Quote (Batou079 @ Jun 8 2012 09:35am)
Old news. it is FALSE that mercs & ferrets don't work. Just stand far enough into a corner where the tower is OFF screen. Test the towers range to make sure it is still shooting mobs at you before afking...
I did it many times with merc.
However, this method is insanely inefficient both the hassle/time to come back every 20-30 min (can't truely afk meaning it interrupts what you are doing very often).
Mathwise, normal farming makes 20x-30x this much in an hours time. Each afk farming session gets me about 10k-15k. Easily make that much in 1-2 min of normal farming.
Therefore i would have to do this for 10 hours, assuming i could make a full 30 min session every time to even come close to my LOW end of normal farming.
insanely inefficient when i make that much in a single hour. Who has time to sit around for 10 hours, jumping in game EVERY 30 min.
in my opinion not worth it. I tried testing this on chore weekends for 4-6 hours at a time, concluded that it was a huge waste of time.
TL;DR? While the IDEA seems lucrative, the efficiency and actual profit vs time margin is ridiculously bad... you make more money doing a 1 hour normal farming session ONCE a day.
The whole point of this (semi) AFK farming is to make some extra gold on the side while you are busy doing something else. Of course it's not going to beat traditional gold farming methods. But, when you need to do work or study or whatever it is you may do, it is a decent on-the-side gold farming method.
This post was edited by OmegaJSP on Jun 8 2012 12:27pm