Spiderling Silk  

 

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You do occasionally find a spiderling in West Karana, but they spawn so infrequently that you'd be foolish to hunt them there. I've killed dozens of lions, lionesses, giant spiders, et al, in a vain attempt to get them to spawn.

Ran through Blackburrow to Everfrost, and had half a stack of spiderling silk in just a few minutes from the wooly spiderlings there. Just take the westernmost path leading north from Blackburrow to Halas. 3 or 4 laps of that is all that is required.

The farm rate for spiderling silks is the best I've seen..every kill gives 2-4 silks. The spiders are on same spawn list as the snakes and drakes so kill them all to pop the spiders.

Edited, Oct 27th 2006 at 8:02pm PDT by tamud

Been farming spiderling silks for tailoring. I decided to post an update since alot has changed since Maderik's post on good places to farm.

The new Nektulos still has a great drop rate on silks as some spiders drop 3 or even 4 silks, but the drawback is all the other crap roaming around that you need to slay to help spiderlings pop. Also, seeing distances are an issue.

Toxxulia was probably worse as visiblity is worse and spiders only drop 1 or 2 silks and there are a ton of other spawns, even though there are multiple types of spiders that drop spiderling silk.

Then i went to East Commonlands, right outside Freeport. I noticed spiderlings near the 1st Inn, close to Freeport zone. It was nightime and spiderlings were everywhere. Literally 9 crawling around, not much other trash mobs. ...so I began killing. Spiderlings only dropped 1 or 2 silks at most, but the spawn rate, lack of trash and vision was fantastic, with clip all the way up I could see to the North/South end of zone from the inn. This led me to further investigation. This is what I found:

I killed 100 spiderlings for this sample.

IRL time taken: 94min.
Game time taken: 1 day, 7 hours. (Noon to 7pm the next day).
Total Spiderling silks collected: 53
Drop ratio: .53 per kill
Drops per minute: .56
Spawns with silks: 41
Percentage of spiderlings with silks: 41%
Spawns farmed from 6am-5pm (day)Game Time: 23.5
Spawns farmed from 6pm-5am (night)Game Time: 51.5

From this we can see that unless it is a fluke and respawn is timed based on when I began killing, spiderlings are more likely to spawn in the East Commonlands during the night.

Loot never exceeded 2 silks.

Killing trash mobs did not seem to accelerate spiderling spawns.

Hope this helps!

I foraged one of these in a Mistmoore LDoN last night.

Leakeeper Ranger Level 28 Drinal

All I can say is the drop in the spiderling silk and spider silk rates is mostly due to the cheaters and hackers. It appears that we are all being punished because they have found a way to use enchanters to make mega plat that has really screwed up the economy.

This is one of the MANY ways they have decided to try and fix the problem. The best and most effective way was the casino in Shadow Haven.

I do agree that the drop rate is a major problem facing both tailors and smiths. Yet there is something nice about running around and killing greenies with one wack of my sword ... nahhh it sucks hard and I hate tradeskills for it!!

These are just my pennies worth of Oppinions ... /rant off

GL you all :)

I have my greatest suscess in Innothule Swamp....
near Gukta, Outpost of Marr.....Frog-Vila, in the newbie area.

Ok, been doing some serious spiderling farming for silk threads for armor. I've read what others have indicated and will add what I've found. Hope it helps.

1. Everfrost - Used to be THE best place to find spiderling silk IMO. Now it's a colossal waste of time. In twenty spiderling kills I got three silks. Oddly enough, though they nerfed the silk drops, they increased the spawn rate on all lowbie mobs substantially. Still, not a place I'd recommend hunting.

2. Oggok - As stated before, the NE corner used to be a great place to farm spiderlings. The spawn rate for spiderlings has lessened considerably, and the silk drops seem to have been nerfed as well, making it one of the poorer hunting grounds.

3. Field of Bone - The little tunnel to the north of the newbie ramp near Cabilis is crawling with spiderlings. Sorry, couldn't help it. :) Unfortunately, this seems to be one of the most heavily nerfed drop rate locations. After killing all twenty spiderlings and a few others wandering by, I got ONE SILK! Used to be a really great, little-known area, but it's toast now. Thanks SoE. :P

4. East Commons - An old favorite of mind when I got too damn sick of farming in Everfrost. The spawn rate for spiderlings is about the same, and it was never terribly frequent. But it used to be a nice alternative if the other spots were crowded. Sadly, SoE applied the nerf bat liberally here, and the drop rate for silks is ridiculously low now. Stay clear unless you've got half a day to kill.

5. Nektulos - Bingo! I finally found a location to farm these insipid little crawlers that seems to have at least temporarily escaped SoE's nerf squad. In the area from the PoK book, to the newbie log, to the hill, to nearly the tunnel to Neriak, spiderlings can be found. I discovered that by killing everything that moved to keep the spawn rate up, I was able to collect 100 silks in about two hours. The drop and spawn rate for the critters seem unchanged from the 'good ol' days', and the area was totally deserted on a Saturday night.

I didn't bother visiting other zones after Nektulous, so I can't honestly say if there's another good hunting ground. But I can at least confirm that as of the date of my post, this area is a good spot.

A warning: Watch out for the guards. The sergeant that wanders near the book is dark blue to a 34 beastlord, and was a fairly easy fight. But Kirik Vil is a VERY red guard that wanders from the tunnel to Neriak down to nearly the newbie tree. Be extra careful with him. I nearly ran into serious trouble with him a couple of times. If you're less than a comfortably high 50's or 60's character, watch your step accordingly.

Hope this helps. :)

Hrogdor, Myrdynn, Loonsong, Daharann, Luthur, Erid, Kassius, Erelhi.
Druzzil Ro

I farm these for personal use quite a lot, as I have a habit of changing characters on a fortnightly basis, and then it's a case of ''Damn! Need to get tailoring going again...'', so here's my experience on zones I know.

Everfrost - arguably the best place for non-trackers to go, as the spiderlings are localised and drop silks on a fairly regular basis. Too many skeletons in the zone though - there are plenty of zones that are skeleton-heavy as it is; could use some of the skeleton pops being replaced by spiderlings/wolves/bear cubs (Well done to them for increasing the mob amount in the last patch though)

Greater Faydark - Widow Hatchlings drop enough silks to make it worthwhile looking here, but only if you can track - the mobs are very spread out.

East Commons - Plenty of spiderlings at the Freeport end of the zone, tracking not really necessary to find them... but the drop rate for silks is pitiful; this is a last resort for me.

Oggok - NE corner, you're falling over spiders and spiderlings, but the chance of spiderling silk/black spider silk/pristine spider silk is about even... good for new players, as the other 2 kinds sell quite well to NPC merchants, and not that bad for spiderling silks due to the sheer number of kills you can make.

Nektulos Forest - around the PoK book, and up near the Neriak entrance, there are quite a few spiderlings, good drop rate of silks aswell... worthwhile hunting here, but watch the guards if you're KOS here.

Misty Thicket - Drop off both spiderlings and Large Wood Spiders; there are lots of these about, but the drop rate is very low - I don't bother hunting here unless I'm in the zone for other reasons.

Toxxulia Forest - Drop off Widow Hatchlings, Spiderlings and Large Wood Spiders, good drop rate... took my ranger here for half an hour one morning a few days back, got nearly 3 stacks; but beware - it's very easy to empty the zone of them - when I went back there after work the same day, there were NO spiders of ANY shape or form on radar (and at level 41, I can cover most of the zone from the centre).

Other zones, I don't have enough experience of to comment on properly, so my summary based on my personal experience is make a ranger for tracking, and hit Toxx Forest first, followed by Nektulos, then Everfrost. If anyone can shed any light on the zones I've missed, that would be most welcome. =)

Happy hunting...

Best way to farm silks if your a caster:
1. Run around with sow, wolform, or j-boots/t-boots. Reccomend not using horse or drogmor because they take a few more steps to stop.
2. Aggro every low level thing you can see using lvl 1-4 dds/debuffs/taps what not. Why? They use less mana and don't out right kill the newbie stuff. You want them to follow you around. Don't use snare if your a druid, but tangling weeds is ok cause of the short duration.
3. When you have gotten a suffienct amount of stuff, pick a spot and then wait a minute or 2 for eveything to catch up. If your a druid, make sure your not using a thorn coat of the mobs will keep running away at low health.
4. Once you don't see anymore mobs comming, use a PB AE spell. They hit everything in the area, where as rain spells or target based AE may only hit up to 4. Does not need to be a big nuke either, 104 DD AE on my necro worked quite nicely.
5. Once everything is dead, wait 30 seconds for those corpses to rot that don't have anything. Then harvest away!

Can't we all just get along? It's hard to get useful info from here if all you do is argue.
anyway, to what I'm posting for:

I was amazed when (on the Bertox server, I just switched over from TZ, much to my dismay) I sold 2 stacks of spiderling silks for 25 plat!!! It was nice, and allowed me to purchase some much needed items (it's hard to find a good deal in bertox, I've noticed, I even saw ruined gnoll leather boots selling for 15 plat!). After I auctioned them, I sold them to the first bidder, and after that I kept getting tells from people offering me even more! I wish I'd held out, but I really needed the money for spells on my cleric (yes, all my characters are newbies). Anyway, it was wonderful, and poo on everyone who thinks that a low level can't make money too. I didn't set a price, I got offered a price. I don't play so much that I can sit in the bazaar for days on end and sell stuff at exorbant rates, only to turn around and buy something overpriced =) It's cool to have a velium hammer and a cloak for my little halfling.
take care all,
The shamaness formerly known as Ysthan