farming
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈfɑrmɪŋ/
- Jargon
:
farmeo
- Many players enjoy farming to collect rare items and improve their skills in online role-playing games.
Examples
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In the end, you would have an even more difficult time farming for Hellfire Ring.
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And doing dynamic events at max level is more like farming at Tyr's Hand.
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But will groups enhance, say, your digital farming experience?
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The senior author once had a client who made a comfortable living with gold farming, but at the expense of time spent with his family.
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Quite different from farming battlegrounds or arenas in WoW, where you just queue up and wait your turn.
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In the game, players spend hours doing farming to level up their characters and gather resources.
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Effective farming strategies can greatly increase your loot and experience points in multiplayer games.
Synonyms
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1.0
The time when farmers gather ripe crops from the fields
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2.7
Gathering ripe crops from fields
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the game sense of farming is to think of farm as 'harvest'—you collect the same resources again and again—so in games to farm means to repeat tasks to gather items, money, or experience.