For "Nature Slayer" Achievement, Where Do We Find Creatures?

RozMayan

The "Nature Slayer" achievement requires us to kill the following:

• 500 beasts
• 500 insect-like creatures
• 500 lizard-like creatures
• 200 plant-like creatures
• 100 water-based creatures
• 500 chitinous creatures
• 50 netches

Where can we find water-based and chitinous creatures? To me, those seem to be the rarest and most ambiguous.

Worstluck

I believe mudcrabs count as chitinous creatures and those are plentiful. Nereids count as water based, and those a bit harder to find depending on your faction and level.

silent88b14_ESO

Not sure if carapace-bearing critters (spiders, wasps) are classed as chitonous though they should be. Chitin is an exoskeleton, like the shell of the crab or an insect.

RozMayan

Thanks! Mudcrabs and spiders unfortunately do not count as chitinous creatures in terms of this achievement, and wasps I believe count as insect-like.

Edit: Sorry, I was mistaken. Mudcrabs do count as chitinous creatures.

Worstluck

Hmm that is disappointing about mudcrabs, I assumed they were chitonous. I am going to finish off this achievement as well, so I'll need to rethink

EDIT: They do count! I killed some random VR1 mudcrab in Auridon, it added to my total.

Quaesivi

Nereids are the only water-based as far as I'm aware, didn't manage to find any other.
Chitinous, your best bet is Dreughs, thats how I completed it.

elwhy

Just wanted to chime in and confirm that mudcrabs are chitinous creatures. I was looking at this achievement and couldn't think of a good chitin source except mudcrabs, but I thought there was no way they'd count...But they do! Water based is def the hardest though.

Cogo

Today I got 2 achievements. Explore the whole Eastmarch and find all lorebooks in eastmarch. I did not even know either of those excited, but it was nice to know I been everywhere, and found every lorebook. 2 Skyshards still aludes me.

Anyone ever tried to play to have fun, and not go by a list what to kill, where it is?

seanolan

Ice wraiths are water based. Tested and confirmed.

RozMayan

Cogo wrote: »

Today I got 2 achievements. Explore the whole Eastmarch and find all lorebooks in eastmarch. I did not even know either of those excited, but it was nice to know I been everywhere, and found every lorebook. 2 Skyshards still aludes me.

Anyone ever tried to play to have fun, and not go by a list what to kill, where it is?

Irrelevant...

seanolan wrote: »

Ice wraiths are water based. Tested and confirmed.

Thanks for confirming!

I currently only have 14 water-based creatures killed, and I am almost positive that I have killed far more than 14 nereids. Nonetheless, I assume based on everyone's feedback that either I or the game was just going crazy. Thanks for confirming everyone!

Edit: I was the one going crazy. I was thinking of hoarvers, not nereids. I don't even know where to begin looking for nereids. I tried searching Google images to even see what they look like, but no go. Any ideas?

Worstluck

Fyi, Dreugh count as chitinous creatures as well. They are harder to kill than mudcrabs, but there are bigger packs of them.

edit: i see aenthel already mentioned dreugh

Quaesivi

Also, as this is confirmed (by me at least while I was working on getting the title), and absolutely annoying as hell when Storm Atronachs are included.
To get the kills count towards the achievement, you need to be the one to actually kill it, and by kill, I mean the very last hit performed on the creature to eradicate its presence.
Farming groups definitely do not work, randoming or pugging or any other groups, sadly not, you need to perform the very last hit so that the kill is registered for the achievement.

ttraveler

Cogo wrote: »

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Anyone ever tried to play to have fun, and not go by a list what to kill, where it is?

I used to play for fun only before there were Achievements.

tlainya_ESO

RozMayan wrote: »

Cogo wrote: »

Today I got 2 achievements. Explore the whole Eastmarch and find all lorebooks in eastmarch. I did not even know either of those excited, but it was nice to know I been everywhere, and found every lorebook. 2 Skyshards still aludes me.

Anyone ever tried to play to have fun, and not go by a list what to kill, where it is?

Irrelevant...

seanolan wrote: »

Ice wraiths are water based. Tested and confirmed.

Thanks for confirming!

I currently only have 14 water-based creatures killed, and I am almost positive that I have killed far more than 14 nereids. Nonetheless, I assume based on everyone's feedback that either I or the game was just going crazy. Thanks for confirming everyone!

Edit: I was the one going crazy. I was thinking of hoarvers, not nereids. I don't even know where to begin looking for nereids. I tried searching Google images to even see what they look like, but no go. Any ideas?

There are nereids in Grahtwood (AD) They look like water based spirits, humanoid in form but a little transparent, you find them on beaches, by waterfalls and lakesides usually . I'm not sure how many are in other faction areas though.

kirnmalidus

tlainya_ESO wrote: »

RozMayan wrote: »

Cogo wrote: »

Today I got 2 achievements. Explore the whole Eastmarch and find all lorebooks in eastmarch. I did not even know either of those excited, but it was nice to know I been everywhere, and found every lorebook. 2 Skyshards still aludes me.

Anyone ever tried to play to have fun, and not go by a list what to kill, where it is?

Irrelevant...

seanolan wrote: »

Ice wraiths are water based. Tested and confirmed.

Thanks for confirming!

I currently only have 14 water-based creatures killed, and I am almost positive that I have killed far more than 14 nereids. Nonetheless, I assume based on everyone's feedback that either I or the game was just going crazy. Thanks for confirming everyone!

Edit: I was the one going crazy. I was thinking of hoarvers, not nereids. I don't even know where to begin looking for nereids. I tried searching Google images to even see what they look like, but no go. Any ideas?

There are nereids in Grahtwood (AD) They look like water based spirits, humanoid in form but a little transparent, you find them on beaches, by waterfalls and lakesides usually . I'm not sure how many are in other faction areas though.

I've seen them in every faction's zones to some extent. They are usually near water features as you point out, like waterfalls and small pools in streams/rivers.

Woolenthreads

In regards to waterbased creatures. Do Lamae count?

CoUsT

Worstluck wrote: »

Fyi, Dreugh count as chitinous creatures as well. They are harder to kill than mudcrabs, but there are bigger packs of them.

Starter island of DC is better in my opinion, you can find here tons of mudcrabs. I finished this achievement in few minutes.

Worstluck

Woolenthreads wrote: »

In regards to waterbased creatures. Do Lamae count?

Nah. They have to be made of water, like nerieds or ice wraiths.

EDIT: There is one quest, I cannot remember where or what level, where you get to kill a lot of nerieds. It's the one where there this lady sends you to this cave to help them, but a dremora stops you and tells you what is really going on. You end up deciding on who to help if I remember. I want to say maybe Bangkorai?

Woolenthreads

Worstluck wrote: »

EDIT: There is one quest, I cannot remember where or what level, where you get to kill a lot of nerieds. It's the one where there this lady sends you to this cave to help them, but a dremora stops you and tells you what is really going on. You end up deciding on who to help if I remember. I want to say maybe Bangkorai?

A Bangkorai dungeon has Dremora Servants of Hermaeus Mora outside desperate to stop the adherents of a Nereid from sacrificing their minds so that the Nereid is made stronger. There's only one Nereid there.

demonlkojipub19_ESO

I'm surprised no one has said "In nature" yet.

There are many insect creatures in shadowfen, lizards are all over stonefalls as well as chitanous creatures if those firebugs count as those, Plantlike creatures you can go and slaughter stranglers in the aldmeri dominion area, I forget which area has more of them, theres also a delve in the aldmeri dominion that has a lot of nerieds in it and I also forget where. Netches are everywhere in the first few areas of Ebonheart pact area.

Jaxom

Does anyone know whether you have to be within a certain level range for it to apply or can I go to Auridon and one shot mudcrabs for the achievement?

seanolan

Level 3 mudcrabs still count at vr 8, so yes,they always count.

Jaxom

seanolan wrote: »

Level 3 mudcrabs still count at vr 8, so yes,they always count.

Awesome, thanks.

kimboh

http://tamrielfoundry.com/topic/pocket-guide-bestiary-best-locations/

LonePirate

Does anyone know if wisps are counted as water based creatures? They are numerous in Crow's Wood in Stonefalls, which makes them very attractive for EP VR players like myself.

VolvoXX

No, wisps don't count as water-based.

Morozov

confirmed: Wispmother and wisps count as "water-based"

Jaxom

joehandzel_ESO wrote: »

confirmed: Wispmother and wisps count as "water-based"

Yup, definitely do. I grinding Crow's Wood since there are a ton.

LunaRae

kimboh wrote: »

http://tamrielfoundry.com/topic/pocket-guide-bestiary-best-locations/

This - I used this guide even as EP everything was easy to do (minus the storm atronachs prior to vr difficulty being lowered).

As others have mentioned look at farming large quantities of monsters at lower levels to expedite this process.

Nestor

Hoaravors, or however they are spelled, are Chitinous too.

Jaxom

Nestor wrote: »

Hoaravors, or however they are spelled, are Chitinous too.

I ran around Kenthari's Roost (I'm AD so it's level 3) and just 1 shotted mud crabs for that portion of the achievement. Took me about 2 hours or running around the coast nonstop to kill the 400 I needed.