Farming Ghent Palace: Faster is Not Better

• After the rerun analysis, I have concluded that this place yield about the same gold as before QoL patch. But an argument was brought up that clear time wasn't accounted for so it would be better to just rush the dungeon rather than doing full clear. So... I ran this dungeon 240 more times to test it out.
• TL;DR: Do full run if you don't care about clear time. If not, at least kill the 2 mini-bosses.

Ghent is Tricky

• There are 2 different maps, one with 9 rooms and one with 11 rooms. There's no way to tell which map will spawn so doing this analysis can be very tricky when you're trying to track clear time. I could have taken this to another level and just count the 11-room map, but since I'm a casual, I'll just record clear time regardless of either map.
• Since I already got some number on full dungeon clear, I was curious what if I just do a partial full clear where I take the shortest route to get the 2 mini-bosses. Below are the route I used. As you can see, if you were rushing the dungeon, you would just doing 2 less rooms.

• Moreover, not every class is born equal when it come to clear time. So to be consistent, I used the same 20 alts over 2 days. One day doing the partial full runs, and one day doing rush. Here are the data.

Discussion

• Gold per Second: Partial full runs earned me 4,735,747 gold over 3,817.32 seconds, which is 1240.59 gold/sec. Rush runs earned me 3,503,651 gold over 3,189.26 seconds, which is 1098.57 gold/sec. Here you're look at about 11.4% difference.
• As you can see, just because I cleared the dungeon faster, that doesn't mean I will earn more gold due to me having more time time to repeat the process over and over. Granted everyone's internet speed is different and dungeon load time will vary person to person, but you get the idea.
• If you're doing actual full dungeon clear, I can see how this argument is valid, especially with the 11-room map. Since the map is basically a circle, there's not a good way to clear it without you backtrack multiple times (example below). So if it's taking you to long, I would at least kill the 2 mini-bosses.

• Gear Progression: Partial full runs earned me 56 Unique, and Rush runs earned me 33 Unique. That's a 41% difference.
• If you are a new player, those 23 Unique can help you a lot in your progression, so at least kill the 2-mini bosses.
• If you're graduated Ghent and want to farm gold. Can you imagine if those 23 Unique are all heavy weapon? That's like 690k gold I threw away just because I wanted 16.4% faster clear time.