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Comment by 6513

These are trash mobs in the Caverns of Time: Dark Portal instance (aka Black Morass).

Comment by 18334

The Silk drop rate on this mob is not as high (80%) as it is currently listed, and not worth farming for.

Comment by khelmbo

I can only confirm that bad drop rate. After farming for a while I got it up around 20%.

Comment by 11502

I suspect that the drop rate is the % chance of getting silk if anything at all drops. I'm not sure that wowhead's data collection deals well with mobs not dropping anything.

Because when I farmed for a bit, I almost always got either a silk, or nothing. More often nothing. I can easily believe that 80% of the drops were silk.

Comment by Alzeimexia

Currently farming in the BM instance and i get 1 Netherweb Spider Silk every 3 kills or so

Comment by Banatu

This stuff sells for 8-10g per spider silk on my server. It's well worth my time at the moment to farm the trash in BM to get it, I need about 30 more of it to get tailoring to 375.

That's 300g, or 2 hours of farming in BM. Hmm.. Tough decision. (Screw the AH, I'm farming them.)

Comment by 64483

You probably get like 3-5 per clear of BM. The drop rate is definitely less than 30% though. About an hour or so of farming gave me 10 silks though.

Comment by sergej

BM is still best place to farm Netherweb spider silk.
i have tried it in Terokar forest and in BM and in BM if you get any drop it's more then 50% chance it will be the silk.

so if you need it and dont want to spend 5+ gold per silk BM is the place!

Comment by Dhorain

I think droprate isn't accurate when a mob doesn't drop anything sometimes.
When these spider drops something, it's 80% chance to drop a silk.

Comment by Thelion

Doh ... If the the mob drops anything there is a 80% chance that it will be a Netherweb Spider Silk.

Comment by Lukian

I received 8 Netherweb Spidersilk from clearing all the Blackfang Tarantulas (approximately 30) in Black Morass.
Took about 30mins to clear as feral druid, picking up a few extra adds.
That puts the drop rate at about 25%.

Comment by Serathis

The droprate on these spiders need to be reset! 2.1.x patch drastically lowered the droprate along with the ammount of leather coming from the skinnables inside.

Comment by 113820

I tried this the other day.. Farmed alone (JUst killed the spiders) got about 80% droprate. Must have been lucky. GOt about 20-22 of em. So PRETTY high droprate.

Comment by 38995

Just to note, you have to clear Old Hillsbrad before you can even enter BM... something I found out tonight.

Comment by mjblink

about drop rate. in over 200 kills of the terokkar spiders i have had a 17% drop rate. from clearing black morass 3 times (99 spiders) my drop rate has been 30%. they are not hard to farm for me and with the portal to CoT from shatt i will continue to farm these spiders for my netherweb spider silk needs. got 20 silk in the first hour (knew from poisons running out :P) which is way more than i would have gotten in terokkar.

Comment by ME412

I got about 12 Silk after clearing the spiders and some crocolisk. Ide say it's worth it, since the things sell at 10g a piece to tailors.

They are used from 360-375 in tailoring (About 30 webs)

Comment by Alcest

So does this mob have to be farmed on HEROIC or NONHEROIC for a better drop rate?

Cuz I just farmed 3 in heroic, got 1 on the first one, and no more on the other two. then like the whole instance chased me out of heroic. lol

I tried using the Chrono-Bacon *Lol I call it bacon* and it didn't work which made me very upset ;(. So farmers I suggest not trying it either in dire situations lol.

Comment by rhoark

If you're just looking for a few silk to complete an item for yourself, just run along the mountains at the perimeter of the instance, first one side, then the other. There are more crocs than anything in the more central, waterlogged parts of the zone. If you're hardcore farming I suppose you'd kill everything to get the most from your 5 instances / hour, but honestly there are much better things to farm for selling.

Comment by 162742

I've never been in this instance before, but is it possible for the event with Medivh to occur when you're just farming silk, or do you have to talk to him first? I'm hoping it's the latter.

Comment by Blightcaller

These no longer drop any loot it seems. Just killed 10 of them and got no loot.

Edit: I'm just very unlucky got 1 spider silk out of an entire instance clear.

Comment by 718632

It still is mostly a silk or nothing drop rate. I found this to be a good place to farm still since I got 20 in a run of normal and heroic mode. I didn't keep track of how long that took me, but I didn't have to kill anything else, and didn't complete the events with Medivh.

Comment by Wordsmith

I wanted to add that Wowhead seems to have missed that these spiders also drop some gray items in normal and greens in heroic,

Wowhead hasn't missed anything. It simply has a new "Noteworthy" feature you may have overlooked. I did too at first. If you click the "All" link directly next to it, you'll see that Wowhead lists 199 grays and greens these spiders drop. The link is directly below the "Drops" tab.

~~I'm assuming that noteworthy items are rares or above... or items directly contributing to item creation, such as the silk.~~

Edit: After reviewing the full list of drops, the spiders have a chance to drop some blue BoEs and JC patterns, so I'm uncertain just what constitutes a noteworthy item in Wowhead's eyes.

Comment by VenneccaBlind

I ended up farming the silk off these spiders for the shadowweave set. yes there were a lot of empty mobs, and once some grey item dropped and i was very upset. (edit: i think the grey item dropped off a crock that was on top of the spider. and i could be wrong about this...)

i think the drop rate is that nice at level and decreases as you level out of it, but i could be wrong.

as it turns out, i needed 6 of the silk for what i wanted to make, 8 for all of the shadow weave stuff, and i ended up with 10 total. farming it isnt that bad in my opinion...

Comment by Wordsmith

See, if we had been smart back in the day, we'd have gotten a friendly hunter to tame one of these babies and just had it spin the silk FOR us rather than face an 80%-if-anything-at-all-drops rate.

Comment by 877731

who ever said it is right black morass is prob best place to go for these i netted 22 out of 3 runs so if your high enough and looking for these black morass is the way to go :)

Comment by Anedill

If you're like me and paniced at the lack of ability to loot; it's because there is no loot. They either drop silk or not at all. Keep killing, silk will drop eventually :) THEY ARE NOT UNLOOTABLE.

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