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24 hours of 20g/hr CoF runs!

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Not exactly 20g/hr CoF runs but the rewards are still pretty amazing. Like away guys!

OK, you got me.

do not know if should lulz or QQ

I’d get around 1.5g/run with the 200% gold find boost. That means that if I were to be able to run 6min runs for an hour, I’d get 15g/hour.

Keep in mind, the gold find doesn’t affect chests, so don’t just slap 200% onto how much gold you make in a run.

With that in mind, 15g/hour before counting loot is still pretty darn good.

EDIT: Math done below.

Esplen.3940:

I’d get around 1.5g/run with the 200% gold find boost. That means that if I were to be able to run 6min runs for an hour, I’d get 15g/hour.

Keep in mind, the gold find doesn’t affect chests, so don’t just slap 200% onto how much gold you make in a run.

With that in mind, 15g/hour before counting loot is still pretty darn good.

Ahh you’re right, I forgot it won’t affect the chest money. So yes it will lower that figure to 15g/hr, still pretty good.

My bet is that after one day they nerf it to disable the use in dungeons.

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Can nobody do math? 200% coin from kills is only 2x the coin from kills you currently recieve without boosts. With all of the gold boosts you have a maximum of 250% or 2.5x the gold FROM KILLS per hour. Each CoF run produces on average 80s per run not including drops, and only half of that is from kills (quick 8 runs confirmed this)
40s x 2.5 = 1g + 40s, so it’s 1g 40s per run, not 15g. This doesn’t include the end reward which varies depending on DR, but there is no way without drops to get 1.5g per run as it is with the current limit of +50% coin from kills maximum buffer.

I will do COF 1 that day untill my eyes kitten bleed.

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Viking Jorun.5413:

Can nobody do math? 200% coin from kills is only 2x the coin from kills you currently recieve without boosts. With all of the gold boosts you have a maximum of 250% or 2.5x the gold FROM KILLS per hour. Each CoF run produces on average 80s per run not including drops, and only half of that is from kills (quick 8 runs confirmed this)
40s x 2.5 = 1g + 40s, so it’s 1g 40s per run, not 15g. This doesn’t include the end reward which varies depending on DR, but there is no way without drops to get 1.5g per run as it is with the current limit of +50% coin from kills maximum buffer.

They said 15g/hr not every run… Now apologize

Farming nerf Incoming!!! Why? Because people always brag like this thread and brings it to attention to certain people much much faster.

MasterYoda.8563:

Farming nerf Incoming!!! Why? Because people always brag like this thread and brings it to attention to certain people much much faster.

GOOD, then maybe when there is nothing left to farm everyone will be happy.
/sarcasm off

Zeno.8493:

Viking Jorun.5413:

Can nobody do math? 200% coin from kills is only 2x the coin from kills you currently recieve without boosts. With all of the gold boosts you have a maximum of 250% or 2.5x the gold FROM KILLS per hour. Each CoF run produces on average 80s per run not including drops, and only half of that is from kills (quick 8 runs confirmed this)
40s x 2.5 = 1g + 40s, so it’s 1g 40s per run, not 15g. This doesn’t include the end reward which varies depending on DR, but there is no way without drops to get 1.5g per run as it is with the current limit of +50% coin from kills maximum buffer.

They said 15g/hr not every run… Now apologize

Thanks for backing me up, but I’ll take it from here.

Viking Jorun.5413:

Can nobody do math? 200% coin from kills is only 2x the coin from kills you currently recieve without boosts. With all of the gold boosts you have a maximum of 250% or 2.5x the gold FROM KILLS per hour. Each CoF run produces on average 80s per run not including drops, and only half of that is from kills (quick 8 runs confirmed this)
40s x 2.5 = 1g + 40s, so it’s 1g 40s per run, not 15g. This doesn’t include the end reward which varies depending on DR, but there is no way without drops to get 1.5g per run as it is with the current limit of +50% coin from kills maximum buffer.

Max Gold Find is… 15% + 40% + 30% + 20% + 10% + 200%
15% Rune of Scavenging (Good luck sneaking this into competent CoF groups)
40% Omnomberry Bars
30% Laureate Gold Booster
10% Gold Banner (or Hero Banner)
20% Gold Find Infusion
200% Bonus from the Facebook thingy, to be released (or the 200% from Southsun meta event, which is unavailable now)
Together, this provides a bonus 315% gold find, making you get just over 4x the normal gold from kills. (315% Bonus Gold Find + 100% Natural Gold Find = 415% Total Gold Find)

Assuming you get 40s per run (before hitting the DR rewards), this would mean that it IS possible to receive UP TO 1g66s per run. Of course, most people won’t be running all that, so in an average CoF group, you’ll most likely see these across the board:

40% Omnomberry Bar
20% Gold Find Infusion

With a possible:
30% Laureate Gold Find Booster
200% Facebook Booster

Meaning, that a normal run would net you 64s + DR rewards (60% gold find boost).

Adding in the Facebook boost, you’re getting 1g44s + DR rewards (260% gold find boost).

Adding in the Laureate Gold Find Booster, you’re getting 1g56s + DR rewards (290% gold find boost).

Note: This does not count drops from the dungeon, nor does it count the Bag of Coins you’ll find.

To get to the 15g/hour, we simply take the “ideal” run, which is 6 minutes. Running 6 minutes means 10 runs/hour. Now we can use some Physics math (aka do math to carry/convert) to finish this up.

Normal runs:
64s money/run * 10 runs/hour = 6g40s/hour (not including DR rewards and loot).

Facebook runs:
1g44s money/run * 10 runs/hour = 14g40s/hour (not including DR rewards and loot).

Laureate and Facebook runs:
1g56s money/run * 10 runs/hour = 15g60s/hour (not including DR rewards and loot).

Now, you can also do the super insane stack everything (good luck getting all those gold find banners), and get a ginormous amount of money, meaning…

Hardcore Moneymonemoney runs:
1g66s money/run * 10 runs/hour = 16g60s/hour (not including DR rewards and loot).

Assuming you’re selling your blues, greens and junk items, you can easily bump the rewards up to the nearest gold, at least. I say sell these because you’re farming so hard that there’s no time to Mystic Forge them.

EDIT: Math done properly below.

I get about 1 gold per CoF run after selling loot and using an Omnomberry Bar. An extra 200% would get me ~24 silver from Slave Driver instead of ~14 silver and ~36 silver form the Effigy instead of ~22 Silver. If I did my math right that is. So, would get about 25 extra silver per run

Grok Krog.9581:

I get about 1 gold per CoF run after selling loot and using an Omnomberry Bar. An extra 200% would get me ~24 silver from Slave Driver instead of ~14 silver and ~36 silver form the Effigy instead of ~22 Silver. If I did my math right that is. So, would get about 25 extra silver per run

I’d like to say that your math is wrong, here’s why…

NOTE: The bonuses in this part are cumulative, so at the Facebook boost, it includes Omnomberries + Gold Find Infusion + Facebook Boost.

Slave Driver drops…
Base: 10s
+Omnomberries: 14s
+Gold Find Infusion: 16s
+Facebook boost: 36s
+Gold Find Banner: 37s
+Runes of Scavenging: 38.5s
+Laureate Gold Booster: 41.5s

Applying this to the Effigy.
Base: 15s
+Omnom: 21s
+Infusion: 24s
+Facebook: 54s
+Banner: 55.5s
+Runes: 57.75s
+Booster: 62.25s

If you stack everything, you’re getting a total of 1g3s75c per run from bodies.

Add in the two chests (+10s per, no gold find boost applied)

1g23s75c per run. 12g37s50c per hour.

Add in completion reward (it’ll most likely be 26s + 26s + 13s + 6.50s +2.60s + 2.60s…) so we can do this for an hourly run.

The first 4 runs will have “bonus” gold than all the other runs, so (6 * 2.60s) + 26s + 26s + 13s + 6.50s = +total gold in 1 hour. +The total is 81.9s

All subsequent hourly runs (assuming no breaks) will net 26s per hour (2.60s * 10).

MOST MONEY PER RUN WITHOUT COUNTING DROPS
First hour: 13g19s40c.
Subsequent hours: 12g63s75c.

Not including Bags of Coins and items (blue/green/yellow/gray/white/orange/cores/lodestones/materials).

The numbers on this one are more accurate than my previous posts as I used the corrected numbers on the boss drops.

Assuming Infusion + Facebook + Omnom (if you don’t run infusion, you’ll make just under these amounts).

54s + 36s + 20s = 1g10s per run. 11g per hour.
Add in completion bonuses…

Gold Infusion + Facebook Boost + Omnom Boost
First hour: 11g81s90c.
Subsequent hours: 11g26s.

Now, let’s look at normal runs without the facebook boost…
16s + 24s + 20s = 60s.
6g per hour.

Gold Infusion + Omnom boost
First hour: 6g81s90c.
Subsequent hours: 6g26s.

Base rewards…
10s + 15s + 20s = kitten (forty-five silver, not trying to leetspeak say your bottom).
4.5g per hour.

Vanilla farming:
First hour:5g31s90c.
Subsequent hours: 4g76s.

Assuming current farming standards, let’s compare the profit.
First Hour:
Vanilla Farm100% (Control group) 5g31s90c
Infusion + Omnom128.2% 6g81s90c
Facebook + Infusion + Omnom222.2% 11g81s90c
HARDCOREGOTALLDEGOLDZFARM248% 13g19s40c

Subsequent hours:
Vanilla Farm100% (Control group) 4g76s00c
Infusion + Omnom131.5% 6g26s00c
Facebook + Infusion + Omnom236.6% 11g26s00c
HARDCOREGOTALLDEGOLDZFARM265.5% 12g63s75c

And this is all before counting loot other than pure silvers.

EDIT: Made it fancier and more aesthetically pleasing/easier to read.

EDIT2: Adding a conclusion… because, why not.

Basically, the Facebook Gold Find Boost will only increase your gold output by 100% of the BASE gold you’d get (WITHOUT OMNOMBERRY BARS). This means that it is definitely more efficient, but it’s not going to be superbly game-breaking. The amount of gold that people get from CoF will not be tripled or quadrupled, in fact, it will only be doubled if players take the time to stack EVERY POSSIBLE Gold Find Boost in the game and maintain it when compared to the standard Omnoms + Gold Infusion run (If you don’t run with Gold Infusions, you should look into it. For the price of 20 laurels, you get free gold on every run! While you’re at a Laurel Vendor, check out the Laureate Gold Boosters, they give +30% Gold Find for one hour!)

Esplen.3940:

Grok Krog.9581:

I get about 1 gold per CoF run after selling loot and using an Omnomberry Bar. An extra 200% would get me ~24 silver from Slave Driver instead of ~14 silver and ~36 silver form the Effigy instead of ~22 Silver. If I did my math right that is. So, would get about 25 extra silver per run

I’d like to say that your math is wrong, here’s why…

NOTE: The bonuses in this part are cumulative, so at the Facebook boost, it includes Omnomberries + Gold Find Infusion + Facebook Boost.

Slave Driver drops…
Base: 10s
+Omnomberries: 14s
+Gold Find Infusion: 16s
+Facebook boost: 36s
+Gold Find Banner: 37s
+Runes of Scavenging: 38.5s
+Laureate Gold Booster: 41.5s

Applying this to the Effigy.
Base: 15s
+Omnom: 21s
+Infusion: 24s
+Facebook: 54s
+Banner: 55.5s
+Runes: 57.75s
+Booster: 62.25s

If you stack everything, you’re getting a total of 1g3s75c per run from bodies.

Add in the two chests (+10s per, no gold find boost applied)

1g23s75c per run. 12g37s50c per hour.

Add in completion reward (it’ll most likely be 26s + 26s + 13s + 6.50s +2.60s + 2.60s…) so we can do this for an hourly run.

The first 4 runs will have “bonus” gold than all the other runs, so (6 * 2.60s) + 26s + 26s + 13s + 6.50s = +total gold in 1 hour. +The total is 81.9s

All subsequent hourly runs (assuming no breaks) will net 26s per hour (2.60s * 10).

MOST MONEY PER RUN WITHOUT COUNTING DROPS
First hour: 13g19s40c.
Subsequent hours: 12g63s75c.

Not including Bags of Coins and items (blue/green/yellow/gray/white/orange/cores/lodestones/materials).

The numbers on this one are more accurate than my previous posts as I used the corrected numbers on the boss drops.

Assuming Infusion + Facebook + Omnom (if you don’t run infusion, you’ll make just under these amounts).

54s + 36s + 20s = 1g10s per run. 11g per hour.
Add in completion bonuses…

Gold Infusion + Facebook Boost + Omnom Boost
First hour: 11g81s90c.
Subsequent hours: 11g26s.

Now, let’s look at normal runs without the facebook boost…
16s + 24s + 20s = 60s.
6g per hour.

Gold Infusion + Omnom boost
First hour: 6g81s90c.
Subsequent hours: 6g26s.

Base rewards…
10s + 15s + 20s = kitten (forty-five silver, not trying to leetspeak say your bottom).
4.5g per hour.

Vanilla farming:
First hour:5g31s90c.
Subsequent hours: 4g76s.

Assuming current farming standards, let’s compare the profit.
First Hour:
Vanilla Farm100% (Control group) 5g31s90c
Infusion + Omnom128.2% 6g81s90c
Facebook + Infusion + Omnom222.2% 11g81s90c
HARDCOREGOTALLDEGOLDZFARM248% 13g19s40c

Subsequent hours:
Vanilla Farm100% (Control group) 4g76s00c
Infusion + Omnom131.5% 6g26s00c
Facebook + Infusion + Omnom236.6% 11g26s00c
HARDCOREGOTALLDEGOLDZFARM265.5% 12g63s75c

And this is all before counting loot other than pure silvers.

EDIT: Made it fancier and more aesthetically pleasing/easier to read.

EDIT2: Adding a conclusion… because, why not.

Basically, the Facebook Gold Find Boost will only increase your gold output by 100% of the BASE gold you’d get (WITHOUT OMNOMBERRY BARS). This means that it is definitely more efficient, but it’s not going to be superbly game-breaking. The amount of gold that people get from CoF will not be tripled or quadrupled, in fact, it will only be doubled if players take the time to stack EVERY POSSIBLE Gold Find Boost in the game and maintain it when compared to the standard Omnoms + Gold Infusion run (If you don’t run with Gold Infusions, you should look into it. For the price of 20 laurels, you get free gold on every run! While you’re at a Laurel Vendor, check out the Laureate Gold Boosters, they give +30% Gold Find for one hour!)

You forgot to subtract the cost of omnom :P

Eyelusion.8205:

You forgot to subtract the cost of omnom :P

You really just wanted to be that one person that quotes the essay, didn’t you?

Fine, for every hour, subtract 6s per hour.
You also need to subtract 1 Laurel for every Laureate Coin Booster.
Subtract 20 Laurels (one time fee) for Infusion boost.
Subtract -Insert Numerous Methods- for Gold Find Banners.
Subtract ~6g for runes of scavenging.
Subtract 1m fb likes for Facebook booster.

Oh, and we’re not even counting WvW boosts (which only affect you if the instance is hosted in your world).

Should I also subtract the cost of getting each and every WvW point?

That’s when you know you need a break from MMOs and go play some real games with real gamers.

And probably come back to see the crazy inflation. Yay.

The farmer in me lit up at the 200% magic find boost :-P

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Harbard.5738:

That’s when you know you need a break from MMOs and go play some real games with real gamers.

Yeah, I agree. I’m taking a break from MMO’s and playing a real game with real gamers. It’s this fancy new game called GW2, you should try it sometime.

I was going to ‘like’ but after reading this thread, will not … Why??
Because if this encourages yet more CoF speed runs, then absolutely not ..

Oh, and cheers to those of you that reminded me of this…

I ran CoF 16 hours a day for about a month, then I bought my legendary off the TP…

By far and a long way the easiest way to get a legendary or anything else you want with gold…

Some may say this is boring and tedious but it was still more interesting than the average episode of the ‘living story’…lol

This seems like an extraordinary amount of calculating for a one-time situation.

I’m sure Anet will troll us and this boost will not stack with others.

Where do people figure they can get 10 runs in an hour? That’s only if you have an extremely hardcore farming group and it’s never contested. Ever. If you’re lucky you’ll get 6-7 runs in on average, even when hardcore farming with a decent group due to contested points, the need to sell, etc

Viking Jorun.5413:

Where do people figure they can get 10 runs in an hour? That’s only if you have an extremely hardcore farming group and it’s never contested. Ever. If you’re lucky you’ll get 6-7 runs in on average, even when hardcore farming with a decent group due to contested points, the need to sell, etc

There is just no way anyone ever did 10 runs in an hour. Not even with an expert hardcore farming group. Everyone who claims to have done it is a liar.
The dialogue alone takes up 3-4 minutes in this dungeon. If you look it up on youtube, the fastest speedruns you can find are around 6 minutes only because they’ve cut the entire opening sequence (entering the dungeon, choosing a path, blasting the door, etc.) from the run.

Mathog.3157:

I’m sure Anet will troll us and this boost will not stack with others.

and only works in Southsun Cove.

If there was an ‘I dont like button’ i would click that

Extra gold find, more unwitting promotion of CoF P1 farming? Get ready for a bunch of inflation.

Meglobob.8620:

I ran CoF 16 hours a day for about a month, then I bought my legendary off the TP…

By far and a long way the easiest way to get a legendary or anything else you want with gold…

Meglobob.8620:

Some may say this is boring and tedious but it was still more interesting than the average episode of the ‘living story’…lol

Can’t agree more about living story so far and I really hope you were trolling about your CoFgendary. But if you weren’t, at least that your particle-effect popsicle was really worth SIXTEEN hours of CoF a day (wtf!). But there are other games out there, and you know, even a life.

Just hope ANet shuts down CoF farming before it bloats the economy even more, because, at the end of the day, people who play normally are getting shafted by inflation, including farmers.