Moa Bird

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

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 around Ascalon (after the Searing).

Contents 1 Locations 2 Missions 3 Quests involved in 4 Notes 5 Trivia

[edit] Locations

• Ascalon
  • Diessa Lowlands
  • Eastern Frontier
  • Old Ascalon
  • Pockmark Flats
  • Regent Valley
• Tarnished Coast
  • Verdant Cascades (level 8, right outside Umbral Grotto)
• The Battle Isles
  • Zaishen Menagerie Grounds (levels 5, 12, 15, and 20, depending on unlock progress)

[edit] Missions

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

[edit] Quests involved in

• Pre-searing Ascalon
  • The Prize Moa Bird

[edit] Notes

• Moa Birds can also be found in Pre-Searing Ascalon, but are referred to as Strider then.
• In Factions, in the Shing Jea Island in Minister Cho's Estate there are some Sickened Moas.
• Black Moas can be found in Cantha.
• White Moas can be found in the Far Shiverpeaks.
• One of the Mysterious Tonic's forms.
• 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)
• 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.

[edit] 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.

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Charmable animals
Core	Black Widow Moss Spider Wolf
Prophecies	Black Bear Dune Lizard Lynx Melandru's Stalker Moa Bird Snow Wolf Strider Warthog
Factions	Black Moa Crane Phoenix Reef Lurker (blue) Reef Lurker (red) Tiger White Tiger
Nightfall	Crocodile Flamingo Hyena Jahai Rat Lion Lioness Warthog
Eye of the North	Albino Rat Black Wolf Iguana Jingle Bear Mountain Eagle Polar Bear Rainbow Phoenix Raven White Crab White Moa White Wolf