Automation is the future and the future is now.
This build is only for farming Merla’s Fish Oil DE in Cursed Shore. There will always be a fastest and easiest farming location, and right now, this appears to be it. Keep in mind that whether the event is going or not, there are constant mob spawns.
The only requirement for this build is 30 in Inventions and take all three turret traits. I would recommend maxing firearms for pistols, because they make for easy tagging, should you ever feel like doing some of the work yourself.
The main things you will actually do are exactly what any capitalist does. Manual labor? Of course not. You’re management now. Your job entails the following:
*Manage your equipment — even with all the turret traits, your turrets will occasionally need re-dropping.
*Manage your workforce — a full party of fresh farmhands makes tagging mobs much easier. Everyone else in the party will be too busy farming to make these sorts of hiring decisions. You’d be surprised how long a friendly “Heya” can keep them working at their pitiful subsistence wages. If only they’d gone to grad school and become Engineers like us!
*Collect the profits — loot the loot.
*Check the internet — the innernet.
*Fire your pistols — might as well tag something far away from your turrets, since they’ll be tagging everything nearby. It also keeps the farmhands in line.
*Feasting — eat Omnomberry bars and wear your flashiest MF in general.
I recommend the Flame Turret. It’s great at tagging mobs. After that, it’s dealer’s choice. I’ve been enjoying Thumper and Rocket. I’m sure Rifle would work as well. You can heal with anything, but why wouldn’t you take Healing Turret when you’ve gone this far? Of course, take Supply Crate. But don’t sleep on Asura golems either. Because who doesn’t like robot workers? The Proletariat, that’s who. But keep chomping that cigar, because YOU control the means of production now.
Keep your turrets near one another (so you know where not to loot blindly and you don’t accidentally pick them up) but not on top of each other (so one red puddle doesn’t take all 3 out). Speaking of which, be careful not to afk where the green clouds sprout. I just died. Don’t worry, I rallied.
Of course, another build requirement is a lot of inventory space. And a handy Merchant Express doesn’t hurt either. As I type this, I keep running out of inventory space.
Like they always say, the hardest part of the job really is firing a party member. That’s because you’ll have to blindly Invite farmhands until one accepts.
Sorry this post is discombobulated. My turrets have been farming while I wrote it and I had to keep stopping to collect loot. I guess your free time really is the price of fabulous wealth.
If Anet’s idea of endgame is endless Legendary farming, then Engineer is king of the endgame. It was only a matter of time before the Engineer class rose above the uneducated classes.
Now go out there and CAPITALIZE, you CAPITALISTS!
(Please feel free to reply below with your success testimonials!)
Stinky Garbage, Engineer. Meatbag, Guardian. Dum Dums, Elementalist.
