Rain Beetle

Description
Rain Beetles are giant insects that like to accompany Rock Beetles in Vabbi. They look completely harmless and make almost friendly scratching and squeaking noises, making their hostility somewhat surprising. Although incapable of dealing out great amounts of damage, these bug balls are surprisingly resilient with Escape, Troll Unguent, Distracting Shot, and natural +armor vs physical damage (despite being rangers). The collector item they drop has a low chance of salvaging into Rubies and Sapphires, making the poor creatures desirable target practice for farmers.

These are level 26 in hard mode.

Location

 * Vabbi (all level 20 unless stated)
 * Garden of Seborhin
 * Holdings of Chokhin
 * The Hidden City of Ahdashim
 * The Mirror of Lyss (level 24)
 * Wilderness of Bahdza (level 24)
 * Yatendi Canyons

Skills used

 * (level 24 only)
 * (level 24 only)
 * (level 24 only)
 * (level 24 only)
 * (level 24 only)

Items dropped

 * Chitin Fragment
 * Geode
 * Monstrous Claw

Trivia

 * According to Johan Garham in the Wilderness of Bahdza, rain beetle mothers closely inspect their offspring at birth. Any imperfect rain beetles are cast out of the nest, and legend speaks of an island inhabited by the outcast beetles.


 * The creature's appearance and rolling movement may have been been influenced by the Droideka from the 1999 motion picture, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.