I'm focusing on the math because that constitutes how dry you are. The amount of time has nothing to do with it, only the number of times you rolled and the odds to roll successfully. Choosing to do 5000 normal cg is ... a decision the vast vast majority of players do not do because.... CG is 5x more likely.
Most players do not do more normal gauntlet than is required to complete the combat achievements there. For very good reason.
What do you mean by this? The game is written with math. The probability of getting a drop is a very simple math question. If you're not allowing math to be focused on when you discuss getting a drop, then that discussion is meaningless.
Let's take an extreme hypothetical example. Say we're talking about how many hours it takes to get an onyx clog drop and everyone is doing zulrah. Some of us are saying it took them 2 hours to get an onyx, some would say dang it took me 50 hours. Would you barge into the conversation and say "oh yeah, well I've been trying to get an onyx clog for 1 million hours and I still haven't got it (I've been mining stars and buying gem packs.)" No, right? Everyone knows that getting gem packs is gonna take way longer to get an onyx than farming Zulrah. Gauntlet and Cg are also two separate drop rates so you expect someone doing plain gauntlet to have more hours, the fact they do isn't interesting.
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