you need a couple zeros behind the number you cited for farmers.
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For some farmers at least. Your average farmer probably clears 1mil/hr and they would be the majority I'd think. On the other hand, there are the "hardcore" farmers that probably have little left to do in the game but get rich or die trying. Those farmers can clear significantly more than 1mil/hr, but that's pretty much all they do is farm.|
Originally Posted by Frosticus
you need a couple zeros behind the number you cited for farmers.
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I don't consider myself a farmer by an means, but I do usually run around the wall in Cim at least once per play session until my recipe and salvage sacks are full. If I'm bored or in need of extra Inf, I might do more than one run, but that might be once in two weeks that I'd do that. Either way, those runs have been known to clear me in excess of 500mil per run, each of which takes around 30 minutes. To be fair, that's not the norm, but I average probably 3-6 purples a week courtesy of those Romans.
So yeah, regular farming for drops can still make a heck of a lot more than merit farming and rolling for recipes/salvage. The difference is probably more one of luck than anything else though. Many players have never had a purple drop since they were brought into the game, while some others may have my luck of getting several per week.
I'd be of the opinion that it would come down to choosing between luck and the possibility of huge earnings, or going for the certified (but possibly significantly lower) income that merit rolls can bring you.
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1 mill/hour is the baseline for soloing with a 50.
Thats for a poor soloer, such as my emp/elec.
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1m/hour is what a soloing emp defender built for teaming should make, running normal missions. There was a topic about that, I'm not just pulling this out of my ***.
A more reasonable number for an average farmer, given current market prices, should be somewhere in the 20-40m range, and a good one should manage 100-200m/hour easily. All it takes is purples, and you should get about one purple (~3000 kills) per hour ; although obviously averages are just that, some days you'll get nothing during hours and some days you'll get 4 purps in 2 hours.
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Isn't it more like 1500 kills? I can't recall where at the moment, but that's the number I've seen most regarding purple drop rates.
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Could be. My own tracking gave me ~1/3000 (6 purples in 19154 kills, or 1/3192.33), and at the time I saw other people talking about 1/3000 so I never bothered to check further, I've got to admit that wasn't very reliable.
Fair enough. Your results may not be the long-term or general average, but its still quite sound. And your results are based on recorded numbers, as opposed to the 1/1500 I'd heard that was given more as conjecture and had no statistics to back it up. So I'd put more credence in the 1/3000 at this point, heh.
TopDoc had pretty good purple stats. Somewhere.
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There are ways to farm Ouro arcs that give merits for purples.
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Originally Posted by Pyber
Your average farmer probably clears 1mil/hr and they would be the majority I'd think.
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any mouthbreather playing a random crummy AT at level 50 makes that.
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Hell most people would have to walk away from the keyboard for a good chunk of each hour to make that little.
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
any mouthbreather playing a random crummy AT at level 50 makes that.
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According to my old Drop Listing & Analysis thread, I got about 1 purple per 1500 mobs. It was 13 purples for about 18,000 mobs. Given Nihilii's 6 purples in 19,000 mobs, you get around 1 per 2000 mobs if you average ours together.
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I really should have gone and posted my results in those threads. I don't always make that much. Trips back from the hospital really cut into your earnings per hour. So does waiting for rest to recharge after every spawn. I do have level 50 builds this bad. Multiple.|
Originally Posted by Nethergoat
any mouthbreather playing a random crummy AT at level 50 makes that.
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I have a cold/cold defender who hasn't finished a radio mission in under an hour solo on 0/x1 for months. I'm looking forward to seeing what the new vigilance does for him.
I also have a fire/kin who makes about 20-30m/hour on a good day. That's because I have no idea how to use it properly, the build is capable of much more. Heh.
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Merits for purples? You can't buy purples with merits, nor get them from random merit rolls (the same also applies to tickets). The only way that you can get purples with merits is to buy recipes that someone wants with your merits, then trading those recipes for the purples the other person has. Not very conducive to making Inf if you ask me.
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You oro level 50 content. When you finish the arc you get merits, every thing you beat up on the way to the end of the oro arc has a chance to drop purples. So you get both. It takes longer to get purples than clearing out tightly packed spawns on out door maps but you get merits as a replacement for that loss. It works out to be about the same and I vary what I do to prevent boredom.
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Originally Posted by Pyber
Merits for purples? You can't buy purples with merits, nor get them from random merit rolls (the same also applies to tickets). The only way that you can get purples with merits is to buy recipes that someone wants with your merits, then trading those recipes for the purples the other person has. Not very conducive to making Inf if you ask me.
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Ah, okay. For some reason my brain train didn't take that fork in the tracks, hehe. My bad XD
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Originally Posted by Pyber
Merits for purples? You can't buy purples with merits, nor get them from random merit rolls (the same also applies to tickets). The only way that you can get purples with merits is to buy recipes that someone wants with your merits, then trading those recipes for the purples the other person has. Not very conducive to making Inf if you ask me.
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One can farm for purples in Ouro arcs that give merits.
I know I am not a farming guru but I know one thing The rare salvage bags you can buy for 10 merits give out things that can sell for 3-8mil. From what I've read normal farmers earn 1mil an hour (excluding rare drops I'm assuming). However you can earn 10 merits in about 20 minutes. Wouldn't it be more cost effective to farm TF/SA/GM and buy the bags to sell?