a crag spider  

These are now used in the quest Blessed Impressions, which is the updated quests for cultural armors (as of Secrets of Faydwer). This quest has you kill 20 froglok Gaz in Upper Guk, and make impressions of the froglok Gaz head patterns (5). Kill 10 a crag spiders in East Karana and make impressions of the crag spider carapaces (2). These impressions will show up in your Blessed Impression Book which was given to you by Vuro Padfoot in Shar Vahl. Not sure if this is the same for other races.
This is for the Blessed Cultural Symbols for the Simple Vah Shir cultural armors.

Sharmalle - 77 kitty Shammy

I would think that a Enchanter with their wits about them would be able to make short work of these by doing the following:

Charm a Griff or another Spider

Slow the Target Spider

Sick the pet against it until it is dead then use pet until almost dead and kill off the pet getting exp for both kills.

When I return to EK I intend to test this for real. If done properly it should be very good exp.

Today, I was hunting in EK with my ranger farming silk. There were 4 or 5 spiders on tracking and dozens of lions and snakes. The zone crashed and was reset. Whne I got back in, about 5 mins later, my tracking showed about 90 spiders, no snakes and 4 or 5 lions. This was proof enough for me that the snakes and lions are both PHs for the spiders. So, if you are hunting the spiders, kill the snakes and lions too, to improve your haul.

Good hunting to you.

Also dropped Tasarin's Grimoire p 312 right half

Crag Spider must not be considered an animal. I tried to use terrorize animal when another spider tried to attack me. Screen indicated that this was not an animal and this spell could not be used to frighten it away.

I killed these for a couple of hours on Povar this morning. these along with the carrion crawlers got me 160 silks total. quite nice if you need to make silk items. The dropped 4 silks commonly, sometimes id get 6, once i got lucky and all of 8 dropped. i also got quite a few poisin sacks, not bad for selling if i can find some rouge that may want them...

Makilitor, 34 Vah Shir Beastlord of Povar

Edited, Fri Aug 9 12:02:46 2002

One other thing I noticed while on my farming mission - I'm not positive, but it seems like the Chasm Crawler and Bull Nose snakes are placeholders for Carrion and Crag spiders. Has anyone else noticed this?

I spent about 6 hours farming these the other day and never got more than 4 silks. The best take I got was 4 silks and 2 poison sacs.

I'm wondering if the drop rate has been reduced along with the addition of new tailoring recipes... Has anyone gotten more than 8 silks since the most recent patch?

These were screaming yellow to my 18 warrior tonight. Didn't try them, we'll see how they con next level.

Frekkles Underkilt
18 Big Blonde Barbie Battletank
Torture guild
Vazelle

i am a druid and i started kiting these things at 17. They all conned yellow and gave me about a blue of XP each. Silik drops were a disappointment- most of the time i got only 1 or 2 or nothing. Still well worth kiting

They're blue to my troll SK at 21, but they still hit him pretty hard, have descent hitpoints and thier poison is no joke - 8 or 10 points of damage per tick and fairly long lasting and I've got good poison saves.

Silk rates have been gone down though - most I've seen is 6, usually 2 or 4 and even get empties. Poison sack drops have gone up though - usually every other one and have even had multiple drops on the same spider - made my rogue buddy's day when I pulled three off of the same spider. (told you they were very poisonous)

I have seen these recently drop 8 silks, when i was farming them last week. usually it's in the 2-3 range, but sometimes up to 6, and very rarely 7 or 8.

Aahzmandius
51st Level Cavalier
Luclin

Must be this zone has exp bonus or something...

Fought gorge hounds solo from about 19-21, almost full blue bub for each one.

Now, lvl 23 and back soloing the spideys for exp and silks. At lvl 23, get almost a full blue bub of exp for each one.

Tactic is to fight one, kill it, wait for poison to leave me, bandaid to 50%, rest till have 3 bubs health or a smidgeon more, then fite another. Only once got in a jam from adds, but if you are careful, melee classes can really benefit from these guys -- I know I am!! Gonna try to get to lvl 24 fiting them. Made about 25 swatches so far...NICE

Synfall Icebled, 23 Barb Warr
Vazaelle

You will have difficulty with the Crags as a Wiz at 18. Go back to N. Karana and fatten up on Borer's and Griffawns. At 19, Borers and Griffs still give good ep. But nothing compared to Crags. Almost a full blue bar per kill.

Same old trick of root and nuke but as for your mathematical manna bubble. Make sure you have Resistant skin on which increases poison resistance in case the crag gets close enough. Against a single crag, you have enough manna to cast root on it 4 times and 1 partial or complete resist on your lightning bolt with 142 INT before you go oom. Please adjust if you have lesser INT. Laugh if you have more. since Crags for some reason, even though they don't resist root, they break of off it faster than any mobs at this level.

At 19, I am able to blast away for the full damage of the Lightning bolt at 123 dmg. So 3 bolts and a Lightning shock takes care of it. Fight shouldn't last for more than 15 seconds.

Once you make 20, go back and get your new spells... Now you can Teleport... Weeee.