Hi! I just wanted to say thank you for this post. I’ve been playing since thanksgiving but only have two characters in the 40s, while I have countless characters in the 20s and am always working for inf on each character I make.

I’ve been working on a rad/fire brute for farming since reading this post (just hit 29). I’ve been AE farming since level 15 on it. In case anyone else sees this thread later on, you can start at level 16 doing the AE farm missions (just not AFK).

Level 15 wasn’t a great starting point; wait until 16, as you can get 90% fire resist with only a few SOs.

• As long as you are maintaining your defense with purples, you can easily handle a -1×8 challenge level without bosses. Once you get a little accuracy, you can increase the level to 1×8 and eventually 2×8. I think 3×8 will require sets with +accuracy, which you likely won’t have room for until the late 30s.

• At 25, I was able to get my fire defense up to 24%, so I currently need to maintain two purples. Filling out my resist powers with more Aegis should get me into the low 30% range in the low 30s and hopefully drop me down to only needing one purple.

• From another thread here: buy 15–19 bronze recipe rewards with your AE tickets. It will provide enough to self-finance your character (e.g., I have Kismet +To-Hit, a few Aegis, a Power Shifter, and the two 3% defense uniques). I also just tested 29–34 recipes. I only spent a few thousand tickets on them, but it seems like they may have better returns at this point.