Throughout your adventures in Diablo 4, you’ll come across numerous bosses, some of which can only be found at the end of a dungeon. If you’re unlucky enough, you may encounter the hideous Broodguard Spider which can be a difficult boss depending on when you first fight it. Fortunately, we have a boss guide on how to defeat this eight-legged monstrosity. Read below for more details.

Broodguard Attacks¶

The Broodguard doesn’t have a lot of attacks, but the attacks it does have can be problematic. Throughout the battle, you’ll encounter the following attacks:

Leg Stab/Bite¶

This is a generic attack where the Broodguard will attack you with one of its many legs (or bite you). Fortunately, it doesn’t deal a lot of damage, so you can continue to attack the boss and take the hit. You could dodge this, but your dodges will be better served on its other attacks.

Web Throw¶

The Broodguard will throw out numerous webs around the arena, and if you get caught in one, you’ll either be slowed, or rooted. The attack itself doesn’t deal any damage, but it will leave you vulnerable to a follow-up attack. For the most part, you can avoid this by staying close to the boss.

Poison Spit¶

Similar to the Web Throw attack, the Broodguard will spit out several puddles of poison that persist on the floor for a brief moment. There doesn’t appear to be any specific places it will spit these puddles, but staying close to the boss once again will avoid this attack unless it runs near to them.

Spider Host Adds¶

Not an attack per se, but throughout the battle, the boss will summon enemies known as Spider Hosts to the fight. They normally spawn in threes or fours, and when you defeat them, they’ll explode, and release other Spider enemies. When they spawn, these should be your focus otherwise you’ll end up with four enemies attacking you at once which will overwhelm your small healing supply.

Broodguard Boss Strategy¶

The strategy of this battle is to be aggressive and stay close to the boss. If you sit back, you’ll get hit by almost all the attacks. The general gist of the fight will be: you close in on the boss and attack it, and it runs away and does either the Web Throw or Poison Spit attacks. You close in again to attack it, it’ll do a couple of Leg stab attacks, then one of the other attacks, and runs away again.

When the Broodguard’s health drops below the first arrow on the health bar, the Spider Host adds will spawn. Defeat them quickly, preferably with an Ultimate like Death Trap, or Inferno. If you don’t have any Ultimate available, use your AOE attacks to take them down quickly. When you defeat a Spider Host, it’ll explode and a Spider enemy will appear, so make sure you defeat the adds, adds too. During the fight, you will stagger the boss.

This means it’ll take more damage from your attacks, and you’ll want to take full advantage of this by using your strongest attacks such as the Ultimate, and your damage-increasing utility. You will know it’s staggered as it won’t move, and it’ll have a blue bar underneath its health bar slowly depleting.

This is pretty much the entire fight, thankfully, it doesn’t have too much health, and you can burn it down pretty quickly, especially in a group. Some tips that can make the battle easier are:

• Don’t be afraid to use your potions, you’ll get some back every time you bring the boss’s health down past an arrow.
• The Broodguard is susceptible to the Vulnerable effect, and most classes have a way to deal with that, so make use of it.
• Use Utility Skills that increase your damage such as Rogue’s Smoke Bomb, this is especially useful when you’ve staggered the boss.
• Having a form of defensive skill can help such as the Sorc’s Ice Shards, and Rogue’s Dark Shroud as you’ll be close to the boss for most of the fight thus taking more hits.

Broodguard Rewards¶

Most loot in Diablo games is random, and the rewards for this battle are no different. It can drop Legendary gear though.