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Comment by Elerigo

Appears to only be possible to loot once per day per char.

Alliance location: To the right of the training dummies.

Horde Location Between Mine and herb garden.

Comment by Ylaana

Spawned for me at my garrison during Hallow's End in the corner between the mine and the guard tower (73,26). Dropped Sack of Spiders.

Comment by KrudusTV

Arachnis Spwans 20 yards south from the lava pool in your garrison..

(that's next to the herb garden and the mines).

Comment by Melandroso

(Horde) Spawned right behind the herb garden (direction towards the BBQ and the Outhouse) right after I used the Creepy Crawlers (which also made many battle pets appear in my garrison).

Easy kill for a lvl 100 and dropped Sack of Spiders.

She re-spawned after a few minutes, still with the Silver Dragon portrait, but with no loot. Seems to support the "lootable-once-a-day" theory.

Comment by Faradize

Since it's a Spider, could any hunter please check if this mob is tameable?

Comment by Alqua

Drops Sack of Spectral Spiders

Comment by widderwise

On an alt where I'd already completed the 4 dailies and bought some Creepy Crawlers from Events Coordinator the (to be able to tame the 3 new seasonal battle pets) Arachnis spawned almost straight away.

I wasn't sure if the spawning and the Garrison decorations were linked.

However, on my main I waited for some time and no Arachnis spawned. So I guessed that you have to decorate your Garrison with some seasonal stuff bought from the seasonal currency.

Sure enough, as soon as I did the dailies on my main and bought and used some Creepy Crawlers, Arachnis pops.

I don't know if that was coincidence or if it was specifically the Creepy Crawlers that did it. When I try again I'll buy a different decoration and see what happens.

Comment by LabKitty

56.8, 88.9 for Horde location, will spawn after you bought Creepy Crawlers for 5 Spooky Supplies .

Comment by Nulgar

Vignette: 39617

Comment by HobDawgh

You can check if you've looted this rare mob for the day by typing:
/run for k,v in pairs({Arachnis=39617}) do print(format("%s: %s", k, IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(v) and "\124cFFFF0000Completed\124r" or "\124cFF00FF00Not completed yet\124r")) end

Comment by Abhora

~~It's only lootable once a day per character, but if you don't loot it, you can kill it again every 5 or so minutes until the toy drops!~~

Sorry guys, they hotfixed this :/

Comment by sorrowdemonica

For those confused on the location or how to spawn this rare on Alliance:

Located in the area between the Guard Tower and the Mine in your garrison.

Spawned by Purchasing Creepy Crawlers

Protip: Disable autoloot and if the rare does not drop the toy, walk away and do not loot their trash or common items.They will respawn each 3 minutes giving you additional chances for the toy drop.

So be warned, if you looted their trash/common items, you will be locked and unable to loot them until the following day.

--- update ---

Looks like Blizzard hotfixed the loot trick. Now it seems if you don't loot Arachnis, the loot gets sent to your mail and additional Arachnis spawns aren't lootable. However, even with this change, you still get 2 attempts before the first Arachnis corpse despawns and the mail is sent.

So, after the first Arachnis kill, if the toy does not drop, stay with the corpse so it does not despawn prematurely, and you will be able to kill the next spawn and check it's loot.

Blizzard just Ninja patched Arachnis' again, this time reducing their corpse despawn timer. Now despawns in 2 minutes rather than over 5 minutes, thus preventing a 2nd loot.

Comment by Clueyy

Here's a quick video of Arachnis location, although it might be redundant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl5aG3VCEfA&feature=youtu.be

However, much like how you can cheese your way to getting both of the Illidari tabards in Outland by just peeking inside the box you get, you can cheese this rare by not looting (i.e just peeking) the corpse. Doing this will not lock you and thus you can kill it over and over until you get the toy.

Comment by TNadal

Be super cautious looting, make sure you loot _NOTHING_ or only your toy. we've had a number of people loot grey trash first, and be unable to loot the toy or white bag.

Comment by thekaizi

it is lootable in a raid group, however when it dropped in our it popped up as a Loot ROLL...=/

Comment by Abracadavra

In order to get this to spawn, you need to have Creepy Crawlers in your garrison.

Comment by jjanchan

Arachnis is a rare spawn that is part of the Hallow's Eve 2015 holiday event. He spawns in your garrison as a "rare" if you use the Creepy Crawlers garrison decoration, and has a chance to drop the toy Sack of Spectral Spiders. Note that as long as your garrison has this decoration active (any time of the year!) this rare spawn will be present in your garrison and can be killed once daily.
Creepy Crawlers is one of 5 decorations that can be purchased and applied to your garrison, available for this holiday event.

All of the decorations can be purchased for Spooky Supplies from the vendor Izzy Hollyfizzle. In the Horde garrison she is standing at the center by the fire, and in the Alliance garrison she is next to the water fountain at the center.

Applying Creepy Crawlers to your garrison causes two things to happen:

Arachnis has 978k health and is non-hostile until engaged. Other than melee attacks, it uses one ability - Web Blast. This ability places a number of webs on the ground around your character - staying out of them is an easy matter if you do not move at all. If you stand in the webs, you gain Web Blast - you take nature damage and are slowed significantly.
All in all, this rare is very easy to kill.

Here are some further notes on this mob:

Arachnis spawns every 5 minutes at the same spot:

Horde - (56,88), outside and south of your garrison, up the hill, towards the outhouse and east of your herb garden (near the lava pool).

Alliance - (74,34) outside and east of your garrison, between the guard tower and the mine, to the right of the training dummies.

You do not need to kill him in your own garrison. You may visit another player's garrison with Creepy Crawlers active to kill him, and you can loot him with Free-for-all loot active.

While you cannot activate this decoration without a level 3 garrison, your lower level (90-99) alts can visit another garrison to kill and loot Arachnis

The toy Sack of Spectral Spiders drop rate is less than 10%.
The toy is not Bind on Pickup, and it can be traded or bought/sold on the Auction House.
You can only loot Arachnis once per day PER CHARACTER. ~~However, there is currently a way to circumvent this in order to get the toy:~~

~~Turn off auto-loot (Interface --> Controls); alternatively leave auto-loot on and hold Shift when looting to manually disable auto-loot.~~
After each kill of the mob, check the corpse for the toy. If it is not in the loot, simply wait for the next spawn and rinse and repeat until you see the toy, at which point you can grab it. It is ESSENTIAL you do not take any loot off the body for this to work - as soon as you loot any item, you can no longer loot him that day. In fact, if you see the toy and other items, take the toy first as there have been reports that only one item can be looted per day!
The above method has been stealth hotfixed - the items from the corpse will now be sent to you in the mail if not looted, and you will receive no loot on subsequent kills in a day. Thus, you can only loot this mob once daily.

This rare also drops Sack of Spiders - this is a currently useless consumable item that does nothing when used (likely glitched).
This toy CAN be looted in a raid group.

Below are listed the other garrison decorations available, and their effects.

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Some notes about the decorations outlined above:

Each character can buy 1 decoration per day, as the four dailies provide a total of 5 Spooky Supplies per day.
The decorations are account bound, and can be sent to your other characters. As such, you can do the dailies on 4 alts and have all 5 decorations on your main in a single day!
They can only be displayed in a level 3 garrison.
Multiple decorations can be active in your garrison simultaneously.
Right-clicking a decoration to "use" it applies the effect described above to your garrison, and consumes the item. This effectively "unlocks" that decoration for your character, and it will be applied any time you choose after that.
You can speak to Izzy Hollyfizzle and select "The party's over. Get rid of these decorations, Izzy." to remove the decorations.

If you have cancelled the garrison decoration as above, speaking to Izzy again and selecting "Make my garrison ready for a Hallow's Eve party." will reapply the decorations.
If you have unlocked more than one decoration, the above actions (to remove or restore the decorations) will do so to ALL decorations, not just selected ones.

The currency for the decorations (enabling you to buy them) is only available during Hallows End. As such, these decorations can only be acquired then. However, the decorations can be applied to your garrison (after you have unlocked them) all year round!

There are 4 daily quests that grant Spooky Supplies, which are used to buy garrison decorations.
All 4 of these quests have objectives in Shadowmoon Valley, at the Isle of Shadows. This little island is located at coordinates (39, 81) and is south west of Socrethar's Rise.

The quests are granted by Orukan in your garrison. This NPC stands next to Izzy Hollyfizzle at the center of you garrison.

All of the quests require a level 100 character with a level 3 garrison. They all reward 1-2 Spooky Supplies. After you have acquired all 5 different decorations, the Spooky Supplies can be traded to Izzy Hollyfizzle 1:1 for Tricky Treats.

Below is a chart outlining the quests:

Quest	Objectives	Reward	Notes
Culling the Crew	Salty Dreg Brackish Cultivator Boneship Reveler	Spooky Supplies X 1	These mobs have a chance to drop the toy Coin of Many Faces. The Boneship Revelers will make you drunk if you kill many, which can be counteracted by using Blackrock Coffee or Kafa Press. The Boneship Revelers also drop Spectral Grog, which turns you into a spectral pirate for 1 hour.
Smashing Squashlings	Growing Squashling	Spooky Supplies X 1	-
Foul Fertilizer	Dread Fertilizer	Spooky Supplies X 1	The Dread Fertilizer are stationary kegs with roughly 900 health each - they can be one shot by most abilities.
Mutiny on the Boneship	Captain Bonerender	Spooky Supplies X 2	This mini boss has 2 million health. He has a chance to drop the toy Coin of Many Faces. If you do not have flying, you can reach his ship (south of the Isle of Shadows) by a rope on the side facing the island.

Comment by Loisely

You need a level 3 garrison for this, so sending Creepy Crawlers to your low lvl alt won't work.

EDIT: Your lv 90-99 characters can go to a friend's garrison to kill it. Just set the loot on Free For All and let your friend kill the mob.

Comment by 1540257

It looks like they may have "fixed" this rare. If you don't loot him, you'll get the loot in your mailbox when the body despawns.
I didn't try not opening the mail to see if that would still allow me to loot his body on the next kill, but my guess is they're forcing people to only do once per day per character.
Hopefully they've increased the droprate.

Comment by 1540255

As far as I can tell not looting has been fixed.

Items will come to you by Postmaster through the mail and all other attempts at killing will have no loot.

It's also considered Undead so not tamable.

Comment by Ghostduckie

It seems to have been fixed. I've killed it 4 times in a row now and it only gave loot the first time. Even if you don't loot it, the Postmaster will make sure you get it.

Comment by zhengmaii

I'm wondering how the Wowhead Client collects the drop data (or rather, how the data cache stores the drop data).

Before the recent hotfix, many wouldn't actually loot anything when the toy doesn't drop. Will Wowhead Client only count the one time the corpse is looted, displaying a deceivingly high drop rate of the toy on the Wowhead webpage?

Comment by 847089

They seem to have made it once per day per account. I killed it earlier on my warlock, changed to my hunter and found someone with it up. When I saw it on my hunter, it didn't show as a rare - just as a normal mob that dropped no loot.

**** Edit - although I couldn't loot the mob when it died, today when I logged in I had mail from the postmaster with a sack of spiders. Apparently it is/was bugged.

Comment by Shauolin

When you purchase the Creepy Crawlers from Izzy Hollyfizzle it will add Halloween battle pets to your garrison such as the Ghastly Rat , Ghost Maggot and Spectral Spinner.
It will also add a rare called Arachnis which will spawn by your garrisons herb garden. Arachnis is a lvl 100 rare spider with 978k health and is easily killable. The spider has a chance to drop Sack of Spectral Spiders if your lucky or Sack of Spiders if your unlucky.

HOT FIXED.
Here's the Trick: Kill the rare but DO NOT AUTO LOOT. Loot and check what it has. If the toy isn't there then DO NOT LOOT ANYTHING. Leave the spider and it will respawn within 3 or 4 minutes for another shot at getting the toy. Rinse and repeat until you get the toy. If you loot the corpse and the toy wasn't there then you will have to wait another day for another chance at getting the toy.

*At the moment there seems to be a loot bug so always LOOT THE TOY FIRST as you may not be able to loot anything else. This bug has been reported by players and experienced by myself.

Comment by croana

This mob appears to been hotfixed on EU realms. If you don't loot him, the postmaster will send you your loot.

Comment by Alarel

In the alliance garrison, better attack from the shore side. Avoids getting too close to the training dummies. Killed me twice as a cloth wearer.

Comment by dreamchaos1

he's not in my garrison: /

Comment by Killerzeus

Do the dailys to get the amount of spooky supplies needed for the Creepy Crawlers decoration pack for your garrison. Buy the package from Izzy Hollyfizzle and use it. Then head over to Arachnis and kill him.
It can now only be done once a day, even if you loot him or not, so if you don't get the toy, you will have to wait a day and try again.

https://youtu.be/GRZh7EYr4C8 - Here's a short video showing you how

Comment by violetta

on Alliance be careful with positioning. bodyguards have a nasty habit of catching the tanking training dummy in aoe causing them to be killed by it (usually after Arachnis is dead though)

Comment by Spirk

would love to know if this spider is tameable since i think it would be a great addition to my hunter?

Comment by Gogeta1990

So, newsflash.

Hallow's End was supposed to end on November 1st 11.00 am.
Yet 2 hours past this deadline, I'm still seeing Arachnis in all my garrisons.

Is this just a bug that will be corrected with next week's maintenance, or can we conclude these decorations are permanent and will stay active even outside the holiday events?

Comment by Ivanya

After killing and looting this several times since I got the decoration, it has dropped nothing but a sack of spiders and a mandible. I'm guessing the toy or pet drop rate is really low. I haven't had any problems looting, but am just very unlucky with any decent drops. :(

Comment by sleepingleaf

he droped Oshu'gun Wand for me just now weird its not on the drop list

Comment by forever1267

Now outside of Hollow's End, but still have the decorations, I got the Sack on the first try. I might have just gotten lucky.

Comment by Suane

Anyone know how to remove this NPC from npcscan? It pops up as an alert everytime I get close to the damn bug just to do my dailies. I tried to look it up on the list to remove it but can't find it anywhere. Checked all tabs, by ID and name but he doesn't seem to be there yet I get the alert.

Comment by GamerYubi

Since you can leave decorations up after Halloween, the spider stays in the garrison until you get rid of the decorations.

Can anyone confirm if the spider can still drop the toy outside of the holiday window, because he does still drop loot as of Nov 23 2015.

Comment by Shardsy

Is there any to get (permanently) rid of the rare?

Comment by LSavage

Arachnis seems no longer to be around as of 19 December.

edit: Figured it out. Arachnis isn't actually gone. The garrison simply switched its decorations to Winter Veil and it needs to be set to Hallow's Eve. Izzy Hollfizzle can be used to switch it and Arachnis will be back.

Comment by Wyr3d

Is this spider even around this year? I haven't seen it at all.

EDIT

Confimed that is it still about this year, was stuck on the cliff near the water. Didn't drop the sack though. Also, although it can respawn the same day, you won't receive any loot for additional kills after the first :((##RESPBREAK##)908##DELIM##Uchur##DELIM##

Comment by Turowai

Just logged on to the new patch (omg addons everywhere D: ), and started a quick alt hop.
My DK has this guy in his garrison, and I usually wander over when I remember and 1shot him for a chance at the toy (to sell, which it does quite nicely :) ).

Due to the level squish and revamp, this spider is now lvl 50, and isn't 1shottable anymore D:
I had to actually pull a full rotation that lasted a couple mins... YMMV, this alt is very low geared

Tl,dr: This rare now scales to lvl 50 (possibly even 60... who knows) to match you. No longer a 1shot cakewalk

EDIT UPDATE: Finally got round to levelling my DK a little with the anniversary event up (now over). Have now returned to garrison for first time since. Spider is now same level as I am (52 in this case)... and seems wowhead confirms it's level 50-60... little sad at that tbh. This is an old 'rare', why does it scale to shadowlands levels?

Comment by Conclex

Currently unable to tame this undead spider, hopefully soon though!

Comment by fateswarm

Is this' scaling bugged? I was 50 and it was almost possible to kill me. It also had very high HP for a mob of draenor.

Comment by godzilla4988

This randomly scales to 60 now. Probably due to it being somehow flagged as a holiday mob instead of WoD since it is tied to a degree to Halloween.

Comment by IAmNotaWeenie

At level 60, ilvl 149, I used all my mana and cooldowns killing this ugly spider. I don't remember him being this difficult to kill.

Comment by Mirius

Tried to kill Arachnis today, lvl 60 mob with 110k hp, no longer insta kill...
Dropped toy, so ye it can still drop, and even outside hallows end event.

Comment by dillybar

It is rather bizarre that Blizzard is scaling this beast from WoD and making it difficult to kill with a level 70.

Comment by postfu

I created an account just so that I could help everyone out here!

Okay, so.. scaling has been completely broken for years. Arachnis is an insane killing machine unless you're under like Level 40-50.

However, you can also take advantage of this Garrison scaling "feature" to help you out with various Draenor endeavours just like this (and other fun things.)

First thing you should be aware of is that Arachnis is available ALL YEAR ROUND. It's not just limited to Hallow's End. So you can put out your decorations right now, and farm Arachnis every day with your Garrison alts.

If you want to kill Arachnis quickly and safely at Level 60-70, all you need is one of the regular MELEE NPC's that wander around your Garrison. Right-click on one of them, and click "I need you to come on patrol with me." Attack Arachnis, and then wait a second for the NPC to clobber it.

Don't use your Bodyguard at the Barracks - they will scale down to your level. It's the NPCs wandering around that are completely OP just like Arachnis.

You might need to test a few out to see who are best, but I know that the Magic-attack based NPCs do almost no damage. It's the melee NPC's like Blook, Dagg, Karg Bloodfury, Tormmok, Mulverick, Pleasure-Bot, and Goldmane IIRC that can one-hit Arachnis for example. Just make sure that these followers are Active at your Mission Table to see them wandering around.

Additional Notes:

- Arachnis will respawn within a few minutes, but it can only be looted once per character per day. So this method helps a lot if you're using an alt army.

- For quick access to your Mission Table and to see which followers are active, use the macro: /script ShowGarrisonLandingPage(2)

- Folks who do the Garrison Inscription Flipping side hustle can add this destination to their travel circuit. With the herb garden being their last stop, for example, simply grab your One Punch NPC along the way, kill Arachnis and hopefully loot . I farm these and put them up on the AH.

- If you're unfamiliar with this side hustle, check out Drizzling Rose's Garrison Guide. This is just a quick side quest that can be added to your daily activities.

Comment by RobotNinja

The toy is still dropping outside of the holiday event.

Comment by demonsquiggle

Lvl 80 fury warrior ilvl 609, this guy hits like a truck now.

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