Breeze Rider

Breeze Rider

Race

Wind Rider

Level

6-80

Location

Tyria
(Tyria)

Image(s)

Alternate version

Breeze Riders are floating, alien-like creatures found throughout Tyria that generally prefer inhabiting elevated, open areas. They're encountered in several different variations and can also be summoned by their veteran counterparts, Veteran Wind Riders.

Locations

Ascalon

• Fields of Ruin
  • Highden Caves (34-35)
  • Belag Crossroads (35-36)

• Blazeridge Steppes
  • Unbroken Expanse (42)
  • Pockmark Roughs (42-44)

• Fireheart Rise
  • Buloh Crossing (62)
  • Havoc Steppes (62-63)
  • Switchback Canyons (63-65)
  • Keeper's Sanctum (66)

Crystal Desert

• Crystal Oasis (80)
  • Omiramba Sand Sea

• Elon Riverlands (80)
  • Elon Riverbank
  • Shallows of Despair
  • Skyward Reach

• Sandswept Isles
  • Damos Isle (80)

• The Desolation
  • Helcoid Seeps (80)
  • Poisoned Outcrops (80)

Heart of Maguuma

• Auric Basin
  • Maguuma Shallows (80)
    • Font of Maguuma

Maguuma Jungle

• Caledon Forest
  • Ogham Wilds (6)

• Metrica Province
  • The Hinterlabs (2) (During related events only)
  • Thaumanova Reactor (16)

• Brisban Wildlands
  • Gnashar's Hills (21)
  • Lionshead Outcrops (22)
  • The Gallowfields (23)
  • Highwayman's Vale (23)
  • Gotala Cascade (23)

• Mount Maelstrom
  • Bard's Valley (61)
  • Govoran Terraces (62-63)
  • Broken Arrow River (63)
  • Criterion Canyon (63-64)
  • Mon Maelstrom (65)
  • Avernan Volatile (65-66)
  • Gauntlet Gulch (66-67)

Maguuma Wastes

• Dry Top
  • Prospect Valley (80)

Ring of Fire

• Draconis Mons
  • Wind Rider Ledge

Shiverpeak Mountains

• Timberline Falls
  • Gentle River (54)

Story involvement

Personal story

• Chapter 3: Justice for Riannoc
  • The Blossom of Youth

• Chapter 6: The Battle of Claw Island
  • Order of Whispers path
    • Suspicious Activity

• Chapter 7: Forming the Pact
  • Dishonor my allies path
    • Shell Shock

Heart involvement

Help the skritt challenge the bandits (23)

Event involvement

Defend the etheropods and defeat breeze riders for Bluz (2)

Combat abilities

Type 1

Abilities

• Bleeds
• Swiftness

Skills

• Tentacle Slash - Melee auto-attack that inflicts  Bleeding for 2 seconds.
• Gracefully swirls upward, granting  Swiftness to allies for 10 seconds. 1 second cast time.

Stolen skills

•   Blinding Tuft
•   Bone Crack
•   Tooth Stab

Type 2

Abilities

• Steals Boons
• Quickness

Skills

• Tentacle Slash - Melee auto-attack that steals 1 boon.
• Gracefully swirls upward, gaining  Quickness. 1 second cast time.

Stolen skills

•   Blinding Tuft
•   Bone Crack
•   Throw Gunk
•   Tooth Stab

Type 3

Abilities

• Immobilizing Attack

Skills

Stolen skills

•   Blinding Tuft
•   Bone Crack
•   Tooth Stab

Drops

Name	Type	Rarity	Quantity	Creature level
Potent Venom Sac	Crafting material	CFine	1	62
Full Venom Sac	Crafting material	CFine	1	62
Small Venom Sac	Crafting material	CFine	1	16,34-35
Tiny Venom Sac	Crafting material	CFine	1	6-80
Glob of Globby Goo	Trophy	AJunk	1-2	6-80
Glob of Globby Goop	Trophy	AJunk	1	34-35
Breeze Rider Essence (only drops if the Gather wind rider essences for Rixt's experiments event is active) (only drops in Avernan Volatile)	Trophy	BBasic	1	65-66
Breeze Rider Tentacle (only drops if the Kraitkin I: The Experimental Trident collection is active)	Trophy	FExotic	1	6-80

Notes

Anomaly:

Breeze Riders summoned by Veteran Wind Riders drop loot, unlike most summoned creatures.

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Wind Rider

Breeze Rider • Wind Rider (NPC) • Veteran Wind Rider • Champion Wind Rider