Guild Wars 2 Video/Media

**Prothescar** · 2012-10-18 23:10

Thinking about making and deleting new characters over and over to farm some keys from the lv10 story quest, but that sounds like it may flag some things.

**Arcana** · 2012-10-19 02:31

you could complete the 3 unique paths for each race's story to make it look more like achievement hunting.

**bluefan** · 2012-10-19 12:20

Can't wait for Halloween stuff. Been on a GW2 hiatus to play some Borderlands 2 with friends.

Got a buncha black lion chests stashed away in the bank. BRING IT!

**arus2001** · 2012-10-19 15:00

Originally Posted by Prothescar

Thinking about making and deleting new characters over and over to farm some keys from the lv10 story quest, but that sounds like it may flag some things.

Eh, it's not like key items dupe gold or anything. Plus it's something I imagine would take a couple hours or more per character without help.

**Kiarax** · 2012-10-19 15:02

Guy I know who was running Human stories to test got commoner path down (as Warrior) in 34 mins. It's probably about even to either farm up gold to buy gems (for 5 keys from the store) as it is to running that 5 times, but given the steady increase in the price of gems... might be better to spam level 10 story for them unless you're making more playing the AH.

**Prothescar** · 2012-10-19 15:16

It's currently 3.05g or so for 450 gems (5 keys). No doubt the price will steadily increase and eventually get astronomical during halloween week. I don't see farming the gold being a very viable option compared to just farming the story quests if farming story quests isn't potentially bannable material. You get roughly 2.5g per every dungeon done if you do all 3 paths, and those take at minimum 1.5~2 hours each with some taking even longer. Even if you can only average 1 key every 40 minutes by doing story grinding, you'd still be averaging more efficient keys per hour than grinding for the gold. As far as I know, there's no tangible way to gain gold faster than dungeons except gambling, lucky drop RNG, or finding something good to flip on the AH (which requires resources of its own to be profitable enough to be worth it).

**Kiarax** · 2012-10-19 15:30

Can make more spamming Orr DEs than dungeons, there's some reliance on getting rare drops but you're almost guaranteed to get some, as well as tons of other vendor/salvage trash. Plus zero reliance on other people needed. I guess one benefit of doing story spam is you can do every races 3(?) paths to knock out those achievements too. I've done all 3 human paths but only 1 of the other races I've played.

**Prothescar** · 2012-10-19 15:34

probably less suicide inducing than spamming the same dungeons and DEs over and over and over too, but who knows

**Kiarax** · 2012-10-19 16:01

Checking wiki now it and seems like there isn't an achievement for each racial path, just one for finishing 1-10, another for 10-20 and another for 20-30, one of each per race. So doing each race 3 times wouldn't give any more. Still gets a chance to see more stories and keeps it a little more interesting than spamming the fastest, but I know some people don't give a single fuck about plot.

**Aristio** · 2012-10-19 20:23

Don't know why ArenaNet would care you're farming 1-10 missions. Would take about 2 hours for each key which seems reasonable.

**Kiarax** · 2012-10-19 20:38

We're doing it in 30 mins.

**Kuishen** · 2012-10-19 21:10

Originally Posted by Kiarax

We're doing it in 30 mins.

Any specific tips?

**Prothescar** · 2012-10-19 21:22

We were doing it a 3x Warriors on the Human Commoner path and just blitzed through, so however close you can get to that. Ranger probably works fine too, pets add extra bodies.

**Kiarax** · 2012-10-19 23:20

Warrior has the benefit of some mobility skills. You start with Sword and can take Horn as the tutorial reward. Gives you a leap on 2 and Swiftness on 4. I was using that whilst Pro and Aki used GS or w/e took their fancy. I heard Asura Synergy path is pretty quick but I've never done it myself so I have no clue if you can get it down in 30 mins like Warrior can. I also heard some guy claiming he did the Human Commoner path in 24 mins solo (using Sword/Horn), the three of us weren't really rushing it but if a coordinated group did I'm sure they could do it in 20 mins.

**Rhyis.** · 2012-10-19 23:25

BG turning into a RMT side venture I see.

**Akiyama** · 2012-10-19 23:45

Hell yeah, someone smart has to do it amirite

**Kachiko** · 2012-10-20 00:37

I really don't get it honestly. If the Halloween system makes you grind 20 minutes, for one key, is it really worth that type of effort? Is it really fun to do that?

**Kiarax** · 2012-10-20 01:28

I had fun doing it! That won't be the only way to get items though so I wouldn't really sweat it, but figured I'd stock up on a few keys whilst I'm in the mood for it, since some Halloween related stuff is gonna come from the chests.

**Celeras** · 2012-10-20 03:54

It is 90 gems to buy a key when you buy 5x, or 125 per single key. Thats under 65s/per bulk purchased or 85s single purchased with current trade prices. Seems like it would be infinitely more efficient to farm the money in that 30m(easily done) since you could do other things at the same time.

Definitely a benefit of leveling characters you actually want to, though.

**bluefan** · 2012-10-20 11:08

So I blew my bank up. Still need Tier 3 pants and shoulders

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