Are there random spider encounters in Divinity Orginal Sin EE?

[Ebolus Maximus]

Hello, i suffer from extreme arachnophobia. I always check if there are spiders in games i buy.

As far i understeand spider encounters in DOS EE are:
- black cove optional quest (easy to ommit)
- some desert quest (i understeand that you have to talk to some spider worshipers who are surronded by spider eggs to spawn spiders)

Can i face spider as some random encounter in any region of the game (if yes with region)? Are there more quests where spiders are involved?

Thank you for your help!

[Highrule -1]

Desert is full of spider encounters. Avoiding them all isn't practical (though might be possible). One of those encounters is an ambush too.

Iirc one mandatory fight has spiders. You'd have to perform a sequence break to avoid that.

Final boss spawns spider minions.

[kgw145]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Highrule -1:

Final boss spawns spider minions.

:D
Void creatures... More mechanic than organic, but spiders nonetheless.

Summon spider is a skill that summons a spider. The puzzle where you fight yourself will cast the spell. (Somewhere outside Cyseal)

I don't recall if any other enemies cast the spell, but overall, spiders are mainly just associated with the pirate cove and desert area... not including void spiders.

[Ebolus Maximus]

Thank you guys.

I checked the final boss (and the spiders does freak me out xD) - does the void spider occur in other parts of the game?

As to blac cove:
it is area number 7 on the map in below?
https://divinityoriginalsin.wiki.fextralife.com/file/Divinity-Original-Sin/cyseal_level_map.gif

As to desert - it is region in lucia forest it is number 14 on the map in below?
https://divinityoriginalsin.wiki.fextralife.com/file/Divinity-Original-Sin/luculla_forest_level_map.jpg

[nobodys home]

If you do try and avoid all spiders seems like you're going to miss out on a bit of xp. Certainly will miss out on a quest in Black Cove. The large one in the desert spawns small ones and there's other spots where they hatch out in groups. Can't recall at this time about the void spider.

I'll be brutally honest here, from what I can remember you're going to have a tough time playing this game.

[kgw145]

Indeed. You might as well just avoid this game rather than trying to avoid the spiders.

Spiders? Checked! Carry on.

The pirate cove (Zone#7) and desert (Zone#14) can be avoided by expertise, but all void spiders encounters cannot be skipped. I believe they show up pathway to Hiberheim, and Final boss fight, and maybe the fight before the final fight as well (before fighting Leandra). There might be a few spider like creatures in Phantom forest area, but not certain.

If you're going to have a friend kill/play for you during those spider fight scenes, tell him/her kill them with an electric/ice/fire attack. I "believe" this causes their corpse to burn up/shatter so you won't see it when walking around. Not certain though, verify it beforehand. It does NOT work on boss spiders/big monsters, so you'll just have to avoid those area.

[Highrule -1]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Ebolus Maximus:

I checked the final boss (and the spiders does freak me out xD) - does the void spider occur in other parts of the game?

The one mandatory fight I mentioned, at the door of white witch's cabin.

And since someone mentioned Phantom Forest, there's at least two more encounters there... One crab spider fight before Hunter's Edge, and one mud spider fight deeper into the area.

The level 14 area is the desert yes, and based on that map the ambush spider fight is actually also mandatory (unless you know it's coming and maybe run invisible past it? Idk, never tried). I recalled there was another road you could take to skip it, but not according to that map.


As a side note, the difficulty level affects what enemies spawn, and the lowest difficulty I ever played on was the highest non-hc difficulty; if you play on lower difficulty, you might avoid some spider encounters.