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Can Ice armor / SS farm?

Absorber_NA

By Absorber_NA,
Posted on: 2011-06-05 18:48 in Tankers

 

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I know I know brutes, brutes, brutes whatever, but can an Ice/SS tanker farm well enough to at least be respectable at it even if not optimal?

 

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Originally Posted by Prophetsrage View Post
I know I know brutes, brutes, brutes whatever, but can an Ice/SS tanker farm well enough to at least be respectable at it even if not optimal?
Technically, any type can farm, its just about how fast you can farm. I imagine Ice/SS wont be the best farmer out there, but it by no means will be the worst. The more AoE's you have the better, either fire ball/ball of lightning will help out a lot.

I farm on my Ice/Elec, its not as fast as my Dm/Fa scrapper, but its still doable.

 

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anyone have any numbers inf/min?

 

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My Ice/Ice tank can do AE ambush farms set to +4/8 in just under 6 minutes. Not the fastest when compared to ss/fire brutes, but still respectable in my opinion. That's with Incarnate powers. Without them I believe I was running closer to 7 minutes.

Just chug reds instead of using Rage. Making binds or macros to continually make reds speeds things up quite a bit and is recommended you look into it.

SG: Guadians of Paragon - VG: Paragon's Darkness
The Usual Suspects: Fimboolvetr (Icer Tank), Tsukiyomi (Mind/Psi/Ice Dom), Smiting Dragon (Dm/Sr Scrap), Widow Mortis (NW)
Up and Comers: Ameterasu (Km/Reg Scrap), Arrhymian (Elec/Nin Stalk), TDMKII (Bot/Traps MM)

 

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I have the bind just trying to figure out who I want to do most of my farming with have a few toons that I like playing just need to know what ones to invest in.

 

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My Ice/Ice tank can do AE ambush farms set to +4/8 in just under 6 minutes
thats no where near as bad as I thought I am getting around 5 with my scrapper, but I just re-did him so I am still trying to work out the build.

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Just chug reds instead of using Rage
why this?

 

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To keep your damage up and avoid downtimes of rage crashing. However, if you have accuracy issues with +4s then you probably want to use rage, anyway.

SG: Guadians of Paragon - VG: Paragon's Darkness
The Usual Suspects: Fimboolvetr (Icer Tank), Tsukiyomi (Mind/Psi/Ice Dom), Smiting Dragon (Dm/Sr Scrap), Widow Mortis (NW)
Up and Comers: Ameterasu (Km/Reg Scrap), Arrhymian (Elec/Nin Stalk), TDMKII (Bot/Traps MM)