Amy_Amp

A number of MMOs use it, or at least started that way and have moved away from it.

Not sure if Crey's, or FRONTLOAD rose to fame first, but Crey's is a poor ambush farm in terms of rewards over time. It requires too much maneuvering. Plus, it's a single mission so you waste time resetting the mission versus just grabbing another. Same issue with FRONTLOAD as well. You want 5 mission arcs instead. #423253 is one of them. #460877 should be another.

I consider them safe as anything. Why? There is no exploit. It's simply matching damage type with mitigation type. You can do this for fire, S/L, energy, etc... Obviously some damage types would be bad, ie Ice with no ability to resist -slow/-recharge, Dark since there is -tohit debuffs, -elec without end drain resist. If a build can pump out enough damage and mitigation to pull if off, it can farm. /fire brutes are not exclusive in this. I am currently self PLing a SS/elec brute. Fire farms gets hyped only due to Fire armor builds doing them. There are numerous S/L farms out there as well.

Another point here, there are generally two reasons to farm. One is to get tickets. Each map has a 1.5K limit. There is one I do at +2x8 and can cap just by doing the initial room. The number of builds that can do something similar is a lot. The other reason is to PL other people. This is where you want to be able to do +4x8 w/bosses and ideally as fast as possible. The number of builds that do this gets much smaller. A SS/fire/mu brute is king for this.

+1. Magneto is getting love as an A-list villain yet he hangs out with the X-Men.

It was put in so you could craft one of the temp powers to do an additional AoE for builds that only had one. The problem was the power would cause scatter, so Integration was added.

Oh so very much this. With more and more Incarnate content and thus people playing level 50s people will want to go where the other people are at. The new focus on various arcs and such will be speed bumps to the Incarnate grind. New power sets will temporarily create more people playing lower content, but in the end a large number of people will just get the new builds PLed so they can get back to trials asap.

+1. I also think somebody decided the best way for people to know they were doing villain content was by making sure LR bought as many red light bulbs as possible.

I've rambled on it before, but for me a key issue is that I never feel like I'm an actual villain 95% of the time.

Fixed.

Plus, I think scourge doesn't play as well with Dark's heavy DoT based damage since the scourge damage would take longer to fully take affect.

The cone most skip unless you are using it for mitigation purposes for /sr and /regen and I don't recall it's damage being much of anything. 5 ST attacks compared to 1 AoE isn't the making of a set that's good against multiple targets. Even if MA is ST based, you can at least use DT in a way to get a lot of crits. At least a stalker can use Burst in a way to make it rather nice.

I guess I don't get why scrappers wouldn't be constantly attacking like a brute would. What else is a scrapper going to do?

(shakes head)

You are trying to farm without one of the three best damage powers you have. My guess it's easily #2 at worst.