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Cheapest Build for a Elec/Fire Farming Build

A Man In Black

By A Man In Black,
Posted on: 2011-06-27 04:19 in Brutes

 

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I'm just starting back in CoX and was hoping for some guidance as to a relatively cheap build for my elec/fire brute so I can farm for/fun and for my future characters, any help is greatly appreciated

 

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If you're AE fire farming - 4 small purples. 600 inf.

Pop two before leaping into the first ambush, and pop insps as they drop. Profit.

Not kidding. It's what I did with my own ss/fire until he was swimming in so much cash I decided to cap smash/lethal for the hell of it to be handy outside of a fire farm. And completely IO out a half dozen other characters. And buy miracle and numina procs for alts as soon as they can slot them (and I don't bother respeccing out of those procs if I decide to delete the alt.)

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Get your Fire resist up to 90%, slot your aoe's for dmg, and everything else use cheap sets to get +recharge bonuses. The goal is to get your recharge high enough to have a pure AOE attack chain. My SS/fire only uses Footstomp, electric fences, ball lightning, and burn in his chain. All the other holes in your build like Defense and Endurance are easily filled by inspirations that drop like rain.

 

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Originally Posted by Choom View Post
I'm just starting back in CoX and was hoping for some guidance as to a relatively cheap build for my elec/fire brute so I can farm for/fun and for my future characters, any help is greatly appreciated
You can farm with SOs. Just use purple insps to help your survivability.

 

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Originally Posted by Choom View Post
I'm just starting back in CoX and was hoping for some guidance as to a relatively cheap build for my elec/fire brute so I can farm for/fun and for my future characters, any help is greatly appreciated
I rolled my SS/Fire Brute maybe 4 days ago and she reached 50 yesterday with minimum funding (I think I sent her 1 mill because I was worried about SO and insp fees on the way to 50, but it was way overkill).

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If you're AE fire farming - 4 small purples. 600 inf.
This worked at all levels. Before Burn, I'd just pop 4 purples and wait for more to trickle in. At 50, I can't pop insps faster than I can generate them with FS/Burn/PPP attacks. I would imagine that Elec, between Lightning Rod and Thunder Strike, yields similar results.

My current build has cost me around <100 mill: a -kb IO, a Force Feedback -Recharge proc, and lvl 50 standard IOs for everything else while I farm up to decide what I want to do.