Sapperman
Grandmaster
So I decided to give a little rundown of the Spider. I currently own a level 6 spider that has three relics, necrosis (10), carapace (8) and brood (4). The spider is a very resilient pet and serves as an excellent tank. The base damage output is low compared to that of a dragon, however with brood and anticipating desiccate next month the damage should increase significantly. So a quick breakdown by stages.
Stage 1: Easy to level, gazer room in cove should get you there in a couple hours.
Stage 2: Still pretty weak but strong enough to do the skeletal knights at the deceit teleporter.
Stage 3: Getting stronger at this point, ettins, trolls, ogres and orcs are the best for leveling.
Stage 4: I spent the whole level in the orc cave and leveled fairly quickly.
Stage 5: Now the spider is getting stronger, ogre lords, deamons, and rotting corpses are the way to go.
Stage 6: The spider can now tank fairly well, same creatures as level 5.
So a breakdown on relics.
Necrosis: (200 Powerscrolls) Acting like a molten except the damage is circular range based and looks like locke coles mirror image “Ultima’s”. Quick and easy to level just farm.
Carapace: (200 Powerscrolls) I think this relic needs some more love, when it procs it increases the AR by 200 for a duration up to 20 seconds I believe. The AR is barely noticeable. However, it does refresh your spiders stamina when it procs which is very helpful considering stamina and dex are your spiders friend.
I recommend that the proc adds reflective armor similar to scaled down dark father reflect for a duration up to 20 secs.
Brood: (150 powerscrolls) Brood is a cool relic, as your levels increase the spider summons other spiders to assist it. Becomes pretty powerful. Will add more as I level it.
Downside and recommendation, allow the broodlings to persist beyond the creature it was proc’ed on. Many times it will proc on a lower end mob and lose the damage on the mob you are actually trying to kill.
Desiccate: Will update as soon as I get it.
Overall, the spider needs tweaked to remain competitive to a meta dragon. With a meta dragon’s quicksilver the spider has no chance to compete with damage. However, the tanking ability is pretty awesome.
I have fought a level 7 dragon with a level 6 spider and it was incredibly close. The dragon won but not by much. However, not much should be given to this since relics cannot be proc’ed against other pets. In order to truly gauge I would have to run analysis on different creatures killed by time. I may do this once I hit level 7 for better results.
Final recommendation, tweak relics as described or make a 3 slot pet. As it is currently, it is not overpowered to be a 3 slot. This would allow for a mare or meta steed to augment damage plus paralytic etc. If damage is increased through relics or through direct damage then the 4 slot is warranted.
I hope that helps someone. I will update more as I discover it. Since no guide exists about spiders I felt I would add one to demystify the spider.
@eppy
Stage 1: Easy to level, gazer room in cove should get you there in a couple hours.
Stage 2: Still pretty weak but strong enough to do the skeletal knights at the deceit teleporter.
Stage 3: Getting stronger at this point, ettins, trolls, ogres and orcs are the best for leveling.
Stage 4: I spent the whole level in the orc cave and leveled fairly quickly.
Stage 5: Now the spider is getting stronger, ogre lords, deamons, and rotting corpses are the way to go.
Stage 6: The spider can now tank fairly well, same creatures as level 5.
So a breakdown on relics.
Necrosis: (200 Powerscrolls) Acting like a molten except the damage is circular range based and looks like locke coles mirror image “Ultima’s”. Quick and easy to level just farm.
Carapace: (200 Powerscrolls) I think this relic needs some more love, when it procs it increases the AR by 200 for a duration up to 20 seconds I believe. The AR is barely noticeable. However, it does refresh your spiders stamina when it procs which is very helpful considering stamina and dex are your spiders friend.
I recommend that the proc adds reflective armor similar to scaled down dark father reflect for a duration up to 20 secs.
Brood: (150 powerscrolls) Brood is a cool relic, as your levels increase the spider summons other spiders to assist it. Becomes pretty powerful. Will add more as I level it.
Downside and recommendation, allow the broodlings to persist beyond the creature it was proc’ed on. Many times it will proc on a lower end mob and lose the damage on the mob you are actually trying to kill.
Desiccate: Will update as soon as I get it.
Overall, the spider needs tweaked to remain competitive to a meta dragon. With a meta dragon’s quicksilver the spider has no chance to compete with damage. However, the tanking ability is pretty awesome.
I have fought a level 7 dragon with a level 6 spider and it was incredibly close. The dragon won but not by much. However, not much should be given to this since relics cannot be proc’ed against other pets. In order to truly gauge I would have to run analysis on different creatures killed by time. I may do this once I hit level 7 for better results.
Final recommendation, tweak relics as described or make a 3 slot pet. As it is currently, it is not overpowered to be a 3 slot. This would allow for a mare or meta steed to augment damage plus paralytic etc. If damage is increased through relics or through direct damage then the 4 slot is warranted.
I hope that helps someone. I will update more as I discover it. Since no guide exists about spiders I felt I would add one to demystify the spider.
@eppy
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