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Adeon Hawkwood

By Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-11-25 17:57 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion

 

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Originally Posted by GATE-keeper View Post
When farming for expeez, is it better to have Bosses on or off? Also, is -1 player level faster xp/min than higher settings?
Won't matter, since you'll have two in the mission unless you take the time to spawn it before inviting your lowbie so you'll have to deal with bosses. As for the level, try it at 0 and see how you do and adjust from there, but adjust the number before you adjust the level. +0/x8 is better than +2/x6 in most cases.

Thorizdin

Lords of the Dead
Old School Legends

 

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For what it's worth I have a premium (I just buy the cheap invention license) with some IOs (no purples) account ss/fire that can farm at +4/x8.

Works well when I want to PL my main account.

The premium gets no rewards in AE, but that doesn't matter, as it's just for leveling and the real account does get them.

Blazara Aura LVL 50 Fire/Psi Dom (with 125% recharge)
Flameboxer Aura LVL 50 SS/Fire Brute
Ice 'Em Aura LVL 50 Ice Tank
Darq Widow Fortune LVL 50 Fortunata (200% rech/Night Widow 192.5% rech)--thanks issue 19!

 

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Originally Posted by GATE-keeper View Post
Thanks everyone for your responses. I think I'll go with Claws/Fire; as someone mentioned earlier, SS/Fire will probably run into End problems without IO's.

When farming for expeez, is it better to have Bosses on or off? Also, is -1 player level faster xp/min than higher settings?

(I have no intention of using this setup to PL toons from 1-50, I only intend to get a toon up two or three levels. For instance, if I want a toon on my main acct to run a particular WST, but the toon is a few levels too low, then I'll do this.)
I ran with bosses on and it was slooooow. I found +2/8 no bosses to be the sweet spot. I recently bought the IO license for the preem account so I'm not sure how much of a difference that'll make if I turn bosses back on. Probably still be too slow since a Claws Brute has a hard time breaking the +300% damage bonus without lots of reds. You are going to have to "map" your mission before inviting your buddy if you don't want bosses. Do that by jumping around the entire area in order to spawn everything before you invite your lowbie.

The biggest hurdle for a preem account PL'er is having the guy you're PL'ing throw off your inspiration drops.

 

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If you're going to make a build specific to the demon farm, a Fire/Fire brute would be the way to go. The smaller radius on FSC is made up for by the higher damage once resistance numbers are factored in. You do want to go Brute over Scrapper so that you get a taunt effect in Burn else the spawns tend to scatter.