how to kill spider swarm

[maligne]

Can't bring them down :(

[DESTARD]

You playing on Normal?

[maligne]

Yes,,,

[zero4us]

Me too

[SIlverblade-T-E]

AoE attacks usually work in D&D, I don't know about pathfinder

[discoplumber]

Yup I just got killed by them too, put the torches as weapons on 2 people that hurts them more than swords etc, if I'd switched to this earlier I would have killed them

[zero4us]

i think i know now. It can only be hurt by magical attack only! But no information of how to kill can make lot of people frustates dev! :-(

[Jackdaw Mask]

Umm, this thread is two weeks old and before patches when they made Bokken give fre alchemist's fires. Dunno why you felt need to necromance the thread ._.

[NapazTrix]

TL;DR - Use Area of Effect Magic or items, like Alchemists fire or fireball. If those are unavailable, equip everyone with torches.

Swarms can be difficult if you don't know how to deal with them, and this video game makes no mention in their bestiary about their attributes, which it should do.
With the new patch, Bokken should say they are weak to AOE and Fire, along with a loading tip.

Swarms are either immune to all weapon damage, when fine or diminutive, or takes half damage if they are made up of tiny or bigger enemies (In this case spiders are immune).
You will need to use elemental damage, so magical weaponry, torches, Area of Effect items or spells, like alchemist’s fire or fireball.
All swarms are immune to single target spells, so shocking grasp will not work. They also take 1/2 damage from AoE's, but this is one of the only things that will hurt them so beggars can't be choosers.

[Gregorovitch]

Bokken gives you about 6 flasks of Alchemist's fire when you ge the quest. It's not enough. Simply buy an extra 14 and load out your chars with 5 each. The swarms won't go down to 6 but they sure as hell will to 20.

Kill the big spider first then just have everybody focus down the swarms one at a time with Alchemist Fire. Make sure you kill them quickly, finger on the pause button, before the second big spider and third swarm show up. Have Valerie tank 'em in defensive mode while she's chucking her flasks while everybody else retreats away from them to throw theirs. She'll hurt herself a bit but she's tough, she'll probably make it.

Out of the 20 flasks I took with me to this I think I had about three or four left at the end. So about 5 or 6 flasks per swarm. That's how many you need. But if you got them, it's reasonably easy.