Don't have time to give you a build right now, but yes it can work. It'll be slower than the usuals since you're not getting extra damage from your secondary, but if you go for typed defense slotting you can soft-cap yourself to everything. Take Mu Mastery for EF and BL and you're good.
The truth is anything that can defeat enemies quickly can farm AE.
1.) Set your mission, but don't enter
2.) Go to the inspiration vendor and cap your defense and damage then fill up on reds
3.) Run into the mission and trigger your ambushes
4.) Destroy things until your current inspirations start blinking, then pop all of your extras
5.) Sustain on the rain of inspirations you'll be getting from defeats
You'll almost always be way over the defense cap, and running tons of oranges, yellows and reds on top of it.
Any brute that performs well in PVE should be able to farm. /WP performs best on S/L farms. WP is not going to put up the same kind of numbers that /fire does in terms of farming speed, but it can get the job done.
For which powers to take; I'd take Tough and Weave for sure along with all your secondary execpt maybe strength of will and resurgence. SOW is nice but not really necessary and the self rez is a play preference. On your primary make sure you take fire sword circle then the rest is really to taste. For IO's build for s/l defense and hitpoints.
Anything can farm, just that a lot of it sucks.
"I have ridden the mighty moon worm!"
-Al Gore
Fiery Aura is only good for farming, I'm cereal
@Caucasiafro
Could Fire/WP ever work for farming fire or smashing farms?
Let me know what you think, which powers to skip, which to get, and how to slot it. Thanks!