Curse

Antithesis · May 26, 2007, 12:02 AM // 00:02

Do it the easy way - http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10155813

Can be done in 15 hours

Karlos · May 26, 2007, 12:04 AM // 00:04

The most important thing, in my opinion, is to PLAN your route, don't just wing it. This is a plan of someone who wanted to:

a) Do it with as little outside help as possible.
b) Do it while fighting and being active, not sitting back like a wuss and having someone else get them the title (offense intended to all those wusses out there). :P

So, here's the plan:

1) I started with a Tyrian Mesmer. Cantha allows you to level up faster, but Tyria gives you faster access to max armor. Took my time in Pre-Searing, left around level 6 or 7.
2) I got her a run to LA from Ascalon, fairly uneventful.
3) NEVER, EVER, EVER AFK while getting a run. Even if the runner is a consumate pro who knows what he's doing (not some lame one who requires an entorage of meat shields), the other people getting run might be total jerks or noobs and pull aggro needlessly. It's amazing what people do when bored.
4) From LA, she went to Kaineng and got herself max armor (she was level 8).
5) Did the one risky thing, loaded up on henchies and started the mini-mission to get to Elona. There are Lionguard that help you now, and with a few timely interrupts, was able to prevent the Wrathful Storms from pwning my crappy henchie party. This allowed me to get to Elona and get the basic heroes, Dunkoro, Tahlkora, Koss and Melonni.
6) Using them, and Devona, Mehnlo, Aidan and Cynn from the Ascalon Settlement Quest and a bunch of Lionguard, I got Olias (using the old quest, not sure if this is harder or easier now). Olias is the key to everything else.
7) Set up Olias as Jagged Bones Minion Master and went back to Kaineng. Did the bus load of errand running quests there. If you avoid any big Jade Brotherhood mobs (staying west in Bukdek Byway and Wajjun Bazaar), you can do almost all of those quest with minimal fighting.
8) While I was under level 20, I had Tahlkora set up as a dedicated bonder for me (Life Barrier, Life Bond, Vital Blessing + Life Attunement).
9) By the end of those quests, I was level 20 and ready to rumble. So, I did Elona missions till I got to Grand Court. That was a hard one where I often had a death or two on my other chars, so I decided to stop there.
10) Went back to Tyria, got run to Sanctum, did the mission with heroes, then did the desert missions (paid runners when available). Ascended and beat my doppelganger with Empathy + Insidious Parasite.
11) Went back to Kaineng and did missions and quests all the way to Kuunavang. With skill, patience, knowing what you're up against and occassional help from guidies and friends... I never faced a dangerous situation.
12) Skill capped like crazy everywhere I was, changed secondaries all the time.
13) Paid my dues. Got my character and her heroes top notch gear.
14) I eventually had to get help with Grand Court to keep advancing without repetitive farming of Sunspear/LB points. I also did kill Kuunavang before getting the title. However, I did NOT try Shiro in Cantha. And as expected, when my char finally died after getting level 3, it was by Shiro in Imeprial Sanctum... Meditation of the Reaper wipe.
15) I did not make good use of scrolls, often forgot them or forgot to renew them.
16) When I got the title, I had completed all missions and bonuses in Tyria past Droknar's Forge, all misisons on masters in Cantha except Imperial Sanctum and all missions in Elona on Masters. I did not farm XP much however other than skill cap and do lots of quests along the way.

I did take a few more risks that necessary, but I would encourage anyone goign for the title to NOT go for the easy wussy way of having others do the work for you. Play for the title, use skill and wit to survive, and you'll be amazed how much better it will make you as a player. I have learned a LOT about successful PvE play and greatly improving your odds against mobs by playing my survivor aggressively. I think it's one of the main reasons my ele is the first documented character to vanquish all three continents on these forums.

rcollins779x · Jul 12, 2007, 12:47 PM // 12:47

All the info you got from the posters sum up what you need to watch for. I'm pretty sure I mastered the staying alive part by completing all 3 campains before going for Lsurivor and in record time.

3 Campains Completed with 0 deaths

No scrolls used or enemies farmed.

Torikae · Jul 12, 2007, 07:37 PM // 19:37

I started a new Ritualist in hopes of Legendary a couple of months ago and got it on first attempt, and without any close calls that I can remember. No farming, no running, no PUGing, and absolutely no F12.

My advice is just to stick to what you know. Play a class you enjoy, and know well. Know the game well. Know your enemies, and how to counter them. Know an escape route. Know the missions, etc. etc.

I found it useful to take another character through missions I'd not done in a while ahead of my survivor, to remind myself of it, and to plan my strategy out.

And cap skills. Cap every darned skill you come across =p
I stuck mainly to Cantha, as it's the chapter I know best, and has nice exp rewards. By the time I hit Legendary, I was 108/120 towards Canthan Skill Hunter.

Bump your health up too. With health in the 600s the enemies will barely look at you, squishy or no.

All in all, I think I capped about 150 skills, ascended and went as far as the Southern Shiverpeaks in Prophecies, did every mission and quest in Factions bar Imperial Sanctum, and as far as Vabbi in NF over the course of 110 hours.

It wasn't as hard as I'd expected, once I'd got myself into the right mindset. Yes, you have to be cautious - but planning ahead and being a little more tactical about things will only make you a better player in the long run =]

lacasner · Jul 12, 2007, 07:45 PM // 19:45

rccollins thats impressive

Hiotoko · Jul 12, 2007, 08:14 PM // 20:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by Antithesis

Do it the easy way - http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10155813

Can be done in 15 hours

Or do it the easier way.

Did mine in under 10 hours on first try.

Burning Blade · Jul 12, 2007, 08:49 PM // 20:49

I got my Sin first level of Survivor just by playing through missions and quests. Its funny I've got a lot of people asking thing like "So you quit whenever you are about to die right?" lol Its hard to believe Sin dont die

I started the Sin from Cantha (of course no other choices). I then quickly rushed to Kaineng and moved to NF to get heroes. They have been extremely critical to my survivor. At the beginning I used daggers but I was in great troubles many times. So I then switched to Critical Barrager and it has been much easier to survive.

still 200,000XP to next tier but it's interesting since you have nothing else to do in this game.

Griff Mon · Jul 12, 2007, 08:52 PM // 20:52

Now that Lightbringer Scrolls are showing up at the Rare Scroll Traders at about 2K each you will find the time shortened and more survivors running around in game. It is an expensive way to go, but it does give you triple XP for 10 minutes.

isamu kurosawa · Jul 12, 2007, 08:58 PM // 20:58

Personally, i didn't notice i got survivor till i reached rank 2 (on my paragon). Then i managed to get legendary survivor and have completed all 3 campaigns and am still at 0 deaths.

I just played as i usually do, with real teams in a few nightfall missions such as bastion but hero/hench most of the time.

Onarik Amrak · Jul 13, 2007, 12:11 AM // 00:11

I got my Paragon Legendary Survivor + 3 Protector titles and still haven't died!

fgarvin · Jul 13, 2007, 01:52 AM // 01:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by rcollins779x

All the info you got from the posters sum up what you need to watch for. I'm pretty sure I mastered the staying alive part by completing all 3 campains before going for Lsurivor and in record time.

3 Campains Completed with 0 deaths

No scrolls used or enemies farmed.

I see the AFK'ing you did for the Favored title, but damn, close to 80hrs in 10 days?!?! Wow.

Burning Blade · Jul 13, 2007, 08:54 PM // 20:54

a moron just pulled group of hydras to my Sin when he just got Survivor 2 while I was afk for like 30s to read news on another computer! jesus

rcollins779x · Jul 15, 2007, 12:34 PM // 12:34

Every time one of your survivor characters die, you learn a hard lesson that makes you a better survivor. I too died during a similar event and learned that going afk with any human players in your team can be disasterous. Now that you learned this lesson the hard way, be glad that you weren't just under tier 3.

william1975 · Jul 15, 2007, 02:11 PM // 14:11

I have a Dervish, Paragon, Assassin at level 1 Survivor, A ritualist at level 3, and a ranger at half way between level 1 and 2, from Nightfall

Gaining level 20 is easiest on Elona because you have heores leveling with you, do the quests and the missions avoiding master ones till you are high enough and can have 8 man party.

Ritualist was easy because you can use spirits to do more damage and give protection, again doing the quests that are relatively easy, you possibly can get to level 20 before goign to the mainland if not go to elona as soon as possible and get heroes.

Getting to level 3 is a lot easier with heroes, its how my ritualist did it

I would avoid Tyria its very hard to get up level until you get to Lions arch and get heroes.