DQ9 Encyclopedia

Widow's pique

Veuve venin · no. 218 in the monster list
Everything is read from the game's code, unless stated otherwise

They wrap their victims in sticky silk, then smack them with a stinker of an attack. Firmly insulated against fire attacks.

The reincarnated souls of spurned lovers, they spend their days as poisonous spiders weaving webs of eternal woe.

The essentials

  • Earliest in the story: Caves, rank 12: 22% of visible monsters, 30% of battles (quality 181-200: floors 13-16; 201-220: floors 13-16; 221-248: floors 13-16)
  • Gives: 6,800 EXP, 189 G, Tangleweb (1/8), Rogue's robes (1/128)
  • Weak to: wind, light ×1.5
  • Has no effect on it: dazzle, drain magic, confusion, fizzle, poison, paralysis

Family: bug — weapons dealing ×1.1: knives

Stats

HPMPAtt.Def.Agi.EXPGoldEvas.
95505956253026,8001890 %

HP from the game's record: in battle, each monster gets a roll between 80 and 100% of it (rounded); MP is full.

Resistances and actions

  • Elements (damage taken): wind, light ×1.5; fire ×0.5
  • Effects (success rate): 50%: sleep, Whack, stun, Blunt, Sap, Decelerate, Divine Intervention; 5%: Charm; immune: Dazzle, Drain Magic, confusion, Fizzle, poison, paralysis
  • Actions: turn 1: Psyche Up or “weaves a wicked web!”; turn 2: Attack; turn 3: Attack or desperate attack (50/50, then repeats). Only once per turn for its whole group: “weaves a wicked web!”, desperate attack

Items

Tangleweb 1/8Rogue's robes 1/128

Habitat (in-game monster list)

Grotto

In the game, a defeated monster's entry names one of these places as soon as you have visited it, even if you never defeated that monster there; otherwise “?????????” (checked in game). The first two are named, “Etc.” for the third.

Grottoes (treasure maps)

  • Caves, rank 12: 22% of visible monsters, 30% of battles (quality 181-200: floors 13-16; 201-220: floors 13-16; 221-248: floors 13-16)
Under the hood

Internal numbers (game records, one per variant): 329.

Drop codes (prm/mon_btldata, bytes +2 and +3; 0 = 100%, otherwise 1/2^(code + 2), 7 = none): Tangleweb : 1 ; Rogue's robes : 5.

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