Dredge Excavator

This article is about the generic NPC. For the ghost found only in Thunderhead Peaks, see Dredge Excavator (ghost).

Dredge Excavator

Race

Dredge

Level

4-80

Location

Tyria
(Tyria)
The Mists

Image(s)

Head cover variant Tunneler variant

Dredge Excavators are a type of dredge. If other nearby dredge are slain, they will take up their arms of and use them in place of their pick.

Locations

Ascalon

• Diessa Plateau
  • Burrows of Moledavia (16-17)

Kryta

• Gendarran Fields
  • Shiverspur Front (27)
    • Molenheide

Shiverpeak Mountains

• Wayfarer Foothills
  • Molensk (4)
  • Borealis Forest (5) (During related events only)
    • Heart of the Snow Leopard
  • Doldenvan Passage (6)
  • Moleberia (11)

• Snowden Drifts
  • Trapper's Labyrinth (16)
  • Valslake (21)
    • Moldary Point
  • Molengrad (24)

• Lornar's Pass
  • Underburg (26)
  • Frostgate Falls (30-31)
  • Molent Summit (32)
  • Lake of Lamentation (33)
    • Molevon Portage
  • Winterthaw Snowfield (35)
    • The Molitage Digs

• Dredgehaunt Cliffs
  • Dostoev Sky Peak (46)
  • The Grey Road (48)
    • Fridgardr Lodge
  • Black Earth Coalmine (48)
  • Dociu Excavation (48)
  • Kapellenburg (49)
  • Frostland Melt (49)
    • Firebase Molek
  • Heimdahl's Last Stand (49)
  • De Molish Post (49)
  • Tribulation Rift (50)

• Timberline Falls
  • Molodets Excavation (51)
  • Stromkarl Heights (56) (During related events only)

• Sorrow's Embrace (explorable)
  • Citizen's Co-operative

• Frostgorge Sound
  • Groznev Delve (74)
  • Bore Lynch (75)
  • Stonesledge Draft (75-76)
  • Shattered Ice Floe (77)
  • Frostwalk Tundra (77) (During related events only)
    • Slough of Despond

• Thunderhead Peaks
  • Dredgeways (80)
    • Refiner's Joy

The Mists

• Eternal Battlegrounds
  • Molevekian Delve

• Fractals of the Mists
  • Underground Facility Fractal

Story involvement

Personal story

• Chapter 1: Forging a Legend
  • Guard the Mists path
    • Raven's Revered

• Chapter 2: Everyone Makes Mistakes
  • Blacked Out path
    • Roadblock
    • Assault on Moledavia
  • Lost an Heirloom path
    • Among the Kodan

• Chapter 3: Death from Below
  • Underground Scholar
  • Armaments
  • The Dredge Hideout
  • Dredge Assault
  • Code Breaker
  • Silent Warfare
  • Sever the Head
  • Assault the Hill

• Chapter 4: Order Neophyte
  • Durmand Priory path
    • Dredging up the Past

• Chaper 6: The Battle of Claw Island
  • Durmand Priory path
    • The Sound of Psi-Lance

Heart involvement

Honor the Spirit of Snow Leopard (5)

Help the miners in their search for ore by fighting the dredge (10)

Assist the Iron Legion (16)

Assist the Quarry Workers (17)

Impress the Mennerheim steadholders (22)

Disrupt the dredge in Molengrad (23)

Help Lionguard Rhyn drive the dredge away from Junction Haven (27)

Help the Priory stop the dredge encroachment (30)

Help Agent Kaukiri trick the dredge into fighting steam creatures (31)

Help Explorer Leandra find relics in Molitage Digs (35)

Help the Priory thwart dredge excavation in Dostoev Sky Peak (46)

Help Magister Roslin infiltrate Black Earth Mine (48)

Help Explorer Brokkar sabotage dredge munitions (49)

Help Magister Kathryn wound dredge forces (50)

Disrupt dredge mining operations for Order of Whispers operatives (51)

Help Infinite Mind rally the forces of Blue Ice Station (74)

Assist Rebel Isaak in sowing the seeds of dredge revolution (75)

Event involvement

Gain snow leopard's form from Shaman Sigarr, then hunt down the dredge (5)

Defend the alliance watchtower from enemy threats (56)

Break the dredge siege at Slough of Despond (77)

Destroy the dredge mining camp (77)

Stop the dredge divers from constructing mortars at Slough of Despond (77)

Combat abilities

Abilities

• Causes Bleeding and Vulnerability
• Immune to Blind (Not in Underground Facility Fractal)
• Tunnels
• Picks up Weapons

Skills

• Helmet Splitter - Deals damage and inflicts one stack of  Vulnerability. (this skill is also used when they are non-hostile and mining, and will hit players who stand in front of them on the first pickaxe swing)
• Tunnel - Evades attacks while burrowing towards target. Damages target at end of burrow if nearby.
• Slash - Standard attack.

Stolen skills

•   Mace Head Crack
•   Rusty Scrap Strike
•   Throw Gunk
•   Tooth Stab

Drops

Name	Type	Rarity	Quantity	Creature level
Small Miner's Bag	Container	BBasic	1	4-80
Light Miner's Bag	Container	BBasic	1	26-35
Miner's Bag	Container	BBasic	1	36
Miner's Sack	Container	BBasic	1	48-52
Heavy Miner's Bag	Container	BBasic	1	4-80
Broken Claw	Trophy	AJunk	1	4-80
Jagged Metal Scrap	Trophy, Salvage item	BBasic	1	35
Metal Scrap	Trophy, Salvage item	BBasic	1	52
Dull Claw	Trophy	AJunk	1-2	26-51

See also

Associated items

• Mini Dredge Excavator
• Mini Comrade Molechev

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