NPC Spawn Issue: Feb2000 - The Widowmistress

[Passenger]

It appears the spiders were present in the caves prior to The Widowmistress being added.

- https://dbsanfte.github.io/eq-archiv...html/1976.html

Message ID: 1976
Date: Thu May 27 21:24:46 BST 1999
Author: Cristie
Subject: Re: ken lee fbr question

Flowing black robes are kinda tough to get. You have to go into the dungeon Najena in Lavastorm and kill Najena herself to get one. I don't know if there are any other places to acquire them in Norrath because I haven't been everywhere yet. Myself, being a 14th level wiz, am unable to compete in the dungeon too far from the first room. There are greater skels, ogre guards/officers/captains and tentacle terrors, black widows, earth/mist ele's and such. You would need a good sized (4 maybe 5) group of folks your level and above. By the time you hit level 25-28 I think its pretty easy going from what I can see, but you would still need back up since we are melee-free pretty much at that point. The robe is random on Najena from what I understand as well. And there are 3 (? correct me if I'm wrong) NPCs back there.. Najena, Drezla and one other..... that is if you get that far. Might be fun to try.. but bind yourself outside the dungeon zone so you don't have to run a zillion miles to get back if Najena is the only place to get this item.

Nov1999 capture of EQAtlas - Najena:
- https://web.archive.org/web/19991128...80/najena.html

Types of Monsters:

Large Skeletons, Greater Skeletons, Darkbone Skeletons, Ogre Guards, Magicians, Magician Pets, Necromancers, Necromancer Pets, Earth Elementals, Guard Officers, Guard Captain, Undead Knight, Goblin Warriors, Giant Black Widows, Froglok Ghouls, Tentacle Terror

[nilbog]

Fixed, pending update

-Prior to Feb2000, the loc will remain, but only have a possibility of spiders

[Passenger]

I didn't read your question carefully enough.

There appear to be 4 spawn points for giant black widows, one of which serves as the PH for The Widowmistress.

The Classic-era (~Nov1999) ShowEQ dump lists 3 spawns for "a giant black widow," so there may well have been a spawnpoint added at (460,219) as later seen in the Kunark-era dump.

Zone	NPC Name		Count	Low HP	High HP	Low Level	High Level
najena	a_giant_black_widow	2	570	650	18		22

- https://web.archive.org/web/20030915...ne=45&start=75

Widowmistress...
Posted @ Thu, Mar 2nd 5:38 PM 2000
By: Anonymous

Just killed her tonight. She spawns in the back of the cavern where the giant black widows spawn and has to be the toughest mob in the whole zone. Duel weilding lvl 36 rogue, always shows up with 2 weapons and she runs with SoW speed. She dropped the stiletto of the bloodclaw and a fs spear the first time we killed her, just a fs dagger, fs rapier and widowmistress hair, (?), the second time. So she appears to be a way to get the stiletto without killing Drelzna for it, though a much harder way. She also can have a giant black widow as a placeholder. She's nasty, spamming up your chat window with pierces for 83 pts, and has poisoned weapons. Didn't give her a chance at my back, so I don't know the backstab damage.

Hardly conclusive, but this could be read as the spawnpoint itself being new. The player could have said she spawned in place of one of the spiders. Instead they noted the spawn, then later mentioned The Widowmistress could have a spider PH.