W/X FoW Spider Farmer

Racthoh takes next to nothing when fighting spiders, using dolyak signet and watch yourself. Phy res and Dolyak signet is overkill, 0 damage certainly... just means you'll have to split your stats more. You actually only need very few points invested in inspiration for the resistance stances to be worthwhile. I take along Elemental Resistance for my spider runs so when I'm done, I can toy with a few shard wolves and head straight over to the forest. =)

Was just wondering if a ranger/mes could do this run, or would their armour rating be too low (I would get about 115 pts of armour). The build i though of using was -
1.barrage
2.Troll urgent
3.Physical Resistance
4.Read the Wind
The last 4 skills i would play around with, as soon as we gett favor
The bow I was thinking of using was zealous shortbow of defense. Just tried this build, with my ranger, and knewn I was going to have trouble with the spiders when i got to the caves, see as those driftwoods wereing hiting me for about 15pts of dmge . Might try to see if i can get it to work if i switch my 2ndary profession to elem (was thking of earth armour buffs)

what type of armor do you have? platemail is the best for damage reduction. I have All Knights armor. With a major rune of absorbsion, major rune of vigor, sup rune of sword, minor rune of strength, and a minor rune of tactics.

I have All Knights armor. With a major rune of absorbsion, major rune of vigor, sup rune of sword, minor rune of strength, and a minor rune of tactics. Knights does not enjoy the 100AL versus physical of glads, or 95AL v phy of platemail. The -damage boost doesn't stack, so you're better off with 1 knight's piece and full glads.

P.s. how did you discover the tunnel was there? My testing was from groups that would do the Restore the Temple of War quest that leads you to the end of the tunnel onto the beach. The whole path would be cleared, except for the spot where all the spiders would spawn. Most groups would always leave after doing that quest, so I was free to do as I wished.

Phy res and Dolyak signet is overkill, 0 damage certainly... just means you'll have to split your stats more. How about you look up what the skills actually do before you criticise, Sparky?

Physical Resistance recharges in 20 seconds, always gives 40 armour vs physical and lasts for 30 seconds at Inspiration Magic 0. You don't need to put any points into IM to effectively use the skill for spider farming; thus, no stat splitting.

My main point of suggestion was that it was too much reduction. And pardon, no I didn't know phy res only needed a little... I despise the skill and never use it

How about you lose a little hostility? I wasn't criticizing, I was answering a posted question...

Physical Resistance FTW
i didnt take any damage at all except from degen yay

This farm run is my primary source of income right now.
I don't remember who posted the build, but this is what I go with:
W/Me

Sever Artery
Gash
Galrath Slash/Final Thrust
Victory is Mine!
Watch Yourself
Physical Resistance
Heal signet
Sprint

I haven't died once using this build and it kills the spiders fast. If you encounter a group with 2 or 3 spiders piled on top of each other, it's just a simple matter of giving them all bleeding and switching targets at the right time. When they have bleeding on them, they'll use the combo: Apply poison, Melandru's Resilience and finally Healing Spring.
So just keep switching targets and you'll have 3 dead spiders in no time.

After the run I took on 3 Shadow Beasts. Just hit them once in a while and keep your health up. They sacrafice themself to 50% hp when you have killed one of them.
Also I've gotten 2 rubys on my last 2 runs and I'm up to 105 corrosive spider legs. Worth over 6k Used this build. It made it "feel" faster. I mean i dropped the Spiders faster, however it took me 1:30 minutes..... 4 Shards a Silver Dye an a Gold Hammer.

Hammer was odd since it was dmg 13%vs hexed armor pene 10/10 health +25. Was worth 480gold to merchant. You can guess what i did .

Also, you need to position yourself where the spiders you want to kill, you can hit each of them without moving. Once you move they will cast healing spring. Just hit the spiders once each time that are within your meele range, and only 1 of the spiders will cast heal spring. I didnt notice this until I swapped to sword, since cyclone axe did this for me automatically :P