Araxxor

Araxxor is a spider boss that was first teased on twitter by Mod Chris L on 19 May 2014. It is possible to fight Araxxor alone or with a friend. Drops include components for three new level 90 two-handed weapons, one for each combat style, along with a new pet, with multiple skins to be unlocked for the pet through achievements.

One can influence the flow of the battle oneself; Araxxor's lair has three main tunnels and each path triggers different fight mechanics. In order to trigger different fights, players need to burn a web and wait one minute before proceeding. Also, when there are two people fighting instead of one, Araxxor's attacks are "doubled". This includes minion spawns and its strength in general.

According to Mod Chris L, Araxxor has 23 different mechanics, which is much more than Vorago.

Location
Araxxor is located in a cavern south-east of Port Phasmatys called the Araxyte Hive. The cavern can be accessed by using the shortcut on the southern wall (requires 92 Agility) or by accessing the western gate.

Starting a Fight
Just like the God Wars Dungeon or Vorago, there are 2 ways to start a fight; with or without an instance.

The instance will cost 200,000 gold for each attempt of killing Araxxor. Players will also have the choice of not paying the instance, and only 1 or 2 players can fight it at a time.

Only one person or duo can enter the base world instance at a time. If someone is inside, you will not be able to enter and will have to pay the 200,000 coin instance fee in order to fight Araxxor on the same world.

Fight overview
Araxxor has 3 paths in which you can take, however, only two paths will be open in a given cycle. Path 1 will be a normal fight, while path 2 will have a series of imbued spiders, spitting spiders, mirrorback spiders, bladed spiders and pulsing spiders. Araxxor has 4 phases in total. Araxxor's first phase starts in a large room, with Araxxor having 100,000 LP. There are three blocked tunnels, and the player must pick a tunnel, and light the web in front of it. The web takes 1 minute to burn down, and the player must fight Araxxor until the web has been burned down. Once you pick your path, that is the path you have decided on and you cannot repick until the fight is over. Araxxor, like Vorago, cannot be killed until all of the phases have been finished and the requirements met.

Strategies
It should be noted that the more times you successfully kill Araxxor, the more angry he gets and begins to have increased damage. This "anger" resets every day at 01:00 UTC.

Special Attacks
Regardless of the path chosen, Araxxor always has three special attacks. It should be noted that Araxxor will never use the attack back to back. For example, if it uses its slash attack, it will not use the slash attack for its next special but instead either spiders or the dome.

Spiders
The first special involves five small spiders rushing at the player, trapping them in a cocoon while Araxxor reinforces it with more spider silk, dealing 175-200 damage until the player breaks free by clicking anywhere on the screen, similar to the Glacor's melee freeze.

Slash
The second special involves Araxxor bending down and slashing its front legs towards the player, which will deal heavy damage and hurts familiars. If the player is attacking from a distance Araxxor will drag them similar to Nex's drag during the smoke phase.

Cobweb dome
The third special involves a cobweb falling down on Araxxor, healing it for 1000 lifepoints five times and also reflecting some of the damage players inflict on it if they attack.

Left path
On the left path, Araxxor's spiders will be watching the fight and 20 minions will spawn (not all at once) for each player, and a "rage" meter will also appear. Imbued, spitting, mirrorback and bladed spiders burst from the ground while pulsing spiders descend from above. During the fight, spider eggs will also be dropped by other spiders from above while a small fire will appear and will head towards the player. The player can go near the eggs and destroy them, which will also hurt nearby minions. This comes at a cost as Araxxor's "rage" will increase, which will also increase its accuracy and damage against players. Once all 20 or 40 minions are gone, no more will spawn throughout the fight.

If they are avoided, Araxxor will spawn all of them at once on the last phase, which can be a problem when avoiding his nasty attacks on phase four.

Players may skip to phase 3 on this path.

Middle path
On the middle path, Araxxor will be able to use the pools of poison to damage the player. He can do this up to a maximum of 10 times, each dealing between 250-1500 damage. It is advised to keep your health to as close as full as possible, as the damage can quickly prove fatal otherwise. In addition to this Araxxor's healing ability is much more frequent on this path.

Phase 1
This phase is similar to a standard boss fight. To proceed to the next phase simply burn a web and lure Araxxor over to start the second phase.

Phase 2
This phase is dependent on the path you took.

Phase 3
Araxxor still launches eggs from the ceiling and also gets a small healing time from spiders above the cavern. During this phase, two new spiders will come into the fight; the highly acidic spider, and the acidic spider. The highly acidic spiders must be lured to Araxxor, which will increase its "rage". The regular acidic spiders burst from the ground and have a bar over it. Once this bar is filled, it will explode but cause no harm. However, if it touches the player, it will instantly kill them. Reduce all of Araxxor's health to begin the final phase.

Phase 4
Araxxor will get killed and a new spider, Araxxi, will replace it. Araxxi will still use the attacks Araxxor. Upon reaching 50k lifepoints, Araxxi's attacks become increasingly powerful. Upon reaching 25k lifepoints, Araxxi will unleash a highly acidic wave that can deal massive damage if players do not avoid it. During this phase, Araxxi will attack with every form of combat. If a player protects from one of its attacks it will stop using that attack until the prayer is removed.

Drops
The Araxxi corpse will reward players with arrows, in addition to 2 other drops and sometimes 11-20 charms. Players can gamble for the pet, but they will lose the drops from that kill if they do so. In order to get the pet the player needs to hit a direct 0 on the gamble. Chances for the pet are dependent on how well you did your kill; if the kill was deemed "good" (e.g 1/210), the numbers will vary from 0-210.


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Trivia

 * As a teaser on the day of Araxxor's release, Jagex Moderators changed their player model to the same as Araxxor and infected other players into baby spiders in places such as the Grand Exchange.
 * Even though it is a spider, Araxxor has only seven eyes. This is because the 8th is part of the staff.
 * "Hoobs" was the first player to kill Araxxor solo, and this was announced using a worldwide in-game server-wide announcement.
 * Araxxor's mechanics are similar to other monsters in RuneScape:
 * When using its cleave attack, if the player is far away it will magically drag the player to it, similar to Nex's drag on her Smoke phase.
 * Luring the acidic spiders to Araxxor is similar to luring Vorago to a destabilizing orb.
 * Players also leave by an egg, which is similar to that of leaving the Borehole with the orb after killing Vorago.
 * On the final phase, if a player tries to protect/deflect an attack from Araxxi, it will use another combat style instead, similar to the revenant's fighting style.
 * Players must avoid the highly acidic wave Araxxi releases, similar to that of avoiding the Dark energy core the Corporeal Beast sends out.
 * Like the Kalphite King, Araxxor comes in a different form of combat. It also has a form of its instant-kill with the acidic spider that bursts from the ground.
 * Players get their rewards by searching, similar to defeating the Queen Black Dragon. It also has four phases which the Queen has.