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Best 50 to optimize/farm with?

Broken Voltage

By Broken Voltage,
Posted on: 2010-08-31 10:56 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion

 

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Originally Posted by Lobster View Post
Someone mentioned elec/shield... if that's that much stronger than stone/elec I have one @41 that would do. I enjoy playing him, but he does always feel weak on single target mop-up.
I would like to change my recommendation to lvl up the spines to level up your elec/sd(brute?). Even with the adjustment to shield charge, it is still probably the best farmer in the game after an elec/sd scrapper. Possibly better than a fire/kin.

 

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Um, Emp/Mind Defender with brawl on auto.

/kidding

It pretty much comes down to what you have fun playing doing one of the most boring things in the game. Saying what is best is like posting a sign for Castle to "nerfbat me".

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Originally Posted by Lobster View Post
Alrighty. So, I understand some folks have eleventy billion dollars. I've managed to stick around since launch and haven't even passed the 250mill mark, so I should probably get right on that.

With that in mind... for the folks that are more familiar with the #s than myself, what are opinions on which would be the best of the following characters to optimize for inf farming (I'm assuming that some combination of Architect or Ouro Merit farming is the way to go? Mix of inf & recipes to sell?):

Fire/Storm Cont
Stone/Elec Brute
Bot/Dark MM
Arach Soldier
Widow
DB/WP scrap
SS/DA brute

[Yes, I've been here since launch and I only have 7 50s. What!? I'm easily distracted.]

I also have a spines/da scrap in the 40s, in case that's a better option.

H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD

 

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Guides? Well, here is how I went from 0 to 100 million on a new character. It's probably got a few too many conversational shortcuts- I've been doing this so long it's hard for me to put myself in the shoes of a new marketeer and explain in layman's terms. I did this with no test runs or practice or "gee, my other character will buy that to make me look good"- it would go faster and smoother the second time around, but new marketers haven't practiced yet, either.

I generally figure it's around the same amount of time to go 0-1 million, 1 million-10 million, 10 million-100 million and 100 million- 1 billion. Pretty much you're making X% per transaction, and when you have enough cash you can move up to bigger transactions. If you've only got a million, you're doing things like "Buying for 55K and selling for 150K." If you've got 10 million, you're doing thing like "Buying for 1.5 million and selling for 4 million." If you've got 100 million you're doing things like "buying for 20 million and selling for 50 million."

Point being, it's not harder "Where you are right now", it's just you're doing different transactions.

This might work better- heffroncm is an actual new-to-marketing player, so doesn't have the assumptions I do.

Mini-guides: Force Field Defenders, Blasters, Market Self-Defense, Frankenslotting.

So you think you're a hero, huh.
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