Farming options

Okay so putting together a rough Mids build with the numbers you say you've got:

With Rage, Fury at 80, 83% dam enh% and a Geddon proc, Mids is averaging Footstomp to 286. Hitting the target cap every time means you're doing 2,860 damage every 10 seconds.

Same enhancement values as Stomp and a Posi proc average Ball Lightning out to 194.4 At the target cap, thats 3,110.4 damage every 22 seconds.

Super rough math follows (there is no Arcanatime here, son):

Footstomp damage over recharge = 2860/10 = 286 rough DPS

Ball Lightning damage over recharge = 3110/15 = 207 rough DPS.

The math is very rough (no Arcanatime, no cast times, Hasten not in the mix) but the fact remains: Even if you hit the target cap every single time, Footstomp still does more damage over time.

In non SUPAR SEKRIT AE FARMZOR situations, Footstomp totally blows Ball Lightning or any other patron AoE out of the water. Higher base damage, large radius, faster recharge.

Unless you're fighting something that is weak to energy damage and resistant to smashing damage. Like Freak Tanks, I guess. But choosing to farm something resistant to your primary and highest source of damage for something weak to your secondary and lower source of damage is pretty silly.

Also while I'm more than willing to farm and get some numbers for you, inf/min doesn't mean dick as far as proving your Ball Lightning does more damage than your Footstomp. Run Herostats, that'll show you how much damage your powers are doing.

Edit: you're probably fighting Freakshow, which would account for Ball Lightning doing more damage. And if that is the case, that speaks more to the nature of your farm than the relative power of Ball Lightning and Footstomp.

I'm skeptical of BL still doing more damage than Footstomp even in that situation because of its DoT nature even if you throw it out before Stomp most of the tics won't land because stuff will have died. I've found I get much more damage out of Dark Obliteration than I did with BL because while it has lower damage, the damage is all dealt up front whereas I was only getting the full benefit of BLs higher damage on bosses.

I agree with Silas -- I Think the combo of foot stomp and dark oblit works really well with my SS/SD Brute

Don't get me wrong the BL works, currently thinking if I should revamp my original ELM/SD Brute out of it or keep it -- But I think the higher upfront dmg and the debuff are more handy

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To the actual topic of the thread -- I've been itching to try Plant/ , so I'm working on a Plant/Earth which looks pretty fun! Farming no idea...

My Fire/Psi is a lot of fun, I just like how the powers work together -- then again I like my Fire/Kin trollers just as much.

I think you can make the big AoE builds work -- It depends on what you prefer to play ultimately, do you like the controlling dmg or the 'Roar boom boom pow!'-ness of Brutes that have better all around survivability (most of the time). Don't play something just for farming that you don't enjoy as you can make lots of things work efficiently for what you want to do.

Straight up numbers from 1 run:

427,706.15 total damage coming from ball lightning.
461,879.89 total damage coming from foot stomp.
549,288.07 total damage coming from Fire (assuming that's blazing aura)
438,824.00 from Unknown. (assumption that this is burn.)

Also you claim you try to maximize your inf per hour, considering you're someone who admited he has a cheap build, you are certainly not maximizing your inf per hour, maximized build + higher level then downs skill > your bad farming.

I still lol at the fact that you think farming is a competition. You do know farming isn't the only way to generate inf, right?