World of Warcraft: The War Within will be taking players deep, deep underground to do battle with the Nerubian empire—which, inevitably, means spiders. A lot of spiders. Dungeons full of ’em. Raids, even.

Which is a nightmare for the arachnophobes among us. Luckily, The War Within will have an arachnophobia filter that’s as comprehensive as it is novel—simply ticking an option in the menu will turn every single spider in the game into a crab of equivalent size and colour. Yes, seriously. Here’s the spiders of Deadwind Pass getting hit with the crab ray.

During a roundtable interview, WoW director Ion Hazzikostas described the environment that birthed this most adorable of filters: 

“When it became known that we were building the centre of the Nerubian empire, there were a lot of concerns … they were a little creepy back in 2008, but in 2024 levels of fidelity, that’s much more of a concern. There were some folks on the team that exp…