Lair of the Spider Queen/Guide

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Why iIle This?

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  Lair of the Spider Queen is mainly cleared for the Royal Toxins Spear as it provides very generous damage boosts, and also provides an additional damage boost for when the enemy is poisoned.
• The only other drop you can get from the dungeon is Spider Queen Eggs used for making the Spider Summoning Tablets.
• The pet from the dungeon, Webbie also reduces your attack speed by 0.1, which is incredibly useful in many ways.

Dungeon Mechanics

Like most dungeons,

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Lair of the Spider Queen

has many weaker enemies before sending the strongest enemy at you, which in this case is Spider Queen. Normally, you would pick a specific combat style to fight the enemies to get the full advantage of the combat triangle, but in this dungeon, you can't. The Spider Queen has a unique mechanic where they will have a random combat triangle each time. Similarly, the 19 weaker enemies before it are randomised in a way which again, makes the combat styles random. This part isn't very important since the heavy hitter in the dungeon is the last enemy. Since the random combat style gimmick is the only reason this dungeon is difficult to many, it is actually rather simple to manually clear.

Stats and Buffs

Minimum Recommended Levels

Suggestion	Benefit
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 120	Less need for DR
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 120	Pillar of Combat and Elite Pillar of Conflict
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 120	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Battleborn

Astrology

As many combat bonuses from

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Astrology

constellations are recommended, but not required. In total, Astrology serves as a massive buff to combat and will make the fight easier. The main bonuses are:

• +5 Hidden Levels for
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  Melee
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  Ranged
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  Magic
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    Iridan,
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    Terra,
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    Syllia, and
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    Arachi. The +5 hidden
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    Defence levels in
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    Tellus are redundant.
• 5% reduced Attack Interval and Enemy Damage Reduction decreased by 5%, from
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  Ashtar

Agility

#	Obstacle	Reason
1	X
2	X
3	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pipe Climb	No particular reason beyond being the only obstacle that grants any combat benefits.
4	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Coal Stones	No negative modifiers, technically saves some food.
5	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cliff Balance	+20 HP.
6	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Lake Swim	+5% Damage, +1% DR. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rocky Waters can be used instead.
7	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Boulder Trap	No negative combat modifiers.
8	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Raft Building	Gives a bit more survivability which is rather important.
9	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Water Jump	More damage. The 20 HP from Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ice Jump is not needed.
10	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Ocean Rafting	Free damage!
P	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pillar of Combat	Lots of beneficial combat bonuses.
11	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Frozen Maze	More damage reduction and faster monster respawns.
12	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Boulder Balance	Lower attack interval and more damage for the low price of lower accuracy.
13	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Rope Trap	More damage.
14	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Freezing Climb	More evasion, accuracy and damage.
15	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Waterfall Crossing	Is the equivalent of a permanent Diamond Luck Potion IV, which frees up the potion slot for Damage Reduction Potion IV It is necessary to have this obstacle at 99 mastery to halve the -100hp modifier.
EP	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Elite Pillar of Conflict	Lots of beneficial combat bonuses.

Idle Gear

• Note that if you are consistently running gear on the right hand side of the table, you may need to check your setup with the Combat Sim mod. You may also need to squeeze in more dr through the use of
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  Yak synergies and using
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  Stone Skin instead of
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  Battleborn.
• Corundum Crossbow performs better than
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  Shockwave. If you are unable to obtain the Meteorite Crossbow, use the highest level crossbow you can obtain.
• Use Damage Reduction Potion IV for 10% extra DR.
• If you are unable to obtain Meteorite Bolts, use the highest level bolts you can obtain.

Slot	Better to Worse
Head	Blazing Helmet		Slayer Cowl, Legendary or higher
Body	Bundled Protection Body
Leggings	Perfect Sight Legs		(U) Carrion Chaps
Boots	Frostspark Boots		Lightning Boots
Hands	(U) Carrion Vambraces
Cape	Weakness Exploiter Cape		Infernal Cape
Neck	Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs		Guardian Amulet
Ring	Ring of Power
Passive	Wasteful Ring
Weapon	Meteorite Crossbow		Divine Crossbow
Offhand	Leviathan Shield		(P) Divine Shield
Prayer	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Battleborn and Error creating thumbnail: File missing Holy Aegis		Error creating thumbnail: File missing Holy Aegis and Error creating thumbnail: File missing Stone Skin
Ammo	Meteorite Bolts		Zephyte Bolts
Summons	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Centaur and Error creating thumbnail: File missing Dragon