i think you mean you are farming at +2/8x
the best for pruples (not the money to get it) is -1/8x
the mobs will fall faster than every thing elseand all mobs 47+ have the chance to drop purples and IO of thier lvl
Helge corr lvl 50 rad/cold
Helge2 corr lvl 50 ice/rad
Techbothelge MM lvl 50 robo/dark
Helge Mauz def lvl 50 emp/ele
illuhelge troller lvl 50 illu/rad
Wiederbelebter helge nk lvl 50 bs/reg
Maennerschreack nightwidow lvl 44
Quantenjaeger ws lvl 3
I see people talking about not getting purple drops for months at a time, and it always weirds me out. I know random means random, but I often get one or two per weekend if I'm playing solid on a 50. I often get one or two puple drops before I hit 50, just leveling in that 47-49 band.
I believe your best shot at purples is farming -1x8. Purples will still drop at that level, and you'll slam through enemies at maximum pace. I find that boring, though. When I'm farming, which isn't often, I'm usually farming +2x8 or +3x8.
I suspect your best overall farming is +0x8. You want level 50+ enemies because level 50 recipes or crafted IOs sell for more and sell more quickly than level 49. And I suspect the extra recipe income outweighs the extra raw influence per hour from farming higher level enemies.
Lots of ways to make influence other than farming, though:
- Run AE missions for tickets and pick up whatever goes for a lot on the market. I've heard low level bronze rolls, but you can accumulate them so quickly that sorting through the junk for the good stuff takes more time than I'm willing to commit. Even worse, they can hog a whole lot of market slots that could be put to better use. I sacrifice ultimate influence for convenience and just make rare salvage to sell in stacks.
- Run task forces to accumulate merits. Lots of things can be bought with merits that you either need for yourself or go for a lot on the market. Your best bet on average is probably random rolls, but you have to be prepared for serious disappointment since you can easily get nothing valuable.
- Play the market. There are a lot of ways to make influence quickly on the market. Wander over to the market forum and take a look at some guides. Flipping and crafting are probably the two most common approaches.
- Play the game on your 50s. This isn't as fast as the other options, but you can accumulate quite a bit of influence just as a side effect of playing the game. I purpled out Werner by simply playing the game. Yeah, it took forever, but I was purpling him out because I LIKED playing him. So I wasn't suffering for a cause. I was having fun.
"That's because Werner can't do maths." - BunnyAnomaly
"Four hours in, and I was no longer making mistakes, no longer detoggling. I was a machine." - Werner
Videos of Other Stupid Scrapper Tricks
See the guide referenced in the sig.
If you want purples don't fight the same type of enemy repeatedly. I can't remember where I read it, but switching enemy types increases the chance of getting purples, and fighting enemy types that are commonly skipped by most players helps even more. I ran some tests actually last week. I did not use the ouroboros day job power.
Keep in mind that these numbers are based on a small sample of time.
Over 12 hours I only ran the battle maiden farm. In that time, I got 7 oranges and no purples.
For another 12 hours I swapped out enemy types every hour. I got 19 oranges and 3 purples. The purples dropped 2 from Knives and one from rularuu.
I also have a theory that filling up salvage/inpsirations/enhancements ups your chance for recipes, but I haven't tested it. If I can get more time in game I will continue testing.
I have a theory that if you farm while sitting in a tub of jello and singing it increases purple drop rates.
Culex's resistance guide
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Never got a purple that way :'( I even sing REALLY loud too.
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Originally Posted by Pitho
I have a theory that if you farm while sitting in a tub of jello and singing it increases purple drop rates.
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Originally Posted by Lillika
Never got a purple that way :'( I even sing REALLY loud too.
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Did you use Purple jello?
Farming is too time consuming to get influence, I like using went worths to make influence.
Virtue: @Santorican
Dark/Shield Build Thread
WW is definitely the way to go, although man is it painful since the new interface.
For purples that is easy, on my Scrappers I tend to do 0/x8, I usually do random paper mishes til I get a council mish in a building with 3 stories, or a really big warehouse, that way there is lots of mobs, Council are generally a bunch of pushovers, except for those werewolves. On average it takes me about 6 mishes to get a purple. One of my farmers is a DB/SR so it goes pretty quick too.
I wouldn't know how to farm inf, heard the market is a good place for that. Me personally I don't have much problem getting what I want, most IOs I get with merits so I can choose the level of the IO, purples I farm and either slot or sell what I have to get what I want, most times it is an even trade and at this point with most of my 50s I tend to get a lot of repeat drops. The only thing I can't get are those sexy PvP IOs (yet, selling those purples is helping me reach my goal, that and rare salvage.)
For best results I would find paper/radio mish that is a click the glowie on a big map, kill everyone there don't click the glowie, leave, reset, and repeat. The problem you might be having is that you might not run into enough mobs, I know most CoT mishes tend to be in small caves so you won't be getting a lot of chances, and I also know that most of the groups for the CoT tend to have 2 bosses in them cutting down on the drop rate, I know bosses have the best drop rate for IOs but having lots of minions and LTs to cut down could help you out. I say try to get council mishes, those guys are cake walk.
EDIT: As mentioned by others, it does get boring quick, for like the first 30 mins you are kinda hyped up that your toon makes most PvE content laughable, then after that it starts to feel like a job.
"Yes, winning all the time can be boring."
-Knight_Chill
"It's amazing how well you can put up with endurance issues if you hide them under a large enough pile of bodies."
-Spiritchaser speaking on Dom Revamp
I've got a 50 DB/SR scrapper I am about a purple set short of being "completed". I've been farming +8/x2 on the CoT trying to get my purples, but its been a couple months since I've gotten even one. What's the best way to get purple drops? Are other people having problems getting them, it seems like the only thing that I get anymore are the temp powers (groan).
I've also got a 50 Claws/SR Brute that I am farming same levels and difficulty with, but again, no purples - farming Council with her. Progress is slow here as I am complete, but without the purples.
Any suggestions?