What's going on?

[Snarky]

[Gravitus]

2 hours ago, Crysis said:

All you need to about current state of AE farming, maps and builds included:

 

 

I still get sub 5-min clear times on my old school Spines/Fire farmer running AA’s revised meteor map doing -active- farming.  But as the thread demonstrates, tankers and S/L farms now hold top spots for passive farming.

 

You can easily respec and reuse your old farmer for effective active farming, although the reward nerfs likely wont net you anywhere near the same gains.  These days i just use my farmer for powerleveling new alts to 32-35 to blow by the monotony of lower levels.  

guess we rolling a tank

[Crysis]

2 minutes ago, Gravitus said:

guess we rolling a tank

 

Yup, used my secondary account S/L blaster (if you can believe it lol) to PL a new AFK tanker on my farming account.  Works well in new AE environment but again....rewards are very much less what they once were.

[Gravitus]

6 minutes ago, Crysis said:

 

Yup, used my secondary account S/L blaster (if you can believe it lol) to PL a new AFK tanker on my farming account.  Works well in new AE environment but again....rewards are very much less what they once were.

so what is the best flavor of tank these days for farming? 

[Without_Pause]

6 minutes ago, Gravitus said:

so what is the best flavor of tank these days for farming? 

It says it in the link which was provided. 

[Maelwys]

47 minutes ago, Gravitus said:

guess we rolling a tank

Last I checked non-Granite Stone Armor Brute still gets an honourable mention due to Fury affecting Brimstone Procs (and DoTs from the Spines Primary; even if RadMelee is objectively a better farming set)?
Also SA is one of the few Brute defensive powersets that can get high enough passive mitigation AND passive regen to survive AFK AE farming at +4x8 without major build sacrifices.

Downside is that even the Damage Auras on a Tanker are wider than on a Brute these days (12ft vs 8ft IIRC...)

[Bionic_Flea]

And you really should consider PLing on Indomitable for the extra bonus to XP.  Transfers between servers are free and easy.

[Ridiculous Girl]

can we let this thread die so i can get this song out of my head every time i see it??? 🤪

 

[Bionic_Flea]

14 minutes ago, Ridiculous Girl said:

can we let this thread die so i can get this song out of my head every time i see it???

 

Let me help you!

 

Farmer, farmer

There's too many of you crying.

Farmer, farmer, farmer

There's too many of you dying.

You know you've got to find a way

To bring some regen to AFK.

[Maelwys]

9 minutes ago, Bionic_Flea said:

 

Let me help you!

 

Farmer, farmer

There's too many of you crying.

Farmer, farmer, farmer

There's too many of you dying.

You know you've got to find a way

To bring some regen to AFK.

Oh, we got a brand new regen powerset to Idle in A.E.
Come on lets get together in perfect farming glee.
I got twenty Hitpoints, and you got forty-three.
Now we got a brand new regen powerset to Idle in A.E.

(Who loves ya baby ha)
 

(and just in case that wasn't bad enough and you're still semi-conscious....)

 

[Gravitus]

48 minutes ago, Bionic_Flea said:

And you really should consider PLing on Indomitable for the extra bonus to XP.  Transfers between servers are free and easy.

bonus xp? explain

[Maelwys]

Just now, Gravitus said:

explain

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Servers

[Crysis]

52 minutes ago, Bionic_Flea said:

And you really should consider PLing on Indomitable for the extra bonus to XP.  Transfers between servers are free and easy.

 

Yeah good callout.  Although does that work in AE also?

[Gravitus]

2 minutes ago, Maelwys said:

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Servers

is this devs incentivizing to fill less crowded servers?  What the hell else am i missing here after being gone for so long? 

Edited September 5 by Gravitus

[Gravitus]

4 minutes ago, Crysis said:

 

Yeah good callout.  Although does that work in AE also?

yeah, I  would only be interested if it worked in AE

[Crysis]

1 minute ago, Gravitus said:

is this devs incentivizing to fill less crowded servers?  What the hell else am i missing here after being gone for so long? 

 

2.5 years away?  A lot?  A whole lot.  I suggest you go spend some time in the Patch notes and perhaps read through them.

 

Too many changes to even begin to outline them all here.

 

But do know these three things.....

 

1) Sentinels got some love and are actually half decent now.

2) Several MM primary sets were reworked and turned from meh to OMGWTFBBQ (Ninjas, Necro and Mercs in particular), and one of the newest sets (Marine Affinity) appear to be almost tailor made to benefit MM's.

3) There's little reason to roll a Brute these days vs a Tank....although I put this last one on the list purely to pick fights.

 

Seriously, go read the patch notes since you've been gone!

 

Patch Notes - Homecoming (homecomingservers.com)

 

 

[Lunar Ronin]

4 minutes ago, Crysis said:

 

Yeah good callout.  Although does that work in AE also?

 

Yes.

 

4 minutes ago, Gravitus said:

is this devs incentivizing to fill less crowded servers?  What the hell else am i missing here after being gone for so long? 

 

When the NC agreement announcement happened in January, many new players flocked to Homecoming.  A lot of people have this crazy notion that they absolutely simply must play on the most crowded server/shard of a MMOG.  As a result, Excelsior became completely overwhelmed with people, heavily overloading the shard.  Queues and shard crashes ensued.  Homecoming decided to enable double XP on the three lowest populated shards to entice people to move the heck off of Excelsior and play on other shards.

 

It isn't needed now.  The flood of people that came in January through March all left and Homecoming's player population is back to where it was a year ago.  However, much to my chagrin, the double XP remains on Indomitable and Reunion, with Torchbearer getting a 50% XP bonus.

[lemming]

11 minutes ago, Crysis said:

 

Yeah good callout.  Although does that work in AE also?

yes.

 

The other servers are nice for doing solo projects too.  (Even if the one I'm doing is pausing XP between stuff)

 

On the farming end of things:

S/L farms are a bit more bang for the buck now, but if you have a fire farmer, they work fine.

I reworked my fire farms to drop the swords and added enough extra to get full xp from the mobs.  I tend to run a fire/spines brute with a fire/rad tank.   On the meteor farm, they can get overwhelmed before picking up the buff bot, but usually not.   I tend to run one that's based on the outdoor croatoa map which is slower, but I just move the farmers around every so often, things die.   I don't run it to be the most efficient thing, but if I want to PL a char, it takes little time to have those two zip it to 50.   (I should do a timed session, just to check though)

Edited September 5 by lemming
a bit extra

[Crysis]

8 minutes ago, lemming said:

yes

So its both double XP -and- influence rewards vs using a double xp booster where you get no rewards.

 

Then yes def the new way to PL.  

[jprewitt73]

14 minutes ago, Crysis said:

So its both double XP -and- influence rewards vs using a double xp booster where you get no rewards.

 

Then yes def the new way to PL.  

 

 

XP only, not influence or infamy. 

[Gravitus]

32 minutes ago, Lunar Ronin said:

 

Yes.

 

 

When the NC agreement announcement happened in January, many new players flocked to Homecoming.  A lot of people have this crazy notion that they absolutely simply must play on the most crowded server/shard of a MMOG.  As a result, Excelsior became completely overwhelmed with people, heavily overloading the shard.  Queues and shard crashes ensued.  Homecoming decided to enable double XP on the three lowest populated shards to entice people to move the heck off of Excelsior and play on other shards.

 

It isn't needed now.  The flood of people that came in January through March all left and Homecoming's player population is back to where it was a year ago.  However, much to my chagrin, the double XP remains on Indomitable and Reunion, with Torchbearer getting a 50% XP bonus.

so what happens if you combine this with an XP booster from the vendor....is it 4x XP? 

[Lunar Ronin]

4 minutes ago, Gravitus said:

so what happens if you combine this with an XP booster from the vendor....is it 4x XP? 

 

Triple XP.

[Bionic_Flea]

3X = base 100% + 100% from 2XP + 100% from server bonus.

[Gravitus]

21 minutes ago, Bionic_Flea said:

3X = base 100% + 100% from 2XP + 100% from server bonus.

thank you... math is hard ....i thought the xp booster just doubled what the game was naturally giving you....ergo 4x XP

Edited September 5 by Gravitus

[Without_Pause]

52 minutes ago, Gravitus said:

thank you... math is hard ....i thought the xp booster just doubled what the game was naturally giving you....ergo 4x XP

Normal XP = 100%

2x XP Booster = 100%, hence 200% overall.

Server bonus = 100%

 

So 300%.

Edited September 5 by Without_Pause