Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1933291-20141006151810/@comment-24145588-20141006174717

Nightcaste wrote: Seems like a ripoff. Seems like randomness behaving randomly. The Wishing Torch is supposed to make it more probable that you'll get a successful result, but it is not a guarantee.

If you had (for example) a 1% chance of success on your Cold Island, and a 5% chance on your Plant Island, it is not at all hard to believe that you might see better results, in the short term, on the island with the lower probability. It is somewhat surprising, but not in any way an indication that things aren't working correctly.

That being said, I'm not a fan of Wishing Torches in any case. Even assuming they do work correctly (which I do assume), I don't see the point. Everything comes along in a reasonable time, anyway.