Shadeweaver Thicket

Shadeweaver Thicket Guide

Shadeweaver Thicket is where the Luclin route turns into the Umbral Chorus storyline. The parent scripts here cover the Envoy of Sel`Rheza, the Symbol of the Shadeweaver, the Firefall Seer, the mysterious orb, the Wildfire Elemental, The Shadeweaver, and several zone-wide Luclin combat rules.

Envoy and Symbol Path

The Envoy of Sel`Rheza explains the Umbral Chorus and can offer echo travel to Shadeweaver Thicket or Paludal Caverns. If you bring the Envoy Symbol of the Shadeweaver, the Envoy returns the symbol and gives A Singular Flame.

Take A Singular Flame to the entranced Firefall Seer in the north. Giving the flame to the Seer summons the Raging Wildfire Elemental and starts a personal cooldown. After the cooldown has been established, hailing the Seer can summon the elemental again when the timer is ready.

The Raging Wildfire Elemental drops Captured Wildfire Elemental. Bring that and the Symbol of the Shadeweaver to the mysterious orb to awaken The Shadeweaver.

Mysterious Orb

The mysterious orb spawns a Sathirian royal guard when it appears. It accepts Captured Wildfire Elemental plus Symbol of the Shadeweaver to spawn The Shadeweaver.

After you have done the hand-in once, the orb tracks a personal cooldown and can let you spawn The Shadeweaver again by hailing when the timer is ready. If The Shadeweaver is already up, the orb returns your items.

Parent Script Mechanics

The zone parent script retunes enemies into Luclin difficulty. Named bosses get high health, high resists, fast attacks, see invis, and strong special abilities. Bosses can also add one random class bracer from the shared Luclin bracer pool.

Boss behavior includes:

• At half health, bosses call nearby enemies onto their top hate target unless Mark of Silence is active.
• Bosses pulse short-range life drain while engaged.
• At low health, many enemies can trigger Wrath of Luclin, a short-range damage burst.
• On death, eligible enemies have a chance to spawn an umbral beast.

The Shadeweaver Encounter

The Shadeweaver is the main scripted fight. On engage it starts three pressure timers:

• Unraveling energy pulses around the boss, damages nearby players, and then repeats.
• The boss periodically shouts taunts.
• The boss periodically checks its hate list and silences Shadowknights.

At 80 percent, 40 percent, and 10 percent health, The Shadeweaver tears open the weave and spawns evil strands. Those strands are timed bombs: if left alive, they explode after 20 seconds for heavy zone-pressure damage to players, bots, and pets.

The Shadeweaver can also trigger Wrath of Luclin near low health, so the end of the fight can stack add pressure, explosion pressure, and burst damage.

Notable Drops

Raging Wildfire Elemental:

• Captured Wildfire Elemental - required with the Symbol of the Shadeweaver at the mysterious orb.
• Scarecrow me? Scarecrow you! - pet illusion: Scarecrow.
• Blinky Blink! - Neshika's Blink click.
• Panic Heal - Holy Light click.

Blood-drenched hopling:

• a saurek hide
• Scarecrow me? Scarecrow you!
• Blinky Blink!
• Panic Heal

The Shadeweaver:

• Urn of Moon Space - large container reward.
• Harbinger of Velious - global item script: in allowed Velious zones it forces nearby creatures within a wide radius onto the user, with a 120 second cooldown. It does nothing outside the allowed Velious zones.
• Blinky Blink!
• Panic Heal
• Scarecrow me? Scarecrow you!

Shared Luclin bracer pool:

• Bosses can drop class bracers for Cleric, Druid, Shaman, Enchanter, Necromancer, Wizard, Magician, Paladin, Shadowknight, Warrior, Rogue, Berserker, Ranger, Monk, Beastlord, and Bard.

Rare umbral beast:

• Hunter Credit - recognized by the hunter credit plugin.

Practical Route

Finish the Symbol of the Shadeweaver step, get A Singular Flame from the Envoy, summon and kill the Raging Wildfire Elemental, then use Captured Wildfire Elemental with the Symbol at the mysterious orb. On The Shadeweaver, kill the evil strands immediately before they explode, watch the Shadowknight silence, and be ready for Wrath of Luclin near the end.

Next Zone

Paludal Caverns