Defenders can't farm!

After running my daily trials with my Kin/Rad/psy def (all tier 4 except judgment ), all my tips, and my daily trip to WW, I see all these people spamming farms.

So, bored, I decide to run a 0/x8 smashing/lethal to see how it goes....WOW!

Was absolutely more exciting than just pumping out tickets with my brute. So I decide to run +4/x8....killed it!

So feeling very generous and proud of my fender, I broadcast "Farming Defender...+4/x8...free farm, pst."

Nothing!

Then I get a tell, "Defenders can't farm!"

So of course I send him a team invite.

At the end of our run, he said he couldn't believe it!
In about five min after I was running a full team of lowbies thru with no problems.

Also, i thought abouy dropping WoC once, but I'm glad i kept it, it's completely proc'd out (chance for energy/smashing/psy damage/ contagious confusion and purple damage +53%) oh and Musculature and Destiny Barrier helps lol and the extra damage and mitigation is very helpful when surrounded.

I think just about any Alt can farm, just depends on power selections, what do you guys think? Or is the Incarnate system making us that overpowered?

Anyway, his name is King Kin on Freedom, pst for a free farm!

Pics or it didn't happen


Although in all seriousness, I would be interested in seeing a video of him in action. I've seen some unusual builds farm in the past, although can't say I've seen a Defender (probably every AT except Defenders and Stalkers).

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

Let me know when you'll be on and I give you the tour lol!

/snark "Your Defender didn't farm the Io's Incarnate abilities did" /snark

Seriously though just about anything can farm, some are better at it than others.

Sure you can farm with a Defender. Farm well? No.

Have an SG mate that makes his own farms and would use his ?/Kin corr to run members through his own S/L defense farm. The team would help but it was pretty amazing to see how fast he bounced from one farm to the next, maybe a little slower than my SS/Fire brute.

I find this hard to believe only in the sense I pretty much mention this on the defenders forums about certain builds that I play all the time.

Currently I have 2 Defenders, a Trick Arrow Archery and a Assault Rifle Traps that can run on 4/8 setting. Not just farms but any standard mission that does not cause issue for anyone else. So CoTs and Freakshows are a go as well. Like anyone else several sort of debuffing mobs can be an issue sometimes. At higher settings mostly because there are just more of them. It's not as easy as just taking out 1 or 2 mobs to control the fight. Its usually a bit more.

As was mentioned I am not doing these farms in the 5 minutes a SS/Fire is doing. But I am doing and it can be done solo. I pretty farm on all my traps toons including a 1 pet DS Traps mastermind that can run 2/8 setting.

Today the new trick I am starting to notice more and more is Vengeance ( might not be that new, but many builds are going that route to farm ). Since you have an endless supply of willing players its pretty easy to accomplish. Perma Vengeance gives you the defense cap you want and everything else is damage and recharge.

What is this rubbish about better not being the same as faster in the context of farming? Speed is pretty much the only metric you can use to determine farming proficiency, as technically there isn't such a thing as a character that can't farm.

I am surprised that people doubted you. Anything can farm AE. There's no Mez in AE, inspirations drop far too often, and incoming damage is usually dominated by a single vector that can be easily capped (Fire, Energy, SM/L for melee and SM/L for ranged). It's basically easy mode, and then there is Vengeance...

At least you are doing it with an AT that's outside of the box.

Do it with an Ice/Emp controller. >.>

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Im pretty sure a peacebringer could farm. It would suck horribly but it could farm.