Ridgeback Skale

Ridgeback Skale

Race

Skale

Level

4-80

Location

Tyria
(Tyria)
The Mists

Ridgeback Skales are skale commonly found in or near bodies of water throughout Tyria.

Locations

Ascalon

• Plains of Ashford
  • Windrock Maze (14)

Crystal Desert

• Elon Riverlands (80)
  • Elon Flow
  • Shallows of Despair
  • Shoals of Sovereignty
  • Vulture Drifts

• The Desolation (80)
  • The Bonestrand
  • The Spillway

Kryta

• Queensdale
  • Scaver Plateau (8)
  • Clayent Falls (9)

• Kessex Hills
  • Eukaryan Caves (22)
  • Viathan Lake (22)

• Gendarran Fields
  • Cornucopian Fields (30)
  • Lake Gendarr (31-32)

• Harathi Hinterlands
  • Shieldbluff Point (33)
  • Trebuchet Bend (37-39)
  • Arca Lake (40)

• Bloodtide Coast
  • Portage Hills (45)
  • Archen Foreland (46)
  • Captain's Cut (47)
  • Grand Barrier Isle (53)
  • Jelako Cliffrise (54)
  • Mournful Depths (54)

• Southsun Cove (80)
  • Southsun Shoals
  • Southsun Strait
  • Captain's Retreat

Maguuma Jungle

• Metrica Province
  • Jeztar Falls (4)

• Caledon Forest
  • Sleive's Inlet (4)
  • Sandycove Beach (7)
  • Ventry Bay (8-10)
  • Quetzal Bay (12)
  • Treemarch Estuary (14)

• Brisban Wildlands
  • Skrittsburgh Tunnels (17)
  • Duskstruck Moors (24)
    • Ulta Metamagicals (Summoned by erroneous asura gates)

• Sparkfly Fen
  • Orvanic Shore (55-56)
  • Orvar's Glen (56)
  • Astrozintli Forelands (57)
  • Thundertroll Swamp (62-63)

• Mount Maelstrom
  • Broken Arrow River (61-65)

Shiverpeak Mountains

• Timberline Falls
  • Scale Strand (60)
  • Mellaggan's Grotto (60)
  • Nonmoa Lake (60)

The Mists

• Eternal Battlegrounds
  • Red World Hill

• Red Desert Borderlands
  • Higgins's Ascent
  • Osprey's Palace

Historical location

• Labyrinthine Cliffs
  • Bazaar Docks (15)

Story involvement

Personal story

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

• Chapter 1: Following the Dream
  • White Stag path
    • Saving the Stag

• Chapter 2: The Teachings of Ventari
  • Act With Wisdom path
    • After the Storm
  • Where Life Goes path
    • Source of the Issue

• Chapter 5: Helping Hands
  • Hylek path
    • Champion's Sacrifice
    • Chosen of the Sun

Heart involvement

Help Harvester Mavad manage the kelp harvest (7)

Help Matlal collect truffles for her starving tribe (22)

Teach quaggans how to raise crabs (46)

Fight the Mysterious Quaggan Affliction (53)

Secure the area around Dryground Village (62)

Combat abilities

Abilities

• Regenerates Health

Behavior

• Skale passively gain  Regeneration for 9 seconds the first time one of the following occurs: they spawn, they attack a foe while damaged, or they've been in combat for at least 10 seconds. This boon is automatically reapplied every 9 seconds while the skale remains in combat.

Skills

Terrestrial

• Slash - Melee auto-attack.
• Jab - Melee attack that deals additional damage.
• Devour - The skale leaps to its target, dealing damage and inflicting  Knockdown for 4 second on arrival. It then channels for 1 second, striking out at foes in a frontal area of effect every half second. Each time this skill damages a foe, the duration of the skale's innate  Regeneration boon is increased by 5 seconds. 2 second cast time.

Aquatic

• Slash - Melee auto-attack.
• Smack - Melee attack that inflicts a short  Knockback.

Stolen skills

•   Bone Crack
•   Throw Scale
•   Throw Gunk
•   Tooth Stab

Drops

Name	Type	Rarity	Quantity	Creature level
Egg	Crafting material	BBasic	1	4-80
Vial of Weak Blood	Crafting material	CFine	1	4
Vial of Thin Blood	Crafting material	CFine	1	22, 33
Vial of Blood	Crafting material	CFine	1	33-34, 46
Vial of Potent Blood	Crafting material	CFine	1	63
Vial of Thick Blood	Crafting material	CFine	1	46, 63
Tattered Hide	Salvage item	BBasic	1	4
Torn Hide	Trophy, Salvage item	BBasic	1	4-80
Ripped Hide	Trophy, Salvage item	BBasic	1	22, 33
Frayed Hide	Trophy, Salvage item	BBasic	1	56
Fin	Trophy	AJunk	1-2	4
Dorsal Fin	Trophy	AJunk	1-2	32-56
Tail Fin	Trophy	AJunk	1	61
Tasty Skale Fin (only drops if the Skyscale Treats collection is active)	Trophy	ERare	1	46

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Ridgeback Skale

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