Farming alone or with others?

what do most people do? what's the benefit of teaming with others vs. being by yourself. From what I can tell, it's better to farm with others if you're doing it for experience and want to be fast (I suppose fast Infl. is another reason). Otherwise, doing it solo is best, am I right?

EDit: damnit..wrong section. sorry all

You're right, solo is the way to go ; even for Xp unless you're very low level and have a friend willing to help. Spamming insps go a long way towards making any speed difference meaningless once you're past level 25 or so, as long as you focus on AoEs.

That said, teaming with others can help you to not get bored within ten minutes.

I farm alone
Yeah with nobody else.
You know when I farm,
I prefer to be by myself.


lol sorry couldn't resist

Farming in a team isn't farming, it's teaming (unless the "team" consists of 7 doorsitting lowbies)

tl:dr Get herostats, run the numbers. See which is better for you. I've done the math on this and the answer is "it depends."

Farming for rewards/money mostly depends on item drops. Item drops are maximized from Defeats per minute. Defeats per minute is usually done by playing on a lower difficulty setting such as +0/x8 and blowing through enemy packs like a hurricane.

My Brute, who puts up numbers comparable or perhaps higher than a Fire/Kin controller and every other character I've seen, can achieve 40-45 defeats per minute. If you had 2 of such Brutes, who went in 2 different directions, you'd have 90 defeats per minute. Two such Brutes, who went in the same direction would have less than 90 defeats per minute because one can easily defeat a pack alone and quickly. Often many of one of the Brute's powers would be "wasted" because the partner killed them an instant before.

If your farming goal is money, which is maximized from items, go alone.

Farming for experience is different. The measure you want to use is Inf/minute, more accurately prestige/minute. These numbers rise with more difficulty. You want a good balance of difficulty and ease, roughly where you can still go through packs and don't have any challenge. I find +2 or +3/x8 to be ideal. Bosses or no Bosses depends no the character.

My Brute, who as explained above puts up similar/better numbers than a fire/kin controller, achieves 500k inf/minute at +3/x8. If you had two such Brutes, in two different directions you'd achieve 1,000 Inf/minute (not really based on team size changes, but essentially you are getting exactly twice the speed). However, pairing my Brute with a Fire/Kin Corruptor who knows how to deal damage as well achieves speeds HIGHER than 1,000 Inf/minute, in the 1,300 range. Thus, for experience/power leveling team farming is better under the right circumstances.

I ran the same Brute + Cor duo for drops and the added damage from the Corr going the same way doesn't really help the Brute. We didn't break 90 defeats/minute working together.

If you are farming to powerlevel/gain experience some duos can be better

Let's see. A few months ago I paid 3million to door sit in a group on one of my lowbies. When I came back from afk'ing and checked my recipes, I am very pleased to see I got a triple-stat Hecatomb which I crafted and sold for about 350mil

That's why I don't take people on my farms

Farming for drops: solo

Farming to PL someone or for fun/kill time: duo

If I am solo farming BM I can fill up on recipes and salvage in 30 minutes or less easy. I have been on TF's and teams for 2-3 hours and not even come close to filling up my recipes or salvage. This seems to be the norm for me even on good, fast moving teams. I believe the xp is much better on a team though because of the team xp modifier. It is 2.5*(reguler xp) per kill split between 8 people on an eight man team. I don't believe there are any salvage/recipe drop modifiers that increase drops when teamed.

I don't always solo, but when I do, I prefer it for the high drop rates.

Wow.

I farm with friends because while I value the drops, I am more interested in having fun, and farming solo feels grindy. Joking and goofing around definitely cuts into profits, and I don't run at top efficiency anyway, but it does make the experience a LOT more enjoyable.

and, honestly, I have enough money without farming anyhow. It's all just gravy.

interesting, yet informative replies haha. Thank you all so much . I guess I'll continue farming solo then.

Smurphy, what kind of Brute do you have?

I think it is funny that this thread was started. I went to PI (in freedom) yesterday and was minding my own business until I got so fed up with peoples' attitudes and their spamming for PLs. At this point, I said "This is the reason I Farm alone!" The response I got back was highly enlighting and amazed my senses: "Farming solo is stupid"

Got to love the brainiacs in freedom ;P

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Don't you get more Exp when in a large group than alone?
So wouldn't you get more Exp when farming in a group than farming solo?