Best No IO/Incarnate Farm Toon?

When freedom hits I might pick up a second, premium account, with the intent of PL'ing my main account's guys or making inf while I pay other people to PL them. What do people think are the best SO-only solo farmers? Are there any?

Same as the IO'd ones. It's not like the invention system gave birth to farmers.

Fire/Kin controller or a Claws/Fire brute. The secret is inspirations.

Fire/Kin Controller. They're very easy to play, and you could probably farm decently well without enhancements. Although, remember that Freem accounts have a lower inf cap, depending on what Tier they're at, so that might curtail your farming efforts!

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

On SOs, assuming AE ambush farms (as it's the most efficient way to PL right now), I would think Claws/Fire would work better than SS/Fire. At low recharge levels you are not animation limited.

On only SOs claws, i would expect, would pull ahead. But if the SS/ get at least the FF+rech proc then SS might pull ahead. But i don't think premiums get to use any IOs or the market without paying for a license....

I thought Premium accounts couldn't use AE? Or is it just they can't lead an AE team like a trial account in the past.

I was thinking they could play it, just not get rewards from it, so the powerleveleD would still get their experience.

I'm a bit confused by all the premium/F2P stuff though, and maybe you're right in thinking it wouldn't work. If AE access isn't an option, I would probably backpedal to SS/Fire as the extra radius is a great boon in normal maps, and low recharge not too much of a problem as powers keep recharging while you run from mob to mob.

Thanks for the input.

Just noticed that you don't get to play AE with rewards as a Prem until tier 4. So, so much for that idea = /

My elec/fire brute on SO does decent in fire ambush. With less recharge, having more aoe attacks is awesome even if they arent necessarily the best attacks.

Edit*
I guess I should clarify, my laptop can only handle 0x6 on an ambush and that is what I run with this char. I don't know how much higher it could do. Most people might not call that decent for powerleveling. I get to 22 in a couple hours, so I'm happy with it.

Out of the box there are a few sets that can perform with plain IO's without any intensive need of inspirations.

Inv tanker gets softcap without problem (weave and CJ 3slot added) and has near cap SL resist. In such, SL farm maps are easy (pop a green once in a while). Brute version lacks about 10% defense, 1 purple should work that out, maybe add a extra orange to get hit less hard.

WP tank needs 1purple/1orange along with the basic defense powers to do +2 without any problem.

Shield can hit softcap, but the lack of decent resist can be tricky against +2 bosses, green and orange adviced. However, with /elec, can do quite alot of damage.

Yeah, they dont kill as fast as SS or claw/fire brutes, but then again, they wont die that easy if you run out of inspirations.

(inspiriations based on +1 and +2 x 8 ambush).

I'm debating between Claws/Fire Brute on the Demon Farm or a Kin Defender on the Statesman's Farm for my free account to help level my own alts if the need arises.

Well, all these newer builds are nice, and I have seen them in action, lemme tell you they do the job quickly, but the only weakness I have seen on each and every one of them is they are very inspiration dependent. No big deal just a timing thing being able to chug them and run in then chug more half way through etc etc. I played back in beta, left the game back in 06 or 07 and have recently come back, been back now for a few months. Logged on my old faithful, fire/ice tank and started solo farming trying to get the hang of things again. I don't have any problems with anything and I forget about the insp bar 9 times out of ten because I simply don't need it (all of this was of course after a couple of respecs to get the hang of the way things work these days understand), most of my old enh are either 53 SO or HAMI .... only a few IO's here and there, have not really gotten into the sets. Now this old build is not as fast as these others, nor is it as mobile as these others, but ..... its hard to kill, and its very very efficient with no use of insp, rest, or retreat, just a slow steady forward progression.

Fire/Ice/En Tank

Oh, one more I can't believe I didn't think to mention earlier:

Bots/Traps

Softcap on SOs. Add Provoke and watch everything burn in a nuclear powered Trans Siberian Orchestra show.

Tanks are great SO-only Farmers.

period...