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I feel for your customers cause they are getting shafted on down time for you having to que it up. Ultrawatts AE arc is where its at for constant leveling fun both xp and tickets.
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Originally Posted by Dacu
Ok I agree its not great either, but its a map people are familiar with and one that gets requested the most when I level people, so I give the customers what they want.
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I used to run the FIRE! arc (423253) and fire invasion maps (461100), but I've had numerous customers specifically ask to run cyborg instead. I'm starting to see more people running the beasts map (505560).
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Originally Posted by BeastMan
I feel for your customers cause they are getting shafted on down time for you having to que it up. Ultrawatts AE arc is where its at for constant leveling fun both xp and tickets.
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Can anyone suggest a SS/FA build that can help me get started out farming? I figure the best way to build myself up is to go cheap first and farm out the Infamy I need for a build until I'm good enough to charge people.
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I can farm +4x8 on SOs. Considering I can cap out tickets at +2x8, I see little reason to go beyond that for now. I'm only working towards either my general build, or the pure farmer.
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Originally Posted by Blazing_Fist
Can anyone suggest a SS/FA build that can help me get started out farming? I figure the best way to build myself up is to go cheap first and farm out the Infamy I need for a build until I'm good enough to charge people.
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Wow. Any technique to that? Do I need purples and all that?
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Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
I can farm +4x8 on SOs. Considering I can cap out tickets at +2x8, I see little reason to go beyond that for now. I'm only working towards either my general build, or the pure farmer.
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Well, you CAN farm with SOs easily.
But ANYTHING can cap out tix at +2x8 (heck, a blaster on SOs could do it but they would likely die a few times). Or a granite/dark/nrg tank but they would take FOREVER.
It's how fast you do it that counts, and IOs make you faster.
"I have ridden the mighty moon worm!"
-Al Gore
Fiery Aura is only good for farming, I'm cereal
@Caucasiafro
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How long does it take a well built (expensive, high recharge) SS/Fire Brute to hit 750 tickets, so that Mission Complete lets you hit the soft cap of 1500? If you're ONLY interested in tickets, that seems the best thing to do.
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Originally Posted by ultrawatt
...But ANYTHING can cap out tix at +2x8... It's how fast you do it that counts, and IOs make you faster.
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Goodbye and thanks for all the fish.
I've moved on to Diablo 3, TopDoc-1304
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(adds "Not sure if serious" image of The Joker) I said I just use SOs, so no there is no purples, or even IOs for that matter although I do technically use level 35 commons. Any technique I use has been posted in this thread, or the Lowbie Farm Maps thread. It's really not that hard. It's basically load up on inspirs, click powers, and click more inspirs.|
Originally Posted by Blazing_Fist
Wow. Any technique to that? Do I need purples and all that?
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Originally Posted by ultrawatt
Well, you CAN farm with SOs easily.
But ANYTHING can cap out tix at +2x8 (heck, a blaster on SOs could do it but they would likely die a few times). Or a granite/dark/nrg tank but they would take FOREVER. It's how fast you do it that counts, and IOs make you faster. |
I meant purple inspirations. My bad, I should've been more clear. But awesome, I'll have to try it out when I get high enough.
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But how long does it take?
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Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
+1. I tested it and I can cap at +1x8 w/bosses. The only benefit for using IOs is speed in doing it, or bumping the diff to PL people. The number of builds that can do this is far greater than what the player base seems to focus on. Case in point, Ice/rad is one of the lowest damaging controllers one will find and there is a thread about how well it was doing a fire farm map. Once I get my Plant/storm IOed and Incarnated, that will be no slouch in it's ability to generate tickets.
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"I have ridden the mighty moon worm!"
-Al Gore
Fiery Aura is only good for farming, I'm cereal
@Caucasiafro
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I'm sorry, but no. You make a pretty stupid assumption. I have both fully IOed out and the SS/Fire is much faster than Elec/Fire. Get your facts straight.
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Originally Posted by BellyButtonJelly
Yes and you just made my point SS/fire is not a great awesome farmer because you have to support it with the same stuff any other toon could grab. So ya the whole reason you grab SS is for FS+Rage.. which turns out to be a lousy combo in a farm. Many people who praise the SS/Fire also don't bother using Rage in the farm to avoid the crash.
What makes a good farmer? Lots of AOE that does good dmg and there are other sets that give you more AOE options than what SS can offer you. Build up an elec/fire then come talk to me about who knows what. |
I'd like to take a look at Dacu's build in Mids but i'm having one almighty thick day. I've only just got mids and i'm at a loss as to where i'm supposed to paste that big block of text. I looked in the help option on Mids itself and it talks about a clipboard. What clipboard? 
The builds with the data link I can deal with fine, I just click it and poof! there we go. But as I said, i'm a big bag of thick today and that block of text is making my brain go wonky.
If someone could help me out i'd be very happy
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I'd like to take a look at Dacu's build in Mids but i'm having one almighty thick day. I've only just got mids and i'm at a loss as to where i'm supposed to paste that big block of text. I looked in the help option on Mids itself and it talks about a clipboard. What clipboard?
The builds with the data link I can deal with fine, I just click it and poof! there we go. But as I said, i'm a big bag of thick today and that block of text is making my brain go wonky. If someone could help me out i'd be very happy |
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Told you I was having a thick day. After I wrote my post I rang my friend and being used to me he was able to explain it to me in words I understood. I now know what the clipboard is woohoo!
Thanks, I can now look at all the lovely builds Dacu's included that people have been posting on this thread.
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Still waiting for an answer. Does anyone have one? I'll settle for times from a budget SS/Fire Brute.
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Originally Posted by TopDoc
How long does it take a well built (expensive, high recharge) SS/Fire Brute to hit 750 tickets, so that Mission Complete lets you hit the soft cap of 1500?
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Goodbye and thanks for all the fish.
I've moved on to Diablo 3, TopDoc-1304
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I'll have to try some more runs, but with my all purpose SS/Fire/Soul I capped in about a minute. That's only with t1 ion judgement, I don't have any other incarnate powers besides for t3 cardiac.
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Originally Posted by TopDoc
Still waiting for an answer. Does anyone have one? I'll settle for times from a budget SS/Fire Brute.
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Takes me about a minute or minute thiry seconds on +4x8 with only one purple set.
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Originally Posted by TopDoc
Still waiting for an answer. Does anyone have one? I'll settle for times from a budget SS/Fire Brute.
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After doing a few more runs, I'm capping more around at 50 seconds at +1x8 no bosses.
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I have a budget build, but it caps in about two minutes or so. So I reckon that must be the difference between budget and purpled (IIRC your SS/Fire/Soul was pretty pimped out Fiery)
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Wow, ive noticed that tix drop rates have gone up resently. But ive never been able to pass about 1300 tix/min. |
Originally Posted by Fiery-Enforcer
After doing a few more runs, I'm capping more around at 50 seconds at +1x8 no bosses.
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Is the time not counting heading to the objective?
"I have ridden the mighty moon worm!"
-Al Gore
Fiery Aura is only good for farming, I'm cereal
@Caucasiafro
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No, I didn't count that, so you can add how many ever seconds you want. I started counting right before I attacked. Used herostats to track tix/min, but I don't remember exactly what it was, just that it was over 800/min before I clicked the glowie.|
Originally Posted by ultrawatt
Is the time not counting heading to the objective?
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I like to start counting then because it's the most accurate when just comparing kill speed.
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Ah, i see.
"I have ridden the mighty moon worm!"
-Al Gore
Fiery Aura is only good for farming, I'm cereal
@Caucasiafro
So there's been much debate in here on SS/Fire vs Elec/Fire, at least in the first 10 pages of the thread or so, and I'll admit I didn't read all the pages after that :-)
What I'm wondering is, what about a Fire/Fire Brute? Even if it doesn't "perform" as effectively or as fast as a SS/Fire Brute it's gotta be close, right?
I realize that SS/Fire works really well for farming but I honestly am bored playing SS. I've been having fun with a Fire/Fire Brute and am just wondering how the numbers compare to SS/Fire. The Fire/Fire Brute would be only for farming and, for comparison, both Brutes would be compared having /mu
Any suggestions are appreciated :-)
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Fire is decent, but FSC lacks the extra radius of FS and the recharge is longer as well (IIRC). That said, Fire/Fire/Soul is a perfectly capable farming characters.
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Originally Posted by Arion_Elan
So there's been much debate in here on SS/Fire vs Elec/Fire, at least in the first 10 pages of the thread or so, and I'll admit I didn't read all the pages after that :-)
What I'm wondering is, what about a Fire/Fire Brute? Even if it doesn't "perform" as effectively or as fast as a SS/Fire Brute it's gotta be close, right? I realize that SS/Fire works really well for farming but I honestly am bored playing SS. I've been having fun with a Fire/Fire Brute and am just wondering how the numbers compare to SS/Fire. The Fire/Fire Brute would be only for farming and, for comparison, both Brutes would be compared having /mu Any suggestions are appreciated :-) |
1) Spirit alpha, reactive interface, ageless destiny, and ion judgement.
2) Arctic was only good for about...1 week. During the time when reactive would go off like crazy, but now its back to mu.
*lols at people running the cyborg map, its just so ****** hehe* bosses dont even give full xp last time i took a look...
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