The Widowmistress  

Conned as level 36. Light-blue to a 46 Pally.

For reference, this occurred on one of the time-locked servers during the beginning (no expansions). My pally was wearing full Bronze with a handful of other plate itemss. Full self buffs, including disease and poison resists, and I was at 262 AC, 2186 HP, MR 60, PR 45, DR 48.

She will agro from far away so be read when nearing her spawn point. She runs at about 20%, directly to the spiders. Spiders will agro even when gray.

She double-attacks in the 20 - 80 range, and backstabs for 140 - 221 even when standing directly in front of you. She hits FAST, like every 2 seconds. Expect the occasional quad attack. If you are unlucky, she will quad, backstab, and proc twice in one round.

She procs both a poison AND a disease DoT. Procs go off all the time, at least once every four attack cycles; pointless to cure them. With my resists, they were resisted only about one out of every three procs. They are not dependent on her weapons as she will proc even when wielding two regular weapons (she drops fine steel piercing weapons).

For a level 36 original EQ mob, she does a ton a damage in a very short period of time. Definitely consider her an undercon. My 46 pally was down to 40% in like 10 seconds. Had to stun/root and back away to heal myself and question the decision to solo her.

Fortunately she's not particularly resistant to magic-based spells. Stuns and roots landed all the time, and for full duration.

Trying to solo her by tanking/self-healing was not a good idea. She does too much damage to keep up with pally heals.

Had to root her and fling arrows from a distance - Ranger style. I used a Bow of the Underfoot (archery at 190) and class-3 crafted arrows. Hit for 10 - 60 every 6 second. Took about 90 seconds to whittle her down below 30%. She flees at around 20% and heads for the spiders..

Dropped the dagger three times in a row, then two FS spears and quest hair on fourth attempt, followed by two FS spears and a *****'s-bane on last pull.

Edited, Jul 6th 2020 5:48pm by Ardnahoy

Also drops *****'s Bane.

She attacked me while i was sitting got backstabbed for 168 :) my pet took here out but she put up a nice fight against the 51 earth pet.

She's got to be a rogue.
I was doing some exploring waiting for the Guards to pop so I could kill them and loot the Whorebane I need for the Journeyman level cultural book.
I was a 41 Necro with the 39 pet (pet armed with 2 Polished Steel Ulaks), self buffed only. She popped behind me, and the first I knew something was up was when she Backstabbed me for 80+.
I threw my pet at her to get some breathing room, and then watched as she took him out without breaking a sweat. I was able to get Scourge, Chilling Embrace, and Root to land on her, but she resisted Venom of the Snake, and Vampiric Embrace.
When she started resisting my spells I said enough and "Nuked" her with Life Taps!
She dropped the Stilleto and the Hair.

So:
Dark Blue to a 41 Necro.
Good Resists
Probably a Rogue due to the Backstab.
Rapid attacks in melee.

I had no problem with her as a mage at level 42. Very quick fight, only problems were the spidie aggros.

Edited, Wed Aug 10 02:20:27 2005

She's a tough one. Conned blue to me at 41, and was hitting me 3-4 times a round for 40-80 damage each hit. Couldn't have killed her even with LoH, had to run to the zone.

I have camped this char with everything from a 38th cleric (when me and now ex hubby in RL were together) to a 52nd druid. As a matter of fact I am camping her as I type (on another computer) for my boyfriend's necro. From my observations over a 2 year RL time span she has ALWAYS spawned in the same spot, to wit: approx [474], [215].. at 52nd level she is light blue to my druid. The most I have seen her hit for is 83points of dmg and that was not a backstab. I have not seen her even attempt to cast or use a poison ability. Although, were she to have the Stiletto on her she prolly would as of course it procs Bloodclaw.

Cheers,
Sepulturagi

Me (a 31 BST) and a 29 ENC were down in Nanjena by the pool helping my buddy a 31 Paladin last night try and get the nobleman's hilt from the skeletons. The Pally pulled in the widowmistress and she conned red to me. Anyway he and my warder tanked her. Pally died. I did all I could to keep my wolf healed but then ran out of mana. She was down to about 31% health so I figured I would go in a tank her. Meanwhile the enchanter w/ kei was nuking her the whole time. I was down to 15% health when she finally died. Enchanter was out of Mana, it was a close of a fight as you can get. Only got the fine steel dagger and fine steel rapier though. Was an exhilarating fight though, and after reading all these posts, I think we kicked her **** pretty darn good!

Edited, Tue Mar 25 17:43:20 2003

Besides the stiletto of the bloodclaw, is there anything special she drops worth the effort of killing her? It'd be difficult to solo her, unless I had some serious buffs and haste I think (I'm a 46 monk) but I easily soloed Drelzna and she dropped the exact same stiletto. If the stiletto's all you want, you'd be better off just fighting Drelzna, who's A LOT easier to defeat than the widowmistress. Unless you're doing the summoning of terror quest and need her hair, it's not really worth the effort of fighting her.

Edited, Tue Oct 22 02:27:05 2002

In the donut-shaped area in the north end of Najena, there are two static Giant Widow spiders and a roamer that roams all the way from the north end down past the goblins. The widowmistress has always (every time I've seen her) been in the very north-most static spawn spot. I don't think any of the other spiders are placeholders. Saw her about 1 in 5 times of killing all the spiders there. When I saw her, she didn't drop any Stilettos (even though she supposedly drops up to 2), instead she dropped FS junk, rapiers & daggers. Drelzna dropped the Stiletto about 1 time in 5 that she was up. As a wizard, I don't have many HPs so couldn't afford to take any chances on her. Targeted her from an Eye of Zomm, Loaded up Shieldskin, Resistant Skin, Arch Shielding and went to the wall to pull her from the farthest range. Pulled with Ice Comet, rooted, backed up, Ice Comet again and she dies. Doesn't seem to have any special resistance to Cold.

Edited, Sat Aug 10 22:09:21 2002

We are camping the WM tonight, Saryrn server. She is tough, but easily managable with our small group. Level 40 enchanter(myself), 40 shaman and 40 cleric.

We put her down half a dozen times, she seems to have a 20 minute spawn and the PH is a giant black widow spider. We were also alternating between this and Najena herself, on the same spawn timer. It felt good, as I have lusted after revenge since The WM killed me once as a lowbie.

Never underestimate her, she hits very hard and fast. Our cleric had to be quick to ensure we weren't overwhelmed.

Edited, Mon Aug 5 20:56:07 2002

I thought I would run through Najena today and saw this gal. She has a big aggro range, as soon as I saw her she ran after me =/. She's not that bad doesnt have much HPs but she does hit moderately fast, not too hard tho most she ever hit for was 70 and that wasnt often. Little tougher than I thought she would be, had to Root and heal once but everything was just dandy.
She dropped to FS weps I felt ripped off (

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