How is gold per hour calculated?

Gold per run is divided by run time in hours, which is minutes divided by 60. The result is then multiplied by your gear-efficiency multiplier so faster clears at higher gear show their true rate.

What should the gear multiplier be?

Use 1.0 as your current baseline. If better gear lets you clear roughly 20% faster, use 1.2. It scales every method equally, so it changes totals but not the ranking unless a method scales differently.

Why does a high gold-per-run method sometimes lose?

Because rate is what matters, not the lump sum. A 1000 gold run that takes 30 minutes is 2000 per hour, while a 400 gold run that takes 6 minutes is 4000 per hour and wins despite the smaller payout.

Can I use it for currencies other than gold?

Yes. Enter any in-game currency per run — honor, marks, tokens, or resources — and the per-hour figure and ranking apply identically. Just keep one currency per comparison.

How accurate is the session projection?

It assumes a steady rate, which real farming rarely is due to RNG and travel time. Treat the projection as an upper-bound estimate and shave 10 to 20 percent for a realistic target.

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The best farming spot is not the one with the biggest single payout — it is the one with the highest rate. This calculator converts gold-per-run and run-time into gold per hour for each method, ranks them, and projects your session total.

How it works

For each method the hourly rate is:

gold per hour = (gold per run / (run minutes / 60)) × gear multiplier

Methods are sorted by this rate. The session projection multiplies the best (or your chosen) rate by your available hours:

session total = gold per hour × hours available

The gear multiplier scales all methods together, modelling faster clears from better equipment.

Example and tips

A 400-gold route that takes 6 minutes runs at 4000 gold/hour and beats a 1000-gold route that takes 30 minutes (2000 gold/hour), even though the second pays more per run. Always think in per-hour terms. Account for travel and reset time in your run-minutes figure, and re-measure occasionally — markets and route density change, and a route that was best last patch may not be now.