Talk:Sand Drake

When I was trying to permaform these during the quest Drakes on the Plain, I thought that they would kill me with Aftershock. Yet, they only ever used it when my health dropped from shadowform ending, dealing 144 damage when I was at 53 hp. It would seem that they only use it when they can kill with it. Paddymew 05:23, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

They use it only if the target is knocked down... so they usually do it after earthquake... I would assume since you're in shadowform they couldn't target you for the earthquake MrPaladin talk 12:10, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, but they didn't target me with Earthquake. Shadowform has no downtime in this build, so it was all due to me being too slow to press some buttons. It could be that they counted on other drakes to KD me, but even when only a single Sand Drake was left, it used Aftershock rather than Earthquake... Paddymew 15:41, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Were you soloing? I was soloing the drakes just outside Elona Reach with a Ranger + Pet, and the drakes didn't use Earthquake once - I'm wondering if they have the same AI code as heroes and won't use Earthquake if there's only one target (not counting pets)? 92.5.91.83 11:14, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Speed

I think they're running even faster than 33%, because they were faster than me while I was using "Incoming!" and "Fall Back!". 82.173.131.5 14:23, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

I learned that hard way when trying to outrun 5 of them while maxin Tyrian cart, took 15 minuetes for my ranger to shake them loose--Lord Randy 18:23, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

running the Crystal Desert in NM I know they run at the same speed as Charge (33%) hard mode may be faster 65.6.156.101 11:22, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

I was running in NM too, they kinda run in small bursts (run, stop, run, stop) from what i've seen :P 82.173.131.5 16:44, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

It MIGHT be faster than 33%. I was running Cartographer with Dash (50%) and they kep up with me just fine. --'Mai Yi' talk 23:57, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

I think it's greater than 50%. Even with Dash's duration doubled with Dwarven Stability (6 seconds) they were able to catch up with me. C0Zm1c (talk) 19:47, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Eyes

I've been looking their models closely, and they seem to have non visible. Can anyone try the gw.dat textures? MithTalk 16:44, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

The .dat textures are really warped, as hey have cover a nonflat wireframwe. could be hard just to tell which texture belongs to what model. Backsword 16:46, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Ill try texmod later,kay?--Neil2250 , Portal Jumper 16:46, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

On another website, I did a pseudo-study of the Sand Drakes, and no, they have no visible eyes, even at close range. My theory was that, based on their earth magic, they tracked targets through vibrations (which of course cannot be simulated in-game even if it were true).Guildwarsrunner 00:45, 12 January 2011 (UTC)