Mob Farming Spots

The concept of a farming-spot is twofold:

The spot must have enough MOBs ("mobile entities", aka "monsters or beasts"), and a high enough respawn, such that a single player can kill there with little (enough for a reactor to recharge from empty) to no downtime between fights.
The mobs at that location should drop mostly stackable loot so that it is time-profitable to kill there without a hauler character.

Be sure to read Leveling Tips before you set out to grind for the first time. It may help you pick a good spot!

Named Mobs MOBs of interest

Related page: Mob <== a one line per mob summary of the damage types each mob does and the resistances it has.

Common Leveling Path

Below CL [combat level] 8, new players should plan to shoot up everything possible in their new chum starting sector.
Other similarly easy areas/mobs are:
- Jenquai -- Dionysians [CL 1 to 4] at nav Gas Field Deep 1, 2, and 3 in Jupiter sector. These do Explosive damage and can easily be tanked with a Tattered Kimono Shield M2 which you can buy at Jove's Fury station. Any level 2 beam weapon will work.
- Terran -- Scuttlebug Larvae [CL 3] in 'roid fields to north and east of Earth station, plus Needlenose [CL 5] between nav Corporate Park and Nav Group Shrine. Your Missiles and level 2 shield will be enough.
- Progen -- the three Hunting Grounds in Mars will do fine. CL 6, 7, and 8 plus 10. Remember to "/showdamage" and change your resistance buffs (devices) for the target you're killing.
Do this until you are about CL 10; then try one or more of the following;

Shusens [CL 6] near Hue moon in Dahin sector,
Missiles work well on the Drones [CL 8, 9, 10] at nav Infinity Campus, Earth sector. JDs can practice their Summon technique there as well.
Swooping Eagle sector features a variety of CL 4 to 14 critters in the asteroid belt in front of the planet. Southwest is the safer end.
Progens would do well to invade Asteroid Belt Gamma sector and behind the Prison there.

Once your weapons are upgraded (CL12) many people try the CL17 Great Red Spindles at nav Uranus 2, in Uranus Sector. There are similar size Spindles in the outer navs in Dahin sector. Dzurai Spawn [CL 10 and 12] can be found in Slayton near navs Slayton 4 & 5. Dejected Miners [CL 14] in Aganju are also easy (they will not aggro until attacked).

After this point differences in the weapon and damage types really take hold and different areas become the best spot based on your Race/Class. (see below for ideas)

Around CL40-48, options become very limited.
- Ostarae at Ostarae Harvest (hidden nav) in VG are good until around CL42/43 (or CL 36 if in a group of 6).
- CL46 Sturren/Sults in Nifleheim Cloud: 180,000 HP and similar resists to Voltoi
- After that, your best bet is Voltoi in Antares, the CL 48s. You'll need at least a lvl 7 shield to fight them. The 48s do less damage and have roughly the same HP (~120,000) as the 45s. There are far fewer deviants (aggro mobs) in the 48s as well. The loot doesn't stack, so use the Account Vault page to transfer loot to another char, and send ammo back.'
- Your other option for CL48 mobs are Bullywere Leeches in R4c: 170,000 HP, and they like to swarm. But they drop ONLY lvl 7-9 bio-loot that stacks, so if you have extra DPS, great.

Before going Hog Wild here

Spend a few minutes reviewing the pirate factions -- The Red Dragon and the Chavez Storyline Walkthrough. Each faction controls access via gate to a selected area and a limited number of missions -- neither of which is available to you if your standing with them is poor. Killing either increases standing with the other. Many players select which to be friendly with and which to whack mercilessly to gain faction standing (and sector access) with the other. The time to decide this is now. Actually you can gain the fastest RD faction killing Vrix now. So you can be friendly with both (kill Vrix for RD faction, kill RD for Chavez faction).

Farming spots

When making entries to this table, if a navigation-point is hidden (i.e. does not show up on the character's in-game map) please include its X,Y,Z coordinates here instead of the Nav name, so that other pilots can locate it. If the mob's combat level (CL) is less than 10, please use a leading-zero so a column-sort on CL will order it properly in the list.

New players needing navigational assistance may find Xulei's Net7 Map useful.

For a comprehensive collection of interactive sector charts which include hidden navpoints, visit the ENBmaps website.

System	Nav or X,Y,Z	Combat Levels	Notes
Jotunheim	Deep Jotunheim 1	06 & 7	Chavez
Mars	Hunting Grounds	06	Kracken Cows. Non aggro till u shoot. Shoot plasma at you
Dahin	Hau	06	Shusens. Deal energy damage. Resistant to Plasma damage. Some drop heads.
Odin Rex	Nav Odin Rex 2	05 & 9	Chavez
61 Cygni	8k toward planet from station	14	Dejected Miners. no aggro until you shoot and then only the one
Odin's Belt	Between Nav Odin's Belt 4 & Nav Odin's Belt 3	10	Mist Runners
Freya	Freya Field 2	10-12	Mist Runners. They shoot explosive damage at you.
Freya	Gaius Wreck & Folkvang	26-30	Zenshai ships. Vulnerable to Explosive; they resist plasma (some) & Chem (a lot). If you sit about 7km east of Gaius Wreck you'll mostly encounter 26es and be less likely to be overwhelmed by numbers. They use EMP, Plasma, and Energy against you.
Dahin	Nav P 15 to P18	12, 13, 15, 17	Spindles. Energy damage; may drop L 3 laser weapon.
Shepard	Pax Swift Star, 45k WNW of Frontier Field Delta	20	Scuttlebugs; they deal energy damage; occasionally drop the non-vendor comp BlackBox CoreCage. Mission to kill these bugs available from Monty DuChampe at F7.
Slayton	Nav Slayton 4	12	Prime Dzurai Spawn
Slayton	Nav Slayton 5	10	Dzurai Spawn
Grissom	Nav Grissom Secundus 3	16	Mature Dzurai Calf
Carpenter	Between Nav Carpenter 5 and Nav Orsini 2	16	Belters. they shoot energy
Carpenter	Asteroid ML-4520-1	35	Crystal Ring Fiends. plasma weapons with a debuff mod recommended.
Odin Rex	Nav Odin Rex 4	23	Chavez, hit for 100-400 energy.
Odin Rex	Chavez Camp near Balder	25-30	Chavez
Grissom	Dzurai Hunting Ground Delta	36	Dzurai Pod Mother
Grissom	Dzurai Hunting Ground Delta	29	Proto Dzurai ancient
Grissom	Dzurai Beta 1	17	Ripe Dzurai Calf -- fast spawning, bio mobs 30% explosive weakness
Nifleheim Cloud	Nav Nifleheim cloud 3	37	Einherjar Raider
Kailaasa	Nav P11 (east next to)	05,06,07	Shusen (Drop Ninja Hoken M1 and M2 + ammo)
Vishao's Cove	Nav Belters End	40-41	Belter Engineer and Belter Drone
Nifleheim Cloud	NE of Modi's Fist	40-46	Nagifar (40-43), Sult (46), & Sturren (46)
Arduinne	Asteroid Arduinne AA705-AA710	46	Groups of CL46 Body Snatcher, drop useful comps frequently including Athanor Athena, CE3K KlugazerII Datacore, and CE3K VM-94, as well as Half-Eaten Terran Space Suit. Also nearby groups of CL43 Strand Leech.
Ragnarok	Farthen Camp	12	Sedate but constant spawn of 1-3 ships. All shoot Energy; vulnerable to Plasma. If you're CL12, CL11 Rogue Brigands yield 900xp, CL12 Rogue Corsairs 1000xp, CL13 Rogue Buccaneer & named mob CL13 Kristof Farthen yield 1200xp.
Ragnarok	Nav Ragnarok 2	12-13	CL13 Chavez. They shoot Energy. Plasma weapons effective. Prompt spawn rate, solo hunters at CL12 should manage if careful, but might be overwhelmed if not.
Ragnarok	Ragnarok's terminal	47	Thorvald
Ragnarok	Ragnarok's terminal	45	Thorgil
Ragnarok	Dolor's bluff	13	Sabre
Ragnarok	Between Ragnaroks Path and Ragnaroks Mistake	22-27	Freespacers, 22s use plasma; the rest, Energy Weaps. They are yellow mobs, non-aggro until attacked. Some Impact resistance, 0 energy res.
Ragnarok	Dolor's bluff	38	Sabine reclaimer
Saturn	Abandoned Pathway 2	03	Scuttle Nymphs; they use Energy against you, and don't attack first. Only the one your shoot will become aggressive.
Odin Rex	Destroyed Mining Facility	20 & 22	Bio mobs, only drop stackable loot and a fair bit of it. They deal chemical damage.
Asteroid Belt Gamma	Behind Detention Center Onorom	08 & 10	There are CL 3, 4, and 6 mobs that do not aggro until attacked, however the CL 8 and 10 mobs are so close that evading them while hunting the 3s and 4s is not profitable. The level 8 and 10 mobs have around a 10% impact weakness.
Freya	Nav Freya Field 2	10 & 12	Mist Lord (Deals explosive dmg I think) and Icy Drake (Deals energy damage)
Aragoth Prime	45k NE of Nav Aragoth Prime 2	21-22	Ostarae and Mabonae Cultivators, very spread out, easy to take on 2 at a time.
Aragoth Prime	Tokee Field	15	Rogue Marauder, huge numbers of them.
Aragoth Prime	Duth	25	Moon Dwellers, spread out but they do call for help (note: kill a lot of CL 25 Moon Dwellers you receive an 'Incoming Hostiles' message. Then a Cl Master 27 Moondweller will spawn. If you kill that 5x CL 27 Master Moondwellers will spawn)
Aragoth Prime	Satellite Communication Node 2	21 & 22	Wayward Drone & Wayward Satellite. Appx move speed 190. Appx range 1.3k. Proximity Aggresive w/ scan range of about 2.5k. Very easy to kite mid-lvl target with only ~1200 combined HP. Plasma dmg is effective. Energy deflect is optional. Recommended for CL 12 to 24.
Adriel Prime	Radiation Marker 1	13-15	CL13-15 3rd Circle Chavez roaming around nav point. Energy dmg 1.5k range. No other mobs in immediate vicinity. Not inside radiation area.
Venus	Nav Ceres 2	15-19	Chavez, huge numbers of chavez over a wide area.
Carpenter	Nav Carpenter 3	23	Dzurai Adult Runt. 30% impact weakness, 40% energy resist. Stackable bio-loot only. Deals EMP (beam) and plasma (proj) damage. NB: the more you move your ship, the faster the mobs at this navpoint will spawn. If you move about a lot here, you may eventually become overwhelmed. Decent for Shield Nova farming.
Carpenter	<22,-44,0>	15 & 17	Dzurai Youth. 30% impact weakness, 40% energy resist. Stackable bio-loot only. Deals EMP (beam) and plasma (proj) damage.
Carpenter	-100,-38 (~45k NW of Nav Carpenter 7)	17	Ripe Dzurai Calf. They are weak to Explosive (~30%). Drop Blackbox G12 and lots of stacking bio loot.
Moto	Pathway 01	25	Progen Combine R.E.M.O.R.A. 40% Chem resist, 30% plasma resist, 0% energy resist. Deals energy (beam) dmg.
Tarsis	Shang Lo Lan	14,18 & 20	Red Dragon
Earth	Infiniti Campus	08,09,10	Infiniti Drones. CL10 Drones are aggressive, all others are passive.
Earth	Getco Campus	05,06	GetCo Drones
Endriago	Outer Endriago 4	06	Gleaming Manes. Drops Manes Essence which is good to turn in for rep and trade XP. See Item_Turn-Ins page.
Varen's Girdle	Osterae Harvest	38, 40, 43	Osterae & Mabonnae -- Chemical and Plasma damage; Plasma debuffs effective. 0% (no bonus or penalty) explosive resist.
Varen's Girdle	Nav Ratatosk Trail 4	30, 35, 36, 38	Belters -- Plasma debuffs effective; 50% explosive resist.
Nifleheim Cloud	Nav Nifleheim 11	43	Einherjar Berserker (drops Steingerd's Embrace also). SE of nav.
New Edinburgh	Danger! Greks	04-8	Greks. Stronger toward nearby asteroid Loch Brae.
Freya	Asteroid RF-100 - 104	27	Osterae Cultivator
Ragnarok	23k NE of Nav Ragnarok 4	40, 43	Einherjar Skulks and Skalds (single aggro non-aggressive mobs)
Ragnarok	14k South of Calamity	37-47	Freespacers (single aggro non-aggressive mobs)
Kitara's Veil	Motish	06,07,08,09,10,16	Belters and Crystal Rockbiters / Drop out of warp at about 8K before the rock and continue on thrusters.
Slayton	Nav Brand 3	15	Misguided Belter
Muspelheim	Net-7 Muspel Beacon	11,12,13,16	North of Gate to Odin's Belt. Quite aggressive Narcissans. Drop stackable L2/L3 bio-loot and [L1 Eerie Breed PL CL] / [L2 Tattered Kimono Shield].
Antares	whole sector	45-62	Voltoi (energy heals (most of) them). Skip the CL45/46s unless you need the Rifle VIII. The CL48s have basically the same HP, similar resists, and deal far less damage. Frozen Pt Whisper and Outer Field Nav 1 are good spots. Be careful at Outer field, be NE of the nav lest the CL54 boss eat you. Anything with < a lvl 7 shield will be 1-shot by him.
Muspelheim	Nav Muspelheim 2	05,10	Just south of the Nav . Chavez. Aggro. Good for RD Faction.
Swooping Eagle	Yotzyc Point, Kotl Point	04, 05, 08, 09	Derfressers

Hint: finding unlisted mob farming spots -- check the item drop pages. Any mob listed may be a good farming spot.

Common Leveling Path

Before going Hog Wild here

Farming spots

See Also