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Jul 13th, 2020 at 7:00pm
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So my current method is to quad-box 4 accounts and run Lords of Dust. One guy does the quest on epic elite while the other three pike at the entrance. Then I auto-run them through when done. I thought about killing them and carrying the stones but all tolled that ends up taking about the same amount of time.

All in its about 15 minutes door to door for 4 tokens.

Is there any better way or should I spin up 2 more accounts?
  

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Reply #1 - Jul 13th, 2020 at 7:21pm
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noamineo wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 7:00pm:
All in its about 15 minutes door to door for 4 tokens.


A. Why are you running LOD anyway
B. Why are you running LOD so slowly
  
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Reply #2 - Jul 13th, 2020 at 7:35pm
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I always 6 box chains of flame. Takes about an hour to get 60 tokens.
  
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[some shit] wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 7:21pm:
A. Why are you running LOD anyway


Convenience. Being right in the harbor makes it easy to get all the chest pullers there. I know there's a few faster quests buried deep in wilderness zones but they become less fast when you have to walk a bunch of dudes out there. This game needs a fucking auto-follow command badly.


[some shit] wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 7:21pm:
B. Why are you running LOD so slowly


15~ minutes is door to door, meaning "from the first character stepping into the quest to the first character being ready to step into the quest again". The main guy is a fire sorc who barely goes off auto-run, from talking to Gnomen to killing Karas is maybe 7 minutes(which if you want to sit here and tell me you're doing it a whole lot faster, I won't be buying any bridges from you). The rest of the time is getting the other 3 guys in and running them to the end chest. I can time it for you if you like but it takes about 2 minutes to auto-run a character through that quest.

I suppose i could shave a minute or two off by only looting the tokens but ~1 minute optimization isn't really doing very much.
  

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Reply #4 - Jul 13th, 2020 at 7:43pm
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Teth wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 7:35pm:
I always 6 box chains of flame. Takes about an hour to get 60 tokens.


Like.. I THINK this is a joke.. but there's a lot I don't know. So...
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Reply #5 - Jul 13th, 2020 at 7:46pm
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Teth wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 7:35pm:
I always 6 box chains of flame. Takes about an hour to get 60 tokens.


Is your hour factoring in the time it takes to run 6 characters through the sands to the entrance? Because that is part of the calculation. And no, don't tell me to grind out horses for all six of them. Fuck that grind wall.

I've only done that quest once or twice, is it fairly self-explanatory or does it take a lot of practice/learning quickest routes to reach that number?
  

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noamineo wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 7:46pm:
Is your hour factoring in the time it takes to run 6 characters through the sands to the entrance? Because that is part of the calculation. And no, don't tell me to grind out horses for all six of them. Fuck that grind wall.

I've only done that quest once or twice, is it fairly self-explanatory or does it take a lot of practice/learning quickest routes to reach that number?



Unless there are some SERIOUS shortcuts I don't know... this is a joke. It's a long quest with one end chest, I believe. I mean, I'm rusty.. But I didn't think I was THAT rusty.
  


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Head-Meat wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 7:51pm:
Unless there are some SERIOUS shortcuts I don't know... this is a joke. It's a long quest with one end chest, I believe. I mean, I'm rusty.. But I didn't think I was THAT rusty.


I do find people tend to seriously, dramatically, magnanimously under-state how long it actually takes to do quests.

LoD, for example: takes at least a couple minutes to auto-run from one end to the other AND has a couple minutes of unskipable narration to be sat through.

I have STILL had people swear to me they could do the quest on R6 in under 2 minutes.
  

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noamineo wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 8:13pm:
I do find people tend to seriously, dramatically, magnanimously under-state how long it actually takes to do quests.

LoD, for example: takes at least a couple minutes to auto-run from one end to the other AND has a couple minutes of unskipable narration to be sat through.

I have STILL had people swear to me they could do the quest on R6 in under 2 minutes.



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Head-Meat wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 8:20pm:
Everyone on the internets is an Olympian-Level E-Sports Athlete.


Or some sort of time wizard.


But seriously I'm debating if its worth spending 2 more boxes to get 2 more lvl 20s and thus 2 extra chest-pulls. I'm not buying 5 more copies of sharn, so said pullers will become mostly useless at the end of august. I just don't know.

I suppose on the other hand it *might* help me get friends to come and play.
  

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Reply #10 - Jul 13th, 2020 at 8:44pm
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noamineo wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 7:42pm:
15~ minutes is door to door, meaning "from the first character stepping into the quest to the first character being ready to step into the quest again". The main guy is a fire sorc who barely goes off auto-run, from talking to Gnomen to killing Karas is maybe 7 minutes(which if you want to sit here and tell me you're doing it a whole lot faster, I won't be buying any bridges from you). The rest of the time is getting the other 3 guys in and running them to the end chest. I can time it for you if you like but it takes about 2 minutes to auto-run a character through that quest.


Right, so it's 7 minutes to run the quest. Factor in a minute to raise the alts, you're down to 8. Congrats we've halved your misery.

If only there was a quest that's faster to run with less misery for your alts. I'll let you work out which tho, while I start building a bridge.
  
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[some shit] wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 8:44pm:
Right, so it's 7 minutes to run the quest. Factor in a minute to raise the alts, you're down to 8. Congrats we've halved your misery.


Do you know some trick to killing alts that you'd like to share? Uncleansed heroic greensteels take a couple minutes on a lvl 30 character even while naked. The "/death" command does nothing(no idea why everyone keeps suggesting it), and the mobs at the front of LoD can't kill a lvl 30 before gnomen kills them.

When you factor in the time it takes to kill the alts and then rez them, killing them doesn't start to be a whole lot faster than running them; unless you know a trick I don't.

[some shit] wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 8:44pm:
If only there was a quest that's faster to run with less misery for your alts. I'll let you work out which tho, while I start building a bridge.


Yeah I'm not gonna play your cryptic bullshit guessing games. Given the time-estimation skills you've demonstrated so far, I'll wager dollars to doughnuts you're thinking of one out in the middle of a wilderness zone and(again) ignoring the time it takes to GET there.
  

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Head-Meat wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 7:51pm:
Unless there are some SERIOUS shortcuts I don't know... this is a joke. It's a long quest with one end chest, I believe. I mean, I'm rusty.. But I didn't think I was THAT rusty.


Yes there is a jump shortcut, and 1 chest that gives 2.5 tokens per character
  
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Teth wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 9:30pm:
Yes there is a jump shortcut,


Ahhhh.

Yeah that's not gonna work for me.

Plus, I looked at the map and that is a long fuckin walk to the quest entrance. You might be able to manage 60 an hour but I doubt I'd get much faster than than my current rate when you factor in the walk.
  

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noamineo wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 9:02pm:
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When you factor in the time it takes to kill the alts and then rez them, killing them doesn't start to be a whole lot faster than running them; unless you know a trick I don't.


Yeah I'm not gonna play your cryptic bullshit guessing games. Given the time-estimation skills you've demonstrated so far, I'll wager dollars to doughnuts you're thinking of one out in the middle of a wilderness zone and(again) ignoring the time it takes to GET there.


Level 30? rough. Mine are level 20 naked alts that die in seconds if I need them to. That does makes it harder, fair fair.

And no, no wilderness. I'm just being cryptic because you're an ass, but how long is the list of quests giving tokens? Cut out ones involving a wilderness, list isn't that long.
  
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[some shit] wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 9:53pm:
I'm just being cryptic because you're I'm an ass,


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Funny, but if you weren't an ass I'd have told you. 2 wrong don't make a right, but I also don't give a fuck

You're running the wrong quest. Engage your brain, look at the list of quests giving tokens, remove wilderness, think a little, see the one that stands out as zero effort with alts.

FWIW it's 7m for me to enter the quest, loot on 6 chars, leave and enter again. I could maybe get that down to 6m if I cared enough, but I don't.
  
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Funny, but if you weren't I wasn't an ass I'd have told you.


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noamineo wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 7:00pm:
Is there any better way or should I spin up 2 more accounts?


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Head-Meat wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 7:51pm:
Unless there are some SERIOUS shortcuts I don't know...


There's always a way.

noamineo wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 9:02pm:
Uncleansed heroic greensteels take a couple minutes on a lvl 30 character


LGS kills you faster I think, but you won't need them in DA.
  

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5 Foot Step wrote on Jul 14th, 2020 at 2:31am:
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There's always a way.


LGS kills you faster I think, but you won't need them in DA.



Correct me if Im wrong but DA takes forever? Isnt it timer-based, not objective based? I dont think I've ever finished a DA run in less than half an hour. I guess its worth trying on my fire sorc. Will know tomorrow.
  

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It gives twice as many tokens. I've never timed it, but even if you can run 2 LoDs in less time, it's still more work...you know, compared to farming DA while watching Netflix on your 2nd monitor.
  

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Reply #21 - Jul 14th, 2020 at 3:51am
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Token farming: spend some time in epics.  You'll end up with more tokes than you'll ever use.

Put up a group for DA or Dust asking people to pass.  You'll usually get a minimum of 3 people jumping in to help you.

Roll an auralock farmer.  Put it in DA with a hire or two while you go shower, do house work, watch porn, whatever.  Put a LFM during the 4th wave and let people join to pass.  Get in the habit of doing that every day/night.  By using your unproductive time wisely in the game, it cuts down on the grind and also provides you with extra GS crafting ings in case you ever get the itch.

Outside of that - no idea.  I did the DA thing for at least six straight months and played almost nothing but epics for a year - I've got enough tokens on my toons to TR about 100 times.
  

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One good one is generally enough.  Not sure I've left one unused before.
  

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noamineo wrote on Jul 13th, 2020 at 9:02pm:
The "/death" command does nothing

WAIT. WHAT? They took away /death??????
  
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5 Foot Step wrote on Jul 14th, 2020 at 2:31am:
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The trick to DA is to run it on EN.
  

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