Curse

Winterclaw · Dec 06, 2007, 09:43 PM // 21:43

As the game matures and people get more familiar with it, the survivor title will go down in value some. For the earlier titles, that's just because players are getting better. For S3, that's because someone is running one of those survivor farming builds. Compounding this, not everyone likes survivor titles, some don't like it when there's someone trying to get it in their group, and some think it's a little boring to keep getting them. Finally survivor has become a very individual title, particularly with heroes.

I was thinking about this for a time and a while ago I thought up a solution to make survivor a little more interesting for people. Not everyone might be able to do this idea but some people might. So what is it?

The Survivor Squad
Now for most of us who've at least gotten survivor 1, we do it solo most of the time and only get a group when we need to. Usually that group is friends or guildies that we trust. So I thought, why not take it a step further for people interested in the title and instead of individually, try to finish a campaign or two with everyone keeping survivor active for the more casual survivors or for you S3 people, try to farm and quest your way up to S3 with your friends. It's a way to add to the challenge because you now have to think about your party and trying to keep multiple people from ever dying. Plus it might be a little more fun trying to get survivor with your friends as they are going for it as well.

Just something for all you guys who like going for survivor to think about.

Covah · Dec 06, 2007, 09:47 PM // 21:47

personally I don't want to gain 1.3 mill EXP with the same people.

Seraphic Divinity · Dec 06, 2007, 09:48 PM // 21:48

So you're saying that... to have more fun we should consider forming friendly groups of people who all want to finish a campaign together without dying?

sounds.... interesting...? and boring- more stuff to do than make up random in-game challenges that yield no reward.

If you're suggesting a new title or some reward with this- sardelac.

Rayne Nightfyre · Dec 06, 2007, 09:56 PM // 21:56

Doesn't sound like a bad idea at all. Some sort of incentive to actually play in groups would be great. I was intent on getting at least the rank 2 (even 3) survivor title with my Paragon, the legit way. I got rank 1 no problem, but ended up dying due to my not being able to hit F12 quick enough (I got instantly spiked by a fire Elementalist boss when pulling enemies around him away). I had just over 300,000 xp too, which was well over halfway to rank 2. That was just...horrible. I lost all motivation to even play the game for a while, lol. It was the first time I really tried and made a conscious effort to go for a r2+ survivor title.

So now, I will never try to go for that again. It just wasn't worth all the stressing! So I would totally be all for new incentive to try again.

upier · Dec 06, 2007, 10:13 PM // 22:13

Aye - the Survivor title lost it's value (well the minimal value it had from the start!). So let's just lower that bloody 1,3 mil xp and give the title at a much much more normal value.
700k-ish would be completely enough.

MikeV · Dec 06, 2007, 10:18 PM // 22:18

Can you imagine a whole team of people dropping out at the first sign of trouble? LOL! Is there a title for least missions finished?

Shadow Spirit · Dec 06, 2007, 10:19 PM // 22:19

But if you wouldn't have to get 1,337,000 xp the title wouldn't be 1337 anymore...

upier · Dec 06, 2007, 10:41 PM // 22:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shadow Spirit

But if you wouldn't have to get 1,337,000 xp the title wouldn't be 1337 anymore...

Then at least lower it to 1,2 mil!
In the memory of the great F12!

Shadow Spirit · Dec 06, 2007, 10:43 PM // 22:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by upier

Then at least lower it to 1,2 mil!
In the memory of the great F12!

LOL.

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Witchblade · Dec 06, 2007, 10:46 PM // 22:46

the only fun thing to do with LS rank is to play without any help, just H&H thru a campaign you didnt try at all yet

Winterclaw · Dec 06, 2007, 10:49 PM // 22:49

You don't have to make a goal of getting S3, you can just join to finish a campaign or something.

BTW, why was this moved to sardelac? This isn't a suggestion for titles or anything like that. This is a challenge/new way to play survivor.

Onarik Amrak · Dec 06, 2007, 11:50 PM // 23:50

You mean like Survivor for Heroes?

Or like, the bar only progresses when you're in a PuG?

Winterclaw · Dec 07, 2007, 01:34 AM // 01:34

No I mean a group of players doing survivor together. No survivor for heroes and no special title.

Cargan · Dec 07, 2007, 01:48 AM // 01:48

I could see that failing miserably. Every time someone dies they'd drop out of the party and restart the character. By the end you'd probably reach 1,337,500xp while doing vizunah for the 1,337,500th time to try and get the party through it with their 7 defensive skills each and one attack skill only to make it then have one idiot on the other team not skip the cinematic :|

Onarik Amrak · Dec 07, 2007, 01:49 AM // 01:49

I've partied with a friend going for survivor a few times.

Nothing too hard, just a couple of missions and quests.

It's not really that much harder... and sometimes it's easier because then you can use 6 heroes.

free_fall · Dec 07, 2007, 05:21 AM // 05:21

With my current candidate, I haven't played with other people at all, period (and I'm as far as Lutgardis), for the simple reason that if I screw up and die I won't be able to blame anyone but myself.