Borderlands

[Shibo]

how hard is it to solo crawmerax lol

edit: no infinite ammo SMG, I didnt' even know they made one. I've been using an SMG ammo regen merc mod for my siren, with all different elemental SMGs in every weapon slot.

Actually I just maxed out SMG proficiency at 50... time to train Eridian weapons or something. I have Ammo Regen Shotgun, Revolver, Repeater Pistol, and I forget what else, so I could do that...

For a siren it is really easy with the right build and knowing the fight some. I can get him down (i have an smg with ammo regen, but i prefer just using an ammo regen mod and a more powerful smg) in right around ~3-5min. I typically don't kill any of the adds unless I need a second wind.

In a siren duo, 2-3min is about average if both know the fight.

Takes longer to pick up all the guns lol.

It takes a couple of deaths if ur trying to solo for the first time, but it gets really easy. If you need some help or tips lemme know.

[Militant]

Got a pretty badass 2030 240ish quick health regen shield, a few nasty ogres, a sick pearl massacre, and several new cyans, and beast of a level 61 fatal crux. CrazyAK420 on XBL, send me a message saying you're from BG and ill add you and we can dupe/exchange stuff. Also got the 660 level 55 heavy gunner mod with the fire rate, got the 660 level 55 support gunner, and got two really nice commando mods. Tons of other stuff too not listed, hit me up.

[-Zer0-]

Damn, definitely gotta check out that massacre.

[Atreides]

that shield is ridiculous lol

[Kyo]

Atredies do you have this jive on xbax or PS3?

This new expansion makes me want the game again.

[Atreides]

xbox kyo, and it's the best expansion by far. Nothing like spending 30 mins opening 100+ treasure chests lol

[Atreides]

just solo'd Crawmerax, took a few tries to get the pattern down but other than a level 6 corrosive artifact it dropped almost nothing worthwhile lol

also I got a Pearlescent Repeater Pistol off of my last Circle of Duty quest off a random enemy, it's got a 12 round clip but it does corrosive AND lightning damage lol

[stewie]

I will say that once you hit level 54/55 the DLC gets a lot easier/funner, although trekking back and forth between the main town and the zones is annoying. The zones are really big and meant to be traversed by car, but with only 1 fast travel station you're talking a 5-10 minute drive every time you want to turn in a quest or pick up a new one.

I finally got a nice incendiary SMG to replace my Hellfire, but I'm still looking for some shields that are actually worth a damn on the new enemies. 11 extra skill points from the new levels are nice, on my Lilith I maxed out fire rate and elemental proc skills and now I've been dumping points into Inner Glow and that skill that gives you shields back when you kill an enemy, for survivability. Probably should have done Venom but meh.

Late but, you can just quit and go back in every time you finish a quest and be back in T-bone Junction.

[Atreides]

solo'ing crawmerax is not at all fun, especially when it NEVER DROPS ANYTHING

[-Zer0-]

solo'ing crawmerax is not at all fun, especially when it NEVER DROPS ANYTHING

Yeah...I've got it down to a science and even with Rare Items mod it doesn't drop much. Did get some awesome replacement weapons, but no pearlescent ones off it. Got your message earlier lol...what luck, right after I leave too. Either way, Crawmerax is way more economical I think...not spending an hour opening chests and taking 15 minutes just to get there

[Atreides]

I think Crawmerax tends to drop more lvl 60/61 items and the ones have damage ratings closer to max, whereas stuff from the armory tends to be 54-61 and all over the spectrum when it comes to damage/acc/rate.

After 1500-2000 chests I can pretty much say with certainty that Pearlescent weapons cannot come from the Armory, but you do tend to get a fair number of oranges/yellows. From what I hear, Badass Crimson Lance and Drifters/Skyscraper also have a chance of dropping Pearls, so it might be worth trying to farm those instead.

[Alina]

I've got about 15 Crawmerax kills under my belt (both solo and kills with my friends) and I'm still using a level 48 SMG.

[Atreides]

0/8

I did notice that when I'm wearing my +2 find rare items catalyst mod (which I previously thought did nothing) I tend to get 4-5 orange/yellows instead of 1-2, so maybe that will help with Pearlescent drops too.

Also there's a little nook by the ledge where you can shoot and Crawmerax doesn't move/shoot at you, so you can pretty much take him down to 10% health in about a minute or 2. You can supposedly get the last 10% (from the weak spot on his back) with a rocket launcher, but I've been doing the normal strategy from that point even though it's beyond annoying.

[-Zer0-]

When I start the match, I usually go for his back first. It takes maybe 3-5 minutes with luck, but the rest of the fight goes extremely fast. He turns a lot faster when he's without arms, making it harder to go for his back. I didn't know rockets worked. Would it still have to be hit from the back? We picked up a sweet orange 3000 dmg rocket a few days ago that I've yet to try out. Of course, my rocket skill is 0 or something...

[Atreides]

the strategy I read mentions a Nidhogg since those go a certain distance and then break off downward, but apparently if you aim for the spine on his back or something, the splash damage will hit him.

I guess if he turns slower with arms it'd be faster to go for the back first, then get into the corner and plug away to finish him off. I'll give it a go later, I guess.

edit: here's a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37MhuGJQA9c

[-Zer0-]

I think I know that corner lol. It's not safe when he starts lobbing his acid at you. I'll give it a go on Roland soon

[Atreides]

he only spits acid at you if you let him get too close while you're in the corner. Also if you deploy a turret onto the main platform above, he'll aggro that and move close enough to spit acid.

0/13, giving up for now

[Eggroll]

He hasn't been so bad on Rolan from my experience. I've been using a tactician mod with +40% recharge rate and +18% shield capacity, as well as a shield with 2400 capacity and 350 or so recharge. With refire and deploy skills you can have your turret up 2/3 of the time or more which is a great decoy, and supply drop means you don't have to worry about ammo, so you don't have to use a support gunner mod. Still can't kill him though, because my game always freezes in the middle of the fight or on the way there :/

[stewie]

0/8 on any Pearlescent from Crawmerax, ran the armory 10 times as well and none from there either. Has anyone here seen any drop?

[-Zer0-]

He hasn't been so bad on Rolan from my experience. I've been using a tactician mod with +40% recharge rate and +18% shield capacity, as well as a shield with 2400 capacity and 350 or so recharge. With refire and deploy skills you can have your turret up 2/3 of the time or more which is a great decoy, and supply drop means you don't have to worry about ammo, so you don't have to use a support gunner mod. Still can't kill him though, because my game always freezes in the middle of the fight or on the way there :/

That sounds like a good setup to go for. I went with buffing myself rather than my turret though. <3 Metal Storm. That shield sounds badass. Are you on 360?