for one, so it is worth picking the longer deliveries if you are going for these.
Reward bag | Task base experience | Chance of a sea trophy |
|---|---|---|
Large | 2,500 to 5,999 | 1/60 |
Huge | 6,000 and up | 1/30 |
When you get a sea trophy, the item is picked from the list below.
Item | Share of sea trophies |
|---|---|
Ray barbs | 40% |
Swift albatross feather | 25% |
Narwhal horn | 15% |
Echo pearl | 10% |
Bottled storm | 4% |
Broken dragon hook | 4% |
Dragon cannon barrel | 2% |
Giant clams can give an echo pearl
When a giant clam gives you a big pearl or better, there is a 1/25 chance an echo pearl comes with it. See the Sailing Pearls page for how giant clams work.
Sea creatures still drop them
Sea creatures still drop the combat uniques at their normal rates, so boat combat is still the quickest way for some of them. E.g orcas drop the echo pearl at 1/70, which is a lot better than any of the other sources.