Shadow Skelk

Shadow Skelk

Race

Skelk

Level

7-80

Location

Tyria
(Tyria)

Shadow Skelk are a type of skelk that can be found throughout underground areas of Tyria.

Locations

Ascalon

• Plains of Ashford
  • The Toppled Wall (10)
  • Phasmatis Corridor (10)
  • Loreclaw Expanse (12)
    • Loreclaw Expanse (jumping puzzle)
  • Windrock Maze (14)
  • Cadem Forest (15)

• Iron Marches
  • Bloodfin Lake (51)
  • Sunken Halls of Clarent (51-52)
  • Lamprey Grottoes (56)

Cantha

• Gyala Delve (80)
  • Jade Pools
  • The Deep

• The Echovald Wilds
  • Zu Heltzer Historical Site (80) (only during related events)

Crystal Desert

• Mythwright Gambit
  • Mythwright Cauldron (80)

Heart of Maguuma

• Tangled Depths (80)
  • Teku Nuhoch
    • Subterranean Lake
  • Decayed Hive

Kryta

• Queensdale
  • Demongrub Pits (16)

• Harathi Hinterlands
  • Ruins of Holy Demetra (37)

Maguuma Jungle

• Brisban Wildlands
  • Skrittsburgh Tunnels (17)

• Mount Maelstrom
  • Mon Maelstrom (65)

Shiverpeak Mountains

• Wayfarer Foothills
  • Shaman's Rookery (7)

• Snowden Drifts
  • Angvar's Trove (25)

• Dredgehaunt Cliffs
  • Forsaken Halls (43)

• Timberline Falls
  • Ural's Delve (57)

Story involvement

Personal story

• Chapter 2: Sins of the Father
  • Loyal Soldier path
    • An Unusual Inheritance

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

Heart involvement

Help the skritt experimenting in Skrittsburgh Tunnels (17)

Event involvement

Help the archaeologists extract relics from their magical wards (80)

[Group Event] Slay the Great Skelk Regurgitant (80)

Use bombs to shatter amber deposits and recover the chunks (80)

Combat abilities

Abilities

• Cloaked in Darkness ¹

Effects

•  Cloaked in Darkness ¹

Skills

• Slash - Basic melee attack
• Slice - Basic melee attack
• Jab - Lunges forward and bites for high damage
• Vanish - gains  Stealth and teleports behind the target
  •   Ambush - Stealth Attack. Attack your foe from the shadows, striking for double damage if you hit from behind or they are defiant.

Stolen skills

•   Throw Scale
•   Tooth Stab

¹Only in the Forsaken Halls and Qadim's Menagerie in Mythwright Gambit

Drops

Name	Type	Rarity	Quantity	Creature level
Vial of Weak Blood	Crafting material	CFine	1	7-80
Vial of Thin Blood	Crafting material	CFine	1	7-80
Vial of Blood	Crafting material	CFine	1	37
Vial of Thick Blood	Crafting material	CFine	1	7-80
Small Claw	Crafting material	CFine	1	7-80
Claw	Crafting material	CFine	1	37
Tiny Fang	Crafting material	CFine	1	7-80
Fang	Crafting material	CFine	1	37
Sharp Fang	Crafting material	CFine	1	51
Torn Hide	Trophy, Salvage item	BBasic	1	7-80
Tattered Hide	Salvage item	BBasic	1	7-80
Frayed Hide	Trophy, Salvage item	BBasic	1	57
Broken Claw	Trophy	AJunk	1	7
Dull Claw	Trophy	AJunk	1	7-80
Amber Chunk (only drops if the Use bombs to shatter amber deposits and recover the chunks event is active) (only drops in Zu Heltzer Historical Site)	Trophy	BBasic	1	80

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Shadow Skelk

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