Missed out on boiled crab/prawn

[Doom MD]

Missed the black guard before I went to volcano manor. Extremely pissed I can’t get these items for a character I’ve put 130 hours into. Is there a workaround for this? I haven’t killed him since o read his bell bearing won’t give me anything

[CB]

ng+ is your only choice. i can relate, i missed the frigging bravo emote.

[Rivaldman]

I've missed it in the first run, so I bought 699 of it in the second run. But I only found out that I didn't need it quite much when I have spell for damage negation.

[DayLight1943]

ng+ or spawn stacks with CE. i can drop some for you if you dont want to ♥♥♥♥ w CE but tbh i just spawned them myself. i would not recommend taking me up on this offer if you are doing a normal pve playthru, only if you are just trying to build a co-op or pvp character, but ill do it either way.

[Sabaithal]

Its fine dude, the boiled crab is one of the more sucky options for extra damage resist, though admittedly acquired the earliest. It only gives you a 20% boost.

The other two major options are ironjar aromatics (though the materials to make them can be kinda hard to get) and blackflame's protection (strongly recommended, 35% boost).

[Ulmace]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Its fine dude, the boiled crab is one of the more sucky options for extra damage resist, though admittedly acquired the earliest. It only gives you a 20% boost.

The other two major options are ironjar aromatics (though the materials to make them can be kinda hard to get) and blackflame's protection (strongly recommended, 35% boost).

the reason they are so good is that you dont need to get so much faith for black flame or can still use flame grant me strenght

[Sabaithal]

Originally posted by Ulmace:

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Its fine dude, the boiled crab is one of the more sucky options for extra damage resist, though admittedly acquired the earliest. It only gives you a 20% boost.

The other two major options are ironjar aromatics (though the materials to make them can be kinda hard to get) and blackflame's protection (strongly recommended, 35% boost).

the reason they are so good is that you dont need to get so much faith for black flame or can still use flame grant me strenght

Yeah, its cheap. And that's why its the worst option.

By the way, not mentioned, but none of the above stacks, so you really do have to pick and choose quality or quantity.

[Ulmace]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Originally posted by Ulmace:

the reason they are so good is that you dont need to get so much faith for black flame or can still use flame grant me strenght

Yeah, its cheap. And that's why its the worst option.

By the way, not mentioned, but none of the above stacks, so you really do have to pick and choose quality or quantity.

makes sense if it doesnt stack with other body buffs, i usually only use 1 buff cause i dont like buffing.

[Sabaithal]

Originally posted by Ulmace:

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Yeah, its cheap. And that's why its the worst option.

By the way, not mentioned, but none of the above stacks, so you really do have to pick and choose quality or quantity.

makes sense if it doesnt stack with other body buffs, i usually only use 1 buff cause i dont like buffing.

Yeah, stacking buffs gets old after a while. And the only other physical damage buff that stacks with the aforementioned would be golden vow or commanders standard (not both). And they don't provide much.

[DayLight1943]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Its fine dude, the boiled crab is one of the more sucky options for extra damage resist, though admittedly acquired the earliest. It only gives you a 20% boost.

The other two major options are ironjar aromatics (though the materials to make them can be kinda hard to get) and blackflame's protection (strongly recommended, 35% boost).

i strongly prefer the crab. ironjar is a death sentance unless you have a build designed specifically for it - you walk super slow and can only fat roll. blackflame costs valuable FP that could be better spent on weapon arts and regen AND reduces the effect of your healing flask - id guess that the 15% extra damage negation will not compensate for HP lost thru healing flask debuff in many, many cases.

crab costs no fp, does not take up a spell slot, has a fast animation you can move during, does not incur any kind of debuff, and you can carry 99 meaning they are essentially unlimited while you can only cast blackflame protection a limited number of times. not to mention the fact that blackflame only fits on specific builds - crab is available to all.

[Doom MD]

Originally posted by DayLight1943:

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Its fine dude, the boiled crab is one of the more sucky options for extra damage resist, though admittedly acquired the earliest. It only gives you a 20% boost.

The other two major options are ironjar aromatics (though the materials to make them can be kinda hard to get) and blackflame's protection (strongly recommended, 35% boost).

i strongly prefer the crab. ironjar is a death sentance unless you have a build designed specifically for it - you walk super slow and can only fat roll. blackflame costs valuable FP that could be better spent on weapon arts and regen AND reduces the effect of your healing flask - id guess that the 15% extra damage negation will not compensate for HP lost thru healing flask debuff in many, many cases.

crab costs no fp, does not take up a spell slot, has a fast animation you can move during, does not incur any kind of debuff, and you can carry 99 meaning they are essentially unlimited while you can only cast blackflame protection a limited number of times. not to mention the fact that blackflame only fits on specific builds - crab is available to all.

Black flame also requires a significant investment of faith. I’m annoyed I can’t get the prawns/crabs. I wish they’d patch it so I can at least get it via bell bearing

[Sabaithal]

Originally posted by DayLight1943:

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Its fine dude, the boiled crab is one of the more sucky options for extra damage resist, though admittedly acquired the earliest. It only gives you a 20% boost.

The other two major options are ironjar aromatics (though the materials to make them can be kinda hard to get) and blackflame's protection (strongly recommended, 35% boost).

i strongly prefer the crab. ironjar is a death sentance unless you have a build designed specifically for it - you walk super slow and can only fat roll. blackflame costs valuable FP that could be better spent on weapon arts and regen AND reduces the effect of your healing flask - id guess that the 15% extra damage negation will not compensate for HP lost thru healing flask debuff in many, many cases.

crab costs no fp, does not take up a spell slot, has a fast animation you can move during, does not incur any kind of debuff, and you can carry 99 meaning they are essentially unlimited while you can only cast blackflame protection a limited number of times. not to mention the fact that blackflame only fits on specific builds - crab is available to all.

Both ironjar and blackflame protection come into their own when you stack them with a ton of other physical resistance. You don't need to move fast when you stack so much damage resist that nothing can hurt you. You just need a big weapon that can make the enemy stop.

[Dr.Abscondus]

Never really noticed the crab did much of anything. I think it's only useful early game. I like Ironjar but you have to know when to use it. I killed Knight Bernahl Invader in Farum Azula by popping it when I had him backed into a railing. He couldn't push me out of the way or knock me down as I pounded him. Same thing with the Elden Beast. I popped it when I was right up against his belly and instead of him running away as you'd expect he kept trying to push me down which he couldn't do while I fired Pest Threads into him. If you need to move it's no good.

[John Titor]

Originally posted by Doom MD:

Missed out on boiled crab/prawn

If you want some, I can hop on in like 6-7 hours and drop some

[Doom MD]

Originally posted by John Titor:

Originally posted by Doom MD:

Missed out on boiled crab/prawn

If you want some, I can hop on in like 6-7 hours and drop some

That’s very kind. I got dropped a decent amount in a recent game. Would jsut be nice to be able to get an endless supply of my own without pestering others

[John Titor]

Originally posted by Doom MD:

Originally posted by John Titor:

If you want some, I can hop on in like 6-7 hours and drop some

That’s very kind. I got dropped a decent amount in a recent game. Would jsut be nice to be able to get an endless supply of my own without pestering others

I mean, I'll max you out. Should last you until you go ng+.