Do you farm?

[Denamic]

I hate farming.
I sometimes try, but fail to stick with it within 30 minutes. There are two exceptions to this, though.
Borderlands 1: Crawmerax the Invincible, because that loot fountain is so satisfying. But ran out of steam after I had more orange that I knew what to do with. I assume that I'll get to the Borderlands 2 superbosses eventually.
Disgaea games: I lump them together because they're all fucking awesome. Rarity 0 Yoshitsuna! RARITY 0 YOSHIFUCKINGTSUNA! Oh good, now I just need to do 100 levels of item world and some reverse piracy, as well as some item duplication to get fencer innocents. Rarity 0 Holy Ray! RARITY 0 FUCKING HOLY RAY! Oh good, now I just need to do 100 levels of item world and some reverse piracy, as well as some item duplication to get deadeye innocents. Repeat, repeat, repeat. I've spent over 4000 hours since Disgaea 1 doing this shit. I regret nothing.

 

[Death Carr]

EV training is basically farming right?
Because I EV train.

I also grind a bit in WoW when I can't be arsed doing quests.

 

[Domogo]

I used to play RPG's almost exclusively so I farmed quite a bit but in my many man hours of experience (gathering) I have really figured out the system almost every RPG uses: never flee from a battle (ever you can almost always pull it off) and buy new equipment every other town or sales place (and when applicable always specialize in each character never mix skills)

captcha: mumbo jumbo I don't think so capn' I'm pretty sure it works everytime

 

[Joccaren]

Nope, I just run around doing all the low level quests, and doing that gets me enough levels to do more quests. I won't farm mobs for a rare item, its pointless. I'll just play through the game, rather than doing the same thing over and over.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

My preferred way to play Final Fantasy 7 and 8 is to spend a few hours in between actual plot stuff killing things so as to level up spells and whatnot. Hell, I almost always turn myself into a God in the beginning of FF8 as my default.

At the moment I'm trying to get 1-Million coins in NSMB2 but am only at 650,000+...and this is after beating the game and bonus levels...and with a crown instead of lives...granted that's only one profile but there's a level I've been farming where I can get 6,000 - 8,000 coins every time.

I'm also trying to get 100+ hours in Theatrhythm. I'm only about 7 hours away but I haven't played in a couple of weeks. Oh well.

 

[ShadowKatt]

I farm.

I farm in minecraft. I have fields of wheat and pumpkin and watermelons, to say nothing of my pig and chicken and cow and sheep farms.

However, that's not what the OP meant. OT, yes, I farm. It's hard but I farm creepers for music discs.

 

[FrozenCones]

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria player reporting in. Farming Reputation with the factions is now almost like breathing to me. Just get some music and alt-tab out to forums once in a while and the time pasts much faster.

Just hit level 90 a few days ago. I know there are like 8 reps to grind. Can you recommend one to focus on above all others? I'm guessing the Shado-Pan are of high importance?

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Heavens, no. I'm of the opinion that if farming is necessary to succeed at a game then it isn't a good game. I play solely for enjoyment and I don't enjoy farming, so I don't do it. I still rocked it pretty hard in ME3 multiplayer with the starting gear, so I felt that earning extra stuff made things a little bit easier, but not necessary.

This would be why I gave up on Nier, because after a while the gear I had stopped being useful even though I was always able to buy the new gear. Eventually even basic enemies became wars of attrition so I sacked it off.

-snip-

That's fine for you but I don't consider filling bars to be a worthwhile goal to work towards.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I generally do not farm; however, I have been known to collect. In skyrim for example, I collected at least one example of every weapon and armor piece in the game along with all of the daedric weapons.

That does of course ignore Eve Online where I'm nearly certain much of my time was spent farming in one form or another - either Pirates out in nullsec, or missions, or mining or scanning. All pretty much the same "click a few icons and wait for victory". Still, in the end I did manage to get things like Navy Ravens, dozens of battlecruisers and battleships, various assault ships and heavy assault ships some of which saw heavy use in PvP and the pride and joy of the whole collection: my Chimera carrier.

That the carrier was only deployed twice and only once saw any action is largely irrelevant. By the time I amassed the wealth to buy the above and lose at least as much along the way, the multi billion isk investment (at a time when maximum reasonable average income was perhaps 80 million isk an hour) for the carrier sapped me of any will to play the farming game in any guise. Eventually my stocks of ships started to dry up and while I had countless smaller vessels and some very high end ones to throw into space, they either wouldn't be useful/entertaining or were too valuable to risk on PvP.

I mean, what the hell is a Navy Raven for if not decorating a hanger? It isn't like that array of Navy Issue Cruise Missile Launchers was going to be much good in PvP and that half billion isk shield assembly would hardly provide much protection against a gank squad.

 

[hazabaza1]

On occasion, depending on the game. Generally not though. I really can't understand people who write those forum posts about grinding for 5 hours to get one item in a singleplayer game. Shit's crazy, yo.

 

[Rastien]

Damnit!, i grew up on a farm and came here to walk about dairy farm managment >:C nuts to this thread.

Actually yes i have farmed used to do it in wow, when i was farming moneys for my motorbike for a week i would set my alarm for 04:30 AM get up for an hour and a half farming wintergrasp till 06:00 AM go back to bed, get up at 08:00 go to work ^^

I found it pretty easy get out of bed get a mug of tea stick some music on sit down and chill for an hour and a half.

 

[DeepComet5581]

Runescape is the worst for farming, as a lot of people don't do it for XP.

Instead, they use several low-level accounts to make as much in-game money as possible, which they then sell (Illegally) via websites for real-world money.

 

[Bertylicious]

Farming is for fassies. Real men pay the iron price.

 

[Bigsmith]

Well I live in a flat at the moment, but I suppose if my self and my girlfriend get a place next year I may consider windowsill farming..

Oh, you mean in games.

Will I played wow for almost 4 years? So I suppose I can farm if I really need to. But I only really farm if I want to not struggle at certain aspects of the game.

For example in pokemon I'd always farm to so I'm higher level then the area I'm about to go to.

 

[Padwolf]

Of course! It's the number one thing to do in LoL! Besides getting kills but even then one kill is like... 30?-ish farm so stop those tower dives and keep on farming!

It's really easy to farm and get kills with some Champions. Some even farm Champions for a living! (looking at you Akali/Fizz)

I do my best farming with Irelia. With anyone else getting pushed to my tower is annoying since i'll miss some/all the farm. With Irelia it's lol jk thx for the free and safe farm idiot

That's another reason I love Irelia, so much fun to farm with! I quite like to farm with Riven though, she hits hard and can push things away slightly with Broken Wings.

I do farm, mostly in LoL, in single player stuff I do too, in all my RPG's. In The Last Remnant I farm for materials to make better weapons and armour. It's quite fun to farm in that game as you can just run through a bunch of enemies, bring them to you then pull them all at once.

 

[WoW Killer]

Sure. I think so long as the base game is deep enough the progression elements only add to the enjoyment. Borderlands is a good example; being a full action game the base combat isn't ever a strict repetition even if you're going over the same content again. Repeat Crawmerax was a bit tiresome, but I tried to make a proper run out of it. Start from T-bone, then clear out the Shock base on your way (1 red + 1 Knoxx chest). Clear to Moxxi's to check the shop (also a red chest on the way), and then under the bridge for two more chests (1 red + 1 Knoxx). Then I'd do say half a dozen Crawmerax kills before quitting. I'd try to make use of some less used weapon types on the way to train the skills up as well.

I've not got to 2.5 in Borderlands 2 yet, but I imagine I'll keep playing that for a while even after I've finished it. Big change I've been reading about is how named mobs have specific legendaries they can drop. That, I think, is a big mistake. If you're looking out for a particular weapon then that means you're supposed to just farm a single boss, which takes all the unpredictability out of it. I'd rather be able to pick out a route from all the available content based on what I feel like running at the time, and keep that surprise element of maybe finding a rare I've never seen before.

Diablo 3 is an interesting case with all the nerfs and buffs they went through, e.g. nerfing chests and pots, and changes to valour. I guess the ideal is for efficient farming to be simply playing the game, as opposed to grinding (using that word carefully) specific lucrative spots. It's interesting because given a choice between playing through varied content and performing a more repetitive task with slightly higher rewards (e.g. chest farming), you'll be surprised how appealing the more mundane option can be.

 

[Verex]

Only for resources; never for XP.

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

Oddly I can't stand grinding for levels but farming for rare item drops I love it and end up doing way too much and burning myself out of the game before i've finished it. The worst case was The Last Remnant on PC I must of put 150 hrs into farming and sidequests before I quit 2/3's into the game. That was enough to teach me to curve my OCD nature with regards to content rich RPGs

Oh god, that game. I like it so much, but I just had to go beat the damn thing after ~80 hours, and even then I'd missed half the content in it. I still intend to go back and play it again in New Game+/hard mode some day and at least do all the rest of the quests and go to all the areas and get all the characters and kill all the optional bosses and everything, but I'm going to have to pace myself and probably refrain from making/upgrading every single item I run into, or I'll be there for years.

 

[Judgment90]

I have to farm all the time in Valkyria Chronicles 2 for certain credits with which to promote character classes.

It gets old and annoying quick.

 

[Playful Pony]

Nope. I don't find it fun. It's a big part of why I generally avoid most MMORPGs and a few offline RPGs too. Even quests that call for a bit too grindy stuff like collecting 20 of something (especially when that something only drops from a particular monster 50% of the time!) can cause me to drop a game entirely. I really do not enjoy myself doing that, and the point of gaming for me is to have fun so...

In a game like Planetside 2 I also don't "grind". I play the game normally, even if there is an item I want I'll just do whatever I want and eventually I'll be able to afford it. The only game I've ever found myself grinding (and I'm not entirely sure it can be called that) was Fallen Earth. I quite enjoyed riding around on my horse scavenging for resources. It was a very rleaxing thing for me X3.