Crab

This article is about the ambient creature. For the family of creatures, see Crustacean.

Crab

Race

Ambient creature

Location

Tyria
The Mists

Image(s)

Canthan appearance.

Crabs are small ambient creatures found in the waterways throughout the world. Killing them counts towards the Shell Slayer achievements.

Locations

Ascalon

• Iron Marches
  • Lake Carnifex

Cantha

• Arborstone

• Dragon's End
  • Echovald Fringe
  • Flooded Basin
  • Harvest Complex
  • Jade Promenade
  • Outer Terrace
  • Seafarer's Enclave
  • Silent Surf
  • Southern Bluff
  • The Jade Whirl
  • Unwaking Waters
  • Western Vale

• Gyala Delve
  • Excavation Yard

• New Kaineng City
  • Grub Lane
  • Kaineng Docks
  • Naksi Bay
  • Petrified Woods
  • Sotdae Landing

• Seitung Province
  • Eastern Wilds
  • Haiju Lagoon
  • Haiju Plains
  • Monastery Bay
  • North Peninsula
  • Seitung Harbor
  • Shing Jea Monastery
  • Shinota Shore
  • Training Grounds
  • Zen Daijun

• The Echovald Wilds
  • Lake Lutgardis
  • Qinkaishi Basin

• Thousand Seas Pavilion

Crystal Desert

• Crystal Oasis
  • Amnoon Southern Outskirts
  • Bay of Elon
  • Free City of Amnoon
  • The Sinking Ruins

• Desert Highlands
  • Brightwater Inlet
  • Transcendent Bay

• Domain of Kourna
  • Bay of Gandara
  • Corsair Landing
  • Eastern Front
  • Western Front

• Jahai Bluffs
  • Reclaimed Chantry
  • Rilohn River
  • Yatendi Village

• Sandswept Isles
  • Atholma
  • Calon Islet
  • Chukara Sea
  • Damos Isle
  • Griffonstone Buttresses
  • Invariant Enclave
  • Northern Complex Coves
  • Rata Primus
  • Reserve Generator Site
  • Sargol Sea
  • Strait of Panube
  • The Ruined Paths
  • Tyrulu Sea
  • Western Complex

Heart of Maguuma

• Tangled Depths
  • Nuhoch Lane
  • Chak Stronghold
  • Rata Novus Lane
  • Northern Confluence Tunnel

Horn of Maguuma

• Skywatch Archipelago
  • Jade Mech Habitation Zone 03

Janthir

• Janthir Syntri
  • Old Hutment Site
  • River's Maw
  • Slithering Outskirts
  • Storm's Border

Kryta

• Lion's Arch
  • Bloodcoast Ward
  • Eastern Ward
  • Farshore Ward
  • Fort Marriner
  • Inner Harbor
  • Postern Ward
  • Sanctum Harbor
  • Western Ward

• Kessex Hills
  • Viathan Lake
  • Viath Shore

• Gendarran Fields
  • Witherflank River

• Harathi Hinterlands
  • Guardian Lake
  • Nightguard Beach

• Bloodtide Coast
  • Archen Foreland
  • Sorrowful Sound
  • Vindar's Lagoon
  • Captain's Cut
  • Merchantman's Strait
  • Firth of Revanion
  • Dredgehat Isle
  • Mournful Depths
  • Mistarion Beach

• Southsun Cove
  • Dappled Shores
  • Southsun Shoals
  • Owain's Refuge

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

Maguuma Jungle

• Caledon Forest
  • Morgan's Spiral
  • Sandycove Beach
  • Ventry Bay
  • Dominion of Winds
  • Quetzal Bay

• Metrica Province
  • The Hinterlabs
  • Obscura Incline
  • Loch Jezt
  • Jeztar Falls
  • Fisher's Beach Bend
  • Cuatl Morass

• Brisban Wildlands
  • Toxal Bog (Summoned randomly)

• Mount Maelstrom
  • Benthic Kelp Beds
  • Judgment Rock

Ring of Fire

• Ember Bay
  • Burning Grotto
  • Infernal Cape
  • Lava Flats
  • Shipwreck Beach
  • Skritt Anchorage

Ruins of Orr

• Straits of Devastation
  • Half Circle Cove
  • Signal Peak

• Siren's Landing
  • Pilaster Rock

Shiverpeak Mountains

• Timberline Falls
  • Gentle River
  • Naui Waters
  • Fisher's Eye Bridges
  • Pythian Point
  • Serpent Stones
  • Mellaggan's Grotto

• Drizzlewood Coast
  • Legions' Alcove
  • Lighthouse Point
  • Port Cascadia
  • Wolf's Crossing

The Mists

• Blue Alpine Borderlands
  • Champion's Demesne
  • Red World Border

• Green Alpine Borderlands
  • Blue World Border
  • Hero's Lodge

• Fractals of the Mists
  • Solid Ocean Fractal

Story involvement

Personal story

• Chapter 1: Experiments Gone Wrong
  • Readings on the Rise

• Chapter 1: Following the Dream
  • Saving the Stag

• Chapter 4: Order Neophyte
  • Setting the Stage
  • Stealing Secrets
  • An Apple a Day

Living World Season 4

• Episode 4: A Star to Guide Us
  • A Shattered Nation

Combat abilities

Skills

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

Stolen skills

•   Throw Coral Shard
•   Throw Gunk

Related achievements

• Slayer: Shell Slayer — Kill 1000 crustaceans. (16)

Notes

• Crabs used to count towards the Indiscriminate Slayer. However, at unknown point it was changed and they no longer count.

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