Need Help Maelstrom Arena

Soleya

In the arena for Survive the Spiral Shadows, how do you defend against the swarms of spiders.

I know you go to the lit obelisk, but after a few rounds, I keep ending up with no obelisk lit. Which just means death since my Sorc can out sprint them, and my Stam NB just runs out of stam trying to get away.

Soleya

Seems you have to kill the spiders that are on the obelisk to get it to light up. Which is great when the boss stands right on top and you can't hit the spider.

Yattaq

Slayer9292_ESO wrote: »

Seems you have to kill the spiders that are on the obelisk to get it to light up. Which is great when the boss stands right on top and you can't hit the spider.

aoe

ColoursYouHave

Slayer9292_ESO wrote: »

In the arena for Survive the Spiral Shadows, how do you defend against the swarms of spiders.

I know you go to the lit obelisk, but after a few rounds, I keep ending up with no obelisk lit. Which just means death since my Sorc can out sprint them, and my Stam NB just runs out of stam trying to get away.

From what I've been able to discover, there are 2 parts to this mechanic. First, look out for the non "swarm" spider mob, I believe called "Webspinner". These will spawn every so often, run to an obelisk, and beginning spinning webs on it. You need to kill this mob before it finishes this web spinning animation otherwise the obelisk will become disabled, as indicated by being covered in webs. Not sure if this is working as intended, but it also seems a couple obelisks automatically get webs and become "disabled" at the beginning of each round.

Second, look out for the Hoarvors that spawn every so often. If you kill one near a web-covered obelisk, it'll cause the webs to disintegrate, activating that obelisk. If you kill one away from an obelisk, it'll allow you to pick up and throw the corpse to an obelisk covered in webs via the synergy button. Unfortunately, I've found it very difficult so far to actually target the corpse in order to pick it up and throw it.

Soleya

ColoursYouHave wrote: »

Slayer9292_ESO wrote: »

In the arena for Survive the Spiral Shadows, how do you defend against the swarms of spiders.

I know you go to the lit obelisk, but after a few rounds, I keep ending up with no obelisk lit. Which just means death since my Sorc can out sprint them, and my Stam NB just runs out of stam trying to get away.

From what I've been able to discover, there are 2 parts to this mechanic. First, look out for the non "swarm" spider mob, I believe called "Webspinner". These will spawn every so often, run to an obelisk, and beginning spinning webs on it. You need to kill this mob before it finishes this web spinning animation otherwise the obelisk will become disabled, as indicated by being covered in webs. Not sure if this is working as intended, but it also seems a couple obelisks automatically get webs and become "disabled" at the beginning of each round.

Second, look out for the Hoarvors that spawn every so often. If you kill one near a web-covered obelisk, it'll cause the webs to disintegrate, activating that obelisk. If you kill one away from an obelisk, it'll allow you to pick up and throw the corpse to an obelisk covered in webs via the synergy button. Unfortunately, I've found it very difficult so far to actually target the corpse in order to pick it up and throw it.

Thanks, I realized the part about the Hoarvors after posting this.

Lord_Wrath

You're really supposed to fend off the spiders? For a frickin spider its amazingly OP and even shield spamming I die as soon as they touch me, this is pretty messed up.

Zlater

Just use single target.
Glowing stones are a safe area and swarming spiders will bury around them and disappear.
Kill spiders that Web the stones
Lure hoaravers to webbed stones. Be careful not to kill them before hand so it's more efficient.
Save the last stone until the boss gets below 50% health, when all stones are uncovered there will be a massive stun and you can just melt the boss for about the next 10seconds.

Cathexis

There are larger spiders that Web the stones to stop the glow. Kill them.


The part I didn't get was that you have to bring the hoarvers to the Webd stones and kill them to deweb the stones.

De-webbing all the stones causes a Mass stun and is required for killing the boss.

Zlater

Cathexis wrote: »

There are larger spiders that Web the stones to stop the glow. Kill them.


The part I didn't get was that you have to bring the hoarvers to the Webd stones and kill them to deweb the stones.

De-webbing all the stones causes a Mass stun and is required for killing the boss.

That's exactly right, while its not required, it helps a tonne, you can just swap to overload, grab the power sigil if you are in vet, and melt the boss during the enrage phase instead of trying to tank all of that craziness.

Ezareth

Slayer9292_ESO wrote: »

Seems you have to kill the spiders that are on the obelisk to get it to light up. Which is great when the boss stands right on top and you can't hit the spider.

Yeah working around the new crappy targeting function is half the fight in many of the Arenas. I don't even know how console players will be able to do it.