Giant Spotted Beetle

Giant Spotted Beetle

Race

Insect

Level

80

Locations

• Tranquil Glen
  (Starlit Weald)
  
• Maguuma Wastes
  (Tyria)
  
• Heart of Maguuma
  (Tyria)
  
• Draconis Mons
  (Ring of Fire)
  
• The Mists

Image(s)

Castoran version

Giant Spotted Beetles are a type of insect found in the Maguuma regions. They are able to spit poison from their rears.

Locations

Castora

• Eternity's Garden
  • The Deepwood
  • The Mothmarsh
  • Venomgrove Observatory

• Starlit Weald
  • Crumbling Precipice
  • Shimmering Basin
  • Skyshroud Canopy
  • Tranquil Glen

Crystal Desert

• Elon Riverlands
  • Arid Gladefields
  • Elon Riverbank
  • Shoals of Sovereignty
  • Vulture Drifts

Heart of Maguuma

• Verdant Brink
  • Heartless Pass
  • Jaka Itzel (only during related events)
  • Wyvern Cliffs
  • Shrouded Ruins
  • Stonetwist Paths
  • Broken Bluffs

• Tangled Depths
  • The Great Tree

• Dragon's Stand
  • Northern Barbed Gate

• Bloodstone Fen
  • Haunted Canyons

Maguuma Wastes

• The Silverwastes
  • Far Silverwastes

Ring of Fire

• Draconis Mons
  • Blistering Abyss
  • Heathen's Hold
  • Scalding Gorge

The Mists

• Red Desert Borderlands
  • Zak's Overlook

Story involvement

Heart of Thorns story

• Act I
  • The Jungle Provides

Event involvement

Help Itzel Hunters defeat creatures. Keep Itzel Hunters alive (80)

Combat abilities

Abilities

• Sprays Gunk

Skills

• Bite - Melee auto-attack that cleaves. 150 range.
• Lunge - The beetle lunges forward to  knock down enemies for 1 second, creating a pool of gunk in front of the beetle that pulses 1.1 seconds of  Immobile every second for 5 seconds. This skill always chains into Poison Spray, even when interrupted. 15 second recharge. 130 radius. 150 range. The pool of gunk is unblockable and cannot be evaded.
• Poison Spray - The beetle turns around and sprays  Poisoned, repeatedly inflicting damage and 3 stacks of  Vulnerability for 8 seconds on enemies in a frontal area of effect. This attack hits up to 8 times. 1.5 second cast time. 400 range.

Stolen skills

•   Throw Scale
•   Tooth Stab
•   Throw Gunk

Drops

Name	Type	Rarity	Quantity
Potent Venom Sac	Crafting material	CFine	1
Powerful Venom Sac	Crafting material	ERare	1
Glob of Globby Gloop	Trophy	AJunk	1-2

Trivia

• They may be based off of the bombardier beetles, which spray caustic acid from glands near their rear as a defensive mechanism

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