Guild Wars 2

In the past I have rarely run up against the Diminishing Returns timer. Yesterday I joined a group for CoF P1 speed farming. I did 6 runs in an hour, obviously I expected to hit DR here.

Today I decided I wanted to go through CoF on my main and 2 alts to collect as many tokens as I could. That should have provided me 60*6 = 360 tokens. First character I got 60 for P1, then 60 again for P2 which took at least half an hour by itself because my group was horrible. Following that, it took me at least 10 minutes to get a group on my alt and another 15 minutes of waiting for CoF to open, then another 15-20 minutes to clear it. At the end of all this I got only 30 tokens.

Can someone explain to me how this behavior would trigger the diminishing returns timer? Everything that I did was clearly very spaced out. The truly sad thing about this is that I could have gotten more drops, more tokens, and more coin just doing my P1 speed runs even with a maxed out diminishing returns counter.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought that DR was account bound. So you couldn’t get the same amount of tokens with alts if you’ve already done them on another character.

skittlebob.4850:

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought that DR was account bound. So you couldn’t get the same amount of tokens with alts if you’ve already done them on another character.

There are 2 different DR effects that can occur in dungeons. The first is a character bound completion counter. The first time you complete a path in a single day on a specific character you’ll get 60, then 20, then 10, then 10, then 10… If you change characters you’ll get 60, then 20, then 10…

The DR timer I’m referring to is an account bound thing that stacks up the more (or faster) you do certain actions. At a single stack, things like dungeon rewards will only provide you with 50% of the original amount. This is what happened to my alt today.

The problem is that I don’t understand how I triggered the diminishing returns logic. My main got 60 for P1, then 60 for P2. Those two paths took me at least 45 minutes combined. Following that, I had 10 minutes of standing around doing nothing, 15 minutes of doing the CoF opening event, and then at 15-20 minute run through P2 for which I got 30 tokens (1 stack of DR which reduced the original reward of 60 tokens by 50%). Why though? what triggered it?

I think there needs to be some more transparency from Anet on this.

I didn’t realize. So technically, you could get 240+ in a day if you had a main and an alt doing the dungeons with time spaced out?