Dreadlands : A dread widow - Resolved

[Adorean]

Killed the rare spawn "a dread widow" yesterday in Dreadlands and she dropped nothing but coin. She should be dropping the Drachnid Thyxl


From that convo:

"The drop may not be rare (since it's a guaranteed drop) but the spawn is, which is why the item is listed as rare."

There's also a pile of other random spider junk she should be dropping as well.. see link.

[Starklen]

I can't speak to whether or not it is supposed to be guaranteed, but I know I have seen one drop on test.

[nilbog]

I see its drop rate is 74%. Should it be 100% ?

Any further evidence?

Magelo shows 74%, but could be wrong.

http://eq.magelo.com/item/11981

[Adorean]

Here's another discussion from another group of people remembering it at 100%

thyxl discussion

"Why does it say "rare" if it drop 100%?
Those ratings dont really refer to the drop rate, but how many have the item which is basicly determined by the mobs spawn rate which can be rare and thus the item is rare too."

"Pica - it was definitely an original kunark item - it was what every newb kunark caster ran around with, that and a gbs.
mob was rare, item was a very very common if not 100% drop."

"Yep, thanks for comfirming guys. That was pretty much all she dropped, and it dropped 100% im sure. If it is too much trouble, its not a problem...its no drop so cannot be sold, just thought itd be nice to have until i can camp some gear. "


This is my recollection too... "EVERYBODY" had one of these.

[Adorean]

And here's one more.. had to get it out of the google cache ...
Necro guide

Drachnid Thyxl This one drops of a rare spawn, the dread widow in the spider camps at (- 5000, 1500) and (-5000, -1500) in the Dreadlands. Due to harm touch and the high amount of hps it is quite risky to take it out on your own -together with a partner it is easy as long as you both are level 49+. You actually need to kill pretty anything with eight legs inside one of the spider camps (she can spawn in both of them). Aproximately every 3-6 hours the Dread Widow (level 46-50, Shadowknight, 12296hp) spawns and always drops the thyxl. It’s no drop and has got a nice GBS (now where are the veterans?) look.

[nilbog]

Changed to 100% chance to drop, pending update.