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Calendyn

A couple of questions on Survivor for a Prophecies character

Noob question

I recently got back into the game and I'm aiming for a couple of goals I never really managed back in the day--getting Survivor and LDoA. In regards to the former, I have two questions:

  1. I have heard that using /resign can be bugged and count as a death, foiling the Survivor attempt. I have used this two or three times unwittingly, and leads me to ask the following: if /deaths still shows zero deaths and my Hero Panel is still accumulating XP towards Survivor, does that mean this character can still earn Survivor?

  2. What do I need to do to circumvent the threat of losing the Survivor attempt when exiting Pre-Searing? The wiki describes a point when the player should log out to skip the PvP section (or the whole mission?), but I'm a bit fuzzy on when exactly that is and don't want to risk shooting myself in the foot to accomplish my goal.

Since it's now possible to gain both titles on a Prophecies character, I really want to try for both but I'd hate to waste any more of my time if I've mucked it up already or run the risk of doing so in the future after grinding to 20.

Posted Jul 1, 2019, 11:08 PM UTC

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sirjisuShade The Mystic•

So survivor is not how it use be. As soon as you die. The exp counter just restarts and you try again. Resigning does not end your survivor title. Nor does some of the deaths in the game, like the huge rock things that fall in nightfall. Anyways, yeah. I wouldn't recommend doing survivor and ldoa at the same time. It's just easier to do the game relaxed and then do specific farms for survivor once you get into better parts of the game. However, if you do, then you want to be very careful when you farm charr , do not underestimate them. Besides the charr tho you should be fine. When you exit pre you do not die, unless you die to the grawl/ranger boss in the mission itself from them killing you

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CalendynOP•

Dude, that is super awesome. I thought I had to evade death until I had the title, this is so much better. Still a grind, but at least not nearly so awful as I believed. Thanks!

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sirjisuShade The Mystic•

Also depending on your profession you can get legendary survivor in just a couple hours

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Pynklu•

Or overnight with an afk farm

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TurquoiseLuck•

Details?

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TurquoiseLuck•

Such as?

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sirjisuShade The Mystic•

Vaettir farm with scrolls

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CataphractGWAntigone Amidala•

I have heard that using /resign can be bugged and count as a death, foiling the Survivor attempt.

This has been patched ages ago.

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bsoltan•

  1. As far as I'm aware, in no recent times has /resign triggered the death count itself. Just be careful of using it if you're taking damage as it does take a few seconds for the command to go through.

  2. The henchmen are pretty capable of completing the PvE section. You face one Charr at the end, depending on your level it can be risky, but you can hide behind the cave wall. The PvP part only triggers if >1 person exists Pre at the same time I believe, and you can skip it by logging out/resigning.

As sirjisu says, the titles are not mutually exclusive any more since they changed Survivor to be "amount of XP gained since last death" therefore even if you die it is possible to achieve it but you have to start accumulating XP from 'scratch'. It is still fun to do it with 0 deaths though.

Good luck!

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