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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.

Progress

Did you get the venom?

Completion

Sweet, you got it!

Gains

Upon completion of quests, get:
  • 845 experience (50 70 at max. level)
  • 500 Reputation with Undercity

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By Zoulz on 09/10/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
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By Myx0 on 09/01/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
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 imperia on 05/13/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
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By Garryman on 09/05/2007 (Patch 2.1.3)
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By Wreckanize on 06/21/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)
Altar is at 34.73
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By jbwest on 11/27/2007 (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 Squirrely on 03/11/2007 (Patch 2.0.10)
The spider is no longer giant as shown in the featured screenshot. Normal size ftl.
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By truhorde on 12/15/2007 (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 PizzaMan on 05/31/2008 (Patch 2.4.2)
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 Mancer on 01/23/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
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By magnetite on 01/01/2008 (Patch 2.3.0)
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By holykins on 02/17/2008 (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 Tytanium on 02/22/2008 (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 darcinator on 06/02/2008 (Patch 2.4.2)
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 childofnewlight on 03/18/2008 (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 Diyaa on 03/19/2008 (Patch 2.3.3)
If you're an engineer, https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=4852 Flash Bombs are handy here.
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By Chaoscrusader666 on 01/05/2008 (Patch 2.3.0)
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 bodgit on 01/05/2008 (Patch 2.3.0)
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 https://vanillawowdb.com/?npc=8218 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 switch89a on 07/27/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)
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By greedz on 07/27/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)
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By Eoss on 08/15/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)
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By Dinkleburg on 09/22/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)
I was able to solo Shadra on a level 54 Shadow Priest.

By using the temple on the south side of Shadra'Alor I was able to apply dots to Shadra while running up the stairs, then jumping down to the platform next to where the Atalai Exile is (however not the one he is standing on). Shadra will take a very weird path going all the way down the stairs and up the side of the hill next to the area. When Shadra gets about 5 seconds from reaching you jump down and run back up the stairs, she will follow by going back to the hill going around giving you plenty of time to get distance and you can repeat over and over. Took maybe 7-10 minutes or so, but I took 0 damage and it was cake. I didn't even need to fear once, she never got that close. The first time I tried it she did reset though, so I made sure to keep re-applying Vampiric Embrace, which was perfect due to its very low mana cost and being able to use it on the run.

I think its safe to say that any ranged class can solo Shadra using this method.
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By JackMynock on 10/20/2008 (Patch 3.0.2)
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By trillz on 12/21/2008 (Patch 3.0.3)
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By Grakkh on 12/26/2008 (Patch 3.0.3)
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By Nash10000 on 12/26/2008 (Patch 3.0.3)
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By Sgtown on 12/28/2008 (Patch 3.0.3)
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By EmAir on 02/15/2009 (Patch 3.0.9)
I just solo'ed this with my 52 retlol pally at around 3k HP.

- I died 2 times trying to damage as much as possible while trying to stay alive with FoL and occasional HLs. Won't work.

- Then I tried kiting her around the lake, but she's pretty fast and sometimes uses shortcuts through the lake to reach you. Wiped another 2 times.

- I then tried kiting her atop and around the temple as described in https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=2937#comments:id=385458 this comment and it worked out pretty well. Clear the temple so you don't get any adds. Kite her atop the temple then take the way left and jump up the small hill, go down, rinse and repeat. Use Judgements on every CD (you can do it while kiting her), use those AoW procs to heal yourself when you crit. Use HoJ on every cooldown and max your HP. And most important: always cleanse yourself of her poisons. She does a nasty https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=14897 slowing poison and hits very hard (400 swings and evil crits) once she's in melee range. Used Divine Protection at 15% to finish her off.
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By drexofwarsong on 01/02/2009 (Patch 3.0.3)
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By Gravelord on 03/27/2009 (Patch 3.0.9)
Possible with an arcane mage. I soloed it today by keeping Slow on her and kiting around the lake while casting fireball and praying for Missile Barrage procs. It procced quite a lot so it was a cake to down her. However once she got to me and critted me for 1k. I had health of 1400. So be cautious don't get near her. Just keep Slow on her and then nuke away.
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By Pralev on 11/04/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
Did her now as lvl 56 enha shaman. Stoneskin, fiery, windfury and healing stream totems (although I would use cleansing 2nd time, I had to depoison myself like 3 or 4 times), windfury on main hand, earthliving on off-hand and full dmg from the beginning (that means keeping flame shock on her all the time and spamming stormstrike and earth shock on cooldown). She was quite piece of cake, only 3 heals at all (and those were instant thanks to the Maelstrom weapon), no potions, 1 shamanistic rage, no risk of death at all.
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By popindix on 05/24/2009 (Patch 3.1.2)
Does NOT count towards Loremaster Kali...neither does the next quest in UC.

Assuming for Loremaster EK.
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By cressmeister on 11/06/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
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By Flagg on 07/13/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
easly solable as a enhancement shaman with https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=63374 https://vanillawowdb.com/?spell=63374
just use anything you have to rec mana and spam frostshock

(water walking on the lake make it even easyer)

use flametongue weapone for + spell power and istant ghost wolf in case she resist a freeze
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By smartass0315 on 11/19/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
Just Tamed on my 56 BM Hunter just summon and i used a stoneshield pot and a elixir(can't remember which one) put a freezing trap down about half way between us then tamed she got in trap and i was about half dead afterwards
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By coyote72 on 01/01/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
Opposite Factions can help with this too, I did this on a 48 horde paladin with the help of a 80 night elf druid.
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By fieryshadowcard on 04/13/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
Frost mages, fear not, for she will never ever touch you.

I had Ice Armor up in case she did get lucky, but I never got put in that situation with the below strategy.

As she spawns, she will appear at the foot of the lake on your left when you are at the altar. The following strategy assumes you are glyphed for a permanent Water Elemental, but should work even if you are not; the presence of a permanent pet will a) speed up the process and b) assert that the only snare you need for this strategy is your own frost nova. The first thing to do is pop Icy Veins once she's in range and frostbolt spam her until she gets close enough to frost nova. At that time, step back, frostbolt some more. When the nova breaks, she will slowly march towards you, but you should be able to backpedal enough that she will always be too slow to catch up. As it wears off, she will come faster, but not fast enough that you cannot react. Have Cone of Cold ready (if you have even one point in Permafrost you could in theory do this to her non-stop which would take forever but there you go).

CoC will slow her enough that backpedaling will actually allow you to out-kite her, so feel free to Cone of Cold and Fire Blast whenever they're off cooldown. Once frost nova is up, let her have it and back up enough to get a couple Frostbolts in. Rinse and repeat. If you misjudge the distance of frost nova, keep up the CoC kiting. If you happen to have your elemental up, this process is even faster. And of course, if you have Brain Freeze by this time you actually have a periodic instant nuke. But, I did not, so Fire Blast and CoC with the occasional Frost Nova and Frostbolts when you can afford them will do the trick nicely. At level 52 no less.
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By Aurio on 06/20/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
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By Derren on 06/23/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
Just soloed it today on my lvl53retnub. Heres what I dwowhead:1,id:

Seal of wisdom,judgement of wisdom on the spider. attack,hammer of justice, around half hp spam holy light to heal yourself til your 100% hp. Repeat.

With seal of wisdom and judgement of wisdom up you should have a ""neverending mana"" to heal yourself.
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By sopor30 on 09/09/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
14,700 exp at lvl 48. Oh baby.

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