Spindel/Strategies
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Warning: Spindel resides in level 29 Wilderness. You may be attacked by other players at any time during the fight. Do not bring any items that you are not willing to lose. Items like the dragon defender will become broken if not protected and must be repaired at Perdu for a fee.
Spindel is a level 302 spider boss that is found in the Web Chasm. The fight with her is nearly identical to Venenatis, although with reduced stats and in a singles-plus combat area. Completion of the hard Wilderness diary is required to fight Spindel.
Transportation
Spindel is located in the Web Chasm, which is a lair located in the ruins north of the Graveyard of Shadows in level 29 Wilderness.
- Graveyard of Shadows teleport, then run north.
- Teleport to Ferox Enclave and run north past green dragons, or head north-east around the graveyard.
- Teleport to the level 26 Revenant Caves entrance with a revenant cave teleport and run east.
- With the Hunter cape, teleport to the black chinchompas and run south east. The hunter cape will be lost if the player dies in level 30 or higher wilderness.
- Take a canoe to the wilderness pond and run south east.
- A games necklace to teleport to the Corporeal Beast's lair, exit the cave then run north-west.
Attacks
Spindel has many attacks that she uses against her target.
- Melee attack: She simply lunges at the player. This is the only normal attack she will use if the player is within melee distance.
- Ranged attack: Launches green spit at players.
- Magic attack: Launches webs at players.
- Sticky Web: Spindel will occasionally deploy a sticky web at a player, sending a white-blue web at the target's location. It will then expand into a 7x5 AoE - while in this web, any player caught in it will take rapid hits of 3 damage, have their prayer drained by 3, and run energy by 10.
- Note that aranea boots will only negate the first tick of damage taken from the web attack.
- Spiderlings: Spindel will occasionally call some spiderlings to assist her in battle. While fairly weak, they will drain prayer on every hit regardless if prayed against or hits. They will also increase her damage and allow her to hit through prayers if left alive. Player and thrall damage is slightly reduced while spiderlings are alive. Currently, spiderlings cannot spawn east of Spindel's location for reasons unknown.
Suggested skills
70+
70+
75+ (if ranging)
70+
Overview
Spindel can attack with all three forms of combat. While she will only use one combat style at a time, players in melee distance will instead only be attacked by melee. Like Calvar'ion, she is weakest to crush.
She will begin the fight using 8 ranged attacks, followed by 8 magic attacks, all while moving position every 4 attacks. She will spawn spiderlings on the 1st ranged attack in cycle, and deploy her web attack on the 3rd mage attack in the cycle. This pattern will repeat until Spindel is defeated.
Players who enter the arena will appear to the north, so always keep an eye out for PKers and teleport or run to the exit if needed.
Players should avoid the webs at all costs, as their ability to drain run energy will prevent them from escaping from player killers. The web can be positioned safely by standing on the outskirt of the arena on the 3rd magic attack to help prevent accidentally walking into the web.
The spiderlings should be killed as soon as they spawn to prevent them from empowering her too much; fortunately, they only have 5 health and can be killed in one hit by any combat style.
- Any tier of chinchompa can eliminate multiple spiderlings with a well-placed shot as well as damage Spindel's south-west tile, (Ensure PK Skull prevention is activated).
- Blisterwood stakes, darts, or throwing knives can quickly eliminate individual spiderlings.
- Players with 70+ Magic and Ancient Magicks can use a burst spell with blighted ancient ice sacks to eliminate multiple spiderlings at once.
Equipment
Spindel's location in the Wilderness should warrant extra precautions. Bring defensive armour, especially against magic attacks from other players, as even with a scout and perfect reactions you can be caught inside the cave. Reduce risk accordingly.
Spindel has a lower defence level compared to her stronger counterpart, Venenatis.
The ursine chainmace is the strongest weapon against Spindel, costing 4,921,504. The four strongest items to bring are generally the chainmace, your strongest defender, the amulet of rancour, and your best strength ring (ultor ring or berserker ring (i)). A fourth valuable item should only be brought if you are confident in not getting Smited by player killers. Further upgrades are generally very expensive and add little additional damage for their risk and cost. Trouver parchments can be used on certain gear, such as an infernal cape or fighter torso, to gain additional strength bonus for additional risk of 883,767 each.
Inventory
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Inventory setup will vary greatly depending on your gear and team. When deciding what supplies to bring, keep in mind that Spindel frequently drops large quantities of un-noted blighted food or potions that replace supplies used during the fight. Make sure to have the following:
- Grey chinchompas, blisterwood stakes, darts/throwing knives, or blighted ancient ice sacks for killing the spiderlings quickly, ordered from fastest to slowest
- Looting bag
- Stamina potion
- (Divine) super combat potion
- Anti-venom/Sanfew serum(s) — cures/prevents venom from player killers.
- Blighted super restores
- Blighted manta ray or blighted anglerfish (if the player is 93 or higher hitpoints) for the rest, and multiple blighted karambwan
Optional:
- Phoenix necklace — emergency healing whilst tanking
- Saradomin brews — more expensive outlast healing, combo eating with hard food is invaluable
- Royal seed pod — if not bringing a charged amulet of glory or ring of wealth
- Games necklace or revenant cave teleport to reach the Web Chasm faster.
- Runes for thralls and/or Death Charge
- Death charge can be cast off cooldown with frequent spiderling spawns.
- Divine rune pouch locked with a trouver parchment — if using Arceeus spellbook, allows for more supplies.
Both the webweaver bow and Craw's bow offer very competitive damage against Spindel despite her higher ranged defences. Ranged also has the luxury of staying closer to the exit in case of player killers, although you will need to monitor and change your overhead prayers depending on the attack cycle. The twisted bow and bow of Faerdhinen are also both strong alternatives to some melee setups. Crossbows generally perform worse than most melee weapons.
Inventory
- Royal seed pod acts as a one-click emergency teleport from up to level 30 Wilderness
- Super restore potions can be used in place of blighted super restores
- Blighted manta ray or blighted anglerfish (if the player is 93 or higher hitpoints) for the rest, and multiple blighted karambwan
Plugins
All of the following plugins are available on both officially approved third-party Game clients. On RuneLite they must be installed separately from the Plugin Hub, accessed from the Configuration button (wrench icon on sidebar), then clicking the Plugin Hub button (right-most plug icon). On HDOS these plugins come preinstalled.
Custom Menu Swaps
- To have the Spinderling attack options appear on top of Spindel: Add
Attack,Spindel's Spiderling*to "Custom Swaps"