What is, in your opinion, the best profession for farming?

Ok guys, I need some advice. I've decided for myself to get into farming a bit, my guild members are farming all kinds of things and make lots of money while the maximum I ever had is about 10k.

Now, I had a level 20 monk, but I deleted her. I'm so sorry for that now, I could've been 55/600 farming...

Anyways, I want your opinion about what is the best farming profession.

Should I choose a VwK 330 ritualist, a 55 monk, 130hp dervish, Green farmer Assassin or what?

I'd also like something that doesn't cost a fortune to set up. I'm not that rich.

We'll, 330 rits seem to be able to farm in a large variety of places, so I'd go get a rit.

Um ... there isn't a 'best' farming profession. It depends totally on what you want to farm, whether you want a steady, dependable income, or one rare but very valuable item every 50 hours or so in average, and whether you want stuff that you can merch right away for a quick buck, or something that you must sell to other players to make it worth the effort.

Let's have an example: any lv20 character can trivially farm lv2 - lv8 gargoyles in Ascalon. They drop Singed Gargoyle Skulls, which can be traded for Spiked Eggnog during the Wintersday. You can drink the nogs yourself if you're going for the title, or sell them to somebody who does. Just by swatting low level monsters you can earn the equivalent of about 40k per hour, thus bypassing the loot scaling system which tries to cap your average solo farming income to around 10k per hour.

Necro or Monk, as for 55 is fun and has a ton of variety

Imo, monk, hands down. As tmakinen said, there's no "best" profession for farming, but the monk can farm a whole bunch of stuff. I do monk farms all the time, and I know it's bragging, but at this point I suspect that I could 55/600 nearly anywhere in the game (with one exception being places with that anti-farmer stance. You know what I mean if you've ever done tombs. But even there there's alternate farming builds).

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Terra tank does nice work too. Obsidian flesh is for spell caster farm.

If "best" is like in "most fun" I'd go for the 330 rit, for sure.

...but I guess this is a money making-thing, right?

Monk or Ele or Warrior. Cant decide the best >.<

This is about teh 1000th thread about that, gratz!!
Everything has his specialty, accept para's.. they suxx0r

A 55 ranger does nice i think.

Quote: Originally Posted by krypt1200

i would say monk
they can play 55/13/600...etc...
second profession variable, anti-interupt, knockdown
can also use different elite for AoE/ life loss/cold damage...etc...etc...

i say have all of them, if you want any at all :P

i think ele hands down

paragon is one of the best

nec atm since I like to farm greens and the solo nec 55 sv farmer is awsome in HM and NM depends on how bored i am.
But ranger also used to work very well beyond the toucher farming allthough that is fun the barrage winnowing splinter Margonite build was fun. i can't remember if you can do in on HM though

What is, in your opinion, the best profession for farming?


Now that my friend is the million dollar question.

Now that, Skinkboy, is a reeeaaalllyyy clever answer....

I asked my question here on the forums, because I would like to hear you opinions, try them out and then form my own opinion.

Quote: Originally Posted by Sir Pandra Pierva

Ele sure is a nice profession for farming with shadow form or as terra tank.

But making a farming char??? You have to play the whole game with it in order to get to the farming spots. Might as well play a profession you enjoy in normal game as well.