What's the best Blaster farmer?

I saw a DP/MM blaster farm like craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy the other day. Is that the best combo for a blaster farmer?

pretty sure fire is the king, but not sure. I always assumed DP did poor damage like AR, but DP has alot of cones iirc and alot of room for damage procs

MM is good for farming and fire manip

Its DP/MM is the best not fire have never seen a fire Blaster farm before

Fire would be fine, but rain of fire is no hail of bullets and bullet rain and fireball are pretty much equivalent for farming purposes. You're also probably not going to be using your cone unless you know something most farmers don't.

DP/MM and Arch/MM are definitely my picks. I have a sneaking suspicion archery comes ahead in ideal circumstances - rain of arrows can hit more targets than hail of bullets and is up more often. Bullet rain is much better than explosive arrow but explosive arrow is still fine.

You could even make a case for rad/MM. Irradiate is very good and neutron bomb is, again, fine. I personally would use one of the weapon sets instead but I'd imagine radiation would be the next best thing.

Haha, "Blasters can't farm! Why, they'd need specific pool powers and expensive enhancements!" You're so right, plainguy, that's completely unthinkable.

I farm with my dp/mm blaster @54x8 with bosses without veng. I run "Thug Farm" in AE in less than 4 mins. With PERMA DRAIN PSYCHE u can farm easily.

My vote would be for Archery / Energy /w lots of ranged defense and boost range its really hard to die.

Fire/MM is the way to go. Fire isn't as resisted as Lethal is

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Originally Posted by Atomic_Toy_Guy I would be curious in seeing your build if you get a chance.

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Originally Posted by Big_Soto me too

When I get home I create the build that DPC is talking about. It involved picking up Scorpion shield and just picking up some S/L defense sets. Your gonna be picking up your standard tough and weave possibly maneuvers along with maybe slotting some kinetic combat IOs. The perma part will probably require some purple IO sets or an incarnate.

I know it sounds vague, but its really not hard to create. But in my honest opinion you would be better off getting another set that is positionally capped for Range or Melee possibly this way you would not be limited to a specific S/L Farm. You could then farm just about any mission with standard mobs ( Freakshow, CoTs, Etc ). Mobs like Longbow and Malta and even carnies sometimes can be a real issue running 4/8. There are just TOO MANY holds and debuffs messing you up.

top farming blaster archer/fire seriously.

Of course a blaster can farm. But you might find that once you build your farming toon, you'll see that you still pale in comparison to some of the boring, overdone farmers. Mainly because those everyboy's-got-one types are the most efficient.

You're going to take aggro. So you'll need defense. Ranged. You'll limit yourself to open areas so you don't get your camera screwed with by the ceiling. And you will need to have a dead body handy, because you will want Vengeance.

I've seen a DP/MM farm. Even with Vengeance she was struggling.

I personally'd think that rad/mm would work better for the -res. If I had to pick a ranged farmer, I'd probably start working the Mids on a crab.

I have two Blasters that I can farm with. Not ambush farms mind you, but any map with a little room between spawns. Alpha slot only so far. Both are S/L capped.

Rad/MM, no purples, Spiritual 45%, all 4 att boosting accolades. Perma Haste and Perma Drain, no nuke, all PBAOE and the 2 Cones. A stealth proc in sprint so I can always get the drain off in each new spawn. Both cones hit really hard and are great on confined maps, or as finishers if you can line up multiple goons. Also I open with the cones on the wall in Cim. All lined up for you . Farmed the wall even before perma Haste.

Arch/Energy for the Boost range. Needs an outdoor or any roomy map for proper range. Perma Haste, all 4 accolades, 45% Spiritual. 1 purple in Rain of Arrows. RoA -> queue Fistful (with boosted range it covers a huge area too, and will strike at almost the same time as the RoA hits. Follow with Explosive and then 2nd Fistful or Blazing as needed. Very easy famer on proper map.

The Rad/MM paid for all my builds till my Stone Fire got nasty. The Arch/E I made for fun. Now I just made a couple of Fire farmers, a tank and a brute. They are just so much more efficient.

The Rad/MM can farm in tight maps with the Perma Drain, but it can get dicey, esp. if mezzed. Carry plenty of break free.

Jak

PS: assume all know to Aim + BuildUp at each spawn too. Love that perma haste.

When I first started playing 21 months ago BotZ was still at full power for Ranged Defense and Ranged Def builds were all the rage.

I wound up going with the S/L Def because I could not afford the insane prices that BotZ was commanding back then. I have been glad ever since that I did. I have found S/L cap to be very robust, as so many attacks carry a Smashing or Lethal component, and thus are treated as an S/L attack and defended by the soft capped defense. So you get very good all around protection. And you get protection when not at range which happens a lot in general play with all the indoor, cave, and what have you complex maps. Zevatron was my goto guy for all missions, not just farming.

Since the BotZ nerf the Ranged vs Smash/Lethal debate has been rehashed many, many times. My vote for the Smash/Lethal approach is from a positive experience so far, and the fact that every time I try to do a Ranged build now days, it just seems to compare unfavorably with the same Alt doing Smash/Lethal. YMMV.

I do have one Defender going ranged because Hurricane, Lightning Storm and, if needed, Tornado will keep things at range pretty much guaranteed.

Jak