Spider Lair - Annotated Map

This guide provides an annotated map to the Spider Lair dungeon under the town of Sorpigal-by-Sea. It is likely to be the first dungeon that Might and Magic Legacy adventurers will encounter. All information is based off Version 1.1.1-EarlyAccess-8750 playing on Adventurer difficulty. Your mileage may differ.

Map

Points of Interest

• 1) Entrance from well in Sorpigal-by-Sea
  
• 2) Quest Complete: Spiders in the Well - Kill the Spider Queen for 500 Gold and 100 Experience
  
• 3) Maximus the Hireling leaves the party here after Killing the Spider Queen
  
• 4) Quest Update: Smuggler's Cove - Pick up the Smuggler's Coffer from the secret cove. To complete the quest the Coffer must be returned to Zale in Sorpigal-by-Sea. Completing this quest will yield 600 Gold and 150 Experience.
  Beware: Opening the chest here will spawn 2 Elite Giant Spiders behind the party
  
• 5) Secret Door - Recruiting the Loremaster Hireling Rosalie from the shrine in Sorpigal-by-Sea will allow you to find this secret door. Alternatively, there are spells that can be cast to discover secret doors.
  
• 6) Secret exit to Sorpigal-by-Sea. You cannot re-enter the Spider Lair by this exit once you leave

Treasure

Chests contain random rewards:

• 50 - 150 Gold
  
• 0 -2 Antidote
  
• 0 - 2 Minor Health Potion
  
• 0 - 2 Minor items like Light Warding Buckler or Wooden Shield

Monsters

Giant Spider

Combat Tips:

• Equip characters with ranged weapons and soften up these spiders from a distance as the spiders must approach to close range to attack you.
  
• If spiders are around a corner, try backing up and force them to come to you. Once they are in front of you used ranged weapons.
  
• Make sure to use an antidote on any characters that become poisoned

Rewards:

• 5 Experience per character
  
• 1-5 Gold
  
• 0-1 Antidote
  
• 0-1 Minor Health Potion

Elite Giant Spider

Combat Tips:

• The Elite flavor of Giant Spiders can spit poison from range and has higher health.
  
• The same tactics as for regular Giant Spiders applies here.

Rewards:

• 25 Experience per character
  
• 6-9 Gold
  
• 0-1 Antidote
  
• 0-1 Random minor item like Apprentice's Orb

Spider Queen

Combat Tips:

• The Spider Queen has the retaliate ability which performs one strike back against the attacker for the first strike of an incoming melee attack
  
• The Spider Queen is immune to most forms of disablement and mind magic
  
• Having an Earth Magic user and buying the Regeneration spell in Sorpigal-by-the-Sea will help keep your whole party healed throughout this long fight
  
• Don't be afraid to use potions if a character's health is getting low
  
• If you defeat the Spider Queen your characters should instantly level up which will give them all full health and spell points.

Rewards:

• 100 Experience per character
  
• 119 Gold
  
• 1 Antidote
  
• 1 Random minor item like Fire Warding Leather Gauntlets

For defeating the Spider Queen the party will also automatically complete the quest Spiders in the Well.
Quest Rewards - Spiders in the Well:

• 100 Experience per character
  
• 500 Gold

[Andreasrex1987]

in the current version (which is long after early acess) having mages with epecially fire bolt and ice bolt are good against the spiders

[Pragmaticguy]

thanks

[flaggj79]

i think the ripped page is just there to explain, why there´s a dead mage and those spiders beneath the town. i think, he got those spiders by ship his old friends but unfortunately his experiments with his pets went wrong. this would explain, why there are giant spiders beneath a town in which adventures live, why some residents disappeared anf why the mage himself is dead.

[Melopahn]

I have found this ripped page, I searched through most of Tirya bay and Sorpigal and the spider lair within the last 2 hour of day and first 2 hours of night on 17th of the sun blossom. I believe this item is worthless and has no pertinence to any future event in the game.

[saif3r]

I was able to open the secret door with my dwarf guardian with 7 perception.

[Hardsun]

Same with Obelisks notes btw - you will get clues but there is no quest in journal.

[Hardsun]

Same - i dont remember rippled page at EA.
Ripped page - there was a tip saying some of tokens are like puzzles/hidden quests you need to solve. And it says something "17th day of the Sun Blossom. Some ship (in town or outside???) should bring crates with some kind of "babies"(sounds evil:)) so dead now mage could reunite with them.

Any ideas ? :D

[Poisander]

The map was based off the early access beta. I don't remember finding a ripped page during that playthrough. I'm guessing it is new. I'll update the map if I find more information about it.

[Gimpyjoe]

The ripped page shows up on the 'Lore > Quest Tokens' page. Not sure what else it does since I just got it myself and was checking this map to see if I missed anything.

[Spawn]

what about mage body in secret room? took something like ripped page from his body, and cant find it in journal or inventory, any tips?