Moa Bird

Moa Bird
Affiliation	Ascalon wildlife
Type	Charmable animal
Level(s)	1, 3, 5, 8
Campaigns	Prophecies Eye of the North
Image(s)
Location in pre-Searing Ascalon.
Location in Ascalon.
Location in Verdant Cascades.

This article is about the charmable animal. For the collector during Farewell to Gaile, see Moa Bird (collector).

The Moa Bird is a charmable animal that is found in Ascalon. In pre-Searing Ascalon they were known as Striders.

Locations

• Core
  • The Battle Isles
    • Zaishen Menagerie Grounds (levels 5, 12, 15, and 20, depending on unlock progress)
• Prophecies
  • Ascalon (pre-Searing)
    • Lakeside County
    • Regent Valley (pre-Searing)
  • Ascalon (level 3)
    • Diessa Lowlands
    • Eastern Frontier
    • Old Ascalon
    • Pockmark Flats
    • Regent Valley
• Eye of the North
  • Tarnished Coast
    • Verdant Cascades (level 8, right outside Umbral Grotto)

Missions

• Prophecies
  • Ascalon (level 3)
    • Fort Ranik (at the start of the mission, beyond the first bridge)
    • Nolani Academy (east of the starting location)
    • The Great Northern Wall (usually spawns just beyond the group of attacking Devourers)

Quests involved in

• Prophecies
  • Ascalon (pre-Searing)
    • The Prize Moa Bird

Notes

• Evolved Moa Birds deal piercing damage, while unevolved Moa Birds deal slashing damage.
• Unlocking cost: 1 plus 100 or 1,000 Balthazar Faction (Common, Tyria)
  • Turning in a Strider from pre-Searing Ascalon unlocks the Moa.
• The Moa Birds found outside Umbral Grotto are labeled as ally (light green label color) instead of a charmable animal and do not turn hostile upon activation of Charm Animal.
• One of the Mysterious Tonic's forms.
• Black Moas and uncharmable Sickened Moas can be found in Cantha.
• White Moas can be found in the Far Shiverpeaks.

Bug.Striders can sometimes be bugged so that they do not evolve into aggressive/dire as of 2014 and stay unevolved, even when death-leveled.

Trivia

• Moa is the name of a flightless bird that, until it was hunted to extinction by the local Maori, occupied the country of New Zealand. In appearance, the moas of Guild Wars resemble the Phorusrhacids, predatory flightless birds that used to inhabit the Americas.

The Guild Wars 2 Wiki has an article on Moa.

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