Guild Wars 2

Exotic armor in general is around 3.5g a piece
So that’s around 14 runs of CoF @ 26s per run, but you can easily get 3.5g @ 10-12 runs including drops and Gate of Flame event.
For a full set, you’d need ~60 runs

Lowest piece of exotic armor (Flame Legion) is 180 tokens which is 9 runs of CoF @ 20 tokens per run. You need 1380 for a full set which is ~70 runs.

Now take into account Armor repair. Let’s say ~3-4 runs you need to repair @ ~10.5s per repair.

If you are going for Exotic Gear:( (350s x 6 ) + (10.5s x 15)) / 26 = ~90 runs @ 26s
If you are going for Flame Legion Exotic in tokens: 1380/20 = ~70 runs @ 20 token
Flame Legion set effectively costs : 70 × 26s = 18.2g
In terns of gold, Flame Legion average per piece would then be : 18.2g/6 = 3g
However, including repair costs, Flame Legion set would then be : 18.2g + (10.5s x 18) = 20g 9s
Then the average Flame Legion piece would be : 20g 9s / 6 = 3.35g

Flame Legion exotic set : 20g 9s
General exotic set : 21g

This is excluding costs for accessories, trinkets, back items, weapons.

Two things:
26s per run assumes you’re finishing said run and not hitting the 30 minute DR that bumps you down to ~6s (some people are reporting 6s even for a fresh run).
It also assumes that path 2 is actually possible right now, which it’s not.

This is the statistic for before the patch. I did not account for the diminishing return of post-patch.

you also didn’t account for the fact that path 2 isn’t possible now.

But to show the logical fallacy’s in people’s argument of the patch being good.

Yes i know. Like i said, this is for before the patch.

path 2 is not impossible its just not worth running.