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    Default Discussion: Is farming The Director Bot worth it?

    From what I can tell, the director bot has about the same drop rate as all the other bosses, but takes much longer to kill. So what do you think? Is the director bot really worth killing/farming?
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    From my experience, nope, not at all.

    I've probably done a total of 10 director runs in my entire 26-31 and counting, I don't see the point.

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    In one instance, I do believe lvl5 holds more chest then the rest of the other zone. More chest more mats.


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    Quote Originally Posted by nzane View Post
    In one instance, I do believe lvl5 holds more chest then the rest of the other zone. More chest

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    True, although you can farm the first three chests of Scorcher for easy mats instead .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Silentarrow View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by nzane View Post
    In one instance, I do believe lvl5 holds more chest then the rest of the other zone. More chest

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    True, although you can farm the first three chests of Scorcher for easy mats instead .

    Also true, and you can solo farm those. But if your farming EXP/mats. Director is not a bad choice. Altho I only did venom-scorch anyway. Thru 31 to also farm mats/epic. I hated director.

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    Default yep

    The director bot is very useless. I got a custom recipe once tho
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    Not had much luck with them a few purple here and there.. but from running the whole of Sloucho yesterday I got around 7 purple drops in 2 whole runs

    When farming I tend to run levels 2-3 and rmk, works quite well.. though all of this is random ha, you will prob find someone who dont get them through mini-bosses/chest but the team get a bunch when going against Director lol.

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    From what I've heard he is the only boss that drops actual pinks. I've farmed him over a hundred times over 90% of the time using x3 Enhancer & still haven't seen him drop anything but the occasional Purples & a couple recipes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bakoffmycandy View Post
    From what I've heard he is the only boss that drops actual pinks. I've farmed him over a hundred times over 90% of the time using x3 Enhancer & still haven't seen him drop anything but the occasional Purples & a couple recipes.
    Pinks can come from elsewhere as well. I've seen one from a chest and the other from the boss in map 3.

    Unless there's something special that drops from Director, I don't see the point

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ellyidol View Post
    Pinks can come from elsewhere as well. I've seen one from a chest and the other from the boss in map 3.

    Unless there's something special that drops from Director, I don't see the point
    Agree Elly, also PINK have dropped in Level 1 and 2 of sloucho, so pretty random like Vanity.

    Still trying to comprehend how 2k+ can die from Barrels O.o

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    In my own experiences, I've gotten more purple drops from scorcher runs than directors. They drops almost the same stuff from purp armor to weapons.
    I'd say it's not worth it, wastes time, money. You could be doing 2 scorcher runs in the same time you do 1 director run.
    But the again, it might be that I just do more normal map runs than commercial filming, so I would obviously get more drops there.
    and the intro and outro to director runs is really.... quite annoying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zaltiar View Post
    intro and outro to director runs is really.... quite annoying.
    Especially when it bugs out.. and you die before the cut scene finishes :O

    Still trying to comprehend how 2k+ can die from Barrels O.o

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    True. I do lvl's 1-3. It's where the purps show up more often.

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    lol, you can go to menu from your phone buttons, then quit

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zaltiar View Post
    lol, you can go to menu from your phone buttons, then quit
    Lol my phone freezes and I cant press any buttons haha, if I hold down my home and exit that way, and I log back in that instance just before I die, it still counts as my phone/lagg thinks its still running grrr.. Androids eh.. lol

    Still trying to comprehend how 2k+ can die from Barrels O.o

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    Farming director is just a waste imo.
    It takes about ~4 min.
    Only sees purp there and even that he is not so generous.
    Thats an other map you can clear and more chance of drops.
    I sometimes join a random game coz theres no other choice. But I dont mind doing it. You never know lol.

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    For the time you have to put in, on director, you don't get enough decent drops. Not worth it to me. I usually just do it for people who haven't done it yet. I personally, just run lvls 2 and 3 the rmk.

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    Agree about the value of farming him - and also about the length of the cutscenes. *yawn* (and that was the question of the thread) But I do like the aspect that it requires a little coordination. This weekend I was with a party and I'm pretty sure we got him with just three "charges" because everyone hit their assigned platform each time. I think there is a lot of opportunity for baddies that require a group to establish a tactic, and preferably that involves all character classes to maximize the success. It's the teamwork aspect of the game I enjoy the most.


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    Yeah I'm gonna have to agree as well with the fact that the return here isn't great enough for the amount of work required. Way too much effort required for anything that isn't epic, or a pink IMO.

    If he were to almost never drop, but at least drop very high valued items I'd fight him. But even a good drop here usually isn't good enough :-). I'll stick to first three levels as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MimeRifle View Post
    Agree about the value of farming him - and also about the length of the cutscenes. *yawn* (and that was the question of the thread) But I do like the aspect that it requires a little coordination. This weekend I was with a party and I'm pretty sure we got him with just three "charges" because everyone hit their assigned platform each time. I think there is a lot of opportunity for baddies that require a group to establish a tactic, and preferably that involves all character classes to maximize the success. It's the teamwork aspect of the game I enjoy the most.
    Good Point and I agree, he's funniest due to teamworks. Also, I bet he drops pinks also, just not farmed nearly as much as Scorch. FYI, was running level 4 the other day and I think that's the best level for exp. Constant mobs, lot's of chests, little downtime and no backtracking, just no biggie boss so limited chance for good loot (has anyone seen a purple or pink drop in level 4?).

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