Who IS #1 for farming

I disagree Mac, both in principal and in market practicality, but thats just my opinion. Some share it, some dont. But you definitely wont see me rewarding some newb lazy a$$ with a build he has done nothing for or to contribute towards. You, in many instances, at least post up your builds and ask for opinions. There are many that do not.

I share builds. I have a couple up on the Blaster forums right now. But some builds, I will never post, simply because I know no one on the server has anything like it, and I enjoy having a better build (yes, some of those happen to be PvP builds). But even in pvE, I guess I enjoy the competitive part of having a better build than the same AT's on the server. Often enough, it shows in mishes and TF's, or in farms.

But in response Sardan, there's proper avenues to getting the response you want than just 'Hey show me the build, and btw do it in public forums'. A lot of us are open to providing help (some like Mac are more open than others to a greater number of folks), but at least act like you're attempting to learn how to slot. There are many repeats on the boards just begging for build hand outs, and having to sift through 30+ Fire/Kin farming build request threads is downright ridiculous.

Not saying thats you, but if there is a build you're curious about that I have bragged about, send me a PM and we can always discuss it and share info. I do it all the time.

Sometimes its as simple as using the search function for some of these lazy guys, which is also often neglected.

Pardon the swift change-in-topic, but I'll throw in my two cents to the OP...

I've got two minor (albeit hard to come by) enhancements to go on my anti-Rikti Brute and I'll throw in the suggestion for the build I'm using: Dark Melee / Electric Armor / Mu Mastery.

• Soul Drain is comparable to Rage from Super Strength in terms of damage and tohit buffs, and without the terrible crash. It only lasts for 30 seconds, on the other hand, though most groups won't last any longer than that. It's trivial to get it going on a full load of 10 enemies, especially with its inherent Accuracy modifier (slotted, mine has 2.35X accuracy).
• Dark Consumption and Power Sink together make for two free refills to Endurance whenever you need them. Dark Consumption costs very little Endurance to cast, and Power Sink cannot miss.
• Dark Consumption and Soul Drain are both decent AoE attacks in and of themselves. They're like a couple of extra rounds of Shadow Punch to everyone in melee range.
• Siphon Life, while being a strangely powerful attack, heals 20% base HP enhanced. Energize when slotted is another 50%, so you can refill about 3/4 of your life bar casting two powers. Siphon Life recharges fast enough for it to be helpful during battle.
• Naturally, the AoEs from Mu Mastery are wonderful additions to the arsenal. Using them all in sequence can be a bit endurance-heavy, but there's those free refills from earlier. Hold enemies down with Electrifying Fences then take a step back to blast them with Static Discharge. Slotted, these two powers and Ball Lightning do considerable damage to enemies.
• Resistance to Smashing and Lethal is a bit low, but the self heals and Endurance Drain present in the build offer sufficient mitigation. I generally don't need to pop Energize, even with the aggro cap of Rikti on my tail. Having said that, Psionic damage is resisted almost as well as Smashing and Lethal (around 40%), so it's a good general-purpose defensive set.
• Lastly, the attack chain is pretty straightforward. Once you herd everyone into a little ball, stand in the middle and use Soul Drain for the buffs. Then you can fire off Electrifying Fences and Ball Lightning for some initial damage, then cast Dark Consumption to get all your Endurance back. This usually kills all the minions. Finding a target, take a step back and launch Static Discharge at everyone who's left, then step in and clean up with the actual melee attacks. By the time your Endurance is low again, you still haven't used Power Sink.

Borea is a contact in the Rikti War Zone that dispenses an endless variety of Rikti door missions and RWZ hunt missions, depending on what you feel like doing. Of the door missions, you either clear the map, defeat a boss, destroy some boxes or rescue a Vanguard soldier. These missions are classic high-level farms, as it's nothing but non-AE Rikti all the time.

In your case, you'd probably want to crank the enemies up to +2 or +3, then. I'm doing +0 for a mix of raw defeat rewards as well as salvage and recipe drops.

I had no idea people still farmed in CoX since the bridge nerf, ae nerf and strangely reduced rewards system resulting in a very bad market to build farming toons, wow good to hear they still do very slowly.

"Secret builds" is an amusing and silly concept and quite laughable.

If someone has a "secret build" that you want that you should be able to figure it out with a small amount of work. There aren't too many ways to create effective builds for various goals. If you know what the build is trying to accomplish you should be able to design it in virtually the exact same way. Likely you will come up slightly different based your own personal playstyle and taste. For example I design my super-high-end builds to stop at exactly permahasten where I have a friend who wants all the recharge he can cram in. My builds usually end up with a tiny bit more +HP and his with a tiny bit more +recharge but 9 out of 10 powers are slotted the same. Figuring out a "Secret Build" isn't a "infinite monkeys on infinite keyboards" type of thing. There are only so many sets that give the bonuses you want and the enhancement percentages that create effective characters.

If you want to say "I'm not interested in sharing my build and its a secret" that's your choice. Probably in the time it took you to tell someone that you could have sent them the build. But if you somehow think its unique and a real secret ... well... I'll refrain from posting my thoughts on that in interest of maintaining access to the CoH forums.

I can understanding hiding builds if you're using a bug, feature, or exploit. Certain HOs for example can be slotted in powers that you wouldn't normally consider, and provide very high Enhancement values. I think you can slot Centrioles (Dam/Range) in Sonic Shield powers, and you get 33.3% Damage Resistance and 20% Range. If this becomes common practice, the Devs may finally decide to fix it. There was some IO that accidentally gave a global Recharge Reduction bonus, rather than just affecting the power it was slotted into. If something like that still exists, I can see why people would want to keep it quiet. These sorts of things are very easy to hide, since they don't show up anywhere that people can see. That's why I always make sure to clean up builds before I post them. Um, I mean I would never do something like that. It's wrong.

My #1 farmer is my fire/kin/fire when I kill my second account and use his corpse for vengance. Also, another reason for not posting a build might be because you are still building it and don't want to have to compete with someone for the IOs. I know I won't post my PvP build for my scrapper on these forums until I've finished because I think it's that BA!