Build help

Hey all, I've looked through a ton of forums posts on particular builds and none quite seemed to match what I was looking for, so I'm asking here.

I know that fire/kin controllers and fire/shield scrappers are considered to be very powerful when they have millions/billions of inf worth of IOs thrown onto their skills. However, I just joined CoH and have a grand total of 30k inf to my name. I am looking for a build that can efficiently farm inf without a ton of startup capital. I don't need to solo entire 8-man missions or take down AVs single-handedly with this fellow, I just want him to be able to work well without a huge upfront investment. Ideally, if he can be made extremely strong with the inf he is getting through farming that's great. If not that's fine too. Also, what level will I have to get this guy to before he will be able to farm decent inf?

Thanks!

Many builds work perfectly well under SO enhancements... those are all we had for the first several years of the game after all. There aren't any that don't work adequately without a single IO. True, a good IO set build can be markedly more powerful than an SO one... but there's seldom need for that level of performance.

You're talking about farming inf... I'd say that's a bit putting the cart before the horse actually, pick a character you enjoy playing and simply play him up. Inf is pretty easy to come by nowadays... with just a moderate amount of marketing in Wentworths, basically simply selling your drops, you can have a pretty decent bundle built up by the time your character reaches 30.

My last character by simply playing and teaming normally and spending maybe 5-10 minutes a day in the market had a bit over 40 million inf by the time I hit 30. The character before that got a lucky merit roll and had a bit over 200 million by level 25. I generally don't even bother to give my new characters any seed money anymore... they always have enough for a full set of DO's at level 12 and SO's at 22. By the time I start thinking about IO sets they're in their 30's and generally have enough inf to buy what they need.

You're just starting out, I really recommend you simply find a character you like and play it. Once you've played for a bit and are familiar with the game mechanics and how your character plays you can think about IO's... for now I strongly suggest you don't worry about them. You've enough to learn now without piling IO's on top of that; there will be plenty of time in the mid-late game to think about that.

also, go visit the markets. you can make a lot of infl/inf by selling your stuff there that you get from drops or AE tickets. and don't forget about running some AE missions to get some tickets to get stuff there to.

welcome to the game and forums.

Excellent, that was fantastic information- exactly what I was looking for. It's also much better news than I had hoped! I hate farming, but since time and again when build searching "farming builds" came up as being critical, I had assumed it was true. I'm also very happy to hear that I don't need to worry about IOs yet. They were freakin' me out. Both expensive AND confusing! I found the mentor project thread in here and will search out a mentor for a lesson on SOs vs DOs vs IOs next time I'm in-game. Thanks!