The pillboxes are a form of farming, just not indoor farming.
They give good rewards (and even drop purples form time to time 
) - but Recluse's Victory is a PvP zone, so be careful in there
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If you want large amounts of Inf over a long period of time, then farming is your best option.
It doesn't have to be boring, set up three different farming maps and alternate. I specifically have a farm map with an AV on it, to break up the monotony.
Other than that, playing the markets is the only other option.
Decide, is inf the goal or fun? If inf == fun then farm away 
Fahie
ps : I get a purple for about every 10 hours of play, I would complain to the management if I were you
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what is an easy way to get these besides farming?
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Play lots.
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people say you get one round about every 6 weeks, but I have been playing for 21 months and never recieved a purple and I play a lot
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What level are you? They only drop from mobs of level 47 or above.
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and is it true you can get them from a merit reward vendor if you have enough merits
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No, it's not true, you cannot exchange merits for purple recipes.
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is there an easier method to gain inf rather than farming
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Do story arcs and task forces (it may not be as quite as quick, but it is more fun so the time passes without tedium).
There is also lots of inf to be made by doing TFs for merits, taking random drops, and then selling them.
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What Praf said.
I have dropped about 20 purples in my time but have several purpled out characters financed by just doing lots and lots of TF's. Each TF now is worth more in merits than 1 random roll (Or most TF's anyway) so you can earn inf and have fun!
And I never farm. No matter how many farming maps you have it is boring to never complete a mission.
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people say you get one round about every 6 weeks, but I have been playing for 21 months and never recieved a purple and I play a lot
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Forget 6 weeks, the only thing that matters is how many lvl 47+ mobs you kill. The chance that each mob drops a purple is about 1 in 6,000. So, if you solo about 60,000 mobs, you should get around 10 purples. (The actual number will probably be between 3 and 17).
It doesn't matter where or why you kill the mobs. Contact missions, task forces, farming maps etc all work fine. So play whatever you like most. The only thing that's special about farming maps is that they maximise the number of mobs you kill in an hour.
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if not is there an easier method to gain inf rather than farming
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The only other way to make lots of inf. is by playing the market. (This is my preferred method.) Getting set up takes a fair amount of effort but once you're rolling you can make more than 100 million a week for about 40 minutes trading a day.
As others have said, you just have to decide which method you enjoy most. If the answer is "none of them" then just forget the purples. They're not that important.
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As others have said, you just have to decide which method you enjoy most. If the answer is "none of them" then just forget the purples. They're not that important.
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This really.
Although I have plenty time and apportunity to farm I hardly ever do it because it's just not fun in any shape or form. I also don't bother with purple sets because to me they just aren't worth the price you pay for them. For the 300+ million you pay for a purple damage set you can practicly kit out your whole character with "cheap" sets and have no noticable difference in performance.
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As others have said, you just have to decide which method you enjoy most. If the answer is "none of them" then just forget the purples. They're not that important.
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This really.
Although I have plenty time and apportunity to farm I hardly ever do it because it's just not fun in any shape or form. I also don't bother with purple sets because to me they just aren't worth the price you pay for them. For the 300+ million you pay for a purple damage set you can practicly kit out your whole character with "cheap" sets and have no noticable difference in performance.
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Whilst I agree in general that purples can make *little* difference for a lot of cases, I must take umbrage at "no noticable difference in performance".
Purples can make an important power perma. Purples can also give huge benefits with procs ( contagious confusion on confuse for example )
Moreover, they allow you to not worry about slotting up to 99% accuracy on some powers, as your global bonus is already big enough to counter that. This saves slots on some builds where slots are at a premium.
I noticed a huge difference on my ill/rad once 4 sets were in there.
But anyways, not the topic ... so yes, don't worry about purples until you actually need them is my best advice. Don't just think of them as "phat lewt"
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ebil marketeering is far more lucrative than farming.
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what is an easy way to get these besides farming?
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Play lots.
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By far the best way and its actually fun unlike farming
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I have only ever had about 3 purple recipes drop even on my big toons.
I reckon I'm doing something wrong
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You can increase the odds of getting a purple (or any) recipe drop by soloing.
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This thread is inherently flawed. Purples are not supposed to be easy to get in any way.
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You can increase the odds of getting a purple (or any) recipe drop by soloing.
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What's the logic behind this? AFAIK drop rates aren't affected by team size and teams defeat enemies much faster than solo toons, so I wouldn't expect teaming to make much difference.
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You can increase the odds of getting a purple (or any) recipe drop by soloing.
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What's the logic behind this? AFAIK drop rates aren't affected by team size and teams defeat enemies much faster than solo toons, so I wouldn't expect teaming to make much difference.
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Because if the drop rate is unaffected by the size of the team, you only get a fraction of the drops that occur.
On a team of 8, it takes 8 times as many drops for a purple to hit your character as it would solo. Because the spawns for an 8-man team aren't 8 times the size of those for a solo team (well, I don't think you get 24 mob-spawns on an 8 man team), it takes longer.
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Best chances of getting a purple are to solo as many level 50 mobs as possible. So that'd be fighting minions (as opposed to LTs or Bosses that take longer to kill) in big outdoor missions on tenacious then.
You also have a chance of snagging a respec recipe this way too, as well as a good lot of influence/prestige. The down side is your toon does need to be a decent soloist and have a lot of AoEs. You can probably up the team size to about 3 without getting too many LTs/Bosses if you pool all the drops.
Back when Magic Salvage was big business I used to duo Carnies this way with my alties account as a Spines/DA Scrapper with an INV/SS Tanker on autofollow/autofootstomp. Whilst I was mainly going for salvage, I picked up a few dozen Purple IOs within a few weeks of them being introduced.
These days I find it tends to be quicker to run Ouroboros arcs for merits instead, random roll in the 30-35 or 35-40 bands, sell the proceeds and buy any IOs I need that way.
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On a team of 8, it takes 8 times as many drops for a purple to hit your character as it would solo.
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Agreed.
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Because the spawns for an 8-man team aren't 8 times the size of those for a solo team (well, I don't think you get 24 mob-spawns on an 8 man team), it takes longer.
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Most decent 8 toon teams I've been on tackle multiple spawns at once; usually 2 and in some cases 3 or 4. (When the team splits in two and each half tackles two spawns at once.) So a big team isn't restricted by the maximum spawn size.
However, lets assume you're right and 8 man teams can't make up for splitting the drops 8 ways. I know that my toons can kill more than twice as fast in a duo than solo. This suggests that there's an optimal team size somewhere between 2 and 8.
I wonder if anyone's tried any experiments about this.
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a big team isn't restricted by the maximum spawn size.
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Niether is a small team. I have a couple of characters who could easily solo 4 or more spawns at once.
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guess i team too much then, cause i seen maybe... 5? purple recepies since they were put in.
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This suggests that there's an optimal team size somewhere between 2 and 8.
I wonder if anyone's tried any experiments about this.
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For out fast level 50 run, we went for a team of six.
Fahie
6 man team is good or a 5 man on the even difficulties.
Oh and I picked up 4 purples between level 47 and 50 on my Spine/Invul while soloing CoT papers
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what is an easy way to get these besides farming?
people say you get one round about every 6 weeks, but I have been playing for 21 months and never recieved a purple and I play a lot
and is it true you can get them from a merit reward vendor if you have enough merits
if not is there an easier method to gain inf rather than farming, someone reccomended something about pillboxes for inf in rv?
can anyone give a bit of advice here