Online:Giant Spider

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This article is about the hostile spiders. For the dead spider in the Scuttle Pit, see Giant Spider (The Scuttle Pit). For the massive black and red spiders on Solstice, see Giant Spider (Solstice).

Giant Spider
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Location Weaver's NestImperial City
Nikolvara's KennelOrsinium
Fulstrom Catacombs, Abah's Landing Thieves Guild
Species Spider
Health 31,364
Reaction Hostile
Giant Spider

Giant Spiders are large arachnids that can be encountered in various places around Tamriel. The variety found on Solstice outmatch the examples found on the mainland in size and strength.

Skills and Abilities[edit]

Corrosive Bite
A basic melee attack dealing low poison damage.
Spit
A basic ranged attack dealing low poison damage.
Bite
The spider takes a fierce bite, dealing moderate physical damage. This can be blocked to set the spider off-balance.
Poison Spray
The spider sprays venom at its target, indicated by a conal AoE, dealing continuous low poison damage.
Poison Lob
The spider spits out a glob of poison at its target position, indicated by a growing red circle. Once the circle becomes full, the cluster explodes, dealing moderate poison damage.
Devour
If a nearby spider corpse is present, either big or small, the spider rushes over to it and starts eating it to regain health. This can be interrupted to set the spider off-balance.

Generic Giant Spiders[edit]

Generic, unnamed Giant Spiders can be encountered in various places across Tamriel, including delves, dungeons, and DLC content. These Giant Spiders have varying stats, namely health. Below is a list of Giant Spiders, categorized by location, difficulty and health.

Zone / Dungeon Specific Location Difficulty Health
Weaver's NestImperial City Black and white spiders 29,870
Nikolvara's KennelOrsinium Smaller giant spiders 13,846