Are MMs good farmers?

My current main in CoV is a Thugs/Dark MM and I love her to death. She and her various pets make enemies disappear and vanish very fast. There are often times that I go through a mission and die a little on the inside because it's sometimes too easy (needless to say that is fixed once I ramp up the difficulty) but what I'm truly curious about is the question of whether she can farm effectively or not.

Are there any MM farmers out there that are willing to give a farming interested MM noob some advice? If needed I'll post up a build so as you guys can nitpick it apart.

Thanks!

I do, and have, farmed a little with my thugs\dark and what really makes it easy is when you can corner pull a spawn with darkest night into a tar patch. When they start coming around the corner I jump in front of them and hit fearsome stare...and then the boys go to work and the entire spawn is done in ~20 seconds or so.

The key is being able to get a x8 spawn bundled up as tightly as possible on a tar patch and corner pulling does the trick (at least for me).

Scale of 1-10? I'd give Masterminds a 5. It's very safe, and for short periods of time it can be very fun. But overall you will be spending too much time herding and setting up everything, where another AT like a Brute for example, can just jump in, smash everything, and move on to the next spawn

If you are farming you want it to be very fast and very efficient. Sadly MMs come up short in that area, at least from what I've seen compared to certain other ATs

Depends on the set I suppose. Thug/TA seems fairly fast. Then again, thug/anything would.

MMs can farm, just not nearly as efficiently as a Corruptor, Brute, or Dom. /Traps MMs were decent-ish back before the PGT nerf in I13 but now, not so much.

I agree with needing to be fast and effecient. Not much can kill faster than an elec/sd fully io'd. I can 1 shot even cons with SC. Then hit the 2nd mob with LR and Fireball, rinse and repeat.

Depends on which henchmen you are using. Mercenaries and Ninjas are pretty useful, but the others are no good. Robots trample all the crops, anything a demon or zombie touches dies, and thugs require constant supervision. Robots could be useful if some serious modifications are done. A plasma cannon and flamethrower causes more problems than an incompetent thug ever could.

Assault bot can cast the two swarm missiles every 19 or so seconds. If you have a way of keeping the spawn in them or from being knocked back they can drop entire groups in seconds.

The base numbers on the missiles:
Swarm Missile, 60 base damage, 20ft aoe (40% chance of blowing the mob halfway across the map)
Incendiary Swarm, 364 base damage (over 20 seconds), 20ft aoe (causes afraid)

I've heard people say that the incendiary will spawn a burn patch for every mob it affects. I honestly don't know, but I know when things are stuck in it even briefly on my bots/storm they die very quickly. I've found decent success with combining electric fences and freezing rain. One for the -kb and the other I find if they are already bouncing they won't get knocked back (usually). Fences has a really small aoe.

it works fairly well. Very safe and easy to use, but it isn't as fast as a top tier farmer. It chews up bosses though with LS and nado, which is something I don't think normal bots builds excel at as their st damage isn't as notable as their aoe. It has also no insp/no temps about 10 AV's so far with the same build. So it is pretty strong in most scenarios.