Veteran Karka

Veteran Karka

Race

Karka

Level

80

Rank

Veteran

Locations

• 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 karka that lay eggs which spawn Karka Hatchlings and transfer conditions. They have two phases: Armored & Exposed. While armored, Veteran Karka can apply resolution as well as perform a rolling knockdown attack. When exposed, Veteran Karka will have another full life bar and lose the ability to apply resolution 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.

“

Mrrrpphhhh. Mmppph. Mmmmphhhhh! Mffflemffff! Mrph! Mrph!

— In-game quote

See also

Associated items

• Karka Tonic

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Karka

Veteran Karka • Champion Karka