Moa
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Moas are a type of large flightless bird found throughout Tyria. They can be seen in a variety of colors and can be found either roaming around alone, in dispersed groups or tight flocks.
Moas can be domesticated and raised as livestock, as seen on human and norn ranches and are sometimes used as battle pets by ogres and sylvari.
Types[edit]
- See also: Category:Moas
- Black Moa
- Blue Moa Bird
- Champion Butch
- Corrupted Moa
- Crane
- Crimson Moa
- Darkwing Defender
- Defender of Winds
- Displaced Moa
- Domesticated Moa
- Escaped Moa
- Frenzied Pink Moa
- Frightened Moa
- Golden Moa
- Green Moa
- Heart My Stone Mason
- Inquest Specimen
- Keeper of Winds
- Kwinna
- Legendary Bloodstone-Crazed Moa
- Lil Thunder
- Logan's Lover
- Lost Moa Chick
- Meebles
- Meep
- Meep the Second
- Mho
- Minor Bucket o' Pitfalls
- Moa Chick
- Moa Hatchling
- Mokk
- Monna
- Mortt
- Motti
- Mr. Soupy
- My Parrot
- Myngoeh
- Mystic Forgery
- Myxx
- Octavius
- Olyviir
- Otyugh's Black Moa
- Pink Moa
- Pisti
- Pygmy Moa
- The Fightin' Commander
- Three-Toed Tootsie
- Tipping the Skales
- Veteran Beak of Darkness
- Veteran Black Moa
- Veteran Blue Moa Bird
- Veteran Celestial Challenger
- Veteran Crane
- Veteran Golden Moa
- Veteran Green Moa
- Veteran King Moa
- Veteran Pink Moa
- Veteran White Moa
- White Moa
- Wild Moa
- Wounded Moa
- Muggo (historical)
Pets[edit]
| Pet | Family |  |
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Environment | Archetype | Unique skills |
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| Juvenile Black Moa | Moa | 1,524 | 1,524 | 1,524 | 3,585 | 400 | 0 | 1,200 | Terrestrial | Versatile | Dazing Screech |
| Juvenile Blue Moa | Moa | 1,524 | 1,524 | 1,524 | 3,585 | 400 | 0 | 1,200 | Terrestrial | Stout | Protecting Screech |
| Juvenile Pink Moa | Moa | 1,524 | 1,524 | 1,524 | 3,585 | 400 | 0 | 1,200 | Terrestrial | Versatile | Dazing Screech |
| Juvenile Red Moa | Moa | 1,524 | 1,524 | 1,524 | 3,585 | 400 | 0 | 1,200 | Terrestrial | Ferocious | Furious Screech |
| Juvenile White Moa | Moa | 1,524 | 1,524 | 1,524 | 3,585 | 400 | 0 | 1,200 | Terrestrial | Supportive | Icy Screech |
Notes[edit]
- Rangers can charm the juvenile versions of some moas as terrestrial pets.
- An asura or a sylvari ranger may choose a pet moa at the biography step during character creation.
- These flightless birds are capable of supporting the player and their party with squawks that do different things.
- A list of moa skills can be found here.
- A mesmer can use the skill Signet of Humility to turn enemies into these birds.
- Engineers can get the same effect by using Toss Elixir X.
- Moas can also sometimes be seen swimming underwater.
Trivia[edit]
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- The moa's in-game grunt is a combination of the recorded noises from a walrus, a leopard, and a raven.[1]
- The moa was a flightless bird native to present-day New Zealand, until it was hunted to extinction by the Māori people just over 600 years ago. There were 9 species, some larger than ostriches. Moas had hair-like feathers, no wings at all, long necks with small heads and beaks, and long thick legs. They ate plants.
- The moas in Guild Wars 2 bear little resemblance to the extinct moas of New Zealand. Rather, they have much in common physically with an extinct family of flightless birds from South America, the Phorusrhacidae, or "terror birds". Unlike the moas in-game, terror birds were predatory and had smaller wings. The last members of the Phorusrhacidae family went extinct about 2 million years ago.
See also[edit]
- Associated items
Mini Black Moa
Mini Blue Moa
Mini Green Moa
Mini Helmed Moa Racer
Mini Moa Chick
Mini Pink Moa
Mini Spooky Moa
Mini Yellow Moa
Mini White Moa
References[edit]
- ^ Eric Flannum Fields Your Ranger Questions, ArenaNet blog
