Forum:Crawmerax Pearl Drop Stats

I just wanted to let everyone know about my experiences with farming Crawmerax and how often he drops Pearlescent weapons. I did this on PC if it makes a difference.

I killed Crawmerax between 30 and 50 times solo before I started keeping track of my kills. I couldn't believe I hadn't seen a Pearl drop so I started keeping track of how many times I killed him and with how many people in the game.

To get my first Pearelscent weapon (Serpens) it took the following amount of kills.

Solo: 53 + 30 to 50 = 83 to103 kills and I've yet to see him drop a Pearl on a solo kill.

Two Person Group: 2 kills...no drop.

Three Person Group: 4 kills...no drop.

Four Person Group: 6 kills...Serpens dropped.

So it seems to me that if you don't want to waste a ton of time, killing him in a four person group is the only way to go.