Farming Question

I have a demon farm from "Harvey Maylor" and I was wondering what would be the best way to run this mission to have the highest chance at getting purple IO sets. I've heard that it's either best to run it on +2/x6 or +1/x8. Is this true? Also, do all of the purples drop from demons in this mission or just certain ones (I am trying to make money to complete my build).

Thanks in advance!

The best for purples? -1/x8. Anything that can drop a level 50 enhancement can drop a purple, so really, lvl 47 enemies would be best for that. If you're after money, I'd recommend +0/x8 or higher long as you can absolutely steamroll them.

No enemy has higher odds of dropping a purple than any other, so just slaughter all that come before you. Also, you might look into running tip missions (if you have GR) for the A-Merits... 2 A-Merits will net you a LotG+Recharge which'll sell for ~150 million inf. There's lots of other ways to make inf as well, such as playing the market.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Honestly I haven't found purples all that difficult to drop. During a typical afternoon of one run through my farm map and five tip missions at +0/x8 I get a purple as often as not.

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Originally Posted by reiella Until I see something that states to the contrary, going to assume VK is right .

I'm not agricultural, so I'm going to speak to the other ways of making money. Task Forces (or ouro missions) to reward merits to A-merits to cash is probably best suited for your playstyle. Check the prices on minimum-level LoTG: Recharge, minimum-level travel Stealths and Miracle:recoveries, and maximum-level Kinetic Combats. Make sure to check crafted prices; they're usually 10-50 million higher than recipe prices.

For straight marketeering, which may not be to your taste, I buy/craft/sell "semi-rare" stuff at max level. Something like, and this may not be a good specific example, Numina's: Heal/Recharge at level 50. Why that? It's not the unique, but if people have the unique and are looking to pick up set bonuses, they'll go with either the Heal or Heal/Recharge first, then start filling in with the others. Max level on any recipe gets you more buying and selling than the other 14 levels combined- and often better profit margins because people can Buy It Nao.

Oh, and list just above the next lowest "obvious" price. If the last 5 are selling for 30 million, you will probably get 30 million if you list at 26,000,000 .And you'll probably be below all the other people hoping to get 30 million. If you set the price really high, you better have either an IO which is in very low supply [level 28 LoTG] or a lot of patience or both.

Okay, I ran my 50(+1) Fire3 Brute through a Demon mission at -1 x6 and then at +3 x6 (wanted to keep the numbers the same) and got the approximate times and it really surprised me:

Running -1 x6 took a little under 12 minutes. Inf Rewards were 1676 for Minions, 4337 for LTs and 13306 for Bosses.

Running +3 x6 took a bit over 21 minutes. Inf Rewards were 5592 for Minions, 14473 for LTs and 44406 for Bosses.

Mind you, different characters will have a much different time at doing different difficulty settings (and you're +1, so -1 difficulty is closer to -2 for standard 50s). My Fire/Kin Troller (not +1 yet) can handle +0/x8/no bosses quite well, and I can plow through the BM map very quickly (and it never gets tedious, like it was back in the day when I had to deal with bosses).

I should probably do a few BM runs, recording my inf at the start and end to get the total inf reward from the missions, and average it over the missions I did... then compare it to my drops, and how much they went for.

Based on just eyeballing it, I'd probably only get a couple million inf from enemies, while guestimating, I get ~15+ million from a poorer run in drops (I usually get at least one decent 10-ish million recipe, and a couple rares)... A 75% reduction in kill rate (mind you, I fight at +0, not -1, so that 75% is just wrong for a whole host of reasons) would correspond to a 75% reduction in in drops/minute, which'd gut at least my primary source of income from farming.


For maximum purples/minute: -1/x8
For maximum inf (any source/minute): it depends

I'd say run it on a few different settings and see what works best for you- and don't forget to factor fun into it! You'll be able to get far more inf if you don't burn yourself out!

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

As several others have mentioned -1/x8 will get you purples the quickest. +0/x8 is generally better though, since any other valuable recipes you get will be level 50 instead of level 49 and worth quite a bit more. Another important factor is whether or not you include bosses or not. And that kind of depends on the toon you're farming with. Bosses have a higher chance to drop things, but they're harder to kill. So if you can kill them quickly without slowing you down much, then add them, but if you can't, then leave them out. For example, my fire/kin farmer does not include bosses in the BM farm. She can kill an entire spawn of minions and LTs in the time it takes to kill the 2 bosses in the spawn, so the bosses aren't worth it and slow her down too much. My ss/shield brute on the other hand does include bosses, since they go down pretty quick with knockout blow.

I rarely have bosses in my farms and get just as many purples as i can handle. (3 in 1 run last week) The only time i have bosses in my runs is when im pling my other account.

I can also see a difference in my drops by changing the 0 to +1,2,3 etc. I can run at 0x8 and fill up enh, recipes (mostly commons), and salvage. Then bump the diff up to +2 and get less than 1/2 on each run. I've documented it several times to back up my experiences. So, i just leave mine at 0x8.