The Widow's Nursery

Custom Level 12

The Widow's Nursery: a mine swallowed by a spider colony. Every room is a trap the spiders prepared. Crew drops T4-T7 weapons and armor and T2-T3 abilities; the boss, the Nest Heart and the strongbox two tiers higher plus the uniques.

Getting in

Portal: Widow's Nursery Portal
Key: Widow's Nursery Key — type /key widow's nursery in chat to get one, use it, walk in.
The portal drops from Red Spider (5%), Black Bat (2%)

How the Widow's Nursery plays

An old mine the spiders took. Pocket rooms joined by narrow corridors, each room set up as a trap, and a silk cathedral at the end. Aimed at about level 12.

Silk strands slow you while you stand in them. Silkweavers string them across your path; cut around them, never through.
Brood Cracks in the rock pour out Cave Skitters when you walk past. Clear a room from its door.
Hanging Cocoons hatch three Skitters after six seconds. Kill them as they drop.
Fresh Cocoons hold a swarm; Dry Cocoons hold what the miners carried (potions, T4 gear).
Egg Clusters burst into a short venom cloud when broken: break them from range.
Gloomstalkers come out of the side tunnels (Gloom Tunnel) in the Broodheart when you get close.
The Nest Heart and the Mining Strongbox drop the same uniques as the queen.

Grandmother, the Hollow Queen

Three phases in the cathedral of silk. She stays inside it.

Weaver (100-70% HP). Slow and deliberate. A fan of seven slow silk shots; the Eightfold Strike (legs slam four times where you stand, then one big impact around her); Thread the Needle (a strand strung across your path). Keep moving between strikes.
Brood (70-35%). She climbs to the ceiling. She lowers Hanging Cocoons, spits venom that leaves pools pulsing damage for five seconds, and pulls the web in: a ring of strands closes around her and a leg strike lands in the middle two seconds later. When the ring appears, get out of the center.
Broodheart (under 35%). She tears free: the Web Pillars snap into strands that tie the room to her. She is fast, charges, snaps at close range and fires alternating rings of sixteen. Under 15% one last slow wave of cocoons joins in.

When she dies a Tiny Spider crawls out of her.

Boss: Grandmother

HP	9,000
Defense	16
Level	12
Hits up to	110
XP multiplier	1.0
Immune to	stasis

Grandmother, the Hollow Queen. Three phases in the cathedral of silk.

Phases

weaver 100-70%: deliberate. Silk fan, Eightfold Strike, Thread the Needle.
brood 70-35%: she climbs to the ceiling. Hatchery, Venom Rain, the Tightening Web.
broodheart 35-0%: she tears free. The pillars snap, she charges, silk bursts in alternating rings.
- press
- lastbrood below 15%: one final, slow wave of cocoons while everything else continues

Lines

*the web trembles*

*legs click against the pillars*

Drops

Loot	Chance
Fang of the Hollow Queen	7%
Widow's Mantle	7%
Broodheart Signet	7%
T8 weapon	15%
T8 armor	15%
T7 weapon	30%
T7 armor	30%
T5 ability	10%
T4 ability	25%
T4 ring	25%

Unique drops

Fang of the Hollow Queen Custom UT Soulbound
40–75 ×3 · 3.8 tiles
From Grandmother 7%, Nest Heart 7%, Mining Strongbox 3.5%

Widow's Mantle Custom UT Soulbound
+3 DEF, +8 SPD
From Grandmother 7%, Nest Heart 7%, Mining Strongbox 3.5%

Broodheart Signet Custom UT Soulbound
-50 HP, +10 ATT, -5 VIT
From Grandmother 7%, Nest Heart 7%, Mining Strongbox 3.5%

Enemies

Enemy	HP	DEF	Hits up to	On map	Notes
Grandmother	9,000	16	110	1	Grandmother, the Hollow Queen. Three phases in the cathedral of silk.
Gloom Tunnel	10,000	0	–	2	A side tunnel in the Broodheart: a Gloomstalker comes out of it when you get close.
Cocoon Drop	10,000	0	–	1	A hanging cocoon in the treasure room that breaks open behind the group: a Dropper, already falling.
Brood Reinforcements	10,000	0	–	1	The Weaving Hall's welcome: two Skitters, plus three for every Egg Cluster still alive in the Brood Chamber.
Brood Crack	10,000	0	–	1	A crack in the rock. Walk past and the brood pours out.
Brood Herald	1,600	14	28	1	Mini-boss. Anchored by the sealed nest; its pulse speeds the brood and wakes cocoons. When it dies the membrane behind it tears open.
Broodguard	600	14	30	5	Stands between you and the eggs. Braces (double defense) while a nest is near: kill the nest or go around.
Nest Heart	600	2	40	1	The Hanging Nursery's prize. Pulses out Skitters while it lives; drops like the boss.
Gloomstalker	420	12	42	1	The flanker. Steps through the shadows to the edge of the group, fires readable bursts.
Broodmotherling	240	4	–	2	Crawls away from you, shedding Skitters as it goes. Kill it early or fight the swarm.
Mining Strongbox	220	10	–	1	The Mining Office's strongbox: the boss table at half odds, four health potions guaranteed.
Dropper	200	6	50	1	Hangs untouchable above a patch of floor. Walk under it and it drops, marks its landing, lunges, then is wide open for a moment. After that it is just a spider.
Silkweaver	190	5	22	6	Prefers range. Its bolts slow, and every few seconds it strings a strand across your path.
Venomspinner	160	5	50	9	Keeps its distance and spits venom where you stand. The puddle stays; move.
Egg Cluster	140	0	25	3	Destroying one kills the brood inside and releases a short cloud of venom.
Hanging Cocoon	90	0	–	summoned	Lowered by the queen. Six seconds to kill it, or three Skitters.
Fresh Cocoon	60	2	–	4	Fresh and twitching: a swarm bursts out when it breaks.
Dry Cocoon	40	0	–	7	Old and dry: only what the miner had on him.
Cave Skitter	40	0	16	29	Fodder. Fast, weak, dangerous in numbers because they crowd the dodging space.
Rum Barrel	40	0	90	4	Destructible. A shot barrel explodes and damages enemies and players alike.
Tiny Spider	5	0	–	summoned	Crawls out from under the dead queen and is gone.