Borderlands: Crawmerax - Anyone want to help me kill him?

AceGoober

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Hey all! :)

I'm needing a bit of help killing Crawmerax. I have killed him once with the sniper dude before many months ago but haven't been able to put him down with my level 69 Lilith.

The primary purpose (besides killing him) is to obtain Pearlescent weapons. During the 536 hours I've played Borderlands, never once have I obtained a Pearlescent weapon. Not once. Hopefully, with the help of a few of you, that will change tonight.

If anyone wants to help me my gamer tag is AceGoober.

I'd give the players who help me several of the decent to badass Yellow, Orange and Dark Orange weapons I have in my inventory, if wanted. I've also got a +75 Sniper attribute I'd be willing to let go to show my appreciation for the assistance.

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DAMN you put a shit ton of hours into that game. that's insane man!

i don't think i would've have been too much help as my character is only in the low 30s.
 
hmm.. id help but ive never even played the game.... wonder if its still worth picking up for 360?
 
its on 360 right? i'll be on late tonight, maybe a friend and i can help. we haven't killed him yet either, but i think with a lilith we might be able to get it done.

add Domicron to your friends list and we'll see what we can do. i got a decent brick who might be able to tank a little at least.
 
Friend and I finally killed the bastage. No pearls dropped but I did get ahold of a Skullsmasher. Awesome sniper rifle! :D

EDIT: If you still want to play, I'm looting the Knoxx armory right now. Without time limit, of course. :p
 
congrats. no worries. we haven't played in a month or so, game gets kind old after a while. we been playing Reach lately, and bought bulletstorm for steam a while back, so probably not unless you need help.
 
The primary purpose (besides killing him) is to obtain Pearlescent weapons. During the 536 hours I've played Borderlands, never once have I obtained a Pearlescent weapon. Not once.
Err didn't a dev clarify more than a year ago that the so called Pearlescent weapons were the result of a bug whereby an item did not have bonus stats applied to it properly, which is why they showed up as white yet at the top of the list in the inventory ?
I don't know if things have changed since then, but if I remember correctly then the bug could have been patched out of the game.
 
In the original game it was indeed a bug. Before the Secret Armory of General Knoxx was released the 'bug' was patched. After, Pearlescent weapons were available, albeit very rare.

http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Pearlescent_(Before_General_Knoxx)

Err didn't a dev clarify more than a year ago that the so called Pearlescent weapons were the result of a bug whereby an item did not have bonus stats applied to it properly, which is why they showed up as white yet at the top of the list in the inventory ?
I don't know if things have changed since then, but if I remember correctly then the bug could have been patched out of the game.
 
AceGoober, let me know when you are going to play again, I havent played for a while and am starting to get the itch again, got a 69 sniper, soldier, and psychic chick.
 
I'll be playing tonight starting at around 7pm PST. Getting ready to do the "It's like Christmas!" run. Remember not to run into the central shaft to keep the armory open for looting! :D

AceGoober, let me know when you are going to play again, I havent played for a while and am starting to get the itch again, got a 69 sniper, soldier, and psychic chick.
 
I'm getting ready to do the 2nd Marcus Armory run. Anyone want to join and loot the place? :D
 
Can't say I ever found anything good in the armory. Prolly did it 100's of times.....
 
Wow, I had no idea people put this kind of time into Borderlands. I played through it once (20 hours maybe?) and stopped there around level 40. If you've played hundreds of hours, does that mean that you're playing multiple characters over and over? Or are you restarting the game with your newly leveled character in hopes to get even better loot ala Diablo?

Never realized this game had the replay of that many hours.
 
Borderlands is a fun game. I got two characters maxed (Hunter, Siren) but I'm pretty much done with it. As a solo game it's honestly kind of suck, but w/friends it's a good time. I just wish there were some kind of actual ending to the original story. I'm still pissed about that.
 
You can revisit all the areas, most of the bosses respawn. I enjoyed looking for loot with my gunslinger hunter...
 
Borderlands is a fun game. I got two characters maxed (Hunter, Siren) but I'm pretty much done with it. As a solo game it's honestly kind of suck, but w/friends it's a good time. I just wish there were some kind of actual ending to the original story. I'm still pissed about that.

i was quite surprised by the "ending" as well. i was like "WTF A HUGE EYEBALL MONSTER THING!!! OKAY COOL."

then i was like "YEAH I FUCKIN KILLED IT!"

ROLL CREDITS.

WTF.

skipped credits and learned you could keep playing. hmmm...
 
Hey Ace,

I can help if you want. I have Craw on solo farm on my Siren. :) Just LMK when you want to do it. I'm usually available after 6PM PST.
 
Hell yeah! The more the merrier and better loot to grab to boot. :)

Add me as friend to Steam. Gamer Tag is AceGoober (of course) :p

Hey Ace,

I can help if you want. I have Craw on solo farm on my Siren. :) Just LMK when you want to do it. I'm usually available after 6PM PST.
 
I'll hop on this evening and see if you guys are working on Craw. I think my Soldier is 55+, but he's got an obcene gun.
 
This makes me want to play Borderlands again. I need to be better about backing up save files though, I've lost 2 high level characters already. :(
 
Yeah, I LOVED this game! I was a Level 60+ Sniper. Really looking forward to the announcement of Borderlands 2.
 
I love the original Borderlands, love it to death. I can't stand the DLC though: no spawn points within the worlds and no fast travel anywhere.

It sucks if you only have an hour to game at a time. Fast travel/multiple spawns in the original game meant I could do almost any mission in an hour or less.
 
Hey all! :)

I'm needing a bit of help killing Crawmerax. I have killed him once with the sniper dude before many months ago but haven't been able to put him down with my level 69 Lilith.

The primary purpose (besides killing him) is to obtain Pearlescent weapons. During the 536 hours I've played Borderlands, never once have I obtained a Pearlescent weapon. Not once. Hopefully, with the help of a few of you, that will change tonight.

I've killed him a minumum of 30 times and haven't seen a Pearlescent weapon yet.
 
Yeah, the lack of fast travel in the DLC was annoying as hell. I mean in Knoxx, it's what, like a 15 minute drive end to end, with very little entertainment along the way. Pretty suck.
 
So, are you in or are your old bones not up to the task? :p

Yeah, the lack of fast travel in the DLC was annoying as hell. I mean in Knoxx, it's what, like a 15 minute drive end to end, with very little entertainment along the way. Pretty suck.
 
I lucked-out last night. Found a Pearlescent SMG in Locdown Palace, 3rd floor, in Crimson lance crate next to door leading to where Athena was held captive.

Maliwan RF2 C Cobalt Tsunami
Damage = 241
Accuracy = 93.9
Fire Rate = 6.4
x4 Electrocution
28 Round Magazine
Highly Effective vs. Shields
Chance to Electrocute Enemies
'Flee the Wave'
Very High Elemental Effect Chance

I've killed him a minumum of 30 times and haven't seen a Pearlescent weapon yet.
 
I only beat Crawmerax once without cheating. That was with Lilith with a double anarchy smg and an exploding regular machine gun with a very good fire rate. Shoot and hide, shoot and hide.

It just gets annoying having to wait for that fucking elevator every time you die.
 
I play online on PS3 (I also have it on 360, but don't have XBL), but just wanted to give a word of warning, don't get excited about getting Crawmerax to drop pearls. It's still ridiculously rare for him to drop them.

I've beat him at least 150 times solo, 50+ times with my friend, and probably another 30 times with my friend and using a third character on my second PS3 just sitting there so we could have another person using class mods with +2 team find rare items.

After all of that, I've found ONE pearl, the Nemesis repeater. Our party was a lvl 69 soldier, and two lvl 69 hunters both carrying +5 team find extra items and +2 team find rare items.

Solo Crawmerax should be easy with a siren, you can just chill on the crack to the left and phase walk when he teabags you with the purple balls. Load up with a acid shotgun for armor worms, fire assault rifle or smg for green worms, and an electric weapon for the maggots. Use an Orion and you can bounce the shots off the far pillar to kill his back. Skullmasher should kill all other parts in 3-4 shots. I can usually kill him in under 10 minutes (half of which seems like it comes from the fucking elevator) with my soldier or hunter. The only problem I ever have is the projectiles, but like I said, phase walk should relieve you of that issue.

Edit: Also, why the hell are you still carrying level 25 guns as a level 69? Start solo farming Crawmerax ASAP so you can replace that shit with level 55+ orange weapons. Even though pearls are hard to come by, he'll usually drop 5+ oranges each time, more if you have find rare items class mod.
 
I love the original Borderlands, love it to death. I can't stand the DLC though: no spawn points within the worlds and no fast travel anywhere.

It sucks if you only have an hour to game at a time. Fast travel/multiple spawns in the original game meant I could do almost any mission in an hour or less.

the only bad DLC was the Mad Moxxi arena one, I really liked all the others. the travel times were kinda shitty but oh well.

Might have to start this again....I never used any character but the Siren
 
I had fun with Ace and his friend on Craw, they didn't boot me even though all i did was die :)
 
Heh, well, I logged in to help, but no bueno!
 
Don't feel bad, I think I died more times than you. :p

Great fun had all around and we discovered another Bessie Pearl with a number 5 barrell! :D

I had fun with Ace and his friend on Craw, they didn't boot me even though all i did was die :)

Sorry dude. We cut out about 11pm PST. We'll be on tomorrow night at about 7pm PST if you want to join. :)

Heh, well, I logged in to help, but no bueno!
 
Anyone? I'm getting my ass kicked here... :(

I havent killed it alone. But about 50 times with a friend who plays a Siren. Im a Berserker. We havent seen any Perlescent yet! It sure is rare.

Our strategy is staying on opposite sides. Lots of movement naturally. Keep some minions on very low health for easy second wind.

My Load out for dealing with Crawmerax.

Vitriolic Crux , Corrosive x4 shotgun 197x7 damage
Combustion Hellfire, Fire x4, SMG 145 damge ROF 16.7
Eridian Thunder Storm, damage 408 x 8
Machine gun, dont recall name Bastard perhaps, 500 ish damage, ROF 5.6, very high ACC (used only on Crawmerax).

I am assuming you know what minions reacts to what kind of elemental damage. Good luck :D

PS: I also have a level 69 Hunter, that cannot survive Crawmerax at all.
 
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Damn! :eek:

Your purple certainly beats the hell out of my orange Shattering Bastard.

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I can't seem to get rid of this rifle. Haven't found anything else that packs quite the same punch for a soldier. Still works quite well on 60+ mobs.

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I'm on if anyone wants to do a few armory, Craw and Lockdown Palace runs. :)
 
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