User talk:Caithe

Survivor with Books

I just copied over the tables and a couple of my comments from the original archived conversation, which is here.

As promised a while ago, here's a quick run through of how many full books it would take to get Survivor 3, which requires 1,337,500 XP, with a little of my commentary.

Book	missions	max XP		books for S3		Notes
		NM	HM	NM	HM
	18	80k	120k	16.7	11.1	longest book; highest reward; many missions are very long and some can fail close to the end
	11	40k	60k	33.4	22.3	short; Eternal Grove and Imperial Sanctum may be tough with AI team
	17	60k	90k	22.3	14.9	long; Dzagonur Bastion and Gate of Madness can be a pain with AI
	12		67.5k*		19.8	short; HM only; simple starter missions; * XP reward varies depending on where you turn it in, and is highest from Gordon Ecker
	11*	40k	60k	33.4	22.3	shortest book; easy once you master DD and ATFH; faster than Young Heroes; * 5/16 entries are automatically complete after the first time

• In conclusion, I would place my top bet on Young Heroes of Tyria or Hero's Handbook.
  • YHoT is relatively short and very simple, even in HM, since these are starter missions. You can also choose to get 4,500 SS or LB rep or a cool 90k Kurz/Lux title points at the cost of ¹⁄₃ of the XP, increasing the number of books needed from 19.8 to 29.7. If you do 30 books and take them to Cantha, you will get an impressive 2,700,000 faction title points - more than rank 8 if you start from scratch, or over ¼ of the entire title track! - Note these are not actual faction you can spend, but go straight to your title track.
  • Hero's Handbook is easy and fast if you can run Destruction's Depths reliably, and provides nice rep rewards for EotN titles, if you don't have them yet.
• Note that the decimal points in the number of books required do not scale with the number of completed pages because of the "buffer" missions. They're only there instead of just a straight rounded up integer to show how close you are and if you'll need most of another book or can go kill a couple of worms in Ice Cliffs to finish up the title.
• Rose Of Kali 21:18, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Time/XP/risk

	XP gained	time	risk	notes
Great Northern Wall	3,500	12 min	low
Fort Ranik	4,600	17 min	low
Ruins of Surmia	8,700	28 min	med	popups, patrols and Rurik can cause overaggro
Nolani Academy	5,000	19 min	med	patrols and Rurik can cause overaggro
Borlis Pass	4,700	19 min	low
The Frost Gate	5,300	19 min	low
Gates of Kryta	3,800	17 min	med	lack of corpses for meatshields, spike dmg, Hablion overaggroes and fails the mission -> best not to trigger him
Minister Cho's Estate	4,200	11 min	low
Zen Daijun	3,200	12 min	high	multiple eles with Mind Burn targetting backline -> my only deaths -> keep Prot Spirit up at all times
Chahbek Village	1,100	4 min	low
Jokanur Diggings	2,800	11 min	med	fire traps + mobs that will happily finish you off after walking through one
Blacktide Den	2,400	12 min	med	Grenth's Balance + Skale stampede
Total	~49k	181 min	med	should be 0 deaths with experience and caution -> learn the spawns

• If you can survive filling 12 YHoT books without any deaths, you can do the title in only 144 missions and about 36 hours of playtime (15 books, 180 missions and 45 hours if you want the 1.35M Kurz/Lux title points instead).
• Rose Of Kali 20:09, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Nooooo!

Oh, the irony... Exactly 5 years ago I got my first GW mask, and I missed this one. Because I forgot. BAH! >_< Oh well, the first one was the best, anyway. Rose Of Kali 18:02, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

I think you can still get one real quick, just gotta buy a stack of v-tokens and see the guy in shing jea. Ariyen 20:31, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I just did that. Remembered about them while I was driving to WalMart... ^_^ Durr... Rose Of Kali 03:31, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Hey

Are you able to watch that gw video, now that you're in the usa? 72.148.31.114 22:13, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

"That" GW video? I know, late reply is late, I don't check this much anymore.

Ohh... wait, ha, hello Ariyenonymous. :P I'm gonna call you that now. I remember there was some video somewhere on someone's user page that I couldn't watch due to Sony's dumb ass, but don't remember where or what it was. ^_^ Rose Of Kali 03:00, 22 September 2011 (UTC)