Issue 28: Page 1 Farming Microguide (Maps + Builds)

[Maelwys]

3 hours ago, Xalon said:

Why rush even more with multi-boxing? I really want to understand what goes through someone's mind to think that this is fun. Honestly, lmk.

 

Personally I do it to generate drops and influence. AFK farming in particular requires minimal attention and is easy to spin up on a second screen whilst I'm catching up on a TV show etc. Farming isn't as efficient for generating influence as marketeering, but I prefer generating drops to flipping them. It helps keep the non-buy-it-now AH prices down.

 

Including drops, each Passive ("AFK") Farming toon typically pulls in 40-80m inf per hour (depending on the map and how fast the toon can physically defeat stuff). That's roughly half of what an Active Farming toon can pull in, but since you can have three accounts simultaneously logged in on different AE Farming maps per non-busy shard? If you fancy pushing hard for an hour or two then it can all add up very fast.

 

Sometimes I'll park an alt from a different account on the map to get them easy exp. Typically I'll do that after they hit Lv45 in order to get them up to veteran level 100... but sometimes I'll stick them on temporarily earlier to get them over a hump in the 30s etc. so they get a fresh batch of contacts (I like getting all the contacts up to at least phonable status as I level up each character... but I don't see any point in running the Lv45 contact missions until after they hit Lv50)

 

You do see some requests for power leveling in global chat... but IME those requests are also typically from folk who have played the game for decades and genuinely want to skip part of the regular level up process. 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Maelwys