Guild Wars 2

Hello!

I am new to dungeons. I have yet to do one in explore mode, I’ve only done AC, CM and TA in story mode. Recently I’ve been trying to level a mesmer quickly, and have been doing dungeons to do so. Can someone explain to me the mechanics of DR in GW2? The questions that come to mind right now are:

1) How often can you do a dungeon w/o suffering DM?
2) How diminished are the returns each time you play it after the first?
3) Do the the DM grow linearly, exponentially etc. in growth as you play? How does it grow?
4) What time does the number of plays “reset”, so you can play your “first of the day” again? If it’s not a set time, then how does that work?
5) If you do story mode, and then explore, is that 2 times? Or are story and explore counted differently?
6) As a side note, how does XP gained from explore compare to story? If you’re trying to get XP as quickly as possible, is it better to do story or explore for your 1st of the day? Is it worth it to keeping doing them, despite DR? If so, story or explore?

Anything else that you guys can tell me about DR, story vs explore or anything else you think is useful to know about being new to dungeons is greatly appreciated! I’ve been reading the stickies so I have the basics (I think), but anything you guys have to say will be read and considered.

Thanks all!

Dungeon Reset happens at the same time as Daily Reset. That happens at Midnight UTC. (You’ll have to convert based on your timezone.)

For each path that you run, you will get the regular rewards + a “bonus” reward. Every dungeon has a story path + 3 explorable paths except for Arah, which has 4 explorable paths.

The “Bonus” rewards is given only once per daily reset. In most story paths this is like 50 silver (and that onetime bonus rare head armor). In most explorable paths the gold amount varies between 1 and 3 gold, and 40 of that dungeon’s tokens.

The regular rewards tend to be 26 silver – and if it’s an explorable path, 20 of the dungeon’s tokens. This amount may be lowered if you’re running the path again back-to-back really quickly, but I don’t recall the amount because nobody runs the same path back-to-back that quickly anymore (people used to for CoF P1).

XP gained is usually about 3/4ths of a character level for explorable, and I think less for story?

If you want to level up, keep doing story modes. People usually expect a level 80 for explorable modes. However! You can form your own party so long as you say “Non-80s are welcome” or something to that extent in your LFG comment.

yeah, I’d probably make the description “First time explore: anyone want to show me the ropes?”

something friendly and clear

EDIT: Also, just to clarify something: You get the same XP rewards no matter how many times you play it before your next dungeon/daily reset?

sirrealist.1360:

EDIT: Also, just to clarify something: You get the same XP rewards no matter how many times you play it before your next dungeon/daily reset?

DR affects XP too.

sirrealist.1360:

yeah, I’d probably make the description “First time explore: anyone want to show me the ropes?”

something friendly and clear

EDIT: Also, just to clarify something: You get the same XP rewards no matter how many times you play it before your next dungeon/daily reset?

no, if i rememer correctly you only get full XP reward twice. after that the XP drops. after a few hours it sould reset

Not asked but I thought I would mention it.

DR is soulbound. When farming I try to swap to a new character on the hour if I am staying in one zone farming similar mobs. (Orr, FGS, etc etc)

In my opinion, if you join in group doing dungeons and don’t have experience with that dungeon/path, immediately let everyone know. The worst thing that will happen is that they kick you. More often than not, as long as you’re willing to listen and follow directions, most people will let you tag along.