Talk:River Krusts/@comment-5778086-20121126003230

It is a lot more practical than it may seem to alert a river krust so that it opens its shell and you can plug it with a crossbow bolt. First of all the krusts are not only short-sighted, but they are blinkered as well, so that can only see forward. Secondly they take a second or so to open before they can spit at you.

So the strategy is to walk up to one from the side, close enough that you have a can't miss shot, then walk around to the front keeping your crossbow trained on them. As soon as you see a reaction, let loose your bolt. You will have killed your krust and can loot its pearl. An added bonus is that, more often than not, you get your crossbow bolt back when you loot a krust you have killed.

This gets a little more complicated when you have several krusts at once - all guarding each other's blind spots, but a little care will get you around this situation too.