War Supplies farming: Courier Falken

Ah yes, Captain Falcon...I mean, Courier Falken. I heard that it takes around 8 minutes or so to escort this Leeroy Jenkins to his destination when done at North Kryta Province (basically escorting him to a particular location without getting him killed once). Now, the great thing about this (over the Shining Blade Bounties) is that no matter what mode you do this in, the reward is the same. Also, you can start from Temple of the Ages with a party of 8 to makes things easier since the henchies are a bit more resilient than the ones in Lion's Arch (you don't have to do the Watchtower Coast one where your party is strictly limited to 6 people). Oh yeah, your party WILL face level 20 White Mantle on the path, but it's mostly around 4-6 foes per encounter and with you, three heroes, 4 level 15 henchmen, Courier Falken, and a random Shining Blade/Ebon Falcon ally, this shouldn't be a problem.

However, there is a drawback to this. If you plan to do all of this at North Kryta Province/Nebo Terrance and you plan to start from Temple of the Ages, it is a very long run. Also, for full effectiveness of this farm, if you do this at North Kryta Province, you can't really enter Lion's Arch. If you want to do the Courier Falken thing again, you need to do this through the Nebo Terrance/North Kryta Province portal. So if you ever need to sell your loot or anything, you probably would need Mercantile Summoning Stones. Courier Falken's AI is pretty bad as well, as he seem to highly prioritize in going to his destination rather than helping your party when you are in danger (that's why I refer to him as Leeroy Jenkins). For example, my minions accidentally aggro a group of Tengu in the open field and yet Courier Falken prefers running to the destination because the minions who aggroed the Tengu were out of his aggro range.

Oh yeah, he doesn't spawn all the time. So you would need to constantly rezone a couple of times at the Nebo Terrance/North Kryta Province portal. However, doing so would be a great thing. If he doesn't spawn at North Kryta Province, there a chance that he may spawn at Nebo Terrance when you go through the portal and vice versa.

But anyways, share your builds for farming War Supplies via Courier Falken. For me, I used a ranger spear build where I constantly alternate between the shouts "Fall Back!" and "Incoming!" shouts so that Courier Falken can reach his destination quickly (I don't rely on heroes to do this because they don't seem to use these shouts well). I use the Discordway build for my heroes because the minions serve as effective meat shields as well as distractions whenever I end up aggroing the mobs but Courier Falken decides to keep running because mobs that were aggroed are outside of his range. The henchies I brought were a monk, an elementalist, a ranger, and a mesmer.

Rt or necro x3: DwG + AR + Splinter
100b x2
Healer monk with "Make Haste!"

This is what worked for one pug I was just on From Divinity Coast to Watchtower Coast.

My own build:
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Hero:

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or just random ppl with glaive

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