Talk:Salving Cactus

They do earth damage 03:09, 7 March 2006 (CST)

Incomplete drop rate data
Out of eight trials, defeating a Salving Cactus earned the following loot:

Skull Shield

Forked Sword

Spiny Seed

Silver Dye

Spiny Seed

Spiny Seed

Spiny Seed

Spiny Seed

This would seem to indicate that Spiny Seeds have a relatively high drop rate. The difficulty in testing is that Salving Cacti are hard to find anywhere except for around Heroes' Audience, an area full of Shock-Aftershock using Sand Elementals.

Re-burrow?
I saw the oddest thing the other day. On the radar, there was a red dot - approaching, I saw it to be a Salving Cactus. This alone is odd, because Sprouts, Devourers, and Scarabs are often buried underground. So, I approached it. Then - this is the odd part - it buried itself. It just, disappeared. Went off the radar, lost targetting, and it just seemed like it hopped back underground. Of course, it reappeared a minute later when I walked by again, but - I thought monsters couldn't go back underground when they have already been to the surface! Perhaps it is a bug? Entropy 11:35, 28 January 2007 (CST)
 * Wurms go underground after they've popped up. <>Spark 11:41, 28 January 2007 (CST)
 * They've always done that &mdash; Skuld 11:47, 28 January 2007 (CST)
 * Wurms are special though. They've always done that? Ok, nevermind then... Entropy 11:53, 28 January 2007 (CST)

Okay, this happened to me when I was vanquishing. Except that they stayed underground and didn't coem back. I went AFK for about 2 hours to see if I'd receive credit for +1 kill. Nope. Nothing. So I backed off and waited at least 5 minutes, just staring at the screen for the magical red dot. Nothing. Someone cry to ANet for me about this, please... this was in Prophet's Path. Copeland


 * Had the same thign happen with the 'reburrow and gone'... but the VQ finished normally, after we killed the last few wide roaming minotaurs. It's possible we degened it to death while it was burried... we were only running 17 degen in the party at the time...Yamagawa 03:45, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

needed?
why is there a note for farmers i dont seem that these creatures will be likely to become farmed seen as there only a few, second some tend to reburrow thereselves and third its hard to reach them.