Terrorantula  

DARK BLUE TO A 51

Killed this guy last night. Just kill all the tarantula spiders in the area and he'll spawn shortly after that. I only killed about 40 spiders to get him to spawn.

Interesting thing...I could not loot the corpse. I tied for 7mins to get the loot table up and could not. I killed zombies that happened by and easily looted them, but the big spider would not give it up. Don't really care, just mentioning it.

Agro range is absolutely huge; basically if he can see you, he's coming after you. He had a ton of HPs. My 53 Ranger fought him for about 2mins. He had well over 4000HPs. He peeled off about 1200HPs from me too.

He conned light blue to me. Don't cast on him as he casts poison spells VERY fast and continuously. Only one stuck to me. All of my Ranger spells stuck to him, not surprising considering my level. Just melee him down and you'll interrupt him casting. He hits slowly for 22-69 (my buffed AC was 1100+).

I was in the zone to get a quest NPC to spawn; Izera N'Kar. She likes/hates the spiders (or so I was told) so I thought that would bring her out. It did not work. I wanted to beat on her.

If anyone knows how to get her to make an appearance, please let me know.

been killing a cycle, this guy popped in it once. Several terrorantulings popped in cycle too.
a sand mummy is part of cycle i can say, but you will need a tracker to see what spawns next. I have been getting pumas, and spiders in cycle.
I think they are random spawns in the cycle, but have chance of spawning this.
So just keep killing until you see a sand mummy, then you can start cycle.

Edited, Fri Jan 30 06:03:30 2004

This guy is one mean little bug, he has about 3-4k hp (counted up my nukes and pet damage, hits for about low 70 tops(he jumped me while i was medding) and procs weakpoisen, the same as the hatchlings exept it lasts a bit longer and does 6dd insted of 3. The loot is ok, got 3-6 silks each time and the legs all 5 times i dropped him. Just my input.

I think the strength of terroratula varies. Once he was a fairly tough fight to a 38 and 42 paladin, but we were at full health and almost full mana. The next time i saw him he was unstoppable, though he conned the same (blue to 38). He also looked a lot bigger than the first one. His agro range is tremendous, bigger than any mob i have run across yet.

He killed 4 of 5 people in the zone, with me being the only one to make it out (jboots). It seemed like he was using the corpses as bait, or his agro range covered like 15% of the zone. I had to zone 3 times to break agro just to drag corpses to the innothule line. Never would have made it without Jboots. I went back into the zone to do ressurections, but he was always on the attack before I ever noticed him in range. He is very sneaky for his size. No matter what you are hunting in S. Ro, keep your poison resist buffs up, cause terrorantula's poison is ferocious. I almost died from it after I made it to zone.

After the boredom of camping the AC it was a nice change of pace. Two Sand Giants popped at the same time Terrorantula was up. The zone got tough and exciting really quick, so we regrouped and got ready to take it. As we came back in buffed up and ready for action, we targeted Terrorantula... it despawned. Targeted SG... it despawned. Target other SG... same thing. Nothing but greens popped for 4 hours after that. S. Ro is such a frustrating camp.

Was hunting undeads for truthbringer gems when all of the sudden, i hear a skittering noise. I just figure its some desert terantula roaming around and forget it. A few seconds later I turn around and guess who's standing there waiting for me to notice him? I can't even get out an
"OH SH!T!" before...
BAM!
LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...

I killed this guy earlier today and he dropped a bunch a silks and a gargantuan or giant tarantuala heart i cant remember which its lore and weighs 20.0 any one have an idea what this is for?

The Terroantula (whom I have never seen personally except dead by the oasis zone) drops Terrorantula silks which, when combine with a platinum thread, vial of purified mana, and an imbued gem of your choice (if you are erudite of course) are used for Erudite Cultural Armor, which is called Steelsilk. There is a new mob in the desert now, the Terrorantualing which also drops Terrorantual silk. This makes it rather nice for collecting the silks as the big boy is a rare spawn (which rumor has it is an escapee from Fear plane, where he is a more common spawn). From a previous post here, which I no longer see, you need to loot him from the rear to get silks. I assume its the same for the baby ones as well. I have killed 5 of the babies so far, and the number of silks has ranged from 1-5, most recently 2 tonight. I do not know how to make him spawn, or them spawn, but i have spent some time killing all of the regular tarrantulas in the desert, which nets some regular silks so its not all wasted effort. I'm going to guess that with the upgrades to cultural armor (and prior to that, It was a toss up in my opinion over who had the best--Erudites or Dark Elves) Verant made it possible to gather more silks to make the upgraded versions more doable. I've seen the silks auctioned for 100pp apiece, and other than that, Erudite armor has to be the most expensive to hope for a successful combine on, considering the cost of platinum thread and the 4 rubies needed for a vial of purified mana. Figure around 700-800pp for each piece. I figure with the silks being more common now, that its likely the player-player price has dropped from the 100 that I have seen before, but who knows.

Klani Wyldheart, 22 Knight of Prexus, Darkstorm Dragons, Druzzil Ro.

I helped a fellow SK kill the terrorantula today because he thought it was a placeholder for the ancient cyclops. It was a tough kill, I had to use all of my bag of SK tricks, including a 391 damage harm touch. It had a LOT of hp's and hit hard. I am sure it isnt a placeholder for the AC though, because the terrorantula's were spawning like mad today, and I saw one at the same time as the AC. Nice exp for them, I got half a blue from one at level 39.

Khur
39th level Knight of Hell

I was hunting SGs and saw this new entry: Terrorantula. I thought it might be a leftover surprise from Halloween, but from what I see here it was a regular mob...I've been hunting SRo for weeks and never saw it, so I think it may be a rare spawn--I've seen the AC more often.

It rooted well enough, it took four or five enveloping roots (94 dam/casting) and between six and eight Firestrikes (294 each). Best guess at hit points between 3000 and 3500. It has a shorter casting range than, say, an SG or most other mobs--if this is due to its size, the mob is roughly three times the diameter of an SG.

Olivera
42 Druid on E'Ci

hey if ne one is on the kane bayle server and has some silks that they would sell <cough>CHEAP<cough> please send me a tell...
(1-5pp...and mabey even 10pp each if i make more money...BTW im only playing druing the weekends

While hunting the Ac this morning, This bugger popped so i decided to give it a go, 42 necro full mana. Pulled with Dooming, Vamp Curse, fear, Scourge and VoS and he dropped no prob. Pet lost 1 1/2 bubbs and I was down to about 1/2 mana. Dropped 4 silks and the legs. Silks sold at De vendors for 3pp and legs for 1pp. As an aside I also saw Orbretl pop, was slaughtering everything in sight trying to get AC to pop so I don't know what triggers either of these.

I was walking through South Ro with my pet tagging along, when all of a sudden a big, nasty spider started to attack me!! Well I turned and ran and let my pet smack on him. I cast Dooming Darkenss, then VoS, Scourge (resisted), Fear, Fear again (wore off quick), and Boil Blood. Fear wore off and he started attacking my pet again, tried to fear but he resisted. Kept hitting him with Torbas Acid Blast till my pet, poor guy, died. Ran my little legs off and was far enough to FD, he lost agro, I stood up, recast a pet, buffed him quick and sent him in (spider was down to 2 bubbles of health). Pet took agro, I then hit him with Drain Spirit till he died. Got 4 silks and the legs, it was a fun fight and kinda hairy (not the legs, hehe)

Zdatil
41st Gnome Necromancer
Crimson Vengeance
Sayrn Server

Edited, Mon Aug 26 06:38:51 2002

I am getting tired of all BS that is said here. ONE question!!

WHAT ARE THE TERRORANTULA SILK,LEGS AND HEART USED FOR??
Please describe the quest clearly if you know how to do it...and you others that only BS here. PLEASE LEAVE THIS SITE!

I just killed this thing solo, level 43 ranger, what a pain in the butt, hits hard, moves fast, has a long range, dropped gargantuan legs and 5 silks, i must have hit it with 15 criticals ( 45+ damage) during the time i was kiting it, plus careless lightning, stinging swarm, melee. etc, everything in the ranger book, luckily i had uber chanter buffs or i would have been toast.

I killed this guy and got a heart. Anyone have any idea what this heart is for?

If anyone happens to find this guy on Karana server please send me a tell. I have used up all of my silks (11 so far) but plan to complete my suit of imbued steelsilk. I've killed him a few times in groups while camping AC or waiting for a port :)

well now that I know what the silks are for, just curious as to what the legs are for. Anyone know?

Was on another wishful attmpt to see the ac last night. I was over at teh undead tower killed a few undead mobs that aggored a crypt mummy in the tower and a Sand mummy(which is heard to be Ph for the ac) as soo as i killed the mummy BAM Big spyder on my tail as a lvl 37 wiz he was black to me and iced me fast. Just thining he might be part of ac spawn cycle

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What are the silks for? someone said erudite cultural tailoring, but have found any erudite tailors to confirm it.

I took this on while waiting for the ancient cyclops for the Journeyman boot quest. If anyone needs the silk he dropped I have three of them. Contact Berhl on Vallon Zek PvP Server. Have mules for transfer.... can deliver just about anywhere.

Nitehawk