The incredibly excellent aesthetics of the Crab

[khy]

 

Consider this post part love-letter to the devs, part request for build advice, and part just discussing one of the coolest looking ATs in the game.

 

To begin? Kudos to the artists and devs who worked on the Crab spiders, both the NPC and PC variants. The huge claws look just cool as shit, the animations are fantastic. They look and feel impressively powerful to use. I know that as a crab I could keep using my arachnos gun, and it may in fact be more advantageous to do so - but c'mon. Those arms are GREAT! Why wouldn't I want to use them instead?

 

Then there's the powers they get. I love playing as Masterminds and Crabs being quasi-masterminds but more active is right up my alley. Sacrifice some support in exchange for a huge amount of extra offense? Sign me up baby!

 

So I went and put together a fun build that, IMO, gives me all the coolest looking attacks the archetype has. Perhaps not the most effective (I'm guessing that this build is actually seriously mediocre) but the powers I chose are the ones that feel badass to use, the ones that make me grin as I lay down suppression and summon in bombs and nuke the crap out of my enemies.

 

That said, I acknowledge it's not ideal - but I'd like to try to get the most out of it that I can! And I'm hoping someone here might be able to look at what I've got, and perhaps offer some constructive criticism on slotting. Specifically, I'd really love to be able to get my pets out 100% of the time, and load up the rest of my abilities with as much damage and defense as I can. Could anyone give me some assistance here?

 

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Edited August 4 by khy

[MTeague]

All I can say is "One man's trash is another man's treasure."   I will not argue against the effectiveness of the crab spider builds, but I have always hated the look of it, and because of that, I have never created a single Arachnos Soldier.  Widows, yes.  Soldiers of Arach, no.  (yes, there are non-crab options for SoA, but for those, I prefer an honest-to-god Stalker).

 

I'm glad you're happy with it, though.

Edited August 11 by MTeague

[khy]

The look of it is, in my opinion, the best part. It's completely and utterly unique - other powers like the Mace and the Guns can be used by other classes.

 

Also the closest we can get to tentacle powers like Dr Octopus or Omega Red. Not the same, obviously, but god knows if I was a superhero I'd want huge mechanical claws/arms that do things for me because I'm lazy 😄

[Plutonix]

I need to give one of these a try but I'm obsessed with rad powers.