Black Moa

Black Moa
Affiliation	Echovald Forest wildlife
Type	Charmable animal
Level(s)	5, 20
Campaign	Factions
Image(s)
Location of the Black Moa

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

The Black Moa is a fearsome subspecies of Moa Bird and its only carnivore. It appears in the Echovald Forest, assaulting many of the locals and evading hunters such as Zho and Nehdukah. It is feared, respected, and legendary among the Kurzicks, who once thought it merely a mythical beast. The tales of vicious Black Moa attacks are told to scare Canthan children to make sure they behave.

Locations

• Core
  • The Battle Isles
    • Zaishen Menagerie Grounds (levels 5, 12, 15, and 20, depending on unlock progress)
• Factions
  • Echovald Forest
    • Ferndale (level 20; southwest from Aspenwood Gate, if at least one party member has completed or nearly completed The Beak of Darkness)

Quests

Quests involved in:

• Echovald Forest
  • The Beak of Darkness

Notes

• The Black Moa is one of three rare pets with their own statues in the "Fellowship" monument in the Hall of Monuments. The others are the Phoenix and the Black Widow.
• Black Moa deal slashing damage.
• After The Beak of Darkness has been completed by any party member, you can return to Ferndale to charm a single Black Moa. Alternatively, although the quest says you must kill the Black Moa, charming the Black Moa will also complete the quest.
• Outside the Sunspear Great Hall, Nehdukah and his friends there run away if your party includes a Black Moa (since they have a reason to fear it).
• Unlocking cost (Prestige, Cantha):
  • 3 plus 100 or
  • 30,000 Balthazar Faction

Anomaly. The Black Moa will appear if at least one party member meets the requirements.

Bug. The Black Moa's name will not change if you attempt to change it while you are still in Ferndale after charming it. It will also not automatically use the name you gave your previous pet (i.e. if you had released a named pet before charming the Black Moa). The next time you appear in an instance with the Black Moa, its name will change to the most recent name you gave it or your previous pet, and its name can now be changed.

Trivia

• There is no Black Moa miniature, but there is a Black Moa Chick.
• In the Zaishen Menagerie, the Black Moa chicks use the skin from the Black Moa Chick miniature, unlike all other animals whose chicks use scaled down versions of the adult.
• Prior to the introduction of the Menagerie, this animal could only be found in the wild and at level 20.
• Moa is the name of a flightless bird in New Zealand that was hunted to extinction by the local Maori. The Guild Wars version resembles the Phorusrhacid, a predatory, flightless bird that once inhabited parts of South America during the Cenozoic Era.