Farming archtype

For melee farming, SS/Fire brute is the way to go. Demon farm is cake and you can make AE farms quite easy with just fire damage as well.

I myself have 2 tanks and a brute.. fire/fire is retired, but with burn being viable may return..


now onto my bread and butter. I have a SS/shield tank. and an electric/shield brute..

truthfully, mids brute vs in game tank (brutes in process of slotting) brute matches defensive measures hand for hand.. and since lightning rod and shield charge have a 300 or 400% damage cap, that is overlooked..
the difference comes into play style.. for instance, excluding hand clap for obvious reasons.. SS has quite a few draw backs.

Rage, while capable of double stacking for 30 seconds with no outside sourced recharge, has a 10 second window of -10k% damage, every 30 seconds.. now on average, my tank can clear 5, 8 man groups with bosses, in 2 minutes, from first rage to first rage crash.

following that initialization, every 2 minutes, you have 40 seconds of downtime, due to no damage output.
tanks inherently have a 400% damage cap, (base= 100%, enhance can = 100%, 2x rage = 160%, against all odds = 55%*maxed*)


on the other hand, brute has no crash, assuming the correct primary is chosen, and you avoid silly skills like one with the shield or any other temp buff with a - end/hp/damage crash.

for instance, (again ignoring LR and SC for low damage caps *proven in the field*) I can put out a third strike of >= damage with thunder strike, the skill that proved the damage cap of LR and SC in my test, every 10 seconds (5 sec recharge, 5 sec activation) with 180% recharge that I maintain damage cap.

with the correct flow and a steady supply of mobs, this is easy to do via inspiration micro management

If you would like to discuss in extreme detail, or get a build, or help starting a nest egg fund to work from. contact me at my global handle @Master Martial

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Sorry didn't notice this thread about farming til now... the red phone that usually flashes must be on the blink if you excuse the pun.

Okay, beginner farming = Fire / Kin / Earth Controller, fight S/L mobs this runs very nicely for starting out as it can farm efficiently on SO's

After IO's I would either invest into a better epic for the controller or switch to a Brute / Scrapper, Blasters and Domi's pretty much have to be top end billion inf builds.

I would not even consider a tank, yes they are survivable but that is not the aim, it's a farm not a PuG team... tanks can kill eventually and although you may feel they are performing, something else will easily out perform it.

Your aim is efficiencey, the one thing that people misunderstand about farming is it's not about killing mobs or surviving them, it's about a steady smooth turnover of kills. Hence why you don't Nuke or herd in farms.

My suggestion to start with is run x8 +2 Battle Maiden warriors on a Fire kin Earth, map the mission first if you are going to be PL'ing... this means you run round the map to fill it up with mobs before inviting your gf's alt as this will mean you won't spawn bosses that you can't handle or will slow you down.

Craft your drops and sell them on the Auction House, people will thank you for the supply and vendor your salvage drops unless you get rare ones.

Don't invite others when you are PLing... although they kill mobs faster they will also sap the xp given, we lost out big time with the new super sidekicking system not being able to get level 46 xp from 50+ mobs, the only way to combat this is to have maps of 8man mobs and only 2 on the map 1 farmer 1 benefitting.

If you have any specific questions feel free to send me a message or if you are on Eu server create a toon on Union for a demo.

Donna x




p.s

Sinisterdirge, if he's farming for drops he's probably running x8 -1 which makes those numbers possible.

I'm pretty sure that I gain more inf/minute solo than on a team.

Well the reason I was asking about tankers is cause I don't have any cash on my chars. So I figured as a first time farmer, a resist base set like electric armor would be a great first time farmer. Even more so on a tanker cause hes better defensively while not being THAT far behind in damage. Since I have no money I need a farmer from start to finish without needing billions of money to make them good.

I know I saw a thread about first time farmer maybe a year or a few months ago but I can't find it. I never get good results when I use search. I guess im having a hard time deciding cause I still wanna play the game arcs and such but also be able to farm, so when I hear, "this build is only good for 1 or 2 missions", I fear ill have a hard time leveling up cause I can only play certain missions. And ive also heard lethal and smashing sets lag behind because of resistances. Am I asking to do too much? I play on victory villainside and theres not many people to ask for help or play with from what I can see.

If you want a cheaper farmer to start out, you can roll a SS/WP/Mu Brute. Although, SS/Fire doesn't need that much investment if you fight the right enemy groups.