Farming alone or with others?
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Bill Z Bubba,
Posted on: 2010-06-08 20:32 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
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Oh, sorry. I wasn't talking about THAT far back in the mists of time. That changed before i4 didn't it (i2 or something?).|
Originally Posted by SinisterDirge
Sorry, agreed on the notoriety settings, I should have been more clear. I was mostly responding to Carnifax_NA's "They never did". Because they did. Before the notoriety system even existed there was no way to control spawn size, or difficulty besides team size/lvl makeup.
The system is completely different now, and if it is not working as expected, you should bug it. |
Old man!
*runs away*
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Guess I'm doing something right. I tried Herostats and it says I got 44.83 kills per minute on my SS/Fire Brute. Screw bosses btw imo, just do +0/x8 no bosses
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Originally Posted by Smurphy
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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. |
Just a little fun fact for you.
For the sake of keeping the math simple let's say you are getting (10,000 inf/minute) solo. In order to achieve the same inf/min on a team we could use the below formula.
x = necessary influence per minute
x*(team modifier)/(team size) = (target inf per minute - 10,000)
for a 8 man team the team modifier should be 2.5
(x*2.5)/8 = 10,000
x=80,000/2.5
x=32,000
32,000 inf/minute is what we need to accomplish as a team in order to match your solo speed. So in summary you would need to kill 3.2 times faster per minute as a team assuming you are fighting the same level enemies.
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If it changed after the difficulty changes fine. But I've experienced missions set to the original default difficulty with +2 and +3 enemies while on an eight man team. Then adding in going to invincible difficulty, it could get insane. Especially when the idiot team leader did that in the hollows.|
Originally Posted by SinisterDirge
Sorry, agreed on the notoriety settings, I should have been more clear. I was mostly responding to Carnifax_NA's "They never did". Because they did. Before the notoriety system even existed there was no way to control spawn size, or difficulty besides team size/lvl makeup.
The system is completely different now, and if it is not working as expected, you should bug it. |
It might have been changed. Outside of a single ITF on a level 50 scrapper, I've not teamed since the difficulty scale changes. I do know that when set to -1/x4(or higher)for personal difficulty, enemies tend to be my level or +1 to me. Which can be important since I want more enemies, but the ability to defeat them.
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Madam Enigma's History
Madam you might be thinking about when you face different enemy groups. For Example if your diff is on +0/+4 solo fighting council during the mid levels you might encounter lets say 10 minions with 2 Lt's thrown in the mix for spice. If you look at another enemy group for example on +0/+4 like Arachnos you will find yourself fighting 1 Mu Boss 3 LT's and I don't know 1 or 2 minions.
This can change once you form a team and reset the mish. Causing a difference of LT, Minion and boss spawn mob size. I wish I could explain myself more...it's one of those things in which it's easier to show then...hrmm, I am to lazy to use Powerpoint right now lol.