What is a good mission for an Elec/Fire tanker to farm?


Dr Harmony

 

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The thread title pretty much says it all: I am looking for a good influence-and-drops farming mission for a lvl 50 Elec/Fire tanker.

I know that he does great against Freakshow (he resists their damage types very well and they don't resist his fire damage all that well), but my only experience with that is a freakshow farming mission in the AE, which did not give any recipe or salvage drops, only influence.
Is there a mission from one of the regular mission contacts which has a farming-friendly layout and a lot of freaks in it - or some other enemy type which does mostly energy- and S/L damage and which is not fire resistant?

Any advice would be really appreciated - thanks!


 

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Only developer's choice AEs will give the option to drop standard rewards like salvage and recipes.

I could probably whip one up myself if there aren't any good freak farming maps already. That or there may be a portal corp mission that you can reset. I think people used to do this with the Council Empire map.



http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Shadow_Mokadara

 

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Electric Armor can shrug off pretty much any Smashing, Lethal or Energy damage thrown at it, so any large outdoors map with S/L/E enemies will work for you.

The groups for you to look for are Rikti, Freaks, and Council Empire.

There's a few outdoors Rikti missions in the RWZ story arcs. Most of them have Vanguard Soldiers and Turrets kill-stealing from you. The one that takes place on the burning forest map is nice for farming, but it's really easy to accidentally complete. Alternately, you can just run repeatable Borea missions.

Unai Kemen is a farmer's best friend. He offers several missions on big outdoors maps with a variety of enemy groups. Quite early on, he'll give you three missions in a row to click glowies; one is Banished Pantheon, one is Family, one is Council Empire. The BP are too debuff heavy for serious farming. High-level Family have had their XP and Inf rewards nerfed, but their drops are still normal, as far as I know. The Council Empire are perfect for most farmers, and since it takes 20 glowie clicks, it's near impossible to accidentally finish.

Unai also has a few large Freak maps, but most of those have had timers added, and top level Freaks have also had their XP/Inf values reduced. Like the Family, they should still have normal drop rates.

If you're redside, you could try Liberate TV, but it's mostly Fire Armor that farms that, because they've got the fastest, biggest self heal (other than dark, but you don't want to use an accuracy-based heal against a bunch of Nemesis with 6 layers of Vengeance on 'em :P ).

The other major farm is Harvey Maylor's demon farm, but that's almost pure fire damage; you don't want to farm that on an Elec tank.


@Roderick

 

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I'd second Borea's repeatable missions. They're all in one zone. Rikti do Lethal, Energy and Psi damage, which you have excellent resistances to, and have no Fire Resistance. The pesky drones sit in Burn patches and have no defence to them.

And you get Vanguard merits as in addition to all the other usual rewards.

The biggest slowdown is the teleporting Headman Gunners - just ignore them when theyre the only ones left, and let them come close in the next group and get finsihed off in the AoE carnage


 

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I like to run the Battle Maiden Map farm. Do not know if they got rid of states in it or not if u do not have it yet.


 

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There is a map I was on this past weekend that was full of higher level clockwork in an industrial setting.

I laughed my head off as electrical armor basically left me immune to them.


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