Good farming from where I'm at now

I would like to have a toon with some capability to quickly farm AE tickets, and help level other characters. But I don't have the "best" character for farming - the SS/Fire brute. I'm not really interested in rolling a brute and starting at level 1. So out of these toons, which could I get to farming shape most quickly:

44 dark/dark defender - push her up to fifty and soul drain + blackstar + blue + dark consumption? Right now she just doesn't seem to have the damage output. Recharge on those APP powers is kind of long too.

33 SD/WM Tank - he's at about 38% in his positional defenses. He did OK in an S/L farm, but diff was only +0/x4. Push him to 35 or 38 and he'd really shine? Or just get his positional's soft capped? Really don't want to start buying set IOs in his 30s though.

28 Ill/rad controller - she rocks when PA is up- about every other minute with IOs. Get her to 41 for the Fire ball from the fire APP, then start work on the perma-pa build?

Or is it really just better to roll up the brute or a fire/fire tank?

I could play what I like, but depending on my mood I like all three of these toons. I'm not set on a totally maxed out farmer, just good enough.

I would personally just reroll a brute of some sort,

read this post, and you should have it in the 20s in short order ;

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=263212


Also, don't worry too much about hitting the soft-cap, anywhere in the 30s should be efficient, since during farming you'll be getting a plethora of inspirations, and you can chew purples to keep it up around 45%

None of those characters would be very good at farming. You'd be best to roll a SS/Fire or Claws/Fire and run one of those lowbie farm maps. Now allow me the opportunity to pimp my own: Arc ID: 503858

Set Diff at +1/8 W/bosses.

Set the mission and initiate it with the contact then head to the inspiration dealer.

Pop 5 purple and 5 orange inspirations.

Pop however many reds you need to get to the 675% damage cap.

Purchase and store 5 purples and how ever many more reds you can fit in your tray.

Enter the mission and destroy the two objects in the first hallway.

Defeat enemies! When your inspirations start to fade make sure you pop the ones you have in reserve or you will almost certainly die the instant they wear off.

Sustain off of the inspirations that will drop for you.

If you went with SS/Fire, you're basically going to have to rely almost entirely on Blazing Aura to do all of the killing for you. Don't worry! That's not as bad as it sounds. Because the enemies max out at level 3, it only takes a couple of pulses to defeat them. Once you get to level 32 you can take Footstomp and go to a traditional farm. Like FRONTLOAD or Crey's Fire Cyborgs.

If you went with Claws/Fire you can have spin and blazing aura available on that map, which will give you the ability to 1 shot everything, even bosses, with a single Spin assuming you're running on tons of +damage. You can even take the map all the way to level 50 if you're crazy like I am:

^Just outta curiosity, if a person were to start from level 1 (and thus only have a few insp slots) how do they handle this?

Pop em at the vendor, and run like hell?

When I made my Brute I bought some vender trash from the market for 100 inf then sold it to a vendor. Made a couple thousand inf, bought some level 35 range recipes from the market for 1000 inf and sold those for like 8k at a vendor. That got me started.

Just go to the inspiration vendor and eat like 20 reds and a bunch of purple and oranges and run into the map. During the mission don't be picky. You only have 3 slots so just mash everything you get. They drop so fast you're bound to get stuff you need.

Another great thing about these lowbie farms. When you exemp you don't lose your inspiration tray slots.

I think it was level 25 were I got a comfortable amount of slots for inspirs.

Has it dawned on anyone else that when COH: Freedom launches, we can create secondary free accounts, PL up brutes on our current mains, and then in turn use those brutes to run all of the sets we really want to play on our main accounts up to 50 as long as it's not in AE? (since free accounts can't use it)

Thanks every one for there replies.

I guess I'll try leveling up a brute since its so quick.

Well if you want to nitpick, he's to the left of the hospital elevator...

I always considered that a door to the room behind it, not an elevator, but I can see how it could be either.

Remember to munch any insps that drop as you're fighting. If you do that, you'll have very few RNG deaths. And remember that clicking the painting gives a ticket bonus equal to what you've already earned, subject to the map cap. If you're after tickets, even if it's not your priority, you're possibly losing potential earnings.

Man... I don't usually do farming, but you guys are actually making it sound like fun.

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