Guild Wars 2

I two questions about doing CoF speed runs and I was wondering if anyone out there could answer them for me.

1. I heard swapping characters reduces the DR. So if you run P1+P2 with character 1, then swap to character 2 and run P1+P2, swapping back over to character 1 will make it so you don’t hit the DR cap for dungeons and can keep farming till you die of exhaustion. Is that true, or something similar?

2. I’m planning on making an alt to just run CoF so I can swap to if the above is true at all, but my main is already a Mesmer and I don’t want to make a Warrior. Would groups be accepting of a Guardian or a Thief in Zerker gear?

Thanks

1. DR and dungeon reward reduction aren’t the same thing. If you run P1/P2 on Warrior you’ll get 60 tokens and whatever the full silver reward is. If you switch to Mesmer and run P1/P2 you’ll get the same 60 tokens and full silver reward. If you swap back to Warrior, you’ll get reduced tokens and silver for subsequent runs that day until server reset.

2. You wouldn’t have a problem getting a group, though you might not get a full zerker group because they’re kinda dumb and don’t understand that a DPS-spec guardian or thief won’t slow anything down. I mean when’s the last time you got one of those PUG groups that can actually get 4 runs per consumable? Smart people would take you with no issues, but you might have to make or join an “all classes” LFG post.

Broadicea.8294:

1. DR and dungeon reward reduction aren’t the same thing. If you run P1/P2 on Warrior you’ll get 60 tokens and whatever the full silver reward is. If you switch to Mesmer and run P1/P2 you’ll get the same 60 tokens and full silver reward. If you swap back to Warrior, you’ll get reduced tokens and silver for subsequent runs that day until server reset.

2. You wouldn’t have a problem getting a group, though you might not get a full zerker group because they’re kinda dumb and don’t understand that a DPS-spec guardian or thief won’t slow anything down. I mean when’s the last time you got one of those PUG groups that can actually get 4 runs per consumable? Smart people would take you with no issues, but you might have to make or join an “all classes” LFG post.

Ah okay, makes sense.

Thanks for the info though, really appreciate it.

You can run p1 4 times then switch to a new char and get 60 tokens again. Theres no need to run p2 inbetween.

Darkheart.7436:

Would groups be accepting of a Guardian or a Thief in Zerker gear?

From my experience, speed run groups aren’t too keen on accepting zerker guardians, I wouldn’t know about thief though.

Most are fine with a thief for the gate controller. The problem is lots of thieves are terrible at it and so some groups would rather pick a warrior.

I’m generally fine with 1 good thief in the run. And I’ve taken my guardian in place of the mesmer (1 guard/4 war) and gone just as fast, only difference is no portal at the rocks.

You’d be hard pressed to find a group to let a guard go, but our mes dropped out and we’d been at it for a while together, so I asked if they mind I try my guard in place of the mes and they were cool with it. So we brought in another warrior and things went just as smooth.

Darkheart.7436:

I two questions about doing CoF speed runs and I was wondering if anyone out there could answer them for me.

1. I heard swapping characters reduces the DR. So if you run P1+P2 with character 1, then swap to character 2 and run P1+P2, swapping back over to character 1 will make it so you don’t hit the DR cap for dungeons and can keep farming till you die of exhaustion. Is that true, or something similar?

2. I’m planning on making an alt to just run CoF so I can swap to if the above is true at all, but my main is already a Mesmer and I don’t want to make a Warrior. Would groups be accepting of a Guardian or a Thief in Zerker gear?

Thanks

There may be some truth to this. Last night, one person kept doing this and did insist we run P1, P2, P1, P2. I asked to explain why and he got all defensive.

If there’s an exploit to be had, someone will test it eh…