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> Spiderling Silk
> Weight: 0.1 Size: MEDIUM
> Slot: NONE (Inventory)
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> Last updated: Mon Mar 29 12:27:12 2004
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> Rarity: Common
> Level to Attain: 1
‘Scuse me but I just NEED to vent for a sec…
Having spent my weekend meandering around in East Commons farming spiderling silks for a ranger on the newbie armor quest, I can tell you that this item is NOT a common drop! Over the course of three days worth of playing sessions (a good chunk of Sat and Sun plus Mon morning), I must have smacked more than a hundred of the little buggers with an overwhelming majority of the kills resulting in either an empty loot or nothing more than an eye or a leg. This morning for example, I kept a running count and after a solid day’s work, (6AM till 4PM game time) I ended the session with a score of 0 for 7!
That’s goose egg… zilch, zero, nada, nothing, snake eyes…
the big SEE YA LATER!!!
The harvests on Saturday and Sunday were little better. All of this is assuming that you even get to complete the kill. Many times this weekend, I found myself busily whacking away at one of the critters, calmly watching as it’s health inexorably slipped towards 0, only to have a cheerful guard run up and deliver the coup de gras! (Take that, a spiderling! You’re kind has no place here!) Well, thank you very much guardsman, and I don’t mean to be impolite, but where were you a while ago when that giant RED Griffon was chasing me all over the zone and kicking my bright green fanny!
And if it’s not some well meaning guard stealing my desperately needed kill, than there are plenty of black bear and young plains cats in the neighborhood just waiting for you to go to work so they can decide they have agro and stroll up while your back is turned to take a swipe at you in the name of some distant relative of theirs that you once whacked because you needed a pelt or a chunk of meat. Sheesh! Then of course, while you’re busy dealing with that more immediate threat, the spiderling scuttles away to recoup it’s HP, never to be seen again!
(They sure can move when they want to!)
Once, while one of the little buggers was screaming out it’s little death chant, the plaintive call drew one of its giant brethren into the fray. Trust me on this… the bigger ones don’t con the same color as the little ones! At least not to my lvl 6 ranger, they don’t!
Mighty depressing if you ask me!
Since my ranger needs 17 silk threads to complete the set of armor, X 2 spiderling silks per thread, for a total of 34 silks, I can see this is gonna take a while. And the biggest of irony in the bunch… I don’t even get the benefit of XP for most of the kills I do get to complete and/or skill ups on the trade skill, (turning silks into thread), since most of the spiderlings con green to me and the trivial on making thread is only 15.
If you want my opinion, this quest isn’t difficult so much as it is tedious! I mention this only because I ran into another questing ranger over the weekend who remarked, *This is really tough, you need the armor just to get the armor!* It sure will be pretty, though, won't it?
Easy money… I think not! No wonder the things go for big plat when sold by the stack in the bazaar. They’re a PAIN IN THE BUTT to acquire!
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PSST Buddy I feel your pain. If you arent on the Morrel Thule server Ill tell you where to go. Oh wait your'e a ranger. Ill tell you anyway. Innothule swamp is the zone for crab spiderlings. Lot more plentiful and almost all have silks. If not the blue eyes are turned
into the exterminator for cash in Gukta.
into the exterminator for cash in Gukta.
Try everfrost, the spiderlings drop from 2 - 3 silks commonly.
Also you can try killing rats to get some extra plat, buy some cloth armor to use while you get the other stuff you need. Another option is to hand in bone chips to the one of the many quest NPCs
you get faction, xp, items, money, and bonechips are pretty common drops (or run around early morning and clear some of the bodies from the skele wars)
editied cause I wanted to say one thing but ended up typing another
Edited, Mon Apr 5 20:00:38 2004 by Devilwind
Also you can try killing rats to get some extra plat, buy some cloth armor to use while you get the other stuff you need. Another option is to hand in bone chips to the one of the many quest NPCs
you get faction, xp, items, money, and bonechips are pretty common drops (or run around early morning and clear some of the bodies from the skele wars)
editied cause I wanted to say one thing but ended up typing another
Edited, Mon Apr 5 20:00:38 2004 by Devilwind
I've noticed that the spiderlings in different areas really do seem to drop more often(anyone have info to back it up?). I've hunted in Misty Thicket, the Feerot, West Karana, and East Commons, and while WK and EC seem to have very uncommon silk drops, the Feerot and Thicket have me at two stacks an hour or more. If I'm just crazy, I'm consistently crazy, because I've noticed this since I started playing the game.
Just change from EC to North Ro
1. less guards around but NO griffons
2. desert and dune spiderlings drop up to three spiderling silk and vary in level more than their EC relatives so you might get XP for the larger ones (found where the desert begins)
3. there are so damn much of these critters around you might even find some silk at the Vendors there
4. you can buy a fishing rod and fish a bit while healing
Always look on the bright side of life! ;-)
1. less guards around but NO griffons
2. desert and dune spiderlings drop up to three spiderling silk and vary in level more than their EC relatives so you might get XP for the larger ones (found where the desert begins)
3. there are so damn much of these critters around you might even find some silk at the Vendors there
4. you can buy a fishing rod and fish a bit while healing
Always look on the bright side of life! ;-)
OldBlue,
I feel your pain. I've hunted for silks in many places & the drops just aren't there for me on my server. While I'm not hunting for armour--I prefer silk bandages for Bind Wound--I've spent long, long hours hunting spiderlings & while my 18lvl doesn't have to worry about other critters whacking away on it while farming, it'd almost be a welcome diversion from the tedium.
I see someone mentioned crag spiders. Is this an area where a Lvl 18 Human monk can farm spiderling silk--not spider silk or woven spider silk--w/o fear of the Natives?
I feel your pain. I've hunted for silks in many places & the drops just aren't there for me on my server. While I'm not hunting for armour--I prefer silk bandages for Bind Wound--I've spent long, long hours hunting spiderlings & while my 18lvl doesn't have to worry about other critters whacking away on it while farming, it'd almost be a welcome diversion from the tedium.
I see someone mentioned crag spiders. Is this an area where a Lvl 18 Human monk can farm spiderling silk--not spider silk or woven spider silk--w/o fear of the Natives?
I have a new favorite place for spiderling silk: Toxula Forest. Those spiderlings often drop multiples, and you usually have the place to yourself. It's also very easy to stay away from the guards. Just take the Erudin stone down and farm to your heart's content.
If I'm going to be farming for a while, I make sure to kill everything that might be on the same spawn table as the spiderlings (thistle snakes, skunks, fire beetles etc.)
However (you knew this was coming, eh?) during the anniversary celebrations, skeletal hordes invade the forest every night. As soon as the celebrations are over, the forest will be back to normal.
If I'm going to be farming for a while, I make sure to kill everything that might be on the same spawn table as the spiderlings (thistle snakes, skunks, fire beetles etc.)
However (you knew this was coming, eh?) during the anniversary celebrations, skeletal hordes invade the forest every night. As soon as the celebrations are over, the forest will be back to normal.
Your hunting the wrong zone OldBlue, take a trip to the zone out area around Froggie city and 2-3 stacks per hour.
Kill skeles, zombies and spiderlings to keep spawn rate up and sell bone chips and zombie skins in Bazaar.
Kill skeles, zombies and spiderlings to keep spawn rate up and sell bone chips and zombie skins in Bazaar.
Feerott is a good zone to farm spiderling silks as well. Lots of little spiderlings and there's only one wandering guard to worry about And he's on a very defined path.
Usually if you're farming for spiderling silks, it's better to stay in the lower level zones, as there will be more spiderlings around in those zones than spiders in places like N Karana. Plus the little guys tend to drop spiderling silk more than the adult spiders in my experience.
Usually if you're farming for spiderling silks, it's better to stay in the lower level zones, as there will be more spiderlings around in those zones than spiders in places like N Karana. Plus the little guys tend to drop spiderling silk more than the adult spiders in my experience.
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when i was a baby froggy (1,5 months ago) there was REALLY a lot of spiderlings outside my hometown in swamp of no hope (or something like that)
i got 100-150 on 2 day :p
YAY!
i got 100-150 on 2 day :p
YAY!
Innothule swamp is the area outside Gukta. See my first post in reply.
Crag spiders drop spider silk not spiderling. But with the money off the spider silks you can buy spiderling.
Crag spiders drop spider silk not spiderling. But with the money off the spider silks you can buy spiderling.
Feerott is my favorite place to farm spiderling silks. Everfrost is good as well.
If and when you consider tailoring or smithing and need cat pelts, Stonebrunt is the place to go.
If and when you consider tailoring or smithing and need cat pelts, Stonebrunt is the place to go.
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Just change from EC to North Ro
1. less guards around but NO griffons
2. desert and dune spiderlings drop up to three spiderling silk and vary in level more than their EC relatives so you might get XP for the larger ones (found where the desert begins)
3. there are so damn much of these critters around you might even find some silk at the Vendors there
4. you can buy a fishing rod and fish a bit while healing
Always look on the bright side of life! ;-)
1. less guards around but NO griffons
2. desert and dune spiderlings drop up to three spiderling silk and vary in level more than their EC relatives so you might get XP for the larger ones (found where the desert begins)
3. there are so damn much of these critters around you might even find some silk at the Vendors there
4. you can buy a fishing rod and fish a bit while healing
Always look on the bright side of life! ;-)
I 100% agree with this. Watch out for the Dune Spiderlings though, for they have a weakness poison. Just take the tunnel in EC and Wham...you're there.
Once XP stops in the grassy area, head out into the dunes and hunt large/giant rattlesnakes, desert tarrantulas (sp), mummies, and the occasional madman. If you can find a friend then grab your bow and do one of the dervish camps. Lately absolutely no one is camping them (and you won't have skeleton armies to contend with). This area will give you less XP than PC, but you will learn the fine are of pulling relatively quickly.
The Feerott used to be a great place for spiderling silks, but now I get tons of some kind of gold or black silks? I think they must be for the Ogre newbie quests, don't know for sure. Anyhow, because of this, I moved to da swamp next door and right near the city the drops are not bad. Gets your swimming skill up too. A ranger would not have a problem with the guards in that zone. Actually, I found using my ranger to be very helpful there because often there was one underwater that I would otherwise miss.
Previously, in the Feerott, I never used tracking anyway I just ran around and looked they were so plentiful.
Good hunting.
Previously, in the Feerott, I never used tracking anyway I just ran around and looked they were so plentiful.
Good hunting.
Was in Nektulos last night. Killed 10-12 spiderlings on the way from PoK book to Neriak and back. Killed 4 Large spiderthings as well. Netted 4 spider silk and 12 spiderling silks. Not every mob had silk but some had 2. A few had 3. Maybe I was lucky...
I always found the Widow Hatchlings in GFay had a decent yield rate for spiderling silk. The bigger spiders seldom drop Spider Silk however.
Innothule is the easiest even now it has been nerfed. Drop rate is way down but there are still hundreds of them about so harvest is still decent.
The North Ro spiderlings are on cycle with several other mobs on the grassy area. Sometimes there are none and you have to slaughter the coyotes, cats and armadildos to get spiderlings back.
Really these are not too difficult to come by even in EC. If getting 17 for your armour seems difficult then quests may just not be your kind of thing.
Innothule is the easiest even now it has been nerfed. Drop rate is way down but there are still hundreds of them about so harvest is still decent.
The North Ro spiderlings are on cycle with several other mobs on the grassy area. Sometimes there are none and you have to slaughter the coyotes, cats and armadildos to get spiderlings back.
Really these are not too difficult to come by even in EC. If getting 17 for your armour seems difficult then quests may just not be your kind of thing.
Wherever I go - there I am.
Cobra101 wrote:
>Really these are not too difficult to come by even in EC.
>If getting 17 for your armour seems difficult then quests
>may just not be your kind of thing.
I didn't say difficult, I said tedious.
OldBlueDragon wrote:
>If you want my opinion, this quest isn’t difficult
>so much as it is tedious!
Difficult would be going toe to toe with one or more critters that always conned yellow or red and then slugging it out for a half hour to get what I needed.
Tedious, on the other hand would be slaughtering more than a hundred of the little buggers in three different zones and coming up with a grand total of less than 30 silks.
Which is exactly what has happened.
Say it with me now... TE - DI - OUS
I must admit, though... I'm becoming quite enamored with the way they scream when they roll over!!!
>Really these are not too difficult to come by even in EC.
>If getting 17 for your armour seems difficult then quests
>may just not be your kind of thing.
I didn't say difficult, I said tedious.
OldBlueDragon wrote:
>If you want my opinion, this quest isn’t difficult
>so much as it is tedious!
Difficult would be going toe to toe with one or more critters that always conned yellow or red and then slugging it out for a half hour to get what I needed.
Tedious, on the other hand would be slaughtering more than a hundred of the little buggers in three different zones and coming up with a grand total of less than 30 silks.
Which is exactly what has happened.
Say it with me now... TE - DI - OUS
I must admit, though... I'm becoming quite enamored with the way they scream when they roll over!!!
Aye, I could easily get 100 on my monk in a few hours, at most... Like people said you were in the wrong zone.
"A spiderling" drops uncommon to rare I'd say. "A jungle spiderling" (Feerott), "a rock spiderling" (Butcherblock), those swamp spiderlings... wish I remembered their name... in Innothule, all drop silks as fast as skeletons drop bone chips, 1-3 drops on nearly every single kill. Drop down from the pok book in feerott and move east (towards druid rings) and you'll trip over the spiderlings there... They are everywhere.
Very very common drop. Item description doesn't say what it commonly drops off of, just in general, it's really common. Spiderlings in EC have very bare spinerets, few things to make their webs off of (look at all the trees in the swamps/jungles), so they tend to hunt their prey by pouncing...
Heh. Would be like trying to farm pelts in Sro, the cougars are fairly rare, and they're so sandblasted the pelts usually aren't very good.... Just some zones don't work as well as others when you're trying to farm something.
"A spiderling" drops uncommon to rare I'd say. "A jungle spiderling" (Feerott), "a rock spiderling" (Butcherblock), those swamp spiderlings... wish I remembered their name... in Innothule, all drop silks as fast as skeletons drop bone chips, 1-3 drops on nearly every single kill. Drop down from the pok book in feerott and move east (towards druid rings) and you'll trip over the spiderlings there... They are everywhere.
Very very common drop. Item description doesn't say what it commonly drops off of, just in general, it's really common. Spiderlings in EC have very bare spinerets, few things to make their webs off of (look at all the trees in the swamps/jungles), so they tend to hunt their prey by pouncing...
Heh. Would be like trying to farm pelts in Sro, the cougars are fairly rare, and they're so sandblasted the pelts usually aren't very good.... Just some zones don't work as well as others when you're trying to farm something.
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