Curse

soul of seraphs · Sep 16, 2007, 04:14 AM // 04:14

I have a sin (not my main) that lost is survivor title at 532,462 exp. needless to say i was moderatly disgruntled.

Res Ipsi · Sep 16, 2007, 05:13 AM // 05:13

First attempt (Rit) died around 900k, while doing the Iron Caves bonus with hench team. This was in the days before flags and heroes were introduced. While carrying a keg of dynamite, I targeted the nearest Mursaat for Thom to beat on..and found myself running in ahead of him instead. Uninfused armor ftl. Second attempt was with my mesmer, who did succeed in reaching LS.

Aethon · Sep 16, 2007, 05:21 AM // 05:21

You have died 1 time.
Me: "Come. Let us prepare for my next reroll."
Vekk: "Why? What are we going to do next reroll?"
Me: "The same thing we do every reroll - try and reach Legendary Survivor!"

In all seriousness, I got LS once, on a Ritualist. In the process I did lots and lots of quests, raking in a small fortune. But it was a triple XP'd Nornbear that finally let me get it. A small piece of me died that weekend; I started as a Slayer of Imps and ended as a Slayer of Nightmares. Honestly, though, my thought process isn't far off the dialog I wrote; I'm very persistent.

wetsparks · Sep 16, 2007, 05:30 AM // 05:30

I was going for survivor on a rit a long time ago, did one of the holiday quests with him, figured it would be easy and it gave a lot of exp, even took some henchman with me just in case, and lvl 20 somethings wiped me. Haven't gone for it since, haven't remade a rit since either.

As for the guy relating it to Diablo 2 hard core, I always make my characters hard core in Diablo. Mostly because I know that I can hack the character and bring him back to life, and also because I just like to play through the first chapter and delete him anyways when I get to act 2.

Zahr Dalsk · Sep 16, 2007, 05:46 AM // 05:46

Instead of trying for survivor, I try to get lots of deaths and then show off my deaths count to random people.

Kashrlyyk · Sep 16, 2007, 05:58 AM // 05:58

As a person with a perfectionist streak I HAVE to have at least survivor rank1. Which reduces the fun of the game quite a bit, and therefore ,for me at least, it means the introduction of survivor title was a bad thing.

Hiotoko · Sep 16, 2007, 06:14 AM // 06:14

I've only gone for the title once and was successful at it, and have no intention of going for it again for now, but I didn't think it was too hard to get, it just takes planning and preparation(meaning no PUGs). I'd just reroll if I decided to go for it again and failed.

Aramaki · Sep 16, 2007, 06:41 AM // 06:41

Survivor title on Nightfall characters is easy(no PUGs), but with Factions its omigosh@#$%*! My Assassin died when doing those skill quests from Instructor Ng(yeah I suck), two NPCs gang up my soft Ninjia-wannabe. Left a bitter feeling, maybe with restart again more careful this time.

October Jade · Sep 16, 2007, 08:31 AM // 08:31

Survival is difficult and frustrating. It is not impossible.

Assuming this ranger reaches tier three, it will be my fifth LS character. The Survivor title is not a task to be undertaken on a whim; you will most certainly fail numerous times before succeeding. I myself have accumulated between three and four hundred hours' worth of deleted progress due to death. It's not at all fun, I know. However, you must make a decision. Either keep rerolling until you get it right, or spend the remainder of that character's existence staring at the 'H' menu in disgust.

btw...hero/hench + responsible, patient gameplay = win.

Stormlord Alex · Sep 16, 2007, 08:44 AM // 08:44

I... uhmm... unwittingly got to round about 500, 000 exp on my sin before he died.
Didn't care 'cause I weren't going for survivor

Marth Reynolds · Sep 16, 2007, 09:15 AM // 09:15

i retry if i fail a oneshot title i'm after ^^

did that a couple times on sin, and trust me you do learn of your mistakes.

but if i'm not after the title i won't delete if i fail to survive.

Sekkira · Sep 16, 2007, 09:30 AM // 09:30

It does make you a far better player than usual going for the title. Even failing numerous times will have you learning from your mistakes.

infite · Sep 16, 2007, 10:53 AM // 10:53

I just stare the "You have died 1 time" message and say few bad word for few mins. Then i think "F**k it" and continue playing.

Dark Paladin X · Sep 16, 2007, 11:19 AM // 11:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by infite

I just stare the "You have died 1 time" message and say few bad word for few mins. Then i think "F**k it" and continue playing.

Yeah, that's me. I stared at the message and being remorseful and feel embarrassed an humiliated on failure. I mean, most GW people are perfectionists and they don't accept failure. I failed certain missions several times, but I try and calm down a bit and find my mistakes. Eventually, after my failure, I was like "one-shot chance, you fail, you fail," and I went saying, "Meh, nobody cares" and decided to go for skill hunter (there are 290 elite skills that you need signet of capture, so the cost would be around 290k, 2k less if you do the signet of capture quest exclusive in your continent. Of course, that would mean lots of farming, I get around 4-5k gold per farming run with a vengeful farmer in the plains of jarin in HM.)

vergerefosh · Sep 16, 2007, 11:38 AM // 11:38

Well, my monk I got to survivor, then as I forgot to go to pogahn passage after rescuing Koss, so I died getting there

Next person who could have died in jokanur diggings, and the latest, my mesmer died doing insignia quests.

A relief in a way as I don't have to worry about her dying etc anymore

Toutatis · Sep 16, 2007, 11:46 AM // 11:46

Every time I fail to get Survivor, I just laugh it off and think of a different title to work on. I don't mind the occasional failure; one who cannot appreciate failure cannot appreciate victory

JONO51 · Sep 16, 2007, 12:43 PM // 12:43

I had a disconnect death on a para at 1.2mil xp. in about march/april. Only recently started playing her again. Glad I didnt delete here.

Kamara · Sep 16, 2007, 01:17 PM // 13:17

Ooh, let's see now...

Warrior, created pre-NF and was two-fold purpose: 1) Survivor 2) Farm monies for the Dervish's FoW, keeping in mind I had no idea what the class would play like, or what the armor looked like. She died around the 800k mark. I died to a disconnect and when I came back I just went ".... Dayum!" then ran out the portal to carry on farming. Char still exists and is one of my favourites.

Necromancer, created a few days before the most recent double XP on cap weekends. Was just shy of 1 mil and died to Jade Brotherhood ele spike (ow). That one stung a bit, but again was a dust off and carry on playing. She had about 60 or so elites capped so now runs crack builds in PvE and alliance battles (Soul reaping dagger maniac in PvE and a Chantamancer spear thrower in PvP, much to the sighs of my team-mates

)

In between the two failed attempts I've got 3 successful LS's and am working on a 4th ^_^

I also had a mesmer who I only wanted to get to level 2, really didn't want to get her further so I just stripped her, aggro'd stuff outside SJM and then went afk for a while.

But yeah, I've never made a char for the sole purpose of LS, so I carry on playin' em.

Dark Wolf-KITB · Sep 16, 2007, 02:08 PM // 14:08

I've learned a few things from my numerous failures.

1. Overconfidence breeds carelessness.

2. I'm insane.

3. If you need the toilet, map to an outpost. If you can't do that wet yourself.

This is going to sound really stupid but I had a dream I was playing Guild Wars and my character died. Come the morning I wasn't sure if was a dream or not.

Turned out it was a premonition because a few days later the inevitable happened.

Spazzer · Sep 16, 2007, 02:13 PM // 14:13

I pvp'ed like woah with my first pve character. When titles were introduced, she never even had a chance.

Since then, I've managed to get an ele to tier one before dying while afk. That kinda chafed me a bit but I got over it. Second attempt died yesterday to some Moss Spiders while disconnected.

I think I'm going to take the stance of just working on my main character who never was allowed to get Survivor with the hope that maybe I'll get some other things that most players can't accomplish.