Purple Recipe Farming


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i am about to start trying to farm purples with my brute. He is a Dark/Fire/Mu. He is pretty I/O'd out, and a solid build if not perfect. He is of course slightly squishy, but I farmed him from 25-50 solo in +3/x8, then +4/x8 fire farms. he also runs fine in the trials. Of course, insp mgt, click powers, and smart play keep him alive. and pheonix isa nice oops button.

I was wondering if anyone knew a good place to farm purps for brutes. also, are any places better for this kind of brute. Finally, would any particular incarnate powers help loads/

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Well, blue side there is the demon farm (if you wanan go blue side thats pretty much the best) and red side people seem to do nemi (liberate TV i think it is). Judgement (pyronic or ion, imo), reactive, and the alpha for the lvl shifti (f you dont need cardiac spirit will help the most) are of course the most useful iPowers.

I personally prefer to farm tickets, but thats just me.

EDIT: i *think* the demon farm is from Maria Jenkins, or maybe it's Harvey. Either way i think it might have been removed but then added again, i can't remember.


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Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion View Post
i am about to start trying to farm purples with my brute. He is a Dark/Fire/Mu. He is pretty I/O'd out, and a solid build if not perfect. He is of course slightly squishy, but I farmed him from 25-50 solo in +3/x8, then +4/x8 fire farms. he also runs fine in the trials. Of course, insp mgt, click powers, and smart play keep him alive. and pheonix isa nice oops button.

I was wondering if anyone knew a good place to farm purps for brutes. also, are any places better for this kind of brute. Finally, would any particular incarnate powers help loads/

thx
Do you have a taunt aura? It will help a lot in purple farming.

You want to find a mission full of things you can handle easily: with that build, that's about anything. For dedicated purple farming, -1x8 is the way to go and blaze through everything as fast as possible. Supposedly bosses have higher purp drop rates, but I've never noticed it.

A much better general farm is 0x8 with bosses. It's a bit slower, but you get a LOT more sellables. On a dark armor with fire damage I'd look really hard at farming Malta, assuming you're that tough.

For a bit more variety, try running the "World Wide Red" oro arc. Find a mission that you like, then run it live and save it as a farm.

Incarnate power you want is the T4 reactive and whatever Alpha you like best in your build.


 

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Pretty sure he said he's DM/FA. So Malta is probably a bad idea.


 

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Yeah, Brute. Dark Melee, Fire Armor, Mu AoE mastery. and yes, reactive.


 

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Originally Posted by mauk2 View Post
You want to find a mission full of things you can handle easily: with that build, that's about anything. For dedicated purple farming, -1x8 is the way to go and blaze through everything as fast as possible. Supposedly bosses have higher purp drop rates, but I've never noticed it.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but don't mobs have to be at least level 50 to drop purples?


 

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Originally Posted by Pampl View Post
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but don't mobs have to be at least level 50 to drop purples?
Nope, 47. 50 to drop shards though.


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If they arent 50 though other IOs they drop with be 49, which means they are worth a lot less.


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I'll be running at level 50 mobs. With level shift from Alpha and the other incarnate abilities I should be able to handle 0/+8 with the right enemies. Fire damage mobs would be great. That way I get shards (worth so much lol) and the recipes i get I can pawn off for a little something something.


 

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Originally Posted by ultrawatt View Post
Well, blue side there is the demon farm (if you wanan go blue side thats pretty much the best) and red side people seem to do nemi (liberate TV i think it is). Judgement (pyronic or ion, imo), reactive, and the alpha for the lvl shifti (f you dont need cardiac spirit will help the most) are of course the most useful iPowers.

I personally prefer to farm tickets, but thats just me.

EDIT: i *think* the demon farm is from Maria Jenkins, or maybe it's Harvey. Either way i think it might have been removed but then added again, i can't remember.
Harvey


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Originally Posted by teflonshugenja View Post
Pretty sure he said he's DM/FA. So Malta is probably a bad idea.
Argh! Stoopid backwards broots.....


OK, nm. What you want then are Council Empire, Unai Kemens arc. That's assuming you have KB resist. If not, then grind through Harvey Maylor's arc for the demon farm, although demons are annoying on a melee toon, as they stay at range, like, a lot.

My bad, sorry about that.

EDIT: LOL, see folks beat me to it, duh.

Also, purple farming with a single target melee set? Roll a fire/fire tank, it'll work better.

Although.... I wonder if you could farm rularuu effectively these days. Those things have always had awesome drop tables, or so it seems to me.


 

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Argh! Stoopid backwards broots.....


OK, nm. What you want then are Council Empire, Unai Kemens arc. That's assuming you have KB resist. If not, then grind through Harvey Maylor's arc for the demon farm, although demons are annoying on a melee toon, as they stay at range, like, a lot.

My bad, sorry about that.

EDIT: LOL, see folks beat me to it, duh.

Also, purple farming with a single target melee set? Roll a fire/fire tank, it'll work better.

Although.... I wonder if you could farm rularuu effectively these days. Those things have always had awesome drop tables, or so it seems to me.
Danged Mauk, you are distracted today. Dark Melee, with very little attack from DM, using 3 Area ttacks from Mu. i have a ful AoE chain going, plus a decent damage aura. (and 12 pts KB prot) Sooooo. I will look at this Unai Kemens council arc prob then?


 

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Unai Kemen and Harvey Maylor both have a decent map which can be run no problem with */FA

Get both ? You can have 7 active missions Then figure out which one you run quicker and run with it.


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Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion View Post
Danged Mauk, you are distracted today. Dark Melee, with very little attack from DM, using 3 Area ttacks from Mu. i have a ful AoE chain going, plus a decent damage aura. (and 12 pts KB prot) Sooooo. I will look at this Unai Kemens council arc prob then?
Yeah, sheesh, mu, duh.

Sorry, i have a cold and went to work. dats okay, i solved that issue by taking the rest of the month off.

stupid cold

PS> yeah, unai council empire is a very nice map, run a pattern around the outer edge then inner spawns, i could do that sucker in my sleep honestly though, i ran WWR arc in oro at 0x8 and got 4 purps...


 

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Originally Posted by Pampl View Post
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but don't mobs have to be at least level 50 to drop purples?
Nope, I've gotten purples at all levels.


 

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20.5 makes purples buyable at the new ouro market.


 

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Nope, I've gotten purples at all levels.
That is a bit of a misleading answer.

Purple Sets can drop off any baddie that is able to drop a level 50 IO. SO 47 minions, 46 Lt's and 45 bosses.

So yes any character that is involved with a team killing bad guys that fit the requirements is able to get a puruple drop but that do not drop at every level.


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Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion View Post
i am about to start trying to farm purples with my brute. He is a Dark/Fire/Mu. He is pretty I/O'd out, and a solid build if not perfect. He is of course slightly squishy, but I farmed him from 25-50 solo in +3/x8, then +4/x8 fire farms. he also runs fine in the trials. Of course, insp mgt, click powers, and smart play keep him alive. and pheonix isa nice oops button.

I was wondering if anyone knew a good place to farm purps for brutes. also, are any places better for this kind of brute. Finally, would any particular incarnate powers help loads/

thx
I personally like rotate between farming purples on Harvey Maylors demon mission and running ambush farms in AE.

Farming purples can be fun. The little rush when the Purple text goes across the screen is nice. It is also tempered by the times you go to check what that recipe was and it is a sleep or confuse set.

As Ultrawatt said you can make very very nice returns in farming tickets in AE. No real need to run them at +4 as once your able to cap tickets in a single run there is no reason to up the difficulty.

The most important factor is finding something that you enjoy farming or you will never be able to stick to it.


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Originally Posted by joebartender View Post
I personally like rotate between farming purples on Harvey Maylors demon mission and running ambush farms in AE.

Farming purples can be fun. The little rush when the Purple text goes across the screen is nice. It is also tempered by the times you go to check what that recipe was and it is a sleep or confuse set.

As Ultrawatt said you can make very very nice returns in farming tickets in AE. No real need to run them at +4 as once your able to cap tickets in a single run there is no reason to up the difficulty.

The most important factor is finding something that you enjoy farming or you will never be able to stick to it.
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I tend to make my own maps full of babes in bikini's.

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Originally Posted by War-Nugget View Post
Unai Kemen and Harvey Maylor both have a decent map which can be run no problem with */FA

Get both ? You can have 7 active missions Then figure out which one you run quicker and run with it.
Did they nerf Harvey Maylors missions? They're all carnival of shadows when i tried on a fresh character.


 

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Did they nerf Harvey Maylors missions? They're all carnival of shadows when i tried on a fresh character.
Carnie's is good eatin' on an elec/db tank.

Remember, you can farm ANYTHING.

Except maybe rularuu. Those things are beefy.

And probably vanguard, but they're too hard to find....


 

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The most important factor is finding something that you enjoy farming or you will never be able to stick to it.
Purples I understand farming, but AE tickets? What can to you do with them? Serious question. I haven't run and AE arc since it first came out.


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Originally Posted by Kinrad View Post
Purples I understand farming, but AE tickets? What can to you do with them? Serious question. I haven't run and AE arc since it first came out.
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Really.

Ok, run an arc. Go to the vendor. Choose random rolls. Roll crappy-*** bronze, level 15-19.

Once you're completely full of 20+ recipes, go check what they're worth on the market, AFTER you craft them.

Anything worthless, sell at vendor.

Repeat, oh, five times.

PROFIT!


Also, some of the best, most interesting, funny, moving, dangerous stuff in the GAME is in AE. Play something besides farms.