The Widowmistress  

she does have the poison which lands. db con to 39 mage. 3 cinder bolts and a pet took her down in under a minute. 8)

Killed her and only got twp FS rapiers. What a rip.

She was Light blue to a 52 rogue. HIt very often for 80+ and had a poison spell she cast.

Edited, Sat Jun 4 00:26:11 2005

After stocking up on Tink bags the other day I came here to explore as I really haven't done much exploring in here during my 3 1/2+ years of playing. Sure, I came down here for the Trazdon for the Warrior Crafted piece but never really explored.

So today while checking the spider area for silks, I see she is up and she agro's from a good distance. As a 57 Warrior with 1106AC/3014HP and wielding a Sword of the Bloodsworn (12/19 w/75 DD) and Mace of Focused Flame (14/23 w/156 DD) I surely wasn't worried. I WAS impressed though. She was getting some very nice fast rounds, hitting me in succession for bursts of 3-4 hits for between 25-59. Pretty impressive for a green mob to take 30% of my life when it isn't a Giant or the like. She of course dropped the Stiletto, FS Dagger and the Hair.

As for those who consider others wimpy? There are a lot of things that classes who:

1)cast spells
2)have pets
3)don't have to take the melee damage to kill

can accomplish at a much younger age. In the days of old EC you would often find people killing Sgt. Slate. Most were Druids or Pure Int Casters and they could do it around 35. Man to Man with no buffs it took me as a warrior with maxed skills until 56 before I would do it. Why? You wimpy casters don't have to stand there and take his punishment, you would rather root him throw a pet at him and hide behind a tree casting spells =)

I ran into her while exploring the zone. I am a 44 necro and nothing really bothers me in the zone except a few skeles that my pet dispatches very fast. This girl can wipe out your 44 necro pet very quickly. Don't let her live any more then you have to. Make it your highest priority of stacking DOTs on her and taking the heat off your pet for a few hits. Just don't over do it.

I had some time to kill in the game the other night so I decided to revisit an old favourite hunting ground to see if I could get Rathyl to drop his Traveler's Pack (something I've always coveted). I was doing the regular spawn circuit (Rathyl, Drelzna, Najena) with complete confidence, and also clearing out the spiders periodically to see if the Widowmistress would show up. I figured at 52 she would be cake. Wrong. The third time I ran up to the spider room I could see her all the way on the other side just standing against the wall. As soon as I set foot in the area she aggroed, and I figured a big hurt was coming, but not like this. I backed up against the wall as fast as possible but she still managed to get in a 200+ backstab, and she was hitting hard and fast for 70s and 80s. The blood claw proc'd for her twice and she also has a rogue poison effect which is pretty nasty as well. I was using a savage stone axe with silver chitin hand wraps and she was still outdamaging me. I was amazed how quickly my hitpoints were going down. Finally, on 3% health, I harm touched her and dropped her. One of the scariest solo fights I'd had in awhile that I lived to tell about...

Do NOT underestimate this lady. She can take you by surprise with her speed and damage output, and by the time you figure out what's going on you might end up kissing the dirt. Take my word for it. :)

Went to Najena looking for focus items with my 37 mage and came across this lady. She conned dark blue to me, so I sent the pet in, and she killed it in 3 seconds and was on top of me. She hit me seven time for 68 or so in less than 5 seconds and poisoned me to boot. I could not get gate off fast enough. Quickest death from a mob that conned blue to me I've ever experienced.

Frew Seliluminn
Mage of Quellious

Killed her with very little problems. Died a few times trying to use my pet.

First off is root cause this girlie can outrun any sow. Then a nice whack with Plague move back a ways and feign death. Keep pet handy but off of her. Just lay dead and watch as her health dwindles.

Don't let her die while feigned pop up again when she is down to one bub of health send in pet root and blast with Torbas acid 3 times and she is a gonner. Fear kiting her does not work cause you got to run all over the place and with the skellies and minotaur and the occasional ogre gaurd aggroing you not to mention any of her spider freinds it gets messy real fast.

Yup, 2 ice comets... one did crit but not sure the crit was needed. Poofies no more Widowmistress. Never even touched me, but then I generally root/snare most unknowns when I can.

Have no doubt that if I were a melee class, it would have been a lot tougher. Rogues should never be taken lightly and she is obviously a rogue. Dropped fine steel garbage, but was fun.

Ok, I took her out again today. This time I did it properly with darkness, fear, send pet, dot dot dot. She went down fairly easy but its a bit of a pain when feared as she walks back out to were the pond to Najena is and walks out of your casting sight so stick close to her.. also make sure you take out those annoying Najena skeles before you go after her. As the post below, she was standing in the big oval room at the back of the spider area. This time she dropped 2 stillettos :) Shame to waste one but no one else was in the zone. I got about half a blue for the kill I think. Good luck.

Thought Id have a looksee around the spider area to see if she was up. Didnt see her at first so started killing a spider.. then she comes out of nowhere and starts beating on the pet. I knew from reading these posts that she was no push over so I unloaded the dots I had memmed at the time (Asystole and VOS) onto her. Still had to tank her off the pet a couple of times and hit me for double 83 at those times but she didnt last long against the dots.
The spider did get its revenge though when it actually got the killing blow on my pet right at the end of our fight with the Widowmistress :)
Dropped only the 2 fine steel daggers but the fun was well worth the effort anyway.

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Edited, Mon May 6 09:11:45 2002

well that sucks man, i am sorry hehe but kinda funny

Myself, a 39 cleric, and a 30 war got taken by suprise. We both died pretty quick.

We came back with a plan:

I pull while divined, then when she aggros tank, chain stun till the tank kills her. We got a 36 druid to assist also in nukes.

Result: Hardly any damage to us, and a dead mistress. 60 mana left.

Drackell Deadstalker
Veeshan

Well, was bored in Najena, lvl 54sk and was having fun teasing and hand to handing the mobs in najena (max H2H btw) saw her up, green to me but a slight undercon, broke out my MDCS and owned her, lost about a bub hp (about 2500hp self buffed)but dropped her fast, hitting for about 135ish 1hs. all i can say is fun fun, and this has got to be a fun suprise for newbs that are like having fun in the zone heh, i like that comment earlier "shes only yellow" to many things are undercons now so be careful.

Alyn Doomstrider 54th Shadow Knight of the whup yer boot-ay

I strole into Najena as a 38 ranger thinking I can go farm some silks.......damn was I wrong. I turned the corner and all of a sudden (more like 10 seconds later) I was at half life. This gal is not to be taken lightly.



"Train to zone....bit of this, bit of that."

The widowmistress hair is for the Human/Erudite cleric Terror Forged Mask quest.

Ankles Dirtyfoot
Firiona Vie

She is certainly a challenge, and as others have mentioned, if you approach this one with your guard down(in farming mode perhaps) you'll encounter a nasty surprise.

The first time I battled her was just such an occasion. I had been exploring the extremely underused Najena, when I stumbled across this fiesty wench. As a 41 SK at the time, I thought even if she con'd blue, it'd be low blue in this dungeon.

Was I ever wrong, not only high blue, but a natrual Dark Elven undercon! Unprepared, she made quick work of me, and running is not the best option with this lass :)

Thirsting for revenge, I charged back from my bind point, recovered my newly ventilated corpse, and memmed my standard fear kite spell line up.

Coming at her with more readiness, I pulled her with darkness, then debuffed her. She tends to be a total sucker for fear, as it stuck, and stuck long. I repeatedly feared her to a point just outside her lair whilst wailing on her, then withdrew back in and repeated. Finished with a HT just to make a point :p

From this kill, I picked up the Stiletto. Not only is it a great little piercer to work my skill with, it serves as a trophy from a very worthy opponent, and a reminder of a terrific battle. Cool name too!

she will not dive into the water to chase you, so when you are losing just dince into the pond that leads to najena's room(hope you got the frog killed before this, and good luck.

i got the bloodclaw stilletto and a fs weapon and the widdowmisteress hair what is this for?

Just to respponded to THE truth of it post....

Noticed the same about other DEs.... been soling the Teir Dal elites in Lfay alot. WIth harmony can pull singles, but they drop me (36 ranger) down depending on luck to 1/2+ usuallay sometimes less if my dragon horn dont proc or gets resisted.


Now the new crazed ghouls and gobs still blue to me (guess lwo 30s) and they are realtively a cake walk. Just my 2 cp

Weberran

The nameless

Could a 48 warrior with 900+ AC and 2500+ hp, with decent weapons be able to solo her?

Being a 50 mage I exptected an easy fight. A bit surprising that I actually had to go into battle mode from farming mode, like i actually killed something that gives me exp. Most i've seen is she triples for 83's and has a poison proc, haven't killed her with bloodclaws yet. But anyway, down to the point, she dropped a Widowmistress Hair. Anyone have any clue what this item is for?