Sylvan Hound

Sylvan Hound

Race

Plant

Level

2-80

Location

Ascalon
(Tyria)
Cantha
(Tyria)
Crystal Desert
(Elona)
Heart of Maguuma
(Tyria)
Horn of Maguuma
(Tyria)
Kryta
(Tyria)
Maguuma Jungle
(Tyria)
Ruins of Orr
(Tyria)
Shiverpeak Mountains
(Tyria)

Image(s)

Appearance when infected by spiders.

Sylvan Hounds, or sometimes called fern hounds, are plants that mimic dogs, born from the Pale Tree. Unlike the sylvari, Sylvan Hounds are born as small pups and grow to full size within a few months. They are naturally docile and favored by the sylvari as pet companions, comparable to regular dogs in human society. When mistreated by the Nightmare Court they are turned into aggressive Nightmare Hounds. There are only two known events where Sylvan Hounds themselves are hostile and attack the player - as part of the personal story mission A Sly Trick and within a group event in the Bastion of the Natural.

Locations

Ascalon

• Black Citadel
  • Iron Legion Arsenal

• Blazeridge Steppes
  • Pockmark Roughs (During related events only)
  • Relliatus Canyon (During related events only)
  • Soot Road (During related events only)

• Fireheart Rise
  • Burnt Hollow (63)
  • Icespear's Shelf (67)
    • Snow Ridge Camp (67)
  • Mangonel Cavern (66)

Cantha

• Arborstone

Crystal Desert

• Desert Highlands
  • Fortune's Vale

• Jahai Bluffs
  • Pact Vanguard
  • Sun's Refuge

Heart of Maguuma

• Verdant Brink
  • Stonetwist Paths

Horn of Maguuma

• Amnytas
  • Bastion of the Natural

Kryta

• Bloodtide Coast
  • Flooded Castavall (55)
  • Mistarion Beach (During related events only)
  • Whisperwill Bogs (53)
  • Wraithwalker Woods (During related events only)

• Dragon Response Mission: Gendarran Fields

• Gendarran Fields
  • Cornucopian Fields (30)

• Harathi Hinterlands
  • Ruins of Holy Demetra (38)

• Lion's Arch
  • Fort Marriner
  • Sanctum Harbor
  • White Crane Terrace

• Memory of Old Lion's Arch
  • Fort Marriner

• The Battle For Lion's Arch
  • Priory Foothold

• The Tower of Nightmares (80)
  • Central Chamber
  • First Level (80) (During related events only)
  • Third Level (80)

Maguuma Jungle

• Brisban Wildlands
  • Zinder Slope (16)

• Caledon Forest
  • Glencarn Sperrins
  • Mabon Market (10)
  • Ogham Wilds
  • Sleive's Inlet
  • The Verdence (3)
    • Danador's Kennel (3)
  • Trader's Green (12)
  • Village of Astorea (2)

• Dragon Response Mission: Brisban Wildlands

• Dragon Response Mission: Caledon Forest

• Mount Maelstrom
  • Criterion Canyon (64)
  • Dysphoric Rim
  • Sootberme
  • Whitland Flats

• Sparkfly Fen
  • Fort Cadence (55)
    • Battlement Shore (55)
  • Thundertroll Swamp (58-64)

• The Grove
  • Envoy's Terrace
  • Omphalos Chamber

Ruins of Orr

• Malchor's Leap
  • Theater of Delight (75)
    • Pagga's Post (75)
  • Waste Hollows (75)

• Straits of Devastation
  • Crippled Bridges
  • Fort Trinity
  • Signal Peak (71)
  • Strait of Malediction (During related events only)

• The Ruined City of Arah
  • Nave of Arah

Shiverpeak Mountains

• Dredgehaunt Cliffs
  • Dostoev Sky Peak (46)
  • Frostland Melt (48)

• Frostgorge Sound
  • Earthshake Basin (73)

• Hidden Arcana
  • Special Collections

• Lornar's Pass
  • Durmand Priory
  • Frostgate Falls (During related events only)
  • Lake of Lamentation (During related events only)
  • The Godspurs (During related events only)
  • Winterthaw Snowfield (35) (During related events only)

• Timberline Falls
  • Gyre Rapids (58)
  • Stromkarl Heights
  • Tyrant's Mount (59)

Story involvement

Personal story

• Chapter 1: Following the Dream
  • Green Huntsman path
    • The Knight's Duel
  • Shield of the Moon path
    • Holding Back the Darkness
    • A Sly Trick
    • Beneath a Cold Moon

• Chapter 3: Crystal Corruption
  • Ever Vigilant

• Chapter 4: Retribution
  • Retribution

• Chapter 6: The Battle of Claw Island
  • Order of Whispers path
    • Suspicious Activity
    • Reconnaissance

• Chapter 7: Forming the Pact
  • Let an innocent die path
    • Forging the Pact
    • Tower Down
    • The Battle of Fort Trinity

• Chapter 8: Victory or Death
  • Temple of the Forgotten God
  • Close the Eye
  • Estate of Decay
  • Durmand Priory path
    • Hunters and Prey
  • Order of Whispers path
    • Ships of the Line
  • The Source of Orr
  • Victory or Death

Living World Season 1

• Episode 5: Battle for Lion's Arch
  • Escape from Lion's Arch

Living World Season 2

• Episode 4: The Dragon's Reach: Part 2
  • The World Summit

Heart of Thorns story

• Act I
  • Prologue: Rally to Maguuma

Path of Fire story

• Act I
  • Sparking the Flame

Living World Season 4

• Episode 4: A Star to Guide Us
  • A Shattered Nation
  • Storm Tracking

Event involvement

Use repellant to protect the sylvan hounds from spiders (3)

Protect Scholar Penta while she examines the scriptures (30)

Defend the excavators from dredge (35)

[Group Event] Defeat the Inquest to prevent them from capturing the Ley-Energy Coalescence (42, 45, 50)

Escort Scholar Riagan to the ritual location (53)

[Group Event] Kill the Orrian Terror (54)

Lead Priory explorers safely out of Flooded Castavall (55)

Defend Pact forces until all reinforcements have arrived (73)

Destroy the Risen bone ships blocking passage to Brassclaw Landing (73)

Protect the Pact as they defend Brassclaw Landing from the Risen (74)

[Group Event] Help Narcisse purge corruption from the plants! (80)

[Group Event] Use siege equipment to destroy the toxic offshoot (80)

Combat abilities

Regular version

Abilities

• Bites

Sylvari racial version

Abilities

• Poisons and Bleeds
• Immune to Conditions

Skills

• Bite - Deals 800-950 damage, causes Poisoned for 2 seconds and 1 stack of Bleeding for 4 seconds.

Dragon Response Mission version

Abilities

• Bites

Skills

• Bite - Deals 800-950 damage, causes Poisoned for 2 seconds and 1 stack of Bleeding for 4 seconds.
• Leap - Leap onto foe, knocking them down.
•   Release the Hound - Unleashes a debilitating howl upon leaping at the target.

Notes

• Sylvari players have the ability to summon one to fight at their side for a time with the   Summon Sylvan Hound elite skill.
• There are multiple ways to have your character transformed into a Sylvan Hound:
  • Member of the Kennel is available early on after helping Danador manage his kennel. A separate skill set is available and due to a bug the transformation has no fixed duration.
  • Plant Dog Transformation transform the player for 10 minutes upon consumption. However, no skills can be used while being transformed.
  • Using a Box o' Fun has a chance to transform the character into fern hound. As such, he can then participate in a Costume Brawl with other players.

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Sylvan Hound

Sylvan Pup • Sylvan Hound