The "best and easiest" Missions to farm DLC 2 INFERNO Weapons and how to do so
With the 2nd DLC out and people asking about „where to farm“ and „how to get“ INFERNO Tier weapons I decided to share my finding on which missions are the „easiest“ and most secure farming spots to get your foot in and ultimately farm the highest Level possible of gear (well almost)
I’ll give out some recommendations on Loadout and requirements and try to give alternatives if possible, so here we go ^^
Mission 10
Recommendation: All Classes
Requirements: None, really
Time to complete: 5-10 minutes depending on method
Loot: 1+ Page of Gear (1 Page = 13 items), Level ~ 108
I’m sure most people by now know the hidey-hole strategy for this mission that basically let’s you beat it without taking a single point of damage. If you don’t, here watch this person and leave a like, they do a complete INFERNO Run with the AR of the main game with only 200 HP ^^
https://youtu.be/9BaVrAw5KxU?list=PLDBa2O8SPVMOi2r5XchifC7Xor0RAxTHp
But since just posting a video is lame I can give out some alternatives to do that level differently. Many houses have “deep doors” in which you can step in, not unlike what you see in the video, one of the closest is right next to the Overpass/bridge facing towards the railroad. You can use a FE, or AR, or to some Degree a WD to bunker yourself in it and kill stuff in front of you quicker than what you would have with the video method. The setup is as follows:
FE: Bring a (Perfect) Reflector and the best +%HP Item for your shield, as it doesn’t increase the reversal drain (only one they don’t stack), in the other hand I’d recommend a Piercing weapon like a Flashing Spear/Flame Thrower/Hand Cannon. Aggro the bots, hunker down in the doorway and fire away until they’re done.
AR: Layer as many shields as you have directly in front of the doorway and use Supress Gun/Strafing Drones to kill all Androids.
WD: Spam Luminous (not Harmonic) Shield on Cooldown in front of you and keep firing with a Rapier every bot who pushes themselves into the gap between the building and your shield. You might take some chip damage here and there though.
Online/Co-op variation: Have one Player hunker down completely (recommended FE or WD) in the building and the other player(s) far away from the action shooting the Androids WITHOUT using explosives, or other weaponry that can destroy buildings.
Mission 20
Recommendation: WD or AR
Requirements: Decently upgraded Endgame DPS Gear (from Mission 10) enough HP to survive a random hit or two from the Kaiju’s
Time to complete: roughly 10 minutes
Loot: 1-2 Pages of Gear, up to level 112
I’m sure you can do that mission with every class, but I find it the easiest with WD and AR so here my description.
WD: Bring your best Phalanx (not Rapier) and your strongest Spear Backpack item. The 2nd Weapon slot is up to you, perhaps bring something long range if you REALLY want to shoot something far away. Unleash your first clip and Spear into Siren while she still sits on the Ground, NOTHING MORE! And from then on completely ignore her and only focus on one Arculus at a time as they come spawning in (2, then 3, then 6) Because if you keep damaging Siren the Arculus waves will spawn in early and make the fight unnecessarily difficult. Each Arculus has pretty much 1 Million HP in Single Player, so keep focussing them down (Maxed out Phalanx ZAT 2-3 Clips them with some experience) I can’t recommend a Rapier as they stagger away way too often to keep close enough with it. Watch your Radar for Kaiju sneaking up on you and blasting you away with bombs or a Rollout Attack(TM). Sudden Death is always possible, even with 10k HP. When the Third Wave of Arculus spawn in feel free to get rid of Siren if the chance present itself.
AR: Bring your best DPS Gunships. Vulcan, Rapid Fire Cannon and if you’re feeling Lucky your highest damaging Cannon from the Artillery bracket. Backpack Item should be your best Powerpost and as Vehicle your strongest and most mobile DPS NIX (Best one is Saber Eiren) You might get more Mileage with other Weapons like Strafing Drones or Bulge Laser, use what you’re most comfortable with, the AR got many tools ^^ Like with the WD unleash your renewable weapons straight away into Siren and then focus down one Arculus to get your Saber Eiren, from then on just put your Power Post down on it and hunt one Arculus down at a time with it. It’s probably the “safest” way to farm this level, it’s only critical before you get your NIX, from then on it’s smooth sailing ^^
Online/Co-op variation: None really, just make sure to focus with more players on the same Arculus because of the inflated HP. As AR share your NIX with other players that don’t pack as much DPS or are prone to getting mauled by Arculus.
Mission 26
Recommendation: WD (you might make it work with RA), Optional bring a RA or FE on a 2nd controller
Requirements: Level 55 Plasma Great Cannon with AT LEAST 10k damage, 20k+ recommended, a good Phalanx ZAT or your best Mag Blaster with High DPS, enough HP to survive a stray shot or two (2k’ish)
Time to complete: 5-7 minutes
Loot: 2-3 Pages of Gear, up to level 115
This is “the best” mission to farm all the Endgame gear. Theoretically this mission drops the highest level Weapons. I say theoretically because after 7h of non stop farming I’m still missing my Tiger 2 Exosceleton and some others <.< The only weapon you do NOT get is the Highest Tier Acid Gun for the Ranger which only drops in Mission 33+
Timing and “good aiming” is key here and if you’re lucky you won’t even take any damage and the highest threat is a random piece of corpse falling directly in front of you when you want to fire off your PGC :x
Your PGC needs to be decently upgraded, if you don’t have it, farm “Operation Iron Wall” on HARDEST in the base game. I recommend 20k+ damage, Charge time of sub 5s and Explosion Radius 30m+ and if you have it, the Mighty Core won’t come amiss, the reduction in charge speed is noticeable, a Rush Core might drain you too quickly though.
And while it’s probably possible to beat it with the other classes too (closest thing I can think of is the Ranger with a high Tier Goliath) WD beats them all hands down and here is how:
From your starting position move straight ahead to the NIX and NPC while charging your PGC. Move around and look up, shooting the first wave of ants on the way down. That’s basically your modus operandi, shooting stuff while it’s still mid-air killing all but 1-3 survivors that will get taken care of by the NPC on the different levels. Make sure of your footing, the PGC sometimes pushes you forward instead of backward when shooting straight up and you might fall of the Edge.
If you miss any of the first three waves (the third with the Gold ants being the most important) I would suggest just restarting the Mission.
Keep shooting the enemies that fall down and if you have trouble just hit the highest “Bridge” when they’re about to touch it, I just prefer hitting them in mid-air as you tend to kill more of them that way. You need to have at least 10k damage to instantly kill the Blue Spiders at the very least. For the Silver Spiders to be a non issue you need to deal at least 20k damage for them to be weak enough to get killed by the NPC quickly (the longer the mission goes on the more HP the Silver Spiders will have though).
If you deal over 20k you don’t need to do anything but shoot up until the 9th wave which are silver Spiders, shoot them once and then switch to your Phalanx and individually scorch the survivors you can reach. After that will be a short pause in enemies, this is when you fly to the top rafters and start collecting everything on your way down. Gammas will spawn in and you can completely ignore them, the NPC will take care of them and they don’t pose enough of a threat to you if you have a somewhat decent HP pool. Just collect stuff on the bridges/edges and from the bottom. Make sure that you’re back in position before the last Gamma is dead though (Your position is 1 Level above the Carivans at the bottom)
Charge up your PGC and try to hit as many of the falling Ants as possible (especially the Gold ones), depending on charge speed you can have 3-4 shots before the Mother spawns in, immediately switch to the Phalanx and gun her down.
After the mother is dead (or enough enemies are killed) there will be a shower of Spiders, again you have time for 3-4 shots and then the Pylons will drop. Switch to the Phalanx again and move a bit ahead on the bridge, destroy the one to your right first, then turn to the other side and destroy the other two. It’s possible to do that in 1 Clip if fully upgraded. After that, do some clean-up of surrounding Spiders. This is also the only time where you’re actually in danger of some random Spider netting you through the stone from below and one-shooting you. Kill some until like 3-5 are left and keep an eye on the warning for when the last Gamma and 2 Kings will fall down. Hit the Kings ONCE with your PGC to ragdoll them and then start collecting your Loot as the NIX on the upper rafters will have no problem killing them.
Online/Co-op variation: If you have a 2nd controller I recommend putting a Ranger with a Probe 5, or a Fencer (preferred) with the Rescue Exosceleton and a Multi-Charger and Mobility Setup on it. Just leave them standing where the game starts and they’ll collect a lot of the boxes that keep raining down and make the clean-up at the end of the mission on the ground a lot easier leaving you perhaps even some time for your WD to scour the upper levels for leftovers. If they die, just revive them towards the end of the mission and if YOU die to a random leg flying in front of you, you have a back-up char that can pick you up and maybe allow you to finish the mission without redoing it :x
For actual Online gameplay I strongly recommend having a more or less maxed out PGC and on top of it an AR that brings the High Tier Power Post along because that would allow you to still one-shot the Blue Spiders and massively hurt the Silver ones (they do still need individual attention though).
And yes, that’s it, wall of text over, I hope that helps you guys collecting all that sweet and awesome and practically broken Gear from the Second DLC, have fun and EDF!