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Summoning Shadra

Defeat Shadra at the altar of Shadra'Alor, then bring her venom to Apothecary Lydon in Tarren Mill.
Shadra's Venom
Provided Item:
Gadrin's Parchment

Description

Take his parchment, and read it at the altar of Shadra'Alor, deep within the witherbark realm in the Hinterlands. This will summon Shadra the spider god.

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Gains

Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
  • 8450 experience ( 50 70 at max. level)
  • 500 Reputation with Undercity

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Rating: +28 [-] [+]
By jbwest on 11/28/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
Once you summon Shadra once, you have to kill her. The parchment that you use to summon is gone, and you'll have to abandon the quest and go back to the guy in Durotar to get it again. I learned the hard way.
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By Anonymous on 10/13/2005 (Patch 1.8.0)
SHE'S FSCKIN HUGE!&nbsp Just saw her and almost soiled myself.
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By Tytanium on 02/23/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
Seeing as how the quest description is quite vague, here's a bit of info on it.

Shadra is found inside the walled city of Shadra'Alor, in the south central area of the Hinterlands. The altar that is needed to summon Shadra is on the southeast side of the lake, so don't bother climbing any of the temples.

Once you summon her, the parchment is used up, and if you fail, you'll need to talk to Gadrin to get another shot at this quest.

However, if you summon Shadra and don't have anyone to help you, or are waiting on people to arrive, you can keep her from despawning by keeping her engaged in combat, just slow her run speed and swim to the north side of the lake until she de-aggros, then do it again after a minute or two.

As a well-geared lv.51 prot warrior with about 5100 armor (roughly 54% mitigation) Shadra hit me for between 160-400 damage with 300 or so being the average. She does quite a bit of damage, even when compared to other elites at and above her level.

We had a paladin (50) and hunter (54), but in order to win, we had to let the hunter's pet take aggro for the majority of the fight, (hunter was using Mend Pet constantly) and I taunted it off right before the pet died so we could finish Shadra.

Because it's difficult to solo, this will probably be one of the last quests you finish in the Hinterlands, and I highly recommend you do it; the cash, xp, and item rewards are worth the effort.

Good luck! -Titaniumtoro
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By Wreckanize on 06/22/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)
Altar is at 34.73
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By Anonymous on 08/01/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
https://classicdb.ch/quest=2938
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By Anonymous on 03/08/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2219/massive3wl.jpg
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By Anonymous on 09/07/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
34,72 Standing on top of the alter.&nbsp On the Hill by the lake.&nbsp Not need to go up any of the steps.
Big battle - see posts of pictures below
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By Diyaa on 03/20/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
If you're an engineer, Flash Bombs are handy here.
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By Squirrely on 12/03/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
The spider is no longer giant as shown in the featured screenshot. Normal size ftl.
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By holykins on 02/18/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
From a giganto spider to a pitiful small spider, so much for a Spider God <ROFL>. On the bright side, its colorful than the previous one.
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By Anonymous on 10/13/2005 (Patch 1.8.0)
This spider has 18,978HP and it is HUGE!
Me (52 Warrior) and a guildie (57 Rouge) tried to take her down. Got her down to 728HP before we wiped. Brought in a fellow guildie (60 Lock) and put her down. Was still a tough fight, I ended up with less than 800HP and the Rouge had less than 400HP (although neither of us healed during the fight), the Lock was totally unscathed but had used about 50% mana.
Still I find it hard to believe that the 53 Lock above, solo'd this. If he/she did, then all I can say is WOW!
As someone above said, clear at least one side of adds and you should do fine with 3 in your party.
BTW the only thing this spider dropped for us, was the venom, really disappointing.
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By Chaoscrusader666 on 06/01/2008 (Patch 2.4.2)
Tryed as a 54 prot pally in ST/BRD gear with a 49 arms warrior 'trying' to help... Got 'em down to 33% going all out (bubbled twice, 3 major rejuv pots, LoH)

Ran back, res'd and watched her pwn some allys in the area.
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By PizzaMan on 01/06/2008 (Patch 2.3.0)
Warlocks can easily solo Shadra. Fear and CoEx both work. Just be sure to clear the area to give yourself room to fear or kite.
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By childofnewlight on 03/19/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
FYI, She will follow you into the water...she swims. Tried soloing as a 53 assassination rogue...yeah. Not good.
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By truhorde on 12/16/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
true spider god is no longer a giant (big disappointment) and is a lvl 55 eliete at about 18k hp
confirmed: 12250 XP at lvl 55 + 500 rep with UC
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By Anonymous on 10/04/2005 (Patch 1.7.1)
Me and a level 56 Hunter did it all alone without problems. I'm a level 49 Druid.
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By darcinator on 03/06/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
Just soloed this as a 56 BM hunter. Had to pop a trinket (devilsaur eye) , beastial wrath and use an ice trap. I also had to continually mend my pet. She would've been fairly easy, but she would randomly charge me... killed me 2 times before i downed her on the 3rd attempt. I would recommend not soloing this.... unless you are up for a challenge!
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By Myx0 on 02/09/2007 (Patch 2.0.6)
Just completed this with my new bloodelf hunter, soloed at level 47.

Killed by kiting Shadra to Thoradin's wall's gate in Arathi. Total time taken was just less than 15 minutes.
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By Anonymous on 02/23/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)
Shadra'alor troll camp. 34,73

The altar is none of the three huge aztec like buildings, its almost like a table thing with a tablet laying on its side.

55 golden elite spider, huge x_x, not recommended for solo's with arachnaphobia? cant spell it lol, made me jump when it died x_x nasty nasty thing, I had the help of a lvl 67 guild member warlock and he got to half health tanking along with his void and my pet so, take care, group it for definate.

p.s dont forget, to summon the spider, you need to use the scroll in your inventory :P

Edited, Feb 22nd 2007 3:05pm by PegasusRose
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By Anonymous on 03/18/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
I'm a 54 feral druid and i managed to solo her with entangling roots and moonfire only....takes awhile but she hits hard so no other way (INT buff of course).
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By Anonymous on 02/03/2006 (Patch 1.9.2)
I a 60 shadow preist tanked it, with a 52 shaman helping and we wiped twice with about 2000 health left on her. Got a 51 warlock to help and none of us ever got below 50% but she never dropped anything but the venom and we killed her twice. she drops some nice stuff just not for me.
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By Anonymous on 04/20/2006 (Patch 1.10.1)
Solo'd as a 55 warlock. Lost a lot of health even with soul link, and a pet as well, but doable since the spider can walk on water (leading to some interesting graphics) while the other mobs in the area can't and are all melee. Kite the elite to the water and set to work chain fearing. Was simple, even if a bit dangerous due to fear breaks and heavy attacks.
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By Anonymous on 08/25/2005 (Patch 1.6.1)
Went there yesterday
53 Warlock, 50 mage, 52 shaman and 45 Mage

We summoned and got wiped rather instantly.
Problem is partyl because due to lag it was rather hard to get the right position to get aggro. I kept getting the positioning error message.. character model is just big.
I figure, that it will be doable when you have a tank with you.. .but do not try without.
The spider btw is a 55+ Elite.
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By Anonymous on 12/21/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
tried solo'ing at lvl 54 and with the use of celstial orb, mana citrine, and major mana stone still came up short on damage by about 2700 health. Hes got about 18,100 health. Came back at lvl 56 and tried again and solo'd it. Frost mage ftw.
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By Anonymous on 12/04/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
tried to solo with my 50 preist(newb invites ridicule)
so what do i do to get the scroll back? do i drop the quest and start over?
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By Anonymous on 01/13/2007 (Patch 2.0.4)
Gotta love hunter! Took some (about 5min) time but soloed as lvl 53.
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By Anonymous on 12/30/2005 (Patch 1.8.4)
Soloed this as a lvl 60 frost mage (wohoo \o/), the problem is that the bloody spider didn't drop the venom -.-
Easily soloable
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By Anonymous on 05/13/2005 (Patch 1.4.2)
I did this at level 51 with a group. Also went down in about 30 seconds. After turning in the poison to TM and then to UC you get about 18k xp. Very nice.
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By Anonymous on 05/01/2005 (Patch 1.4.0)
Did this with me (Level 59 Hunter) and a level 56 Warrior and a level 50 priest. Warrior tanked while priest healed and I hit from distance.

Went down in around 30 seconds, but man...this is one huge spider!
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By Anonymous on 07/16/2005 (Patch 1.6.0)
WE did this with me, lvl 56 rogue, a lvl 54 rogue, a 51 warrior, and a 53 Warlock. It was pretty easy since our tank was incredibly good at holding aggro.
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By Anonymous on 03/13/2006 (Patch 1.9.4)
ya cant fathom the size, i brought a 59 warrior, and a 54 hunter, and me 47 shaman, lost my warrior right at the end my fault goin for big heal. What was cool was that neither of the 2 guys i was with had ever even seen shadra b4. unfortunately the chain of quests was so long i forget where it all began
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By Anonymous on 03/12/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
is there a reward for this quest?
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By Anonymous on 08/25/2005 (Patch 1.6.1)
Went there yesterday
53 Warlock, 50 mage, 52 shaman and 45 Mage

We summoned and got wiped rather instantly.
Problem is partyl because due to lag it was rather hard to get the right position to get aggro. I kept getting the positioning error message.. character model is just big.
I figure, that it will be doable when you have a tank with you.. .but do not try without.
The spider btw is a 55+ Elite.
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By Anonymous on 12/30/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
Soloed her as 52 hunter. Took 20 minutes and she never hit my pet or myself once. And this my dear friends is why Hunter's RULE!
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By Anonymous on 06/16/2006 (Patch 1.10.2)
Killed her today. 59 Beastmaster hunter, and a 52 shadow priest. Sent my pet in to tank, I DPS'd while the shadow priest did some damage and kept the pet healthy. I know its been said, but this spider is huge. Fun fight.
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By Anonymous on 12/30/2006 (Patch 2.0.1)
Soloed her as 52 hunter. Took 20 minutes and she never hit my pet or myself once. And this my dear friends is why Hunter's RULE!
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By Anonymous on 01/15/2007 (Patch 2.0.5)
after 3 deaths i killed her. with no help. no other buffs then my own. and NO POTIONS! :D

ss as prof

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/4545/downingshadraee4.png
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By bodgit on 06/01/2008 (Patch 2.4.2)
Soloed at L53 as a frost mage, although it took plenty of attempts. Tried at L52 but it just wasn't going to work with too many resists.

I basically kited Shadra around the pool near the altar. If you can get far enough away, Shadra will try and cut through the water to reach you and it seemed to slow her down, I kept firing a frost bolt periodically to keep the chill debuff up to slow her further. Used Frost Nova and CoC if she gets too close and pray for no resists as she hits like a truck on cloth and seems to have a long reach, the target on the ground befits a spider far bigger, something like Terokkarantula in Outlands.

Used a Mana Citrine as soon as it made sense to get the cooldown ticking and I was able to pop a Mana Jade near the end to give me the last drop of mana needed to finish her off.

Had Witherheart the Stalker join in on my first attempts, as he was stealthed I didn't spot him until it was too late.
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By Zoulz on 11/09/2006 (Patch 1.12.2)
The item rewards for completing this quest chain where definitely a disappointment. It's quite a long quest-chain and Shadra is a lvl 55 elite! https://classicdb.ch/?quest=2938
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By imperia on 05/14/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
Myx0 - the guy in the hidden comment above soloed this spider with his blood elf hunter level 47. The comment is hidden because people didn't believed that he can solo elite mob 8 level above him. The next post is the actual movie.

So instead of calling this guy liar better give him what he deserves - vote for his comment + and call him uber. :P

btw: what he did is nothing hard for hunters. just watch out for adds.
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