Random thought about farming build

So just a random thought and want as much replys and feed back as I can get because I NEED a farming toon..... I think

But my idea would be a Spines//inv scrapper
Because One Slines gets quills which paired with the incarnate power that does fire dmg over time would be great dmg
Two because Spines has two strong cone attacks right??
Three Invs gives great power that gives you a good defense boost
Four could maybe tale fire ball and melt armor for another aoe and melt armor as a starting attack???


Soooo that being said would LOVE as much feed back and replys as I can get
But NOOOO I don't want a ss//fire thing ii don't like fire aura because idk how to play it

Farming runs on the motto "the best defense is a good offense", which is why ss/fire is a popular combo to run farms with. You can use almost anything to farm. May not be as fast as top-end ss/fire brutes, but it can still be efficient (especially if you're utilizing AE to make mobs your character is strong against).

Eh. If you're going to leave a prerequisite one-slotted, Melt Armor seems more useful to me than Ring of Fire or Fire Blast. At least Melt Armor can occasionally make your fully-slotted main attacks more effective; the other two powers (if only one-slotted) would just replace fully-slotted powers in the attack chain and lower your DPS dramatically.

You don't need a farming toon. You can farm alignment merits with any character capable of stealthing to the ends of missions. I have done it on my Defenders.

Any character that has at least two good aoe attacks can farm. Really, just one aoe would even be fine as long as it's good enough, such as spin or foot stomp. You can even farm on characters with no radial pbaoes at all, if their cone is good enough! One time I tried farming on a DM/SR, it was passable.

Melt armor is junk because at best you're hitting ten targets with about 10% -res. There's no guarantee that any of those ten targets will even be affected by your attacks within forty seconds unless you're doing an old school demon farm or something. Just hitting them with another aoe instead will have a more pronounced impact than the debuff possibly could unless you're farming +4 bosses only somehow, and for some reason.

As everyone else has either said or implied, you really don't need "a farmer." Just make a good character, perhaps a scrapper but basically anything other than an empathy defender could work almost as well, and if that rustic mood takes you, clear out your inspiration tray, fill it with reds and a few purples, and go nuts. Nothing could be easier.

Farming is but one of many ways to pay the bills, though that's an odd way to phrase it in the first place since last I checked, superheroes don't have bills. That is to say, there's nothing in the game that requires you to spend any amount of influence, much less the kind you earn from hours of brainless farming. If you're addicted to purpling out all of your characters and also hate waiting, farming is a decent way to go, but aren't you kind of missing the point of the game? You make so much money just playing the game normally and being somewhat shrewd with your marketing that anyone should already be able to afford purples now and then.

I've only recently resorted to farming. It's not even remotely fun, but 30 minutes of farming can easily net more levels and influence then days worth of regular game play. For me, 30 minutes a week of farming translated to better QUOL for the rest of my gaming time.

I have a lot of 50s, 90% of which leveled up traditionally. Trying to update builds for "older" 50s and level new alts ideas is simply arduous, to me. Since I've started farming, I can do both at the same time, freeing me up to actually play the game the way I like to.

Not sure I agree with that, Desmodos. Even back in the day running TFs was lucrative but now with the WTF they could hardly make generating pool Ds any easier. They practically hang a big bullseye over one TF a week, so far selected for variety and avoiding the terrible ones, and yell "Hey, fastest players on the server! Here's something you're probably going to want to do at least half a dozen times this week because the reward for time invested is insane!" In my experience this usually results in pick up teams with at least a few lowbies on em and they typically level at least once from the colossal bonus at the end, while also earning a minimum of iirc 40 merits so far.

Farming, for me, is the thing to do when nobody else is on and tips don't sound exciting and there's no clerical work to take care of in the form of working on an accolade power. In spite of that, every character I complete lately seems to be about two billion more expensive than the last because what else is there to do with all the money you get?