Does anyone ever farm level 48s at level 50?
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2010-03-20 24:32 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
You get (a lot) less inf, but then, if you're farming for purples, I don't think inf from kills is particularly important; you totally blow it away selling one good drop.
Personally, I don't do it for two reasons, above and beyond just not "formally" farming much in general.
- Everything that's not a common or a purple is worth a lot less money on the market. People are piling most of their purchasing power on the level 50s for a variety of reasons, so you just can't sell most non-50 recipes/enhancements for anything like you can for the level 50s.
- If you think regular farming is boring, -2s are even worse.
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Indisputable point this, but the question becomes, how much faster? In truth I don't think the differential is so great that over the long run the difference matters.|
Originally Posted by Clebstein
The enemies would die faster
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PS- the cut off for purples is 47 not 48
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Originally Posted by Blood Spectre
You might. I play redside.
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I think it would probably be boring. I suck at farming but my fire/kin runs at even level set for 8 players so it's actually challenging. He's not purpled and I'm far from an expert. Against -2's it would just be button-mashing..... well, even more so than it is now. Against even cons he at least has a chance of losing.
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I could be wrong, but I think -3 minions con grey, and therefore won't drop anything.|
Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
PS- the cut off for purples is 47 not 48
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I have a broadsword/shield scrapper who I'll probably get to level 50 soon. It's not an ideal combination, but he has two AoEs and a cone (plus the damage from AaO), so he shouldn't be horrible at farming. It would at least give me some thing to do when my global channels are dead and I'm too lazy to actually do some thing.
Sheesh. The original post was from HOURS ago. I start writing a message, pause to get a drink and, when I finish it, there's 8 posts in the past 18 minutes. Is there a full Moon or something?
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just cause it cons grey doesnt mean it cant drop anything, you get drops from enemies up to 4 lvls lower than you (-5 is the cutoff for ANY reward)|
Originally Posted by Clebstein
I could be wrong, but I think -3 minions con grey, and therefore won't drop anything.
I have a broadsword/shield scrapper who I'll probably get to level 50 soon. It's not an ideal combination, but he has two AoEs and a cone (plus the damage from AaO), so he shouldn't be horrible at farming. It would at least give me some thing to do when my global channels are dead and I'm too lazy to actually do some thing. |
however like they been saying, 47 is the min lvl for purps
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Originally Posted by je_saist
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Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
just cause it cons grey doesnt mean it cant drop anything, you get drops from enemies up to 4 lvls lower than you (-5 is the cutoff for ANY reward)
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When shooting someone with an automatic rifle, or now dual pistols, using trip mines, poison mines, and full automatic drone, how in the hell is that arresting anyone?|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
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I don't care what anyone says, riddling an enemies' body with bullets, even "rubber" ones fired from the fully automated gatling gun, would probably kill the enemy. But you can suspend your reality any way you want.
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Originally Posted by Gaelic_Reign
When shooting someone with an automatic rifle, or now dual pistols, using trip mines, poison mines, and full automatic drone, how in the hell is that arresting anyone?
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Originally Posted by UberGuy
Everything that's not a common or a purple is worth a lot less money on the market.
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Even if you're farming for purples, you may still get the ocasional LotG: Defense piece, Numina: Healing piece, Obliterations and other pool A recipes that are worth quite a penny on the market (at level 50).
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Originally Posted by Gaelic_Reign
When shooting someone with an automatic rifle, or now dual pistols, using trip mines, poison mines, and full automatic drone, how in the hell is that arresting anyone?
I don't care what anyone says, riddling an enemies' body with bullets, even "rubber" ones fired from the fully automated gatling gun, would probably kill the enemy. But you can suspend your reality any way you want. |
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Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
PS- the cut off for purples is 47 not 48
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Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
just cause it cons grey doesnt mean it cant drop anything
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If you're fighting at level 50 trying to farm purples, it would be better to have lv48 enemies than to have lv47, since you'd get more chances at the drop.
Myself, I generally just solo level 50 missions set for -1/x8 and don't worry about resetting. I'm not killing quite as fast, sure, but it's less hassle. With just blowing through -1/x8 level 50 missions, (without actually taking down any statistics) I've averaged about 1 purple per play session. And, lv49 set recipes don't do quite so terribly on the market as lv48 ones do.
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I still go for 50's . picked up 2 gaussians and 2 Obliterations during one of Unai's big outdoor maps (the Banished Panthenons one). If it had been at 48 i would of lost 60 million (that was the difference at the time), but even fighting lvl 50's , one strike from my shield/electric tanker and the whole mob was over anyway, so I don't think it would of been much faster anyhow.
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You're right, people do pay much more for level 50s. But it's not really logical -- the difference between a set of 48s and a set of 50s is between like 0.3% and 1.3% depending on how much ED is kicking in. It's not really worth paying that much more for such a marginal increase for the vast majority of characters. Heck, the difference between 35s and 50s is only like 2% when ED kicks in fully (and 5% to 9% for the other bonuses, like acc, recharge and end red). Stopping to eat a snack while playing will cost you more far in DPS than having level 48 enhancements.|
Originally Posted by kangaroo120y
I still go for 50's . picked up 2 gaussians and 2 Obliterations during one of Unai's big outdoor maps (the Banished Panthenons one). If it had been at 48 i would of lost 60 million (that was the difference at the time), but even fighting lvl 50's , one strike from my shield/electric tanker and the whole mob was over anyway, so I don't think it would of been much faster anyhow.
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Economic arguments aside, how one have any pride farming -2 mobs? It's like stealing lunch money from little kids
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Originally Posted by Rodion
Economic arguments aside, how one have any pride farming -2 mobs? It's like stealing lunch money from little kids
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I have one of these. When I have nothing better to do I run the Unai Council map at +2X8 and nothing stays standing for long. You will do fine when the mood strikes you.
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Originally Posted by Clebstein
I have a broadsword/shield scrapper who I'll probably get to level 50 soon. It's not an ideal combination, but he has two AoEs and a cone (plus the damage from AaO), so he shouldn't be horrible at farming. It would at least give me some thing to do when my global channels are dead and I'm too lazy to actually do some thing.
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Since level 48 enemies can drop purple recipes, wouldn't it make sense to pick up a decent mission at level 48, hit 50 and then farm it? The enemies would die faster, being two levels under you instead of even-level or +1, and it wouldn't take as good of a build to do it efficiently. I would imagine that any scrapper with some AoE could easily survive at -2 set to 8 players, and kill pretty quickly even with just SOs.
But I don't see any one ever mention it. Is there some reason people don't, like the lower amount of inf you'd get? Or do people do it all the time and I just haven't heard about it?