If you are really serious about reaching the higher tiers of Survivor, I would strongly recommend staying in presearing until level 10 or 11. It helps to be a level or three higher than everything in Ascalon and the Shiverpeaks. Until you reach LA and can obtain some heroes, you might have to rely on pugging the missions.
It also makes the academy pvp comically easy.
<--has four LS characters, all born in Tyria
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