Solo cortex farming?

[Squirting Elephant]

If you're playing solo, you'll need to complete 120 Treant runs per week to max out your purification. Relying on guilds isn't ideal since they often become inactive, don't run purifications, or have other issues.

High-level content like Pro Dungeons or Pro Monoliths doesn't seem worth it just for cortexes. They mostly drop level 1 cortexes and take too long to complete.

Treant runs, on the other hand, are much more efficient. Each run takes about 60-80 seconds, rewards 3x level 1 cortexes, costs only 6 bullets, and is extremely safe.

Are there any dailies or weeklies I might have overlooked?

[Michael Daemon]

I dont actually know what they drop from specifically because I've always been swimming in them and theres no way i've cleared 150 rifts let alone each week. They probably drop from other sources too.

[Squirting Elephant]

Cortexes drop, but not in sufficient quantities. By week 3, you likely have all the mods and all content completed, leaving no reason to play beyond farming cortexes. If you bring your house and gear from the previous season, all you really need is the season-exclusive content and starchrom, which all can be farmed in a single day. But cortexes remain the bottleneck, and to make it worse, level 1 enemies drop the same cortexes as level 60 ones.

Cortexes drop from elite enemies, events, and bosses. However, events usually yield around two level 2 cortexes but take far too long to complete. In contrast, the low level Treant elites reliably drops three level 1 cortexes and can be farmed extremely quickly, repeatedly, and safely on normal difficulty w/o even killing the boss.

The only viable option seems to be farming the Treant 120 times per week, which becomes incredibly tedious. Additionally, I'm currently playing Way of Winter, which features a significantly smaller map, resulting in FAR fewer cortexes upon full completion.

[Noxsa]

solo the refinery close to blackfell, its easy to solo and rewards you with lv3 cortex if you have a lv4 permit

[みさかりん]

Killing elites and public event crisis are the main source of cortexes. You get a lot of level 1/2 cortex from doing gear/weapon crate run if you do that, otherwise join public event crisis to get cortexes. If you don't have time to do these 2 things, you can try buying from other players. Buying is not farming but can't think of any other good source of cortex aside from those 2.

Currently in Manibus hard phase 1, joined 2 days late and haven't actively playing much. Just afking and checking for public events from time to time while doing something else, I have 125 level 2 cortex and 95 level 1s.

[CrackerNoir]

Is there any dailies and weeklies you might have overlooded? yeah, try the ENTIRE GAME. Opening gear/weapon chests, killing elites in open world, completing public events, mist events, refineries, silos, LEA and monolith all yield level 2-3 cortexes without expending any controller. A 2 hours loot run across Manibus should give you more than enough cortexes to do your weekly if you feel the need to do purify immediately, otherwise just playing the game normally the entire week should give you more than enough. The game is in no way shape or form forcing you to do 120 treant runs, that's literally just you self-harming yourself buddy.

[CrackerNoir]

Originally posted by みさかりん:

Killing elites and public event crisis are the main source of cortexes. You get a lot of level 1/2 cortex from doing gear/weapon crate run if you do that, otherwise join public event crisis to get cortexes. If you don't have time to do these 2 things, you can try buying from other players. Buying is not farming but can't think of any other good source of cortex aside from those 2.

Currently in Manibus hard phase 1, joined 2 days late and haven't actively playing much. Just afking and checking for public events from time to time while doing something else, I have 125 level 2 cortex and 95 level 1s.

Better than buying, just type on the chat if anyone is purifying their base so they could share their cortexes with you. Considering how bad turrets are behaving in this game, a lot of people will want to have extra guns on their base just to avoid any damage they might suffer from.

[jenn]

Originally posted by Chronobus:

Is there any dailies and weeklies you might have overlooded? yeah, try the ENTIRE GAME. Opening gear/weapon chests, killing elites in open world, completing public events, mist events, refineries, silos, LEA and monolith all yield level 2-3 cortexes without expending any controller. A 2 hours loot run across Manibus should give you more than enough cortexes to do your weekly if you feel the need to do purify immediately, otherwise just playing the game normally the entire week should give you more than enough. The game is in no way shape or form forcing you to do 120 treant runs, that's literally just you self-harming yourself buddy.

This. I play solo and cortexes have never been an issue. You can also use your synth bench to upgrade all the level 1's and 2's you don't need. I always have hundreds of lvl 3's left at the end of the season. (which helps when moving into a new server I can transfer 40 lvl 3's in phase 1 to get my full starchrom amount for purification) I definitely don't farm Treant like that, nor any of the other bosses and silos. They're too easy to get elsewhere.

[Koira74]

solo cortex farming.... effin easy... morons run bosses....

[Squirting Elephant]

So the general advice pretty much is: "play the game and Manibus gives a lot".

Again: there's no point in doing events, chest/loot runs/events because I'm pretty much maxed out and I play Way of Winter scenario (not Manibus!). I ONLY need cortexes, NOTHING ELSE. I takes at most 2 days to finish the scenario, become a god, farm all new content and stock up on 390k EL and then.. Wait ~5.5 weeks while farming cortexes.. Maybe farm a few new mods but the chance of a better one dropping is pretty much 0% and I just destroy all for more parts due to game limits.. I got my important 5-5 deviants, I don't need those either anymore.

Again: public events are a TERRIBLE source for cortexes compared to boss runs and not by a bit.

Originally posted by Chronobus:

just type on the chat if anyone is purifying their base so they could share their cortexes with you. Considering how bad turrets are behaving in this game, a lot of people will want to have extra guns on their base just to avoid any damage they might suffer from.

Yeah, teaming up with others is pretty much the only way to prevent boss-running. And yes, turrets are pretty much useless. Sadly there are no English-only servers and my EU server is again split up between Russians, Germans, French, Spanish, etc. so after the first 2 weeks, it's hard finding anyone to do any content like purifications.

Originally posted by jenn:

You can also use your synth bench to upgrade all the level 1's and 2's you don't need.

That's exactly what you do when you run bosses. But you need 2160 lvl1 cortexes per season total.

I noticed that Chaos Weaver enemy spawns can occasionally drop a lot of cortexes if you show up at the right time and quickly eliminate elites before others insta-gib them. However, this method is far too unreliable for farming.

[CrackerNoir]

All I can gather from your comment is you lucked out on the mod farm and just here to flex rather than bringing up a legitimate issue. Unfortunately, unlike you with your ex luck, the rest of us peasants do not have a whole lot of good mods and still have to keep farming mods long after we cleared the shop.

So yeah, this post is 100% skill issue due to god tier luck. Case closed.

[みさかりん]

Originally posted by Squirting Elephant:

So the general advice pretty much is: "play the game and Manibus gives a lot".

Again: there's no point in doing events, chest/loot runs/events because I'm pretty much maxed out and I play Way of Winter scenario (not Manibus!). I ONLY need cortexes, NOTHING ELSE. I takes at most 2 days to finish the scenario, become a god, farm all new content and stock up on 390k EL and then.. Wait ~5.5 weeks while farming cortexes.. Maybe farm a few new mods but the chance of a better one dropping is pretty much 0% and I just destroy all for more parts due to game limits.. I got my important 5-5 deviants, I don't need those either anymore.

Again: public events are a TERRIBLE source for cortexes compared to boss runs and not by a bit.

Originally posted by Chronobus:

just type on the chat if anyone is purifying their base so they could share their cortexes with you. Considering how bad turrets are behaving in this game, a lot of people will want to have extra guns on their base just to avoid any damage they might suffer from.

Yeah, teaming up with others is pretty much the only way to prevent boss-running. And yes, turrets are pretty much useless. Sadly there are no English-only servers and my EU server is again split up between Russians, Germans, French, Spanish, etc. so after the first 2 weeks, it's hard finding anyone to do any content like purifications.

Originally posted by jenn:

You can also use your synth bench to upgrade all the level 1's and 2's you don't need.

That's exactly what you do when you run bosses. But you need 2160 lvl1 cortexes per season total.

I noticed that Chaos Weaver enemy spawns can occasionally drop a lot of cortexes if you show up at the right time and quickly eliminate elites before others insta-gib them. However, this method is far too unreliable for farming.

Cortexes are not the only thing you want when joining public crisis event. This is to maximize the controller rewards. Public crisis events nets you materials, acid, stardust source and cortexes and a good amount at that. If you use your controllers on easy/hard mode, sure you might not need to join public crisis event but for people like me who only use controllers exclusively on pro dungeons, these are good sources of the said resources. The suggestion that I made may not be for you since we use controllers differently but I just put it out there since I have so many excess cortexes and might provide you with some insight.

I'm curious to see what your mods look like. Are they double gold + 1 purple with all 4 relevant stats? I see a lot of people complaining that, "oh I finish farming my best in slot mods in xxx amount of days only" only to see 1 useable substat with 3 useless ones. Do you have a separate loadout of mods for elites and great ones? I've completed 3 seasons using all controllers and I still don't have a double gold +1 purple tier with the 4th one being a relevant substat.

Btw, what I am talking about relevant substat is, I mainly use Jaws and all of my mods have crit damage, weapon damage, damage to great one and a separate set of mods with damage to elites and all of these sub stats are either gold or purple tier.

[Squirting Elephant]

My mods aren’t that good but combined with buffs they will do. At some point, it’s all about damage numbers. Your mods sound better than mine, though. I used my controllers for pro content and guaranteed epic mod boxes, using them for non-epic mod rolls feels bad. Your comments are good and helpful and it's true that extra controllers may still come in handy in a future season but I'm too lazy right now and I recommend others to take your advice for sure. I appreciate your comments.

Originally posted by Chronobus:

All I can gather from your comment is you lucked out on the mod farm and just here to flex rather than bringing up a legitimate issue.

I just couldn’t find another way to make my point clear anymore (I only need cortexes). Yes, this game revolves around luck because you need mods, blueprints, and friends/hives. I got lucky with the first two.

Luck is undeniably the biggest factor in this game (I'm sorry). Skill can improve your chances to some extent, but there’s no outplaying someone who lucked out this early yet. Some upcoming balance changes will probably disadvantage those who’ve been lucky so far if that makes you feel better.

After 2–3 seasons, though, everyone will likely reach this point, having everything they need except cortexes. This problem will at some point affect every solo player, especially in small scenarios.

[みさかりん]

Well they've introduced bp conversion and they will increase Starchrom acquisition starting December 19th. I feel the same that there's nothing more to do aside from getting more Starchrom for me and getting those perfect substats mod, but I also know that I'm not the only one who plays Once human. Time to move to another game while they enhance stuff and make end game more interesting.

[Noxsa]

Originally posted by みさかりん:

Well they've introduced bp conversion and they will increase Starchrom acquisition starting December 19th. I feel the same that there's nothing more to do aside from getting more Starchrom for me and getting those perfect substats mod, but I also know that I'm not the only one who plays Once human. Time to move to another game while they enhance stuff and make end game more interesting.

the only enhancement they are going to add is more loot crates, they used to promise us the "world" and it never comes or get added in a way that it was said. always a fraction of what we think they would add, just to keep us calm and playing / waiting.

its all a farse at this point they only interested in your MONEY and NOT your opinions.
be smart, leave this game now before you dig a hole so deep you feel you can't get out. i'm in for at least a couple of 100 dollars, but i'm out, F this greed. i keep saying it 4 MONTHS i'm waiting on a fix for what i bought with REAL money, do you think they would help someone who payed them money ? .... NOAP they already have my money and are hiding behind the EULA that said you can't refund micro transactions !!! BE SMART PLAY OTHER GAMES, THIS AIN'T WORTH IT.

[みさかりん]

Originally posted by Noxsa:

Originally posted by みさかりん:

Well they've introduced bp conversion and they will increase Starchrom acquisition starting December 19th. I feel the same that there's nothing more to do aside from getting more Starchrom for me and getting those perfect substats mod, but I also know that I'm not the only one who plays Once human. Time to move to another game while they enhance stuff and make end game more interesting.

the only enhancement they are going to add is more loot crates, they used to promise us the "world" and it never comes or get added in a way that it was said. always a fraction of what we think they would add, just to keep us calm and playing / waiting.

its all a farse at this point they only interested in your MONEY and NOT your opinions.
be smart, leave this game now before you dig a hole so deep you feel you can't get out. i'm in for at least a couple of 100 dollars, but i'm out, F this greed. i keep saying it 4 MONTHS i'm waiting on a fix for what i bought with REAL money, do you think they would help someone who payed them money ? .... NOAP they already have my money and are hiding behind the EULA that said you can't refund micro transactions !!! BE SMART PLAY OTHER GAMES, THIS AIN'T WORTH IT.

I'd give them the benefit of the doubt. Either way, if what you're saying happens, then whatever amount I spend is worth it for me since I had a lot of fun with my playtime. I probably won't finish this 4th season since Path of exile 2 EA is coming on Dec 6th and I think that is a good time to take a breather with this game.