Curse

Shayne Hawke · Mar 08, 2010, 03:23 AM // 03:23

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Originally Posted by Marverick

Wait for next Halloween and farm Captured Dhuum Essences or whatever they're called. It's 15k XP for 3 I believe, and they come very quickly with a balanced clear of UW.

I was of the impression that those quests were only going to be available for last year's event.

jonnieboi05 · Mar 08, 2010, 03:53 AM // 03:53

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Originally Posted by Shayne Hawke

I was of the impression that those quests were only going to be available for last year's event.

Same. Those quests last Halloween were only introduced as a way to bring in Dhuum from my understanding.

Babe · Mar 08, 2010, 04:10 AM // 04:10

For the life of me I don't understand why people do the Boxing thing. Its so repetitive and boring. I like a good challenge. I started with my survivor in Cantha. I got her first rank on Shing Jea Island and I had also gained some XP towards rank 2 just on that island. I recently got her to Keineng Center. I didn't use any scrolls either.

My advice is to always take Heroes or Henches. It doesn't hurt to be cautious. Also, if you can get some summoning stones. Use one. IT will be your ally for 30 minutes I think and it won't cut down the amount of XP you receive from a battle. Also, I would NOT recommend a 'Sin if you are doing it the way I am. It might be fine for boxing, but I personally wouldn't do it the way I've been earning my survivor title. You could try to find out which prof is best to be for survivor and then 2nd prof it for one of these:

Necromancer for summoning minions to be "meat bags" to help protect you from the enemies. They are good body blockers. Also, necros can obtain skills to self-heal.

Monk because you can heal yourself with multiple skills, as well as protect yourself by reducing damage you take etc.

Ranger because you can tame an animal to be your companion and when you get into a fight, it will run, fly, or whatever out into the enemy and attack it. Troll Unguent is kinda slow to cast for healing though... Antidote Signet helps rid yourself of conditions that you can suddenly die from.

Ritualist is nice too. If you can obtain SoS (Signet of Spirits) you can spirit spam a bunch to help fight for you. Also, Rits can heal themselves too.

Best thing to do is to experiment with various builds to see which one works best for you before you do Survivor. Also, if you have severe lag, do NOT play on your Survivor or be cautious like I am. If I see the color dot changing to yellow, I carefully clear enemies and then wait a little before moving forward so I don't aggro any enemies in case of lag. Also, use the flags below your compass to control your party.

Karate Jesus · Mar 08, 2010, 04:13 AM // 04:13

Just buy hammers, then lag doesn't matter.

Turbo Ginsu · Mar 08, 2010, 04:35 AM // 04:35

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Originally Posted by Babe

For the life of me I don't understand why people do the Boxing thing. Its so repetitive and boring.

Dunno about anyone else, but I did the boxing thing simply to get the, as you so succinctly put: "Boring", grind of getting a 1-off title that is important if you're thinking of GWAMM later, out of the way, so I can get out and play the toon without having to mollycoddle it for a month or two through again, as you put it, repetitive and boring, slowassed kid gloves grind.

Might go against your principles, personally, getting xp and loot to me is sorta what GW is about anyway, whilst having a bit of fun (I actually have a hell of a good time boxing, reminds me of "Test your Might!" in MK

) at the same time.

Tomato=tomato. All good.

Remember this, it could be a lot worse, I could be here espousing the pro's of having goddamn Pokemon/Bakugan/Duel Masters, w/e, in GW in the form of "Polymock". Now that, that shows that somewhere, a coder needs to be shot.

**cosyfiep** · Mar 08, 2010, 09:08 AM // 09:08

have had a few survivors go the lag way....though my last one went to being overzealous with oakhearts-----killing the wurms outside of boreal. Have 2 more working on the title (one is at 300k, the other is over half way 600+k)....I usually play other characters to find out the server lag-y-ness....if I find it is, then my survivor stays and other characters get out. I like to kill the insects outside of yolon haven with extra scrolls and bounty....slow but if there is lag my henchies can usually keep me alive.

pumpkin pie · Mar 08, 2010, 09:10 AM // 09:10

its not the hardest/elusive to get title. I am going to have 3 legendary survivors pretty soon, kekekeke, patient is the key.

My survivors toon isn't my main, so I only play them when I know my connection is good.

Kumu Honua · Mar 08, 2010, 09:31 AM // 09:31

No amount of lag can get you killed if you do HM wurms outside boreal. So, if you lagging out. Do that.

Anon-e-mouse · Mar 08, 2010, 11:23 AM // 11:23

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Originally Posted by Kumu Honua

No amount of lag can get you killed if you do HM wurms outside boreal. So, if you lagging out. Do that.

^^^^
This. Even if you are melee, just go ranged instead.. or heck equip a staff/wand and wand the feckers to death.. even in HM you won't die from lag, even if it is in the 1,000+ range

McMullen · Mar 08, 2010, 12:57 PM // 12:57

The biggest mistake to make is using auto-run while lagging. I lost connection while doing this and when I reconnected my character had run into a very large mob and died.

damkel · Mar 08, 2010, 01:34 PM // 13:34

I hear playing an imbagon is an easy/safe way of getting survivour. Since you got pretty high armour and health (from shield and spear) and stay around the backline, you won't be taking too much fire (since AI targets low armour and health characters).

Otherwise I don't know. I got my title from 2hours of keg farming which has since been nerfed.

arual · Mar 08, 2010, 01:43 PM // 13:43

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Originally Posted by Kumu Honua

No amount of lag can get you killed if you do HM wurms outside boreal. So, if you lagging out. Do that.

/signed

Maybe not as fast as other methods but 100% safe providing you don't auto-run or get cocky at the further set of three wurms. A Fire ele with Shell Shock worked quite well for my Sin and I sucessfully survived multiple disconnects with my, thankfully now ex, crap connection. Take some Lockpicks out there too.

imnotyourmother · Mar 09, 2010, 02:43 PM // 14:43

Wait wait WAIT!!!

If you want the title, just make a toon that uses RANGED attacks.

Go to Eye of the north - Borials Station.

Exit, and kill the 10 snow wurms on the hill.

If you have Hard Mode then use that and kill the wurms. If you are a ranger you can degen them to death and take 0 damage. use some scrolls and you can get the title in in week or less.

After all, no one but you will know how you got the title. I did it on my war and the only chance of dying is in hardmode running down the hill and the Oaks killing you faster than you can map out.

To Chicken To Die · Mar 09, 2010, 03:20 PM // 15:20

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Originally Posted by imnotyourmother

Wait wait WAIT!!!

If you want the title, just make a toon that uses RANGED attacks.

Go to Eye of the north - Borials Station.

Exit, and kill the 10 snow wurms on the hill.

If you have Hard Mode then use that and kill the wurms. If you are a ranger you can degen them to death and take 0 damage. use some scrolls and you can get the title in in week or less.

After all, no one but you will know how you got the title. I did it on my war and the only chance of dying is in hardmode running down the hill and the Oaks killing you faster than you can map out.

This combined with lockpicks for : Survivor, Treasure hunter, Wisdom, Lucky, Unlucky titles like omfg

Snark Is Dead · Mar 09, 2010, 04:32 PM // 16:32

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Originally Posted by The Real Avalon

... the title will be unattainable in regular play and also unattainable due to Dwarven Boxing. The way it's been lately, has made the game absolutely unplayable for survivors. Any thoughts?

Ever since I've grinded Leg. Survivor on my paragon all my toons to follow have *had* to have it as well (so far I have 5, working on ele atm). For regular play use the best vigor rune you can afford and survivor runes, complete the zaishen mission and bounty on NM and don't hesitate to close the Guild Wars window the second you realize that you're getting high ping.

The great thing about regular play is that you'll be less of a target with high health, you have heroes/henchmen or other friends to watch your back so laggy servers isn't a huge drawback.

***Beware of playing in Factions though, that campaign is full of spike damage and daze.***

Lodar Aric · Mar 09, 2010, 04:48 PM // 16:48

Got my first and what will be my only Legendary survivor the other day. My method was the wurms outside Boreal Station (Ice Cliff chasms), with a slayers insight scroll and HM you get 924 exp per wurm.

Probably not the fastest way to do it or the most exciting, but the chances of dying especially with lag are very slim.

Gun Pierson · Mar 09, 2010, 05:24 PM // 17:24

The only elusive thing about the survivor title for me personally is that I can't get it on my main which was created before titles arrived.

But if we would hypothetically get a one time chance, I would go for the safe route on that one and play 'regular' way.

Winterclaw · Mar 09, 2010, 05:29 PM // 17:29

I wrote a wurm farm guide a while back. It needs to be updated in terms of rit skills but the principles still work.

i farm baddies · Mar 10, 2010, 11:52 PM // 23:52

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Originally Posted by Divine Ashes

I think the most elusive title (excluding GWAMM and pvp titles) is and always will be LDOA.

survivor is easy, what are you all on?

Phaern Majes · Mar 11, 2010, 12:21 AM // 00:21

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Originally Posted by Turbo Ginsu

One last thing, if you are indeed going the boxing route, practice, practice, PRACTICE first and make sure you have it down before you go throwing a potential survivor at it. When you can get through every time, and have a rhythm, then you can safely start. Best I ever did in Kilroy was a perfect HM run, when I'm going for a Surv, average is usually about 30 energy by the end, doing well, 25 or less. I could snowball this into a huge Kilroy guide, but that'd make it totally tl;dr.

Basic fact of it is, there is a method to boxing, combo's can and should be used, and Kilroy himself must be kept alive. If you have to, break aggro and run away so Kilroy isn't in their bubble, then take it back to him. Without his shout, you're toast waiting to be buttered. One last thing: Don't try to grind Maghma's room with Kilroy dead, just run and re=pop him, then keep going, make sure you attack the same target he does, more importantly, don't try to kill Maghma before you kill the 4 dwarves with him.

This, I ran it on hardmode and got my para r3 in probably under 50 runs, I bought scrolls too though. Though on HM Maghma and sometimes Fenris drop scrolls and save ya some money. I actually always made enough off drops to at least by the blue quality scrolls from the merchant and a lockpick. Once you learn Maghma's room its a cake walk, you can even grind the room without Killroy if you still have the shout up, though it can be rough. I'd recommend trying it out on another character until you get it down.