Guild Wars 2

Just wondering which dungeon has the best gold income for time investment?

From what I know it is Ascalon Catacombs Explorable, however, if there is a better one, please let me know.

AC is prolly the fastest but I have had the best luck with drops in CoE, both for rares and Charged Cores/Lodestones. CoE can also be done in ~30 mins if you get a good group.

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AC final boss of each path drops 15s. Also, some of the Champion Howlers drop anywhere between 5-15s.

CoE is better if you’re lucky, charged cores and lodestones sell for something like 1g and 2g+ respectively. Also, it’s worth mentioning that the corrupted mobs in the beginning can drop corrupted lodestones/cores, and destroyers can drop their lodestones and cores too (although most people skip the destroyers)

So AC if you want reliable income. CoE if you’re feeling lucky.

You get guaranteed 1.5g from clearing AC, which can and should be cleared in an hour.

Don’t forget to eat Omniberries Bar (2.3 silvers at TP) when running AC (I suggest path 2, the easiest). You get 40% more gold from mobs (and +30% magic find!)… As you drop 25 silvers from mobs you gain 10 more silvers under this buff! You can get 1 gold or so per run (under 30 minute with a nice team).

I still wonder how people can say they run CoE in 30 minutes. I have a really good guild team but we run Teleport Path in 1 hour. You need 30 total minutes only to kill Alpha 3 times… So please tell me how could you run all the dungeon in 30 minutes. Different path? O_o

Negativity.5801:

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AC final boss of each path drops 15s. Also, some of the Champion Howlers drop anywhere between 5-15s.

CoE is better if you’re lucky, charged cores and lodestones sell for something like 1g and 2g+ respectively. Also, it’s worth mentioning that the corrupted mobs in the beginning can drop corrupted lodestones/cores, and destroyers can drop their lodestones and cores too (although most people skip the destroyers)

So AC if you want reliable income. CoE if you’re feeling lucky.

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And if you use Ommomberry Bars, You will get 27 silvers from bosses and around 9 silvers from champions. The bar will last your the entire run if you get a good group going.

Iridiana.9078:

I still wonder how people can say they run CoE in 30 minutes. I have a really good guild team but we run Teleport Path in 1 hour. You need 30 total minutes only to kill Alpha 3 times… So please tell me how could you run all the dungeon in 30 minutes. Different path? O_o

Well 30 mins is about as fast as it can possibly be done with very high dmg and nothing going wrong and the submarine path can be done a bit faster than the teleporter, the fastest run I have ever had was on the submarine path and took 30+ mins. If I manage to do any of the paths in 40-50 mins I would say that it was a very good run and if I do them in about an hour it is not a bad run either.

AC pales in comparison to HotW. High level loot, guaranteed 6 rares each day on the first run, jormag, ori nodes nearby.
No pesky gravelings.

The best dungeons for farming are the fast ones generally.

Fast dungeons:
AC (all 3 paths)
CoF (path 1 and 2)
TA (up, up)
SE (path 3)
HotW (path 1)

Personally though, I prefer CoE (all paths). Its by no means fast (average run takes 40 mins for a path, and path 3 can take longer) The chance to get a charged lodestone is too good to pass up imo. You can get a ton of random blues and greens too, since there’s a decent amount of trash to kill (especially in path 2 and 3 where that swarm of undead rushes down the steps)

Winds.3087:

AC pales in comparison to HotW. High level loot, guaranteed 6 rares each day on the first run, jormag, ori nodes nearby.
No pesky gravelings.

But not everyone is happy with the underwater part, even more if the mobs becoming invulnerable all the time.

only paths 2 and 3 have underwater sections path 1 is very loot friendly.

sadly the Glacial Cores & LoNestones are worthless.

It seems like every mob in HotW drops at least 1 blue item.

Combine that with an Omnomberry bar and it should be hard to top.

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Iridiana.9078:

I still wonder how people can say they run CoE in 30 minutes. I have a really good guild team but we run Teleport Path in 1 hour. You need 30 total minutes only to kill Alpha 3 times… So please tell me how could you run all the dungeon in 30 minutes. Different path? O_o

Well 30 mins is about as fast as it can possibly be done with very high dmg and nothing going wrong and the submarine path can be done a bit faster than the teleporter, the fastest run I have ever had was on the submarine path and took 30+ mins. If I manage to do any of the paths in 40-50 mins I would say that it was a very good run and if I do them in about an hour it is not a bad run either.

Oh ok, 50 minutes it’s more similar to my experience. I’ve to try Potions of Undead Slaying on all the team members to maximize damage on Alpha and I’ll try submarine path instead of teleporter for farming

Lorana.2468:

only paths 2 and 3 have underwater sections path 1 is very loot friendly.

sadly the Glacial Cores & LoNestones are worthless.

Corrupted lodestones also drop there.

Winds.3087:

AC pales in comparison to HotW. High level loot, guaranteed 6 rares each day on the first run, jormag, ori nodes nearby.
No pesky gravelings.

there are guaranteed rares each day? am i playing it wrong the whole time?

AC, CoE, and HotW are the best for money in my opinion. I almost always leave a path of HotW with full bags, and that’s usually skipping some mobs too. CoE is decent loot, but the chance for cores or lodestones can up your profit by a hell lot if you get one. AC is quick and easy.

@ Henryik
Besides exchanging the tokens for rares (60 tokens = 2 armor rares from the dungeon merchant), there is no guaranteed drop. However, because the mobs drop often and with decent loot, running even a bit of MF (be it food, banners, boosts, or any combination) raises your chances by a good bit.

Henryik.8260:

Winds.3087:

AC pales in comparison to HotW. High level loot, guaranteed 6 rares each day on the first run, jormag, ori nodes nearby.
No pesky gravelings.

there are guaranteed rares each day? am i playing it wrong the whole time?

i’d guess he just uses a lot of magic find but idk

If your aim are golds you need a guild\friend team,or imo it doesn’t worth the time.
AC 1-3 are doable in 10-15min,and there are 2 champions in p3 (so 7s+7s+21s from final boss ,with omnomberry )
CoE p1 is doable in <20min,but your team need to know alpha very well,p2 is ~30min.
I don’t like much HoTW,but as someone already said SE p3 is fast too (~20min,destroyer lodestones/cores)
And CoF p1 is like 26s in 8-10min.

Henryik.8260:

there are guaranteed rares each day? am i playing it wrong the whole time?

Svanir masques. 80 rares, salvageable, 30 tokens.
Also sometimes you get around 3-4 rares from run, but that’s unreliable.

Iridiana.9078:

Don’t forget to eat Omniberries Bar (2.3 silvers at TP) when running AC (I suggest path 2, the easiest). You get 40% more gold from mobs (and +30% magic find!)… As you drop 25 silvers from mobs you gain 10 more silvers under this buff! You can get 1 gold or so per run (under 30 minute with a nice team).

I still wonder how people can say they run CoE in 30 minutes. I have a really good guild team but we run Teleport Path in 1 hour. You need 30 total minutes only to kill Alpha 3 times… So please tell me how could you run all the dungeon in 30 minutes. Different path? O_o

I’ll have some videos up in the next couple days, I already have path 1 recorded, but waiting to finish path 2 and 3, hopefully tonight.

It takes ~3 minutes to do the opening escort event which I recorded separately, then our path 1 video is 16 minutes long, for 19 min. total.

Path 2 can be done in roughly the same amount of time.

Path 3 takes the longest because of the stupid destroyer boss, that one ends up taking about 30 minutes or so.

If it’s taking you 30 minutes just to kill Alpha 3 times you have a very bad group…

Anyways, hopefully my videos will help people out with CoE speed runs, similar to the other dungeons I currently have uploaded. Expect TA, CoE, re-recorded HotW, and re-recorded AC before Nov 15th patch, since after that my group will probably be playing the new dungeon and I won’t be uploaded new vids for a week or two.