Non-Brute/Tank farming builds?

[evetsleep]

6 hours ago, Helium 3 said:

A Brute or Tank are for sure helpful but I have a Rad/MC Blaster that does very well on S/L farms

Is that 8x4?   I haven't tried with a blaster before but if your alpha doesn't kill the spawn don't you end up with a lot of runners?

 

Btw, not saying other AT's can't farm.  Really any can, but runners would significantly slow things down I would think.

[Americas Angel]

A good Tank/Brute farming setup earns 2.5mil per minute (~150mil per hour). Not counting drops. Nothing else matches that.

 

Of the options presented in the OP, best bet is probably either an AoE-focused Blaster of some kind (fire/fire, water/fire, ice/fire, etc), or something with Plant Control. You'll likely have to lower the difficulty/play on a slower map. Which means you'll be earning a lot less.

[SeraphimKensai]

Just looked at this thread. I've farmed toons prolifically over the years (and even professionally when the game had first came out).

 

A couple places in this thread I've seen reference to fire/kin controllers as the first farmer character. That is not accurate. They were very prolific, but that was due to two things: ancillary power sets and IOs.

 

The first prolific farm toon was your fiery armor/ice melee tanks running on SO's. But the mob type wasn't fire based mobs it was war wolves due to their S&L damage, which prior to ED was pretty easy to address on fiery armor. Additionally having burn and ice patch kept the wolves flopping on their ass as they were burned, most often in a dumpster. Additionally this was before agro and target limits.

 

That history aside, you can farm with anything but your efficiency as others have said will vary. I've used tankers, brutes, scrappers, doms, trollers, MMs, a PB, a WS, and even a defender to hilarious effect.

 

Remember though the #1 rule of farming...no beggers from server wide channels as they have fleas.

Edited Thursday at 12:46 PM by SeraphimKensai

[Bionic_Flea]

1 hour ago, SeraphimKensai said:

no beggers from server wide channels as they have fleas.

 

You say this like it's a bad thing.

[SeraphimKensai]

39 minutes ago, Bionic_Flea said:

 

You say this like it's a bad thing.

I honestly thought you might comment on the flea joke and debated whether or not I changed it to lice. Anyways Merry Christmas.

[Bionic_Flea]

Merry Christmas to you and all you crazy folks on these forums that keep me entertained and (in)sane.

[Jacke]

4 hours ago, Bionic_Flea said:

Merry Christmas to you and all you crazy folks on these forums that keep me entertained and (in)sane.

 

But Flea....  Are you holding up your end?  When was the last time you did a "But @Jimmy...." post?  😺

 

More on-topic....  I really need to work at Tanking sometime.  I love the Protections that Tankers have, but don't Tank that often.

 

EDIT: Okay, that's still off-topic for this topic....  Damn, I just have a Spines/Fiery Aura Brute build for all farming and general play.  Sorry.

 

 

Edited Thursday at 08:35 PM by Jacke

[Helium 3]

18 hours ago, evetsleep said:

Is that 8x4?   I haven't tried with a blaster before but if your alpha doesn't kill the spawn don't you end up with a lot of runners?

 

Btw, not saying other AT's can't farm.  Really any can, but runners would significantly slow things down I would think.

actually I don't, I build a Fire/Bire blaster for farming and didn't like it for that exact reason, scattered all the mobs with the rain and that is max diff, of course it does bnot have the survivability as a tank or brute but at most I can handle 2 mobs at the very most.

[Helium 3]

18 hours ago, Americas Angel said:

A good Tank/Brute farming setup earns 2.5mil per minute (~150mil per hour). Not counting drops. Nothing else matches that.

 

Of the options presented in the OP, best bet is probably either an AoE-focused Blaster of some kind (fire/fire, water/fire, ice/fire, etc), or something with Plant Control. You'll likely have to lower the difficulty/play on a slower map. Which means you'll be earning a lot less.

Ultimatly not a lot of folks who run S/L farms so end up having to jump on my tank if I want to team, it's ok I like my tank, what I am looking for now is a Invul/DB tank build, I have found 5 samples and either they all have fly or 2 travel powers, I could plot it out myself but after so many years I just don't want to... lol