Veteran Karka

Veteran Karka

Race

Karka

Level

80

Rank

Veteran

Location

Southsun Cove
(Kryta)
Ember Bay
(Heart of Maguuma)
Sandswept Isles
(Crystal Desert)

Image(s)

Appearance at 75% health. Appearance at 50% health. Appearance at 25% health. Appearance without  Armored.

Veteran Karka are large karkas that lay eggs which spawn Karka Hatchlings and transfers conditions. It also has two phases: Armored & Exposed. While armored the Veteran Karka can apply retaliation as well as perform a rolling knockdown attack. When exposed, the Veteran Karka will have another full life bar and loses the ability to apply retaliation and roll, but will attack slightly faster.

Locations

Crystal Desert

• Sandswept Isles
  • Northern Complex Coves

Kryta

• Southsun Cove
  • Bakestone Cavern
  • Captain's Retreat
  • Driftglass Springs
  • Scoured Plains
  • Southsun Shoals

Ring of Fire

• Ember Bay
  • Ashen Skerries

Combat abilities

Behavior

• Karka have two health bars; the first acts as their shell's "durability", while the second is their actual health. Each time the shell loses 25% of its total durability, the karka will evade for 2 seconds and gain  Aegis,  Resolution or  Regeneration for 30 seconds.
• Once the shell's durability has been depleted, it will break, replacing  Armored with  Broken Armor, exposing the karka's health, which will be 50% of the armor.

Effects

•  Armored — Incoming damage decreased.
•  Broken Armor

Egg variant

Abilities

• Lays Eggs
• Immobilizes

Skills

• Lay Eggs -
• Spit -
• Stomp -

Roller variant

Abilities

• Immobilizes
• Poisons
• Transfers Conditions

Skills

• Rolling Charge -
• Spit -
• Throw Goo -

Drops

Name	Type	Rarity	Quantity
Chunk of Crabmeat	Trophy	AJunk	1
Spiral Shell	Trophy	AJunk	1-2
Karka Shell	Crafting material	ERare	1-2
Vial of Potent Blood	Crafting material	CFine	1
Vial of Powerful Blood	Crafting material	ERare	1

Notes

Anomaly:

Downed players may rally from the removal of a Karka's armor (i.e., depletion of its first health bar), but may not rally from its death.

• Guild Bounty target Ander "Wildman" Westward can be found inside a Veteran Karka in Southsun, identifiable by the muffled noises and speech bubbles it makes.

See also

Associated items

• Karka Tonic

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Karka

Veteran Karka • Champion Karka