Arah farm...
Path 3 is the fastest and easiest for a typical group. Path 2 would be the next best choice if your in a hurry to get tokens. Path 1 can be long and painful and path 4 is long.
Yes, you probably want path 3. Its also one of the more requested paths, so easier to get groups for it.
The path is pretty simple. First boss is easy as crap if everyone know how to handle it. Groups that wipe you might as well leave right away cause you’re going to have a painfull experience. Then its just a buttload of mob skipping. Stealth is preferable. Second boss is kittened if not bugged as he cant even damage a group that know where to stand. The globes are the most annoying part because they have been bugged since release (it wont always grab on toss). A Mesmer here help ALOT, as will a Guardian to carry the globe. Lupicus is… Lupicus. Annoying no matter the path, time consuming but overall easy to handle. I’ve seen half-decent groups wipe 4 times on the first boss and go through Lupicus like its a walk in the park. Final sequence is once again mob skipping and then an easy final boss as long as there are a couple of good players that can grab aggro in the first sequence.
40 minutes is my record time for random pugs (with a veteran team you can do faster, but not much), expect at least 1.5h. I hate it when people get to Lupicus and say “oh but I have no more time, I thought we where going to be finished as fast as CoF1, bye!”.
When you do Arah, make time.
Paths 1-3 are all about 15 minutes in an experienced team. Path 1 can be a real pain in pugs though. Path 2 is easily soloable in 40 minutes, so even if your team is extremely bad (which happens quite often for path 2) you can finish the run yourself.
Path 3 is pretty fast if people are able to skip. If they aren’t you will have a really hard time.
Yeah I don’t get where you saw that a veteran team couldn’t do it “much faster” than 40 minutes.. 40 minutes is a lot more than 15.
40 minutes is what it takes for a veteran team to do.. path 4. Which is the longest dungeon path of the game.
By “veteran” I mean people that has done the path before and know what they are doing.
Not a 5 man elite speedrun farmer squad. Doing path 3 in 15 minutes is completely unrealistic for most groups – not to say its impossible, it just wont happen with a player that asks which path in Arah that’s best for farming, as an example.