crab king Possessed crab king idea(RoT beta)

[Armorga]

  The newest beta was another great update, even added a new boss which seems pretty tough, and i just got an idea for him that would make him even tougher, similar to misery toadstool(but possibly more expensive to trigger), there are all the parts of my idea:

-Cave lakes: Places underground with water similar to overworld seas, unlike the name suggest it's not freshwater, but unlike overworld seas they won't surround the entire cave continent, but be only a single spot of water in some places of the caves, where boats can be placed, it also contains lobster dens, exclusive fish shoals and using winch the player can catch sunken teasures, more uncommonly sunken ruin remains, which gives some ruins resources such as gears and thulecite fragments, and due to it's eternal darkness, it's also the best place to find this next item...

-Dark oyster: Obtained in the same way as sunken teasures, but only during night or in the previously mentioned cave lakes, they're giant oysters which can be carried around, and a player can give it a certain item, that after some in-game days the oyster will turn into a dark pearl, not sure about the item that could be used, my suggestions are nightmare fuel, some gem or broken shell.

-Dark pearl: Obtained from shadow oyster, it can be socketed to the king crab in the same way as pearl's pearl, but not so ...

-Possesed crab king: An even harder version of the king crab, turned from crab king once a dark pearl is socketed instead of a regular one, in this form crab king eyes(cointing with the eyes that can be seen inside his shell) turn black with the pupil red, it's legs will get really extended, making him able to walk around, whitout staying in the same place, and even walk on land, once defeated his legs would return to the original size and he would do the regular defeat animation.
  His attacks will stay almost the same, but he can now do a melee attack with his claws, and he no longer have to restore it's shell as smaller crab claws comes out of it to keep repairing it instead, not sure about how will the geyser and imposing claw attacks would work on land, i guess that crab king would only use spells that work on land in needed cases, like the chilling one.
  This fight will worth a big quantity of a new resource...

-Dark gem: Once socketed to the possesed crab king, all of their essence is absorved, and replaced by the dark essence contained inside the dark pearl, all of the gems used on king crab will be lost, by the price of this new unique gem, which won't be used just for it's own variation of gem items, but also used for other recipes, obviously that as gem variants they'll have other ways of being acquired, but they're received in a very large amount by defeating the possesed crab king, the items that requires dark gems to be crafted would be crafted using the celestial tribute.

 

[bruhmoment23]

42 minutes ago, The batting bat said:

making him able to walk around, whitout staying in the same place, and even walk on land,

How? Is he supposed to walk on water or just get on your boat and start smacking you? I have not seen that fight take place on land and i don't think that's where the fights supposed to take place, the only way i've seen to even him bring him close to the shore is by bugs. I don't understand that concept.

42 minutes ago, The batting bat said:

Of course that all of this would be worth an exclusive loot

There is already existing exclusive bonus loot for defeating him with the Pearl, the only issue is that the loot has not brought anything special and will most likely be added in later beta branch.

Not to be aggresive, but i don't see the point in him becoming "possessed". You will have to do almost same thing with Hermit's Pearl just to fight a more spooky version of him. Not to mention you can already customize his fight with variety of gems, if you want a harder version of him then i must ask the question. Have you fought him with the Pearl bonuses and actually defeated him?

[Armorga]

14 minutes ago, bruhmoment23 said:

How? Is he supposed to walk on water or just get on your boat and start smacking you? I have not seen that fight take place on land and i don't think that's where the fights supposed to take place, the only way i've seen to even him bring him close to the shore is by bugs. I don't understand that concept.

There is already existing exclusive bonus loot for defeating him with the Pearl, the only issue is that the loot has not brought anything special and will most likely be added in later beta branch.

Not to be aggresive, but i don't see the point in him becoming "possessed". You will have to do almost same thing with Hermit's Pearl just to fight a more spooky version of him. Not to mention you can already customize his fight with variety of gems, if you want a harder version of him then i must ask the question. Have you fought him with the Pearl bonuses and actually defeated him?

i just think that this concept would add him the missing crab traits, of being able to walk on land and use his claws for attack, and it would also add the dark pearl which is a thing that actually exists and i think that it would fits perfecly for don't starve, also it's a similar concept to misery toadstool.

[Armorga]

note that i upgraded the post, adding two new items to the idea and also making minor changes, i'll make a post about dark gems in the future