Guild Wars 2

I am going after a legendary just as many of you people are doing as well. I have tried running cof p1 on my Mesmer is those silly “4 ZERK WARRIOR 1 MESMER PING GEAR $$$” groups, and I don’t make anywhere near the profit other people claim to get.

I make around 1-1.25 gold before the diminishing returns make the dungeon worthless. I get the 2x 26 silver rewards, and then the 10s etc rewards. The drops I get can be 0-3 rares with around 60% mf on my normal gear and food running through the dungeon.

So where are people getting this 5-10g on their daily cof grind?

There’s other things you’re missing.
Using just the gold you gain, assuming you have these as defaults (Gilded infusion for +20% and Omnom for +40%) you can make
-16S from Slave Driver
-10S from the first chest, always
-25S from the searing legendary
-6S for completing the dungeon(if youre at the maximum DR)
for a total of 57 Silver

Now that’s without including
A: The item drops
B: The bag of goods, which give 2-3S a piece
C: Random $ drops from bosses (which is usually nothing but still)

So every two runs, you will make more than 1G gurantee
If every run takes 10 min(assuming), thats 3G every hour (again, assuming it takes that long and you don’t factor in items)
That means every 5 hours you can make 15G(Assuming thats the most someone can play in a day)
Which means in a week, you can make 105G a week with just default money you get.

But the main thing, is the tokens you receive.
1. Save up 1200 or 1560 to gamble with exotic daggers and GS with the mystic toilet(doesn’t take long at all)
2. Buy the 30 charr carvings rare helmet and salvage them all for ectos, then sell them

But heres the big money make IMO
The karma.
I have made more than 3 million karma with all the drops and dungeon completion.
With all that karma, I spend it on Orian boxes, which have a chance to drop lodestones, and with that many boxes you’re bound to get a lot. That includes charged, which sells for 3g a piece. Not to mention the unidentified objects which sell for quite a bit.

It’s the best way to make money by far.

Avenge.1478:

I am going after a legendary just as many of you people are doing as well. I have tried running cof p1 on my Mesmer is those silly “4 ZERK WARRIOR 1 MESMER PING GEAR $$$” groups, and I don’t make anywhere near the profit other people claim to get.

I make around 1-1.25 gold before the diminishing returns make the dungeon worthless. I get the 2x 26 silver rewards, and then the 10s etc rewards. The drops I get can be 0-3 rares with around 60% mf on my normal gear and food running through the dungeon.

So where are people getting this 5-10g on their daily cof grind?

Not quite sure what you mean by “before the diminishing returns make the dungeon worthless.” A majority of the gold comes from the silver dropped by bosses, which is never affected by DR. The end bonus is not where the 5-10g comes from.

Not to mention you didn’t say anything about using your CoF Tokens to trade in for the Rares (only 30 tokens per) and breaking them down for Ectos. It’s definitely a cash cow.

Void.3254:

There’s other things you’re missing.
Using just the gold you gain, assuming you have these as defaults (Gilded infusion for +20% and Omnom for +40%) you can make
-16S from Slave Driver
-10S from the first chest, always
-25S from the searing legendary
-6S for completing the dungeon(if youre at the maximum DR)
for a total of 57 Silver

Now that’s without including
A: The item drops
B: The bag of goods, which give 2-3S a piece
C: Random $ drops from bosses (which is usually nothing but still)

So every two runs, you will make more than 1G gurantee
If every run takes 10 min(assuming), thats 3G every hour (again, assuming it takes that long and you don’t factor in items)
That means every 5 hours you can make 15G(Assuming thats the most someone can play in a day)
Which means in a week, you can make 105G a week with just default money you get.

But the main thing, is the tokens you receive.
1. Save up 1200 or 1560 to gamble with exotic daggers and GS with the mystic toilet(doesn’t take long at all)
2. Buy the 30 charr carvings rare helmet and salvage them all for ectos, then sell them

But heres the big money make IMO
The karma.
I have made more than 3 million karma with all the drops and dungeon completion.
With all that karma, I spend it on Orian boxes, which have a chance to drop lodestones, and with that many boxes you’re bound to get a lot. That includes charged, which sells for 3g a piece. Not to mention the unidentified objects which sell for quite a bit.

It’s the best way to make money by far.

Now I get it better than I did before (I asked a similar question below)…I never factored in salvaging the items you can buy with the dungeon tokens. Thanks for the explanation..

The difference for me is running in a PUG rather than a dedicated COF farming group. I think it typically takes us 15-20 min to get through it (never really timed it though). And I have been hoarding the tokens, not sure what to do with them. Now I know…LOL.

Void.3254:

There’s other things you’re missing.
Using just the gold you gain, assuming you have these as defaults (Gilded infusion for +20% and Omnom for +40%) you can make
-16S from Slave Driver
-10S from the first chest, always
-25S from the searing legendary
-6S for completing the dungeon(if youre at the maximum DR)
for a total of 57 Silver

Now that’s without including
A: The item drops
B: The bag of goods, which give 2-3S a piece
C: Random $ drops from bosses (which is usually nothing but still)

So every two runs, you will make more than 1G gurantee
If every run takes 10 min(assuming), thats 3G every hour (again, assuming it takes that long and you don’t factor in items)
That means every 5 hours you can make 15G(Assuming thats the most someone can play in a day)
Which means in a week, you can make 105G a week with just default money you get.

But the main thing, is the tokens you receive.
1. Save up 1200 or 1560 to gamble with exotic daggers and GS with the mystic toilet(doesn’t take long at all)
2. Buy the 30 charr carvings rare helmet and salvage them all for ectos, then sell them

But heres the big money make IMO
The karma.
I have made more than 3 million karma with all the drops and dungeon completion.
With all that karma, I spend it on Orian boxes, which have a chance to drop lodestones, and with that many boxes you’re bound to get a lot. That includes charged, which sells for 3g a piece. Not to mention the unidentified objects which sell for quite a bit.

It’s the best way to make money by far.

Bless your heart for this post.

I’m yet another unfortunate soul that has resorted to running CoF p1 zerker runs on my Warrior, because of the incredibly high price for Dusk. 700g, really?

But anyways, I was beginning to get a bit discouraged. Sure, it was fast. But I noticed my gold gain to be miniscule.

What was I missing? Omnomberry bar (I always used the peach bars because it was cheaper), and the Infusion. I was always feeling down at the end of each CoF run because of the diminshed silver reward at the end. But now that I know that the bulk of the money is actually gained from monsters kills, I feel motivated to tackle CoF 1 over and over again.

And finally, thank you for the tip about using tokens for 4 Exotics Greatswords for the Mystic Toilet. I was using the tokens on rares for Ectos for more money, previously.. but I’m going to do this now. Who knows? Maybe I’ll get a precursor from the forge on my way to accumulating 700g+. I still need to get my 100 icy runestones and 100 lodestones as well (That’s all I need), so the chance of throwing in 4 exotic GS’s every now and then seems to be an encouraging bonus.

Again, thanks so much for this post.

i prefer doing multile char cof p1 than zerker.
with 8 alt at lvl 80 and each alt do cof p1 3-4 times, i dont hit DR at all. the money alway 26s. token is 60-20-10 then repeat

Oh the gilded infusion /facepalm.. knew I was forgetting something -_-

thanks <3

Void.3254:

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1. Save up 1200 or 1560 to gamble with exotic daggers and GS with the mystic toilet(doesn’t take long at all)
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Are you sure with dungeons exotics you can receive precursor from Mystic Forge?

I received “the energizer” and “dusk” by mixing 3 ac shields and one mystic forge stone.
Took me about 100 stacks ac tokens before i got both within 5 tries.

Kerishan.8460:

Void.3254:

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1. Save up 1200 or 1560 to gamble with exotic daggers and GS with the mystic toilet(doesn’t take long at all)
…

Are you sure with dungeons exotics you can receive precursor from Mystic Forge?

Sure why not? They meet all the requirements.

a fishy story if ever I heard one.

this has no plaice in the forums.