TOddSkinRash

I hope this is helpful. I found Homecoming around June of this year (I was crazy excited to play COV again) but, I was curious about Fire Farms since I kept seeing the missions in the AE list. With some research I found these two resources and my fire farmer was born. The article does a good job of explaining the concept and caps. The video does a great job of showing how a low level fire farmer can get started and power level themselves to 50 plus earn money for their sets. At 13 my Rad/Fire farmer started farming. He is now vet level 300+. I've since built 2 additional fire farmers, 2 smash and lethal farmers, and 1 hover farmer (this one failed badly). I have completed builds that range from 150 million to 500+ million. Most are effective. Some have faster clear times, some are more durable and need less micro management. I often rebuild searching for the perfect balance. The build is half the fun 😄 - If you play Reunion look me up (red side) - Core Temp. https://www.reddit.com/r/Cityofheroes/comments/dm2crj/fire_farming_101_how_to_get_yourself_started/

I'm wondering how Energy Aura would work? Looking at Mids it is the only armor set that offers resistance to -def and -end (at least on Brute). I'm assuming with some good IO's you could do pretty well but I'd like to hear from someone who has experience with Energy Aura.

I've done pretty well with dark/dark brute. The protection from -end just let's you keep healing until you can finish them off. It does not smash the whole mob in 3 seconds flat but perhaps a stronger primary set would do that? As an aside I've recently started messing with Battle Axe and the crazy amount of knock ups would likely slow down the debuff rate, plus it allows you to liberally apply FF + Recharge to help counter any -recharge debuffs as well. Just a thought. EDIT: Now you have me thinking about it and I'm going to have to make a new alt to try my idea. I only have a dozen or so unfinished alts at the moment so why not? 😄

Thank you to everyone for clearing that up. That makes sense and helps.

I'm sorry if this is posted somewhere already I was unable to find it. I'm confused on the defense mechanic. Is it better to try and get your damage type specific defense (Fire, Ice, Smash, etc.) up or if you focus on melee def, ranged def, and AOE def do these three cover all the same things? Or are they separate mechanics and should all be considered... Any help you can offer would be appreciated.

Mids is in the utilities section of the forum. Hope that helps 🙂