Farming options

What kinda build would be most viable for farming now since the /psy nerf?

Fire/Psi

It's still that good with the nerf?

It's probably still the best Dom option, although Fire/Fire may be close. Are you sure you want a Dom for this though? I've been told that Brutes do this better.

Are there any benchmarks? What is 'better'? I can reach 1000+ critters/hour on my plant/psi (one purple every 1 1/2 hours - yay!). Bosses take longer though, so the rate drops significantly. I like doing some farming in between, when I don't have much time for longer missions or sfs, or my friends aren't online. Would be nice to know how others fare.

(Toon pretty much maxed out at 188% recharge and 40 - 45 defense)

I would definitely choose a SS Brute over a Dom for farming. They're much better for killing bosses and are now better at killing LT's and minions too.

I used to clear the nemesis platform in around 5 minutes with my Fire/Psi, but it's much slower now, mostly because of the radius decrease in PSW. Although, my SS/Fire Brute clears it around 7-8 minutes. That's 240 critters per run, but I usually just run +2x8 Liberate since the difficulty settings.

Since the nerf, I have unslotted my Fire/Psi. Not that I think the nerf was unfounded, but I was too used to the toon as she was before, and that she is no more.

I have been thinking about a new build for a "farming" dom, that is a dom good at wiping large spawns fast, which is what entertains me the most in this game.

I considered Fire/Thorns for a while. Thorns is often criticized for its slow animations, but it's the same as a spine scrapper and I do not mind on my Spine scrappers. The damage is lower than Spines however, but I thought that Hot Feet and it's huge radius + Fire Cages + the Imps + Soul Drain could make for the difference. That's just an idea, I never leveled the toon.

Some would argue that despite the nerf /Psi is still better than /Thorns, due to Drain Psyche, and they would probably be right.

Plant/ is something else that is truly amazing, due to Seeds of Confusion. It's so powerful that it makes hard things look ridiculously easy times to times.

However I agree with the other posters who said a brute is generally better. It's much easier to play also. When you run generic paper missions for 6-8 for example, spawns are really close one to each other most of the time and you often get aggro from the next spawn : a brute does not care that much, for a dom/troller it's more problematic unless you have a really solid build with defensive options. On a dom/troller you're more looking for specific maps, often outside, with more space between each spawn.

On the other hand, if you manage to get a farming Dom working well, it's more original and fun to me, than a classic SS/x brute. It often requires more skill, challenge and concentration to play well with.

I will still stick to my Fire/Psy...

Yeah the only issue I ever run into on my dom is when I am in my zone of farming,( which is pretty much sitting there and chilling and no thought process occurring) is when someone asks a question on vent. I then proceed to start thinking.

i already have a fire/ss/fire tank and i'm not really one to replay the same combo regardless of class.

Roll a SS/SD/Mu Brute then.

It depends...on what you're farming. My fire/psi still handles the "snake" boss farm just fine. Thats a farm that many brutes have trouble with, due to all the toxic damage. I have to admit if things start to go south, its harder to salvage with a dom. But If the dom has some good support they can farm just as well as a brute with the same support. Fire/Psi/Dark or Fire/Psi/Mu are still a damn good farming builds.

Wait a minute..I take that back..Doms suck, Brutes are better..go away please nothing to see here.

Fire/elec

Dunno why you'd say /Elec - it lacks the AoE to farm as efficiently as, say, /Psi or /Earth (or even /Thorn).

I haven't calculated in a while, but this is with the nemesis platform before the difficulty options. I don't have the inf/hour, but I can give you the amount of critters.

7-8 minutes per run, so I'll say 7.5 for the sake of calculating. 2 bosses, 250 critters total. 8 * 250 = 2000.

So, 2000 critters per hour on relentless with my SS/Fire running the old nemesis platform. Before i15 my Fire/Psi could easily kill 3000+ critters per hour running the nemesis platform.