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YeahPete wrote:

Anyone know if they will fix monsters not dropping items when they shatter?

I'll go ahead and echo this since it was at the bottom of the page and I'm curious too.

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blasterlee wrote:

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YeahPete wrote:

Anyone know if they will fix monsters not dropping items when they shatter?

I'll go ahead and echo this since it was at the bottom of the page and I'm curious too.

never even noticed that til just now

Maybe it's possible to make the first form of crabs impossible to freeze. I don't know if freeze and chill are related there, but if the first form of crabs couldn't be frozen, I don't see this being a game breaker.

It's already not a game breaker. You should be able to freeze the shield crab as it saves a lot of time especially if you're fighting a lot of them/can reliably shatter them.

Agreed, when I started doing that, I did find the fact that it got around the second, more annoying form quite convenient and nifty.

So essentially, are you saying it's a trade-off? Either you can not freeze them, deal with them 'twice' and get loot, or you can freeze them, maybe kill them outright in the first form, and not get loot as a result?

An interesting response, except that so many of us do niblets of cold damage almost as a side-effect of gear, not so much as a result of deliberately casting ice spells..and it only takes a tiny bit of cold damage to result in full freeze/shatter...Hm.

If you shatter the first form then you don't get the XP for the second form.

Shatter should be a reward for dealing enough cold damage and getting a critical hit to freeze + hit or something. If people are shattering them without skills left and right, then something is wrong.

That said, shattering should be a reward... you don't have to deal with the troublesome second form... you should get the xp for killing the first form, and loot.

What if you could 'overkill' the Crabs, passing on the excess damage to the spawned Spitter? Combined with a Shatter/Infernal Blow death it could spawn and instantly kill the Spitter.

As a Marauder with Glacial Hammer as my primary damage output it's simply maddening to fight off a pack of considerably dangerous Crabs with blue/yellow mobs mixed in and receive practically nothing. They hit hard, take a beating and a lot of the time drop nothing. :(

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zeto wrote:

Shatter should be a reward for dealing enough cold damage and getting a critical hit to freeze + hit or something. If people are shattering them without skills left and right, then something is wrong.

That said, shattering should be a reward... you don't have to deal with the troublesome second form... you should get the xp for killing the first form, and loot.

I'm not sure how common knowledge this is, but the chance to inflict an elemental status is directly correspondent to the chance of landing a critical strike.

This comes back to me definitely not knowing the relationship between chilled and frozen. Are there even two different statuses? Fire causes burning -- one status only. Lightning causes stun, from memory -- also one status. Does cold cause chilled (a slowed effect) and also frozen (statuesque status, as it were)?

What is with GGG and their favouring of cold? So many nifty cold spells, when Fire and Lightning get a whole two each. I pray this new patch helps bring balance to the forces.