Arachne, mother of all evil

## Lore

"**Intrigued by Arachne's high reputation**, **Athena disguised herself as an old woman to visit the young weaver and observe her beautiful work.** **Arachne, not having recognized the goddess**, **claimed in front of her that she was the best weaver in the world**, **better than Athena herself.**  **The goddess then entered into a great anger by noting that a simple mortal could claim to be as skillful as her.** **She revealed to Arachne her true identity and organized a contest with the young woman.** **The goddess illustrated on her embroidery the various gods of Olympus while Arachne preferred to illustrate the shameful behavior of the gods.** **Athena couldn't note any default in this embroidery but furious, she struck Arachne and tore her work.** **Thus humiliated**, **Arachne decided to end her days.** **The goddess decided to give Arachne a second life**, **but this time as a spider**, **so that she could weave for eternity.**

## **The Fight:**

* **Arachne** will start with casting Grrgle, then the tank will taunt and bring Arachne to the bottom right corner. There, the dps will wait for eggs and the next Grrgle to do the first attack burst. If there's enough damage, first webs will spawn and maybe first clone. After this, the tank will drag Arachne up to the middle right if webs were placed correct and then just wait for the dps cds to be over, so they can burst again while avoiding eggs and gurgle meanwhile. If everything goes to plan, the tank should drag Arachne to a new location every time webs are placed. Usually like this: Bottom right, middle right, upper right, upper middle, upper left and then there shouldn't be any more webs procs so just go down and tank where you see fit.

* **Arachne** is a fight where the team composition of the fight matters greatly. Dealing with the constant challenges of **webs** and **poison** is the main parts of this fight. Challenging/Overwhelming to begin with but, a little experience and this page will help you with the fundamentals and knowledge to tackle this boss!

**Mechanics:**

* **GG:** If you get poisoned or slowed, you can press G on keyboard, then G again to use the new grim skill to rid your self of it. You will be stunned for 3 or so seconds, so use it when you know you are relatively safe. It has a 20-second cooldown, so don't use unless necessary.

* **Grrgle:** A short frontal AOE attack that does a lot of dps and poisons you if hit. It is a targeted spell meaning it will "say" a name just like **sigil** in Mephisto and **breath** in Diablo does and the **Grrgle** will go in the direction of the targeted player. **Arachne** warns the team with a text line of her nominated target and shoots a big cone after about 2 seconds. Within that time, the target and his allies can reposition to not get hit, better stepping aside than running away. Clones also **Grrgle** in the direction of the target. Either be out of range or step to the side to avoid getting hit. As a tank you should try and taunt, so you get hit and block with a magic resistance skill, walk out of range or just tank it. **Grrgle** happens approximately every 15 seconds.

* **Eggs:** Every 15 seconds or so, an **Egg** will spawn. These needs to be killed since if it's not killed it will spawn mini spiders that have some damage and mini stuns, so if there's a lot dps and even the tank will be at risk. So you need a designated egg killer that does nothing else but kill **Eggs**. Usual egg killers are Sitael and Aitael since they have the range to always be able to kill eggs no matter where they are. Other characters can kill eggs too like Thirst or Solomon but is not recommended unless you have multiple of them. When eggs are killed, two waves of poison orbs will shoot outwards from the eggs position, they can hurt quite a lot of avoid getting hit. **GG** if you get hit to rid yourself of poison

* **Webs:** Every 20% hp depleted webs will spawn under every chars' location. The **webs** slow you, so the perfect way to do it is to make sure all players stand close to **Arachne** when you proc, so webs don't fill out the whole arena and make it very hard to move. To get rid of slow, you can **GG**.

* **Clones:** Every 25% hp depleted Arachne will spawn a clone. Clones make Arachne and the eggs more durable to damage, so try to proc clones after you kill and egg if possible. This will minimize eggs hatching for the fight. The clones can't be damaged, but can damage you. As a tank when you taunt the real **Arachne** it will aggro all of the clones as well. The tank should make sure to taunt if it sees dps chars getting attacked by clones. Another thing with clones is if a clone is spawned during a **Grrgle** on top of a dps be prepared to tank it because, you will have little to no time to react to the clone spawned. It is dependent on if the DPS knows when to dps or not.

## **Team Composition**

* In this fight, like in Aurelia, team composition matters in downing this boss and having clean runs. **Arachne** is meant to have at least 6 people for the fight, but you can have more or less than this. Anything above 6 players will make the fight more challenging by adding damage reduction to **Arachne** for the fight.

* **Tanks:** Make sure to manage your taunts for after you **GG** since you will drop aggro. Make sure to watch out for your **DPS** and **Healers** for the rampant clones aggroing them. They will die very quickly and makes the run very chaotic if not kept in check, so make sure to taunt the real **Arachne** when this happens. You can taunt mid **Grrgle** to change the direction of the **Grrgle** to yourself in certain situations.

* **DPS:** Your windows of DPS are after **Grrgle.** Make sure to watch out for **Egg** spawns, as the poison can be hard to see if you are on the other side of **Arachne** since her model is so large. Make sure to let your team know or wait for them to group up for **Webs** to prevent a crazy amount of spread. Also, proccing **Clones** during **Egg** will make it almost unkillable so be careful of that.

* **Healer:** Nothing too different in this fight compared to the others. Just make sure tank is topped off and be ready to heal if **Egg** hatches. Clones go rampant sometimes, so make sure to top off **DPS, so** they can safely dps.