Cebr

They finally OK'd my arc today. It's only a single mission, and the mobs no longer rez. Plus the mobs are worth a bit less XP because of the lack of rez. Time to replace them with regular Dev created mobs that are easier and worth full XP.

I had not thought of a RotP rez being used. Hilarious.

Presence in the community has some weight.

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Any one seen any noticeable difference in CEBR tickets/hour or xp/hour ?

Any noticeable difference in Fire Farm tickets/hour or xp/hour ?

For me, the CEBR tickets feel about the same, but CEBR xp feels slower. I will say it's easier to judge when to click the glowie now 8-p. But that's just subjective feel. I never measured them with a timer or herostats neither before nor after the change. I really don't bother with fire farms, so I can't personally compare, I'm just curious how it all compares now.

The feel depends on whether you're leveling up or farming tickets. Farming tickets is basically unchanged, except that you'll finish off most of the mobs around the time you hit 750 tickets. It's safer because the agro and incoming damage dies out sooner, so your initial Inspirations last for a longer percentage of the more dangerous part of the farm.

Leveling up turns into a ticket farm. Rather than killing the mobs twice for around 1500 tickets and then clicking the glowie for 0, you defeat them once for around 750 then click for 750 and exit. You still ticket cap every farm but you spend less time in the mission, so ticket production goes up to ticket farming rates. But the XP is significantly lower. You earn half the XP in (wild guess) 75% of the time or so, so it ends up being about 70% of the pervious rate. Again a little safer because of the starting Inspirations.

I've started putting Recharge Reduction in Energize while leveling up my last Brute (Pinnacle) because the mission cycle was under 2 minutes once, the base recharge time of Energize. That surprised me. I spend enough time outside the mission getting the next one and loading up on Inspirations that the Enhancements make a difference.

So, first thing - this guide is awesome. I've tried this myself (not CEBR, but a very similar strategy) and had fun and success.

What I'm wondering now is what's the 'next best thing' for characters who have little to no AoE available (e.g. my Kinetic Melee/Energy Aura scrapper at level 15-ish)? Primarily I'm looking for fast XP, as I can inf farm on any number of other characters.

I strongly suspect the answer is lone bosses, combined with many of the same strategies we have here. Yeah, it's not nearly as fast, but at low levels bosses die pretty fast and each gives several % of a level in one kill.

Any thoughts?

Two theoretical questions, TopDoc:

1) For a person who does not care about EXP as much, how do the Inf and AE Ticket rates compare to the kinds of custom mobs you can pull now versus some Dev-produced sets?

2) If they're even close, any chance we could get one that pits us against a horde of claw-toting catgirls?

And as a general discussion/silly thing: How wrong is it that "AE Fire Farm" archetype character - now with a CEBR 'same hero, alternate powerset' variant - turned into me actually building a plotted-out, properly-concepted RP character for whom Architect Farming - that is, playing AE Farms - is actually a character precept?

... And this character's partially a parody of the Angry Video Game Nerd?

I really wish the devs would raise the reward cap for custom mobs above 100 percent.

My challenge map would give pretty great rewards if they did.

Oh, well.

Would it work if you gave the mobs Howling Twilight?

Consider what the current algorithm would, in the absence of a cap, make of a minion who had two full attack sets with every power selected.

Who cares? They get one shot, then they're dead.

I leveled a CEBR to 24 in 1:30 I think. But the farming is far riskier than I can do on my cheaply built SS/Fire/Mu (since I use AoEs only and put sets like mocking beratement and Aegis he has 20%ish fire def, so it's easy to softcap - plus he has spiritual, reactive, pyronic, ageless, all t3 so it's kinda safe even without purples at +4/x8).

I'm thinking about keeping the catgirl because I love elec armor and she's a fun toon, but my initial intention was to lock her at 33 for recipes.

What do you guys suggest for a 33 farmer? A claws/Fire or Elec/Fire looks good to me because of Burn, Spin, Healing Flames... I'm having trouble coming up with a build that doesn't eat up too many slots (tried an Elec/Fire, slotting Jacobs, Chain Induction, Thunderstrike and LRod properly till 33 is kinda impossible)