Forum:I hate Crawmerax

This is being written out of pure malicious hatred for that sorry excuse of a lobster dinner.

Purpose of this thread: to give people a place to bitch about why we hate Crawmerax and tell their sad stories.

I was reading a thread lastnight where someone was asking whether or not it was possible for Crawmerax to drop Pearlescent weapons while soloing in playthrough 2.5. I was honestly beginning to wonder that myself. He said he's already killed Crawm at least 25 times. Someone responded by saying that it most definitely is possible since he's already obtained 4 pearlescents from soloing Crawmerax, but he's killed him more like 50 times and in succession (by leaving his area and coming right back, not exiting the game). So I decided to suspend all logical reasoning for a night and solo Crawm 50 times straight without exiting in hopes of finding even one Pearl.

Summary of how this went: FML

I believe I started this little personal ordeal around 8 P.M. lastnight and I finished cleaning up the last of the loot at about 5:45 A.M. With minimal breaks and only 2 cups of coffee, I did it. Killing him is the easy part, cleaning all the s**t he drops takes forever. Usually I kill him five times then drop my inventory in the staging area and clean up all the drops. This was also done split screening with a Lillith, but being used purely as extra storage space and to up my chances of finding something decent (in other words, no one was controlling her), so I still consider it soloing since that Lillith provides absolutely no combat help.

After cleaning up thousands of drops, I found hardly anything worth mentioning. Other than a few guns that were margionally better than what I've got now and my first Reaper (which I gather is pretty rare), absolutely no Pearls, barely any decent Legendaries, and hardly any half-decent purples. I did do some math though and found that Crawm on average drops between 85 and 93 items per kill.

In conclusion: Whatever the chances are of Crawmerax dropping a Pearlescent weapon, they must really suck.

Either that or my game doesn't like me, something is wrong with my game, splitscreen chances are even lower than solo, or I just got an unlucky algorithm when I loaded up my game. I'm going with the unlucky algorithm theory on top of sucky chances.

I also heard from a friend the other night that when soloing Crawm, if you don't get a Pearl within 3 kills, exit and restart your game. If anyone can confirm that little theory or would like to test it, let me know how it goes.

So I'm off to bed, but if anyone has a story to tell, let's hear it...

AlexanderBlackX 10:22, March 31, 2010 (UTC)

P.S. This is my first thread, so if I didn't post this right or I forgot to do something or did something wrong, someone kindly let me know so I can fix it and be aware for next time. Thank you.