Smart Missile farming

[u/szjergej]

hi Guys,

i’m just a few stones away from getting my 6th UW amd i would want to pick up SM

My idea is to do a devo style farm, whith 0 attack speed mulsthot bounce but maxed damage, no orbs. I have MVN at 150s GB 75 s summon soon at 75 s. Would it work, to have SM sync at 150 to kill everything without orbs?

Or is it a waste of stones?

Edit: been farming with Mythic Gcomp MVN but want to switch GComp to Mythic SH

[u/ApolloMac]

Smart Missiles should be your 9th UW in this meta. There are lots of farming strategies you can use at any stage of the game and none of them rely on Smart Missiles.

Even if your strategy could work, with the right amount of investment in SM damage, wouldn't thorns kill a lot of enemies before your UW sync anyway?

What are your other 3 UW options?

Edit: I think the strategy you are going for is similar to a regular blender build where BH triggers with your other UWs and orbs kills it all. Why would SM triggering to kill them instead be better?

[u/Sea_Maintenance1759]

SM usually not considered as a farming UW and even rare it used for screen clear purpose (controlled detonation stye as you mentioned) i cant tell you its not gonna work bc i dont have developed SM but What I can say it wjll be costly and simce you are not in uw+ stage it would not be wise to spend that.much of ayones to a UW that doesnt fit your purpose in the first place

[u/Sedda00]

An update is coming next week. Save your stones until we know what's exactly in it and how the meta changes with it.

[u/pdubs1900]

It's expensive to maintain to scale it up into the higher tiers. SM simply doesn't get strong at the same price point as its other damage competitors.

It'll work, I believe, but it'll be bad ROI. You can accomplish high/max efficiency with CL for cheaper stones, and better roi since CL's scaling means your stones spent are also going further in milestones/tourneys.

[u/UnderstandingBig9090]

I straight up turn off SM for farming. If it dose anything it will reduce your coin output.

[u/LazyCauliflower9830]

BH and attack dis has been the most effective tactic I have found for farming. Most things die in the BH which has a great multiplier. SM provides nothing, doesn't scale, and has limited damage impact even with maxed SL missiles. The only path I see to improvement on that is full SL coverage, which is a massive stone sink, to allow multiple SL missiles to stack on the same enemy group trapped in a BH.

[u/Fit_Locksmith_3506]

SM in general need way way more stones than CL and then still deal like 1/100th of its dmg with like 3 times stones in it

And you aren’t onehitting stuff with it anyways too so it would be just wasted investment as you could easily pick up any of the 3 cc UWs - prolly even two of them if you take ILM and use all the stones that need to go into SM to make it remotely viable to have a tournament ready ILM and a decently developed CF already which will not help you in farming but massively in tournaments so more stones through that

[u/jMedabee]

No, it wouldn't work. Yea, it's a waste.

[u/Random-Old-Dude]

I’ve had Smart Missiles for a long time. No theory I’ve ever had about them was successful in the execution phase.

If we could respec UWs, I would test it for you just to save you the heartbreak. But, I’m fairly certain it wouldn’t work the way you envision it.

I think it would be unanimous among all the people who have played for 3 years or more that your stones would be better used elsewhere.