Hermit Crab

Hermit Crab

Race

Crustacean

Level

1-80

Location

Cantha
(Tyria)
Tyria
(Tyria)
The Mists

Image(s)

Canthan Hermit Crabs.

Hermit Crabs are crustaceans found throughout the waterways of Tyria.

Locations

Ascalon

• Diessa Plateau
  • Blackblade Lake (20)
  • Breachwater Lake (23)

• Fireheart Rise
  • Fuller Cistern (60-61)
  • Pig Iron Mine (61)

Cantha

• Dragon's End (80)
  • Harvest Complex
  • Jade Promenade
  • Seafarer's Enclave
  • Silent Surf
  • Unwaking Waters

• New Kaineng City (80)
  • Kaineng Docks
  • Naksi Bay
  • Sotdae Landing

• Seitung Province (80)
  • Eastern Wilds
  • Haiju Lagoon
  • Haiju Plains
  • Monastery Bay
  • Seitung Harbor
  • Shing Jea Monastery
  • Shinota Shore
  • Training Grounds
  • Zen Daijun

• The Echovald Wilds
  • Qinkaishi Basin (80)

• Thousand Seas Pavilion

Crystal Desert

• Crystal Oasis (80)
  • Amnoon Southern Outskirts
  • Bay of Elon
  • The Sinking Ruins

• Desert Highlands (80)
  • Brightwater Inlet
  • Transcendent Bay

• Domain of Kourna (80)
  • Bay of Gandara
  • Corsair Landing
  • Eastern Front
  • Front Line
  • Western Front

• Sandswept Isles (80)
  • Atholma
  • Chukara Sea
  • Damos Isle
  • Eastern Complex
  • Griffonstone Buttresses
  • Northern Complex Coves
  • Reserve Generator Site
  • Sargol Sea
  • Strait of Panube
  • Tyrulu Sea

Kryta

• Lion's Arch
  • Bloodcoast Ward
  • Inner Harbor

• Kessex Hills
  • Viathan Lake (20-23)

• Bloodtide Coast
  • Archen Foreland (45)
  • Captain's Cut (47)
  • Merchantman's Strait (49)
  • Laughing Gull Island (50)
  • Sanguine Bay (52)
  • Grand Barrier Isle (53)
  • Dredgehat Isle (53)
  • Mournful Depths (54)

• Southsun Cove (80)
  • Pearl Islet
  • Sawtooth Bay

• Lake Doric (80)
  • Eastern Divinity Reservoir
  • New Loamhurst
  • Saidra's Haven
  • Mantle's Breach

Maguuma Jungle

• Caledon Forest
  • Morgan's Spiral (5)
  • Sandycove Beach (7)
  • Ventry Bay (8-9)
  • Treemarch Estuary (14)

• Metrica Province
  • Fisher's Beach Bend (8-9)
  • Thaumanova Reactor (15)

• Sparkfly Fen
  • Fort Cadence (55)
  • Astrozintli Forelands (56)
  • Ocean's Gullet (56-57)
  • Orvanic Shore (57)
  • Leeshore Gauntlet (58-60)

• Mount Maelstrom
  • Treacherous Depths (66)
  • The Mire Sea (67)
  • The Stychs (68)
  • Sunken Droknah (68)
  • Benthic Kelp Beds (68)
  • Judgment Rock (69)

• Labyrinthine Cliffs (During Festival of the Four Winds only)
  • Bazaar Docks (80)

Ring of Fire

• Ember Bay (80)
  • Ashen Skerries
  • Infernal Cape
  • Shipwreck Beach
  • Skritt Anchorage
  • Smoldering Inlet
  • Sulfurous Deep

Shiverpeak Mountains

• Timberline Falls
  • Naui Waters (56) (Hero Challenge)
  • Pythian Point (59)

The Mists

• Eternal Battlegrounds
  • Anzalias Pass
  • Mendon's Gap

Story involvement

Personal story

• Chapter 1: Experiments Gone Wrong
  • Snaff Would Be Proud

• Chapter 3: Traitor to the Queen
  • The Sad Tale of the "Ravenous"

• Chapter 5: Helping Hands
  • Champion's Sacrifice

• Chapter 7: Forming the Pact
  • Striking Off the Chains
  • Wet Work

Heart involvement

Help Harvester Mavad manage the kelp harvest (7)

Help the Soundless deal with the Nightmare Court (8)

Help Doolsileep protect Moogooloo Village (23)

Event involvement

Fight Cooroo's Crab (56)

Combat abilities

Regular

Abilities

• Moves Evasively
• Blocks
• Regenerates Health

Skills

• Claw - Melee auto-attack.
• Pincer Snap - Melee auto-attack used interchangeably with Claw.
• Block - 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 Block.

Stolen skills

•   Throw Coral Shard
•   Throw Gunk

Hero Challenge

Abilities

• Evades Attacks
• Blocks
• Gains Might

Skills

• Pincer Snap - Melee auto-attack used interchangeably with Claw.
• Claw - Melee auto-attack.

Stolen skills

•   Throw Coral Shard
•   Throw Gunk

Drops

Name	Type	Rarity	Quantity	Creature level
Shell	Trophy	AJunk	1-2	21-54
Chunk of Crabmeat	Trophy	AJunk	1-2	8-9, 20-24, 54, 61
Spiral Shell	Trophy	AJunk	1-2	1-80
Crabmeat (only drops in Viathan Lake)	Trophy	BBasic	1-2	20-24
Seashell	Trophy	AJunk	1-2	4-24

See also

Associated items

• Mini Hermit Crab

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Hermit Crab

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