Crab

This article is about the ambient creature. For the family of creatures, see Crustacean.

Crab

Race

Ambient creature

Locations

• Tyria
  
• The Mists

Image(s)

Canthan appearance.

Crabs are small ambient creatures found in the waterways throughout the world. Killing them counts towards the Shell Slayer achievements.

Locations

Ascalon

• Iron Marches
  • Lake Carnifex

Cantha

• Arborstone

• Dragon's End
  • Echovald Fringe
  • Flooded Basin
  • Harvest Complex
  • Jade Promenade
  • Outer Terrace
  • Seafarer's Enclave
  • Silent Surf
  • Southern Bluff
  • The Jade Whirl
  • Unwaking Waters
  • Western Vale

• Gyala Delve
  • Excavation Yard

• New Kaineng City
  • Grub Lane
  • Kaineng Docks
  • Naksi Bay
  • Petrified Woods
  • Sotdae Landing

• Seitung Province
  • Eastern Wilds
  • Haiju Lagoon
  • Haiju Plains
  • Monastery Bay
  • North Peninsula
  • Seitung Harbor
  • Shing Jea Monastery
  • Shinota Shore
  • Training Grounds
  • Zen Daijun

• The Echovald Wilds
  • Lake Lutgardis
  • Qinkaishi Basin

• Thousand Seas Pavilion

Castora

• Shipwreck Strand
  • Breezy Cay
  • Glimmering Arches
  • Guarded Glades
  • Hullgarden
  • Jetsam Point
  • Riddled Cove
  • Shoalstone
  • Soaring Sands
  • Twisting Hollows

Crystal Desert

• Crystal Oasis
  • Amnoon Southern Outskirts
  • Bay of Elon
  • Free City of Amnoon
  • The Sinking Ruins

• Desert Highlands
  • Brightwater Inlet
  • Transcendent Bay

• Domain of Kourna
  • Bay of Gandara
  • Corsair Landing
  • Eastern Front
  • Western Front

• Jahai Bluffs
  • Reclaimed Chantry
  • Rilohn River
  • Yatendi Village

• Sandswept Isles
  • Atholma
  • Calon Islet
  • Chukara Sea
  • Damos Isle
  • Griffonstone Buttresses
  • Invariant Enclave
  • Northern Complex Coves
  • Rata Primus
  • Reserve Generator Site
  • Sargol Sea
  • Strait of Panube
  • The Ruined Paths
  • Tyrulu Sea
  • Western Complex

Heart of Maguuma

• Tangled Depths
  • Nuhoch Lane
  • Chak Stronghold
  • Rata Novus Lane
  • Northern Confluence Tunnel

Horn of Maguuma

• Skywatch Archipelago
  • Jade Mech Habitation Zone 03

Janthir

• Janthir Syntri
  • Old Hutment Site
  • River's Maw
  • Slithering Outskirts
  • Storm's Border

Kryta

• Lion's Arch
  • Bloodcoast Ward
  • Eastern Ward
  • Farshore Ward
  • Fort Marriner
  • Inner Harbor
  • Postern Ward
  • Sanctum Harbor
  • Western Ward

• Kessex Hills
  • Viathan Lake
  • Viath Shore

• Gendarran Fields
  • Witherflank River

• Harathi Hinterlands
  • Guardian Lake
  • Nightguard Beach

• Bloodtide Coast
  • Archen Foreland
  • Sorrowful Sound
  • Vindar's Lagoon
  • Captain's Cut
  • Merchantman's Strait
  • Firth of Revanion
  • Dredgehat Isle
  • Mournful Depths
  • Mistarion Beach

• Southsun Cove
  • Dappled Shores
  • Southsun Shoals
  • Owain's Refuge

• Lake Doric
  • Eastern Divinity Reservoir
  • New Loamhurst
  • Saidra's Haven
  • Mantle's Breach

Maguuma Jungle

• Caledon Forest
  • Morgan's Spiral
  • Sandycove Beach
  • Ventry Bay
  • Dominion of Winds
  • Quetzal Bay

• Metrica Province
  • The Hinterlabs
  • Obscura Incline
  • Loch Jezt
  • Jeztar Falls
  • Fisher's Beach Bend
  • Cuatl Morass

• Brisban Wildlands
  • Toxal Bog (Summoned randomly)

• Mount Maelstrom
  • Benthic Kelp Beds
  • Judgment Rock

Ring of Fire

• Ember Bay
  • Burning Grotto
  • Infernal Cape
  • Lava Flats
  • Shipwreck Beach
  • Skritt Anchorage

Ruins of Orr

• Straits of Devastation
  • Half Circle Cove
  • Signal Peak

• Siren's Landing
  • Pilaster Rock

Shiverpeak Mountains

• Timberline Falls
  • Gentle River
  • Naui Waters
  • Fisher's Eye Bridges
  • Pythian Point
  • Serpent Stones
  • Mellaggan's Grotto

• Drizzlewood Coast
  • Legions' Alcove
  • Lighthouse Point
  • Port Cascadia
  • Wolf's Crossing

The Mists

• Blue Alpine Borderlands
  • Champion's Demesne
  • Red World Border

• Green Alpine Borderlands
  • Blue World Border
  • Hero's Lodge

• Fractals of the Mists
  • Solid Ocean Fractal

Story involvement

Personal story

• Chapter 1: Experiments Gone Wrong
  • Readings on the Rise

• Chapter 1: Following the Dream
  • Saving the Stag

• Chapter 4: Order Neophyte
  • Setting the Stage
  • Stealing Secrets
  • An Apple a Day

Living World Season 4

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

Combat abilities

Skills

• Claw - Melee auto-attack.
• Pincer Snap - Melee auto-attack used interchangeably with Claw.
• Crab Shell - The crab channels to withdraw into its shell, blocking incoming attacks and gaining  Regeneration. This effect ends after 3 seconds or once 3 attacks have been blocked.
  • Turtle Shell - The crab's shell is broken after being hit by 3 attacks. This interrupts Crab Shell.

Stolen skills

•   Throw Coral Shard
•   Throw Gunk

Related achievements

• Slayer: Shell Slayer — Kill 1000 crustaceans. (16)
• The Wizard's Tower: Tyrian Taste Testing — Discover ingredients to prepare dishes for Tyria's new demonic diplomats. (10)

Notes

• Crabs used to count towards the Indiscriminate Slayer. However, at unknown point it was changed and they no longer count.

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