Farming archtype

It doesn't matter how much inf/minute you make. Its how much inf/item.

Lets say a farmer runs a map, he gets 20 drops and 5 million inf. This gives you 250k inf/item entering the economy.

Now a team runs the same map, they get same 20 drops split 8 ways, and 12.5 million inf split 8 ways. This gives you 625k inf/item entering the economy.

The individuals didn't get more inf, but the team put considerably more inf into the economy for every item they put in. You wind up with people that have inf and want items

Never thought of it that way. Thank you for taking the time to explain it in a way that I(finally) understand.

Now if the bonus for teaming also included increased salvage and recipe drops it might even out.

i know it's not really for farming, but i'd thought that i'd mention that one of my favorite arch types is the lancet arch.

Isn't it nice?


As far as archetypes go my favorites tend to be Scrapper, Brute and Defender. My 50 DM/Elec Brute tears through the Rikti missions in the RWZ pretty quickly, so that's probably my best farmer.

My first farm build is now a 50 Fire/kin/stone troller. They farm fine, but they can't really start to farm for real until long after my ss/fire brute was farming in relative safety. You need FS (lvl 38 - one slot at that point), plus you don't get the stone shield until the 40's.

My brute had burn at 28 and FS at 32. Once you have burn at 28, you can start farming the AE demon farm at +1x6 or so and keep upping it as you zip through a few more levels for slots.

In short, my brute was farming around 10 lvls earlier, which makes levelling much faster, and my brute does it far more safely. Both are at 50, but my brute (who IO's himself for +rech etc), is faster, safer, and less micro management involved.

I don't run and grab 3 grps of mobs with my fire/kin, as position and FS and pets etc make it to annoying, and dangerous. With my brute I anger 3 grps, and they just keep feeding themselves into my AoE's as initial targets die. Basically, they still hate you after the agro cap, but "wait their turn" until there is room in your threat list for them.

So tag 3 grps of mobs, then AoE until all three grps have fed themselves into my dmg, go grab 3 more.

As to rage, I use insp, taunt, or run to the next grp whenever its crashed for 10 sec.

Also, yes, if you run the same AE mish repeatedly and complete it, you will see the completion bonus diminish quickly.

I'm not going to lie, the climb to 28 wasn't the best, not worse than any other AT really, but slow and squishie compared to tanks you team with.

Mine was designed and leveled specifically to give me a capped farmer, not to enjoy. I just wanted to email 10 million or so to each new toon I started.

Like so many ATs, once they bloom in the late 20's it just gets better and better. Use the AE in conjunction with the difficulty slider and you can level really fast.

Yep, which is why I suggested to go a melee route. Fire/Kin will out farm a tank, but the problem is getting that Fire/Kin to 50. The Tanker will kick in sooner and get there cheaper.

Plus, some folks might not like the controller style. I kinda assumed from the OP's original comments that he was a melee oriented player.

Yea that's true, probably more so solo tho... A Kin no matter the level will speed up any team that you are in so if you really wanted a Fire/Kin at 50 you will be best to team, probably hit 20 go vigilante and do every TF and SF there is at the appropriate level and you will more or less be done.

True. But I don't think that teaming is high on the OP's list or he wouldn't be talking about tanks and brutes. I think he's looking to solo for a great portion of his time leveling.

EDIT: also this thread has made me bite the bullet to make an ss/fire brute again.

Another_Fan was talking about inf/mob defeated not inf/player hence the discrepancy.