Guild Wars 2

Iconik.8712:

It’s obvious there’s a problem when the easiest of the ezmode farming routes is so overrun with groups wanting a specific kind of warrior and a mesmer and nothing else. I enjoy the fast cash as much as any one but, some of these loopholes need fixed.

It’s totally possible to keep CoF farmable and a quick run WHILE fixing the blatantly obvious holes that make it almost exclusionary.

My .02. Also, inc trolls.

It’s also totally possible to farm CoF with a non-mesmer. Mes/War groups are popular, but there are still plenty of people that run a group with a more varied composition.

laharl.8435:

Wukunlin.8461:

Chopps.5047:

Oh deae god no. Leave those l33t players in Balefire’s prison. Please, do not unleash them into the rest of the dungeons.

this is a good point actually….

Sorry to burst your bubble, but we’re already doing other dungeons. I run Arah with my guard all the time and have Dungeon Master. My warrior is specifically set up for CoF right now, but when I do run him elsewhere, I re-trait and have different gear.

Also, maybe you should look up some vids of DPSers in other dungeons. Almost every dungeon can be optimized in this fashion.

I was just joking! :p I am well aware of 46s lupicus kill shenanigans. As far as optimizing runs, as far as I know, no one has definatively proven what team composition is most efficient although it will likely involve a mesmer due to feedback. A guardiand and three warriors being paired is definately great though, no doubt. I suspect higher performance might be obtained by substituting one warrior for one of the underused professions in speed runs. Maybe we’ll see a true demonstration someday?

A mixed group with decent DPS takes 11 or so minutes to complete it. A farming group 6-7. While its nearly half the time nether amount of time is all that big. As long as everyone knows the run it is fine. Fact is mixed groups run it all the time and there are no issues. When you come here and complain about one path used for farming it makes no sense. Everyone farms it cross class its just someone ran the number and optimized the dps. Places like AC could see this too but we don’t.

Even if they upped the difficulty of the content you would see post looking for support guardians or you would simply not see the path run.

Be a good player do your Story Mode and start your own teams then you won’t have ot worry about what others want in their party.

Silver.3284:

And btw, do not expect people to agree with you because you “already said so”. And kindly provide a link to a 2man 7 min AC1 run – I would love to see it.

I would love to see this as well.
Unfortunately the one who claimed this to be real has yet to respond with a link to prove this, so for now I assume he’s making stuff up.

Meh, i go back and forth CoF pharming so much. I personally dont do the path 1 spam but i do path 1-2 nightly on 3 different chars. I really wouldn’t want them any harder as they are a nice easy/fast ending for my dungeon group. We do all 3 CoE then the 2 CoF. We finish them in 1 hr or under 2 omnoms then switch chars. Not counting cores/stones we make a little over 5g an hour. The cores and stones push CoE’s farm better then CoF for us. I guess you could have horrible luck but has never happened to me. I think Anet could do some easy dungeon reward balancing by just upping drop rates of cores/stones in other dungeon chest to account for the increased time they take.

Milennin.4825:

Silver.3284:

And btw, do not expect people to agree with you because you “already said so”. And kindly provide a link to a 2man 7 min AC1 run – I would love to see it.

I would love to see this as well.
Unfortunately the one who claimed this to be real has yet to respond with a link to prove this, so for now I assume he’s making stuff up.

Even if you dont’ believe it, Strife’s video is up there in the sticky. point is you can do it quite fast.

laokoko.7403:

Milennin.4825:

Silver.3284:

And btw, do not expect people to agree with you because you “already said so”. And kindly provide a link to a 2man 7 min AC1 run – I would love to see it.

I would love to see this as well.
Unfortunately the one who claimed this to be real has yet to respond with a link to prove this, so for now I assume he’s making stuff up.

Even if you dont’ believe it, Strife’s video is up there in the sticky. point is you can do it quite fast.

I checked his channel, and all I see are 5-man party runs for AC.

Milennin.4825:

laokoko.7403:

Milennin.4825:

Silver.3284:

And btw, do not expect people to agree with you because you “already said so”. And kindly provide a link to a 2man 7 min AC1 run – I would love to see it.

I would love to see this as well.
Unfortunately the one who claimed this to be real has yet to respond with a link to prove this, so for now I assume he’s making stuff up.

Even if you dont’ believe it, Strife’s video is up there in the sticky. point is you can do it quite fast.

I checked his channel, and all I see are 5-man party runs for AC.

My only point is to show that other dungeon path can be speed run too with almost similar speed. That is off topic.

And back to Silver’s post. The topic is “COF farming need fixed”. That is why we are talking about speed run group as oppose of normal group. I think normal group can do a few of the other path quite fast too. Just that people are less experience on other path since cof is more popular/give better reward.

Ehh, let’s not go crazy here.
While we can talk about how valuable certain statistics are relative to eachother, at the end of the day this is not a gear-check game. Certain statistics are better choices than others for a number of wonky content reasons and a couple character building kinks, but they’ll never truly be important.

I can easily farm 7g an hour and dont have to touch cof, there are Beter places to farm just gotta find them. Ps I have done p1 cof speedany times. It is not comparable even on a good day

I’d be interested to hear about this other method, but keep in mind not everyone likes to ‘power trade’ or some other form of market manipulation.

If its something else, then I’m all ears

I’ve heard coe is more profitable than cof but I haven’t done much of coe because cof is shorter and easier to learn. A lot of people farm in Orr, Frostgorge and Southsun but I find that kind of farm more monotonous compared to dungeon runs. I’m sure farming in those areas is more lucrative especially once you hit dr in cof.