AE Farm?

So I'm still learning about the game and such since I've started playing again and I see a lot of people looking for AE teams. What's so great about it? Am I able to do it so I can get to lvl 50 really fast? I'm looking to get my first lvl 50 with my Crab spider and missions take a little too long. Also, do you need to be VIP in order to do AE farm? If not, what tier of premium do you need?

I might have more questions but I can't think of any at the moment.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Well I think I have a fairly decent handle on the characters I play, I look at guides and such. I've looked at all the different builds for SoAs and decided on the AoE/Pet army type thing. I've been playing it pretty well I think so far, currently lvl 35, just got summon spiderlings and it's pretty nice.

I don't know what you define as less efficient farming than AE, so I can't really answer that. I don't know what people farm in this game, like I said I'm still learning since I've started playing again. I do missions with the occasional trial for the salvage and such to get my extra costume slot. By doing those missions to lvl like I have I believe I have learned how to play my characters pretty well. I'm not really sure what else there is to do yet since all lvl 50s seem to do is those trials in RWZ or RP.

I know some of the questions being asked sound strange, but we've had some strange encounters that led us to ask those questions.

For example, back when the AE was still new and the Epic Archetypes were still locked behind having to get a character to level 50 before you could play one, I met a player who was on a PeaceBringer. He was level 42 or 43 I think. He had his 6 month Vet badge and he still didn't know how to get out of Atlas Park and I had to explain what enhancements were because he didn't know how to use them.

Anyway I hope your enjoying the game and will stick around a long time.

I'm going to try and address some of the OPs questions specifically, without commenting one way or the other on the heart of the farming (and AE farming specifically) debate.

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Originally Posted by Synyster So I'm still learning about the game and such since I've started playing again and I see a lot of people looking for AE teams. What's so great about it?

You are able to pick (or create for yourself) missions that have enemies that attack you in your stongest defenses, that don't have tricks that you find challenging, and that are specifically weakly resistant to your attacks. It also allows all of the enemies to be piled up in one spot, so as to reduce movement time consumed. It also allows almost zero travel time between missions. And lastly, it provides an inspiration vendor right next to *every* mission entrance. All this allows for very fast,and potentially fairly safe way to attack and defeat large numbers of enemies at once.

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Am I able to do it so I can get to lvl 50 really fast?

Potentially. It depends on how finely tuned a mission you can find (or create), how much repetition you can handle without losing focus, and how skilled you are at farming. If you can leverage all of these fairly well, it can dramatically lower your time to level to 50.

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I'm looking to get my first lvl 50 with my Crab spider and missions take a little too long. Also, do you need to be VIP in order to do AE farm? If not, what tier of premium do you need? I might have more questions but I can't think of any at the moment. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I believe all the remaining questions you have posted so far have been answered by others at least as well as I could have, and mostly better.