Best place to farm spider silks?

[RangerTimy]

I'm sorry if this has already been asked in another thread; I searched and could not find it.

I stopped doing tailoring about a month ago to work on baking and fletching. Now that I'm back in it, I remembered how horrid farming the silks was in ec and everfrost. So I went to the Bazaar, only to be greeted with the insane cost of 15pp per silk (it used to be about 2-6pp on my server)! So my only option is to farm these things until I can get a few more points with Wu's.

Any suggestions?

[Tudamorf]

Crag spiders are your new friend

East Karana, go forth and farm!

[RangerTimy]

I will try there, thanks!

[eniamn]

the spider in ek can drop up to 8 silks rarely. good luck. i'm killing drachnids and yetis in dl. not really for the silk just to kill em. i think the spiders in kaesora drop silk. thats a full dungeon of spideys.

[Sadine]

Someone posted that the spiders in FV where also a good source of silk.

Lots of people hunting spiders in EK.

[Furyrpied]

The FV spiders may be good for silks, never tried it.. but when you are choosing between craig spiders and those evil spell casting damage sheilded FV spiders, what would you choose?

/e ports into WK and goes on a little walk....

[dbtort]

FV is good especially if your a pet class or can AE, on avergage 1-2 silks per spider but there are alot of them and rarely camped.

[Arghargh]

EK is still the best spot I know of, but they won't drop 8 anymore. There was a bunch of other items added to their drop table, so you get junk instead of silks.

[Koru]

If you can track I'd say EK. If you can't or there's too many people hunting there, FV is decent enough and the spiders are easy to get to and plentiful. Or the spiders in upper guk, no real advantage to a tracker there. Kaesora spiders I found to drop too many other junk items. I've killed there quite a bit and the drop rates were disappointing - pulling practically every spider in the place and half the undeads with them I'd still get less silks than for the same amount of time in FV or EK. Killing spiders in EF can also be an alternative for lower levels with tracking. It all depends a lot on your level and class.

[borblefoot furtoe]

"EK is still the best spot I know of, but they won't drop 8 anymore"

Yes they do just got 8 off of one yesterday. 8 on a spider was always rare. More common is 2 to 4 per spider.

Ok FV is not really that great a place for silk farming the spiders are much higher in level than either upper Guk or East Karana.

There are basically two choices when it comes to what is best for silk farming.

If you have a tracker and/or don't mind running around over a fairly large zone to kill spiders then East Krana is your best bet. Lots of spiders that drops silk quite often. Just be sure to kill the snake place holders as well as the spiders.


If you prefer to sit at a static spawn camp Upper guk heart spiders is the way to go.


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[Shamiks_Anar]

When I needed silk for Wu's tailoring, I took a trip to East Karana...

Now, I know that doesn't seem very exciteing, but here's a way to keep things interesting and expedite your collecting at the same time...

If you are of a class that can PB AoE for over 600, bring along a friend (preferably bard or ranger) to pull massive trains for you...and I mean everything that spawns in the zone aside from NPCs, giants, and cyclopses (anything with more than 600hp or might ruin either of your factions).

The funny thing about the EK zone...is that all of those mobs you just wiped out are on an instant spawn timer (or very near...maybe 30 seconds) and what spawns in place of them is pretty much random (killing a lion, wolf, spider, snake, griffawn will spawn any of those).

My friend and I collected a little less than 6 stacks each in about 2 hour's time.


Good luck.

[eniamn]

hehe i have to get to 49 for that. my pbae atm drops them to like 49% and they all scatter. that is unbeleivably annoying.

[Balkin]

My vote is EK.

Took my then 26 druid to EK to forage tea leaves for my brewer. While he was there he basically killed everything that would give him XP including spiders! By the time I got 100 tea leaves, my druid was level 31, and I had over 300 silk swatches. This was over a weeks time, but I got that many without even trying. A concerted effort with AE spells will bear much fruit! Heh

I still go there to forage, and swim, and fish, and kill for xp... and some crags are still light blue! Imagine that. hehehe Oh, did you know a 31 druid can solo a hill giant? Root and Rot baby!

[eniamn]

soloed my first hg at 30 as a wizard. i was completely out of mana and had an mp item doing it though. not recommended. way too dangerous hehe.

[RangerTimy]

My experience in East Karana

Well, I went to East Karana to find silks, and all I can say is... wow! Even though I was never there alone (at least 2-3 other levels 60+ hunting silks) I was able to walk away with 7 stacks of silk after only an hour. Also got a few tea leaves, vegetables, and fruit, to boot!

Thanks for the suggestion!