No more fire farms!! The new age is coming

I have a few farmers, and each of them is an experiment after the first real "farmer" I made (which was mostly by accident).


I was on Freedom floating around Atlas as my little WS right after the first round of invasions (my "main toons" are on Virtue, but I had made a character on Union so I could experience the lag, <ahem>, I mean the JOY of the invasions), and I was determined to make a toon and get it as close to 50 as I could before the BIG invasion on Freedom at the end of the invasion period.


I was told by a nice farmer, whose name escapes me now, "if you bring a lvl 1 I'll farm you for free, no level pact!" and as I was told by ANOTHER nice farmer, "tank or brute, SS/fire or elec/fire man, THOSE are the way to make inf, yo" (he actually typed that to me). Since I was in Atlas, I hurredly fashioned a Fire/Elec tank.


Electric Briquette was born.

I had no idea that farming existed really. I was a Victory and Virtue guy; I rarely had been on Freedom. But, the farming was fun! Regardless of whether or not you run people through, there is this personal challenge...

I liken it to golf. You can never get a perfect score in golf. NO ONE makes an 18 on a professional full-length course. BUT, you can try to make your score as low as possible.

In farming, the same applies. There is no perfect farm run. But, you can get as fast a time as possible. THEN there are the other things, like, what farm gets the maximum tickets in the shortest time, how quickly you can get someone from lvl 1 to lvl 12-15 in one run, or even how fast is a "S/L" farm versus a "fire" farm.

And, even on the alleged king of farming, the fire farm, how well did the designer create the farm to limit NON fire damage, maximize the inf/exp to kill ratio from minions to lieutenants to bosses, and utilize the map itself to maximize exp and inf acquisition in the nearest rooms to the zoning point.

I have favorites, as many farmers do, but not because they 'net me the biggest haul' but because I enjoy competing against myself for a faster time, or less damage taken, or more efficient use of Vengeance, or even keeping folks alive longer or better. Heck, my favorite fire farm is one that existed only on the EU servers until the merger, and IT is the fastest way to get the ticket cap. At 0/+6 no less!

I have since spent a GREAT DEAL of influence to make my farmer viable outside of AE. I mean, after all, I wanted those nifty incarnate powers and the low resist to everything BUT fire was destroying me in trials. The stacked debuffs from the Imperious Task Force ripped me to shreds at first (I LOVE that armor). And, I plan to spend a great deal more on him. I want him to be as effective outside a farm as inside.

Once again, I can never win, but I can pit myself against myself.

Since then I have made a spines/dark scrapper for S/L farming, a dark/fire brute for fire farming, and redesigned an elec/shield scrapper for S/L farming as well.

If was really doing this just to farm, I'd stick with one guy and be done with it. But, working through builds on the go is challenging and fun (especially since I don't grok Mids very well).

And, before any of you says it, I KNOW SS/Fire Brute is the current Cham-peen for speed, but I've seen more than a fair few drop during a run because they lost focus at the wrong time and Rage dropped the same time Vengeance did. My tank may not be as fast as a well built Brute, but I don't die in the sea of fire-using beasties just because I looked away for a moment.

But, yeah, had I to do it over again, I'd probably make my Fire/Elec Tank an Elec/Fire Brute. But Electric Briquette is good enough for me!

Well well well...... Not to piss everyone off and send everyone into a big ball of rage..... The only reason ii made this thread was to just see what type of answers I'd get and where it would lead to and see if people would change things up hahahaah

Yes I all ready know why //fire is the best farmin build because of it's great dmg output and tagged with Ss with permanent rage.... Holy even better... But yeahh no I made this thread for no real reason Just to see where it would lead when've But keep going on it's getting good haha

ok what's the deal here?

My main toon is the best farmer, solo's avs and giant monsters like minions, and can solo most of lambda (can't quite do both sides by myself)

I won't tell you what it is, how to make it, or how to play it.

Play the game yourself and find out.

I doubt anything on this forum should be taken seriosuly

Best thing to do on any forum anywhere when you make an honest, silly mistake is to just go "oh yeah, derp. i wasn't thinking straight" and then move on. Not get mad back at people poking a little fun for your mistake; it's not like they meant any serious harm or anything.

though being able to mix and match powers would be cool... and yet... broken (Champions Online anyone?)

hmmm you might not need it but you will definaty find it faster much faster i have done farms like that. you don't need it but it really helps against when all of your aoe's are down on bosses you don't need it but lol i helps lots