The Pain that is the Survivor Title...

Today, Saturday, May 26th, at 6:34 PM, EST, my Elementalist died at 850,216 EXP. The character had been played or 61 hours and 43 minutes over the last 5 months. She fell to a The Inquisitor of the Iron Mines of Moladune mission. I just wasn't quick enough on the map-out. I warped to my guild hall the moment my HP hit 0. My morale just hit rock-bottom. But hey, at least now I can start using a build that has offense...

Has anyone else suffered from the emoness that is the failure of the Survivor Title?

My spear dervish died at around that exp amount. Happened against Kephket and fellow scarabs in the Tyria desert. Attempting to make her a legendary survivor was the only purpose she was even created at all... and she hasn't been adventuring since.

trying with my monk, forgot to go to Pogahn passage after saving Koss, died at Avatar of Grenth. Not too bad tho, as don't have to worry about panicking to keep her alive, and be a bit more risky as per my usual play style, and not stand waaaay to the back

My warrior died just 10k shy of a million xp, to the ruby djinns that spawn on a "do not touch" treasure that I stupidly, late one night, decided to go for. I panicked and ran for it instead of mapping out, and by all appearances was well clear of them until...I rubberbanded right back in, and they finished me off. It broke my heart.

I rerolled him.

When you bip yourself to death at 1337kxp, all the pain goes away.

I hear that. Threw my mesmer headlong into a Titan at Hell's Precipice shortly after the big 1337500. =) All the preasure is gone.

On my first survivor attempt, my ranger died at 1.2mill EXP due to Vizunah Death cutscene. I got it in fourth attempt.

every character i made was an attempt at survivor.

warrior
ranger
monk
necromancer
elementalist
dervish
mesmer.

and on the try where i FINALLY got lvl 3, i did it on an assassin.


go figure =-P

Not another survivor title thread.. sigh.

My Necro had about 1.5k more XP to go until the first Survivor title, until some jackass in my Marhan's Grotto run group pulled 50 Ice Imps to me. I closed Guild Wars when I was going down on health fast. Opened back up, typed in /deaths, got the number 1. Just one week ago. It made me a sad panda.

A few months before NF came out (therefore before flags or heroes) my mesmer took a ~350 damage Deathly Swarm to the face while attempting to cap discord @1.2M xp. A few days latter I was discussing the incident with a friend, and said something to effect "blah, I don't think I could do that again" and he asked "Why not?"

...I couldn't come up with a good excuse, so I did start over. That second mesmer made it to legendary. It feels good to not have given up, to know that I did finally make it.

Just for all you people that said you closed the game...don't. Closing it takes several seconds to process. Instead use F12 to logout.

Well, just a few minutes ago went for a Do Not Touch in Forum Highlands. I knew that a bunch of fire eles would spawn, but I thought I could sprint out in time. They body blocked me and killed me before I could map out to Guild Hall. Good thing I wasn't really trying too hard and was only at 310k experience, but I had hope of getting legendary. And now I'm pissed.

I've lost *2* characters(assassins) that were at 1100K xp and yes, I wasn't happy. I've rerolled and my Legendary Survivor asssassin is nice with his 1.337.777K xp^^. And yes, losing the pressure is just great 4 alliance members killed me with their sins.

that's what keeps me going...the thought that eventually I will make it. I keep setting new records for myself on survivor xp...right now my high is something like 750k xp. I've made it to indomitable 3 times now. I keep getting better at surviving..and eventually I will make it.

I've had several times were I've lost a survivor that was making significant progress (relative to my own records). My usual response is frustration...followed by a short period of depression (nothing serious though)...then I just forget about the character for a while and go farm or something with my other characters. Eventually I remake my character...knowing that eventually I will make it.

Right now I'm working on my Ranger survivor...she's sitting at about 1/2 way (out of total xp required) to indomitable survivor. She's only a couple days old as I remade her after losing an indomitable to the Avicara at the start of Mineral Springs.

Survivor is frustrating...but the eventual reward (the legendary title and the relief that you finally did it) is worth it. My plan is to keep going after I get the title to see what I can get done and still maintain that 0 deaths count.

How do you know this? I got my Legendary Survivor way back when by clicking the X on the window and if it had taken several seconds to logout chances are I woulda lost it vs. some huge afflicted mobs a couple of times. Didn't seem to take several seconds for me using the X instead of F12. I'm curious if they actually have identical functionality yet it's an urban legend that they don't.

To the OP: what were you doing fighting the Inquisitor? Absolutely no reason whatsoever why you needed to be in his aggro range. If ya don't wanna lose Survivor the best thing to do is never put yourself in a situation where you have any chance whatsoever to die (other than the few times that are absolutely necessary to do so).

I feel your pain, i wewre pugging it, doping the flamingo go gone quest, the guy i pugged with had his dunk hero, and he went afk, while i soon got ambushed by skales, bye bye lvl 17 necro

mine was stupid, my rit died in one shot against the consulate docks. The bit wherre the trappers are on the stairs which use crossfire

QFT. F12 has been one of my best friends while working on my Survivor. When you close, it looks like a disconnect in the game. With "reconnect" feature now in place, your char stays in the game for several minutes when you just close out.