Here's the gist: The Flameheart forts now spawn in Safer Seas AND they average 1.33 Pristine Teeth/Scales per fort! AND in almost all cases, the Flameheart fort spawns almost immediately!
As I recounted in an earlier thread, Pristine Teeth and Scales are devilishly difficult to find. I spent nearly 200 hours on the High Seas dedicated to completing the Master Hunter of the Pristine Maw (for the 20 teeth) and Master Hunter of Pristine Megalodon Spoils (for the 20 scales), and found less than half of what I needed to complete the two commendations.
Then someone tipped me off to seeking them in Safer Seas, because boar wallows (the most efficient way to find the teeth and scales) don't despawn there. That significantly sped things up, but it's still a grind sailing from island to island looking for the wallow, and then hoping the wallow contains one.
THEN, yesterday, I discovered that the new Flameheart forts spawn in Safer Seas. I was curious about what was inside the vault, and discovered that on each of the six vaults I opened, there was at least one Pristine Tooth or Scale, and in three of those vaults there were two. So in the space of about three hours, I found my remaining nine teeth/scales and finally finished both commendations.
There's something else that's notable: every single time I started a new Safer Seas session, there was no world event. And, with only one exception, in each case a Flameheart fort spawned within two minutes. I simply sailed over to it, completed the fort, took the Pristine Tooth or Scale (or both) from the fort, sold it, started a new session, and repeated. It worked beautifully.
So not only do the vaults hold at least one of the Pristine items, but the forts appear to spawn immediately upon entering a new session.
Wow.
Berry
PS: for anyone wondering what else is in the Safer Seas Flameheart vault, there was no Chest of Fortune and no Reaper Caskets, Urns, or Chests, but quite a bit of other stuff: eight or ten gems, two Ancient Bone Dust chests, Gold Hoarder crowns and chests, fistfuls of skulls, and other small miscellaneous items, including things like Ancient Megalodon teeth and scales and boar tusks. And five treasure chests to carry it all.
