a drachnid silklurker  

For an idea of their HPs, I randomly killed 10 of these from all over the zone. One on one, strictly melee damage, went as follows:

1 - 1158
2 - 1219
3 - 1097
4 - 1124
5 - 1099
6 - 1096
7 - 1111
8 - 1185
9 - 1193
10 - 1154

So they have on average 1140 HPs, give or take depending upon level and buffs.

These guys shouldn't make you worry at all. I started to hunt in LOIO in my early 20s and have never aggroed these spiders because I would run along the left mountain side from FV to the stream into LOIO. They are usually not that high up along the zone line. Good luck and safe travels!

These things puzzle me. Im 22 war and have lost 3 yellow attempting a corpse run. When I first started going to LOIO, I indeed steered very clear of these things. They all conned red and ready to attack. One day, one walks right through me when I wasnt paying enough attention.

I thought that very interesting, of course the next time and the 4 or 5 times after that I was mauled to death

I started ging to LOIO at lvl 18. The first time I got there, I went LD (@#$%in FV lag) I logged back on and found myself zoned into the midst of about 5 drachnids! Needles to say, I died pretty quick. I went on to lvl til 24 getiing killed by these things almost EVERY time I went to sell and bank.(I 'm a War) Well I left that place swearing my revenge on these evil creatures. Now the Time has come. I will go there and mindlessly slaughter ths tings until I get bored (AKa bout 5 mins) and will give safe passage to n00bs who need it.

Atawalpa Axefury
32 Warrior of the Vikings
(Trying to organize a raid here)

Being a 22 Paladin with a 19 Ranger we decided to hop on over to Lake of Omen to hopefully lvl. anyhow being the first time in kunark we decided to casted camo...well next thing i know STUN then got aggroed like crazy bam dead! 3 times yes I am back to lvl 21 and yes the can see thru CAMO for a paladin my ranger friend only died once! what a rip. one more try otherwise back to HK

I've heard countless horror stories about the spider alley during my time in LoIO (from 18 to 28) and the only time I had a drachnid attack me, I was 27 and it conned blue by then.

It's no big deal. Just hit F9 to get an overhead camera, adjust the height and angle a bit and you have a much larger field of view. Also crank up those speakers....the audio cues will help evade those that come up from behind.

Just keep your eyes and ears open. You don't necessarily need to run straight through. Weave your away around the spiders' paths. Stop and let them walk past. Put those 15-year-old Frogger skills to use.

They might be dangerous ladies...But they are SEXY as frell!!!!
Too bad you can't use the same look for the dark elves!!!!!

Airlena of Brell

Level 20 ranger, just got to Kunark/FV for the first time. Me, 20 wizard, 18 ranger decide to stroll up to the Lake for a quick look around.
About 2 steps past the second statue, 2 drachnids approach.
Gwindor says "Wow, cool spiders!"
A drachnid silklurker hits Gwindor for 52
Gwindor says "Crap, run!"
A drachnid silklurker begins to cast a spell
Wizard says "I thought this was safe zone for us?"
Your feet become entwined
........
Pow! Bam! Zot! Crunch!
........
LOADING....PLEASE WAIT

Now, I am a 35 Ranger and I have been regularly soloing these guys on and off since 32. The key to killing them is 1) stay out of poison casting range; their roots are weak and ignite (37 dd) is the best I've yet been hit for; against trueshot with a good sow/snare combo, they don't stand a chance 2) pull down to the shore in front of the access tunnel where Scout Bowfist and his doggy Dune hang out; if you get into trouble, go down the tunnel and, assuming you can take a couple more hits, he should jump on the spider; be careful to pull the spider into the tunnel, there is a bug that allows the spider to hit you from above the tunnel preventing scout bowfist from helping you out 3) if you're kiting, keep your distance: these guys have a much larger range of melee attack than i'm used to fighting against 4) be prepared to die every now and again; i took like 12 in a row monday and then fought one that made me look like a little girl (all blues that i pull); if he gets his dot (stinging swarm, i think it's 120 pt over 2 minutes or something like that) and a good poison dose in you, root and cure or he's got you.
It's not the easiest thing I've ever killed for exp but these things are fun to kill and they give one of the best challenges I've yet gotten from a blue mob in solo contest. These guys see invis (not sure which of the drachnids, just one class sees invis; not rogue sneak, just casted invisibility), thorn and buff themselves, root and dot. I never fight these guys without cancel magic, cure poison, and root (snare is a given for a ranger in battle imho) very handy.
Remember, elves: killing these guys is a service to everyone crossing the zone to Lake of Ill Omen.

Gwindor Nargothrond
Ayonae Ro

when i was lvl 13 i went to kunark i am a ranger i decided to go back to butcher black since my friend said they are blocking the river to lake of lll omen so i decided to come back when i got camoflase then i fell off the madens voyage then after acouyple a days i found an islande with a shuttle after i got my swiming at 134 so any way can they see invisible so i know when to go there?

At 30 I could easily solo most of these baddies. They look uber cool. Ayone who has ever played D&D would recognize the Drider. They never dropped anything really worth my continual attacks on them though.

My brother was running through the area and he never notices anyone calling for groups there. I'm a fresh 30 paladin and was planning to hunt the Drachnids due to the abundance (positive or negative) of them. Will I be able to find some people to hunt them with me? And is this a good or bad idea?

Today, i met a ranger who offered to camo me (as i couldn't get a sow). While taking the stream(river?) route i con all drachnids that were close and all were indifferent. All of a sudden, it wore off...
A silklurker agro'd me and i ran like hell for the zone, i was only half way to the LOIO zone when this happened and 3 more drachnids helped out along the way. I was on my last bub of life and soo close to the zone...-hit, hit, hit, poison!- zone-
finally after i zone, i ended up escaping without a sow, but the poison got me in the end.
with a sow you should be able to get by these guys unless they root you.

I am a level 17 monk on Veeshan, I had superior camo and SoW and I had enough faction to con Indiff to FV gaurds (BTW I am Iksar monk...) and while headin back to LOIO I managed to aggro and webstrander and another, didnt get much chance to look before i was easily killed. If u are going in or out of FV, RUN LIKE HELL!!!!!!

Currently I am a lvl 19 mage. When Vereant changed the spell component for pets from lapis lazuli to malachite, I was in LOIO w/o any malachite. I thought that I would just go back to FV and pick up some more malachite and get rid of some copper and silver. Everyone told me I would be fine if I used invis on myself. A couple of the drachnids conned indifferant to me, but then another type (silklurker, I think) came over a hill and immediatly attacked me. Are there types that can see invis? Is there any safe route to FV until my faction is high enough to go to Cabilis?

I was told that with SoW (I couldn't get invis...wish I could, then I woulda been fine), if you are careful you can make it no prob...and if they see you, just run. Well, I was chased by 3 of these and they CAUGHT ME!!! Some things that are being thought right this instance:
1) NO..I wasn't encumbered.
2) NO..I kept resisting the grasping roots
3) Yes I ran in a straight line for the guards

Just a piece of advice for you guys around my level (25)...be very very careful...or pay someone good pp for invis. Don't even need SoW if you have invis. I arrived in the area from LOIO, in full health, and carefully ran towards the guards. BAMN! got stunned (I think one spawned near me) and then got aggroed by 2 more. By the time I was about 5 secs from the guards, I had to LoH. By the time I got to the guards (got rooted at one point after LoH), and the guards took FOREVER to kill the 3, I had less than 2 bubs of health left.
So please, I beg of you...be careful.

I wonder if the lvl range is a bit larger. When I turned 25 I went to FV to take the boat and conned several. I got one blue, severla blacks and a lot of yellow. Non eof the Drachnids listed should con blue(or black for that matter)

You might just have seen the pop of mobs. In open area zones the seem to drop straight from heaven. Encountered that in other open areas, too (WC, Everfrost, Qeynos Hills, etc.).

To repeat what Fenyear said: be careful about letting one of these get away. Had an all caster group in hte low 30's fighting on hte beach, and since I was higherst (35 wiz) and had the best sheild spells, I was pulling. We were doing fine until I tagged one, and got too far from it too fast. It didn't follow, and we forgot about it. 10-15 minutes later, it attacks me while medding. No biggie, we think, it finally showed up, and we kill it. Sit down to med, another one attacks me...ok, we kill that one too. Sit down...you guessed it, another shows up. By now we are all oom, and I figure the whole danged forest is aggroed on me. So I get a little away from our camp (no sow), and let them finish me off to save the group. I was entirely oom, couldn't even gate at that point. They have a long memory, and tell all their friends...

These things will rip ya to pieces if you are a lower lv heading out to Ill omen...my suggestion is to get invis or camo9invis will last longer) and turn on the burns to get to the lake as fast as ya can.

I looted a Jade Ring which sold to vendor for 9p 9g.

In addition you loose faction with MayongMistmore (worse).
But well he doesnt like anyone !