In the context of this game:
It's a mission done (generally a specific type of mission) repeatedly in an ultra efficient manner so as to get the maximum amount of rewards per time invested. There are many different missions you can "farm." Currently most of them are AE related, though there is normal content that is popular to farm, too.
Anything.
Anything, literally. Missions, street sweeping (not as popular anymore), anything. Repeating anything ad nauseum for the rewards is farming. Rewards can be inf, recipe drops, salvage drops, alignment merits, merit rewards, literally anything.
Say you've got a softcapped S/L defense character. Farming a Council Empire map (who do primarily S/L attacks) allows that character to move quickly through relatively easy critters who will provide little to no danger to the character due to its defense.
Side note; technically, the iTrials are dev-sanctioned farming.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Got ya, can you do this with any mission at any level?
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Technically, yes. The degrees of efficiency would vary highly depending on what you try to farm, however.
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Originally Posted by Ridia
Got ya, can you do this with any mission at any level?
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Thanks. So people are purpose building toons just to farm more effiently? Seems kinda like a waste when you want to play the real game if your toon is so tailored for that single aspect or purpose?
A good farm is the most time efficient way to get what you want. I have seen/heard of farming for EVERYTHING. Experience, Influence, Prestige, architect tickets, Purple Recipes, Healing Badges, certain monsters for those badges. It is literally endless what people will farm, based on what they feel their character needs. I even know someone who "farmed" the weekly task forces by constantly forming them so she finally got a badge for helping others complete a certain number. If it exists in game, there is a good chance someone is farming it.
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It is generally done for quick money. This money is in turn used to outfit their favorite characters with expensive IO's in a way that wouldn't necessarily be possible without a LOT more time playing, or lucky drops.|
Originally Posted by Ridia
Thanks. So people are purpose building toons just to farm more effiently? Seems kinda like a waste when you want to play the real game if your toon is so tailored for that single aspect or purpose?
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So, in a sense, one could argue they're saving themselves time by the process by cutting through countless hours of non farming time to outfit their character the way they want.
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It isn't a waste if you're farming for recipes that can be use don other toons, or sold for big bucks on the market. You could also farm for salvage another toon needs.|
Originally Posted by Ridia
Thanks. So people are purpose building toons just to farm more effiently? Seems kinda like a waste when you want to play the real game if your toon is so tailored for that single aspect or purpose?
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In fact if done right I'd say it's very efficient.
For example I'll take my Elec/SD Brute on the Council map 53/46/46 Ranged/Melee/AoE defense and in 15-30 minutes depending on what level badguys I want to fight I'd be done with an entire map set to 8 players. One and done (unless I'm PL a toon on my other account) then it's on to something else.
Who do I have to *&^% around here to get more Targeted AoE recipes added?
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Ok, that all makes sense thanks but- So you farm with an alt to make your main better, faster?
As Blue said, though, there are different types of things to farm for. Money, badges, drops...the common idea behind it is that you're trying to do it in the most efficient, and speedy way.
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Yes. It will cost money to make a good farmer (in terms of money farming), but as the popular saying goes: It costs money to make money.
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Originally Posted by Ridia
Ok, that all makes sense thanks but- So you farm with an alt to make your main better, faster?
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Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
A good farm is the most time efficient way to get what you want. I have seen/heard of farming for EVERYTHING.
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For Invention Origin recipes (esp. Rare), the fastest way to get them is to burn a few A-Merits. Either to sell the results for cash, or to use. For most everything else you mention, farming probably works best.
However for folks without a lot of time to invest in a purpose-built farm build, a full team doing short content like Radio mission is usually the fastest way get XP and drops.
Awesome, thanks guys
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It requires farming to get a-merits (five missions a day, often done as fast as possible, dismissing missions that take too long or use "bad" enemy groups), so it's still farming.
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Originally Posted by gameboy1234
For Invention Origin recipes (esp. Rare), the fastest way to get them is to burn a few A-Merits. Either to sell the results for cash, or to use. For most everything else you mention, farming probably works best.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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Just out of curiosity what is a good starting point for low level premium player farming?
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Some will do the opposite, farm with their main if it's built for that in order to fund alts.|
Originally Posted by Ridia
Ok, that all makes sense thanks but- So you farm with an alt to make your main better, faster?
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Others like me with severe altitis have no "main", we may have toons that have the same global or forum handle but no "main character" in the traditional sense. Instead we have what I call "projects" so farming of some sort is extremely effective.
For example last month I decided to roll a StJ/SR Scrapper, then I decided to roll a Rad/BR Defender, but then I thought about Scourge+EF+Disintegrate and decided to roll a BR/Rad Corruptor.
The previous month it was WM/EA Brute as well as another combo which I forget (too many alts).
When I22 hits there are already 3 combos I thinking about making (who am I fooling I know I'm making them); Staff Fighting/SR Scrapper, Beast/Dark Mastermind, and Dark/Dark Controller.
Farming will be the best way to finance what I need for these toons.
Who do I have to *&^% around here to get more Targeted AoE recipes added?
Arc Name: Tsoo In Love
Arc ID: 413575
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Frankly, there is no real pressing need for a premium player to farm, let alone a low level one. Unless you're a high tier vet, you won't have IO's unlocked, so what would you be using the money for? You'd make more than enough money to slot yourself with SOs via normal content.
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Originally Posted by Ridia
Just out of curiosity what is a good starting point for low level premium player farming?
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Not sure of the differences between Premium and VIP but...|
Originally Posted by Ridia
Just out of curiosity what is a good starting point for low level premium player farming?
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IMO I wouldn't farm until level 30 or 35. By that time you have your staple powers and they are nicely slotted, the drops you get that you won't use are also highly sought after by people like me that like to use level 35 IOs.
But unless you turn off XP you'll eventually out level this area.
Who do I have to *&^% around here to get more Targeted AoE recipes added?
Arc Name: Tsoo In Love
Arc ID: 413575
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Ridia is a brand new preemie player (only a few weeks playing the game if I've got my timeline right) so unless they have bought the inventions/market licenses, pretty much nothing they can farm is of interest to other players.|
Originally Posted by EnigmaBlack
Not sure of the differences between Premium and VIP but...
IMO I wouldn't farm until level 30 or 35. By that time you have your staple powers and they are nicely slotted, the drops you get that you won't use are also highly sought after by people like me that like to use level 35 IOs. But unless you turn off XP you'll eventually out level this area. |
They would be farming purely for themselves, and without inventions, there's not much to farm FOR.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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You are correct, I have only been playing for about a month if that and I have three toons -
Energy/Dark Blaster at level 25
TW/Nrg Aura Brute at Level 18
DP/Kin Corr at level 16
Assuming you ever get access to invention origins (and with those levels), you're better off farming hero/villain merits. Just run the tip missions until you get an alignment mission, get the merits, and eventually you can trade them in for rare IO's. Then sell them on the market. It's a decent way to make money, and does not require a farmer build.
But until you get access to IOs, there is absolutely no reason to put yourself through the hassle.
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You've only been playing a month... I wouldn't suggest farming at all even if you purchase the license.|
Originally Posted by Ridia
You are correct, I have only been playing for about a month if that and I have three toons -
Energy/Dark Blaster at level 25 TW/Nrg Aura Brute at Level 18 DP/Kin Corr at level 16 |
You will be better off experiencing the game "naturally", and it's an excellent way to meet other players which to me is the best part of CoH.
Who do I have to *&^% around here to get more Targeted AoE recipes added?
Arc Name: Tsoo In Love
Arc ID: 413575
Farming is also used as slang for doing anything repeatably.
So people might say they are farming A merits, when they mean they are running alignment missions only instead of varying different missions, regardless of how fast/slow they are doing them.
Farming normally implies doing something for fun of the reward not for the fun of the mission.
A level 50 earns much more inf than 49 or lower. Much more. Plus the big ticket purple recipes drop only from level 47+ foes, so many people farm missions with lots of easy foes to gather inf quickly and increase drop chances. A lvl 50 might set at -1/x8 so they can destroy foes real quick instead of running +2x2.
I don't suffer from altitis, I enjoy every minute of it.
Thank you Devs & Community people for a great game.
So sad to be ending ):
I suggest since your not VIP go farm yourself the accolade powers, they are considerably powerful/useful.
For hero http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Hero_Accolade_Powers
For villain http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Villain_Accolade_Powers
Have to kill a lot of critters to get some of those badges but they really do make a difference.
I looked it up on the Wiki and it just says the act of repeating something a bunch of times to keep gaining a reward or benefit. Ok, makes sense but what do you repeat? I'm prob just missing something right, cause I don't fully understand.
Thanks for the help :0)