SS and LB title maxing time

Steboy93

Steboy93

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Feb 2007

Trinity of the Ascended [ToA] | Ex-Officer [TAM]

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Im thinking about going for KoaBD on my warrior, i already have prot of tyria and elona and am part way though factions so they will be my first 3.
I have heard that compared to other titles sunspear and lightbringer are relativly easy to max, so i have two questions:
1) How long roughly will it take to max ss and lb by doing a show of force HM in sulpherous wastes, i am already rank8 ss(7500) and rank4 lb(2500).
2) are there any less time consuming/easy titles to max than ss and lb.

Thanks in advance for your help, i look forward to hearing peoples views and opinions.

Star Gazer

Star Gazer

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

Zerohour Enterprises [ZHE]

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cartographer titles are pretty easy to do as well...you still quite a bit ways to go...roughly 1k~+/- on the SS/LB runs out of remains...it gets old REAL quick...skill hunter is also an easy title to do, just takes some cash to get it

bhavv

bhavv

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Sep 2006

Protector titles, Skill hunter, cartogrophor and grind ones like SS + LB are the easyiest ones to get.

thezed

thezed

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

Iowa, USA

HoTR

I would go for the Skill hunter titles. They are not hard and have the added advantage of being a lot of fun.

Croco Clouds

Croco Clouds

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2007

Montreal, QC, Canada

Divine Illumination [LaZy]

E/A

yep Skill Hunter is better than grind those SS/LB title, since searching boss makes u gain skill point. The problem is it's gonna cost u some buck for sig cap

Government Flu

Government Flu

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2007

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Paradoxa Zoloft Asylum [PXZ]

W/R

Skill Hunter is expensive, but very easy to attain. Tyrian Skill hunter, however, becomes tedious and all too annoying with random boss spawns and then random boss no-shows.

That's the skill title I went for when I was getting Kind of a Big Deal. I'd recommend going for Canthan or Elonian skill hunter instead.

However, SS/LB is very easy to farm using the two quests in the desolation (the one where you use the rune of DOOM) and you'll actually get some gold drops and a few things you can sell to the merchant, creating a steady source of income.

It's a breeze farming those points in HM with wurms and is probably your best bet.

Happy hunting.

stretchs

stretchs

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2007

Untimely Demise [Err了] - SOHK

When i did my KoaBD it was Tyrian Skill finder that wanted to make me pull my hair out because of the random spawns. Elonian and Canthan werent that bad. As for the SS/LB they are indeed quite tedious.

As well the money is a big issue for Cap Sigs, but also be sure you have over 200 skill points open to start from as it takes alot of them too, i have 4mil experience on my current KoaBD and my biggest limitation was Skill Pts as I had to do things just to get them.

Star Gazer

Star Gazer

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2005

Zerohour Enterprises [ZHE]

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nah, you dont need 200 to start from...remember, you get 5k exp for capping, and surely you will gain exp by doing quests and missions to get them (if you chose to do so)

My Sweet Revenga

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

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If I remember correctly, I was farming about 5-10k LB points per day. I was only playing about 2-3 hours per day at the time.....

SS points I farmed from starting gates of desolation instead. Was making 10k per day for sure cuz I actually kept track that time.

Sarevok Thordin

Sarevok Thordin

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

Scotland

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I'm thinking of the skill hunter titles since they SOUND like they'd have a more practical benefit in GW2.

wetsparks

wetsparks

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarevok Thordin
I'm thinking of the skill hunter titles since they SOUND like they'd have a more practical benefit in GW2.
Also more practical right now.

But, to the OP, you figure 600 lb points per 20 minutes is about 1800 points per hour, if you have a good group. And you need 47,500 more points to max out LB, is probably about 24 hours of doing nothing but that Sulfurous Waste run.

Skill hunter may take more time than that depending on how many you already have, especially in Tyria, where as mentioned, there are random boss spawns and sometimes the random equals no boss spawn. Also, capping in the RoT can be a major pain, especially the Paragon, Ele, and Monk bosses.

Wilkon Dawes

Wilkon Dawes

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2007

USA

Order of The Bladed Aatxe [ECTO]

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to get max LB and SS it will take some time. im working on maxing 4 titles at the moment, SS/LB, seeker of wisdom, and treasure hunter all using the same run.

in the sulferous wastes and so far its about 4 days worth of work about 4 hours a day.

Emik

Emik

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

Belgium

[FaRM] Farm For The Win

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I've been doing the SS/LB run for two days straight with over 70 runs a day...
Maxed my SS and am at 35k LB's but then EotN was released.
Also you'd say man that's alot of time to put in but don't forget it's HM...
I've made around 230k on sheer gold drops.

Sergeant of Marines

Sergeant of Marines

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

Japan

[트두므s], Guild Leader

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Emik
I've been doing the SS/LB run for two days straight with over 70 runs a day...
Maxed my SS and am at 35k LB's but then EotN was released.
Also you'd say man that's alot of time to put in but don't forget it's HM...
I've made around 230k on sheer gold drops
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Wouldn't get his hopes up on this, the drops are random and unless you get that Rare Elemental Sword Drop, then most of it is Hero/Merch Food anyways...Although Ele Swords will go down alot in price since EOTN has come out and started dropping non max white ones

I would say do the Farm for about an hour or two a day then go do something else, it will make it a little easier on you from having to just grind it out, unless you like that sort of thing.

tuna-fish_sushi

tuna-fish_sushi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

California

E/A

I seriously doubt you did 70 runs a day for 2 reasons.

1) After doing a decent amount of runs my fastest time was 12 minutes.
70x12= 840 minutes = 14hours of just doing this run as fast as you can.

2) 1 run nets in a minimum of 600lb points.
70x600= 42k times that by 2 days = 84k. Yet you claim to only have 35k lb.

Though i can agree with you that this run is a good way to net money over time. However with the discovery of Elemental Swords in GWEN, you cannot get extremely lucky and make 100k in one run.

I have not tried the skill hunter titles but the ss/lb farm is very quick and you can get max on both in about 60-70 runs.

xshadowwolfx

xshadowwolfx

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: May 2006

California | Ascalon

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Just wondering anyone care to make a list of the easiest maxable titles with one being the easiest =D That would be uberly AWesome and I will love you.

Zeek Aran

Zeek Aran

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Earth, sadly

BORK

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*didn't read posts besides OP*

The Sahljala runs will max out your LB before your SS. When that happens, it's faster to do the run that starts from the Gate of Desolation. That's what I did. ^^

EDIT:

shadowwolf: Protector titles, then SS/LB, then skills, then cartography.

Unless you have 2 million to drop off for a lot of sweets.

dies like fish

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2006

Winter Wonderland [brrr]

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by xshadowwolfx
Just wondering anyone care to make a list of the easiest maxable titles with one being the easiest =D That would be uberly AWesome and I will love you.
Easy titles to max from Easiest to Hardest:

Sweet Tooth
Drunkard
Protector of Tyria
Protector of Cantha
Protector of Elona
Canthan Skill Hunter
Elonian Skill Hunter
SS/LB
Elonian Cartographer
Canthan Cartographer
Tyrian Cartographer
Tyrian Skill Hunter
Wisdom
Treasure

Dallcingi

Dallcingi

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2006

USA

The Black Parades [死人死]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by dies like fish
Easy titles to max from Easiest to Hardest:

Sweet Tooth
Drunkard
Protector of Tyria
Protector of Cantha
Protector of Elona
Canthan Skill Hunter
Elonian Skill Hunter
SS/LB
Elonian Cartographer
Canthan Cartographer
Tyrian Cartographer
Tyrian Skill Hunter
Wisdom
Treasure
What kind of order is that lol... wisdom should be higher all u need to do is buy unid gold and id away.... drunk is tedious but easy sure. u need cash for sweets so that is the same as wisdeom. ss/lb is easy as well just take heroes adn wham gg. it just takes time.

blue.rellik

blue.rellik

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2007

Melbourne, Australia

None

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Tyrian Cartographer is harder than Skill Hunter. Skill Hunter is relatively easy though frustrating since you know where you need to go, the only difference is that sometimes you have to do it over and over again to get the right spawns

I'm currently at 97.5% Tyrian Cartographer and I'm at my wit's end at finding the last 2.5%

Fox Reeveheart

Fox Reeveheart

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

Michigan

none q.q

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The easiest title should probably be canthan protector since it's just 13 missions O_o. I'm at 15 out of 20 for my dervish elonian protector, that will probably end up being my first title max. I am at 70 or something also for elonian cartographer, i'll probably kill myself before i reach 100 for that... theres so much ground to cover x.x

X Ice Man X

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2007

England

A lot of the titles are easy to do, they just take up a load of your time and cost you a hell of a lot of gold. I personally wouldn't even bother really classing the Wisdom or Treasure Hunter titles as something to try and max unless you love chest running.

Prots as simple
LB and SS just takes time
Skill Hunters are easy, just expensive
Cartographers will get easier the more you do, although the last 0.1% can be a pain
Drunkard and Sweet tooth are again easy to just, will just cost you an arm and a leg.
Wisdom and Treasure Hunter although simple are very long, and expensive
Vanquishing is good fun, a challange and earns you quiet a bit of cash (and faction if you do it in your alliance territory in factions)
Guardian is the same as Vanquishing, but if your doing them you should expect to get extremely fustrated at certain mission.

distilledwill

distilledwill

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2006

Blighty

The Legion of the Blue Blade

R/Mo

Skills hunters in anywhere but tyria are definately one of the easiest, and simplest to attain. But, as mentioned, cost you a lot of gold.

On topic:
I maxed ss fairly easy with that run, and im not far from maxing LB. Its good for exp, gold and chests. So, in one run, you get gold to buy things for titles (tomes, sweets, booze, unid golds, keys/lockpicks etc), exp to get skill points, gold drops for wisdom title, chests for treasure hunter (and lucky/unlucky, as you are using lockpicks) and of course sunspear and lightbringer points.

Even if it is a bit of a grind, i think its more than worth it.

Ferret

Ferret

Elite Guru

Join Date: Jul 2005

England

Ferrets Unity of Rogues (FUR)

R/Mo

Where do u guys recommend LB point farming?
I know the Ruins HM run for SS, but you dont get many LB out of it.

Thanks,

Ferret

billypowergamer

billypowergamer

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ferret
Where do u guys recommend LB point farming?
I know the Ruins HM run for SS, but you dont get many LB out of it.

Thanks,

Ferret

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Lightbringer_point_farming

I reccomend the sulferous wastes farm.

thomasnl88

thomasnl88

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

Netherlands

[iDum]

For all Carthographers.. Please!
It is one of the easiest titles to get. Just use the Texmod Easy to Carthography mod --> http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guide..._modifications

And use it.. Should be easy to do all three Campains in one week!

Greets!

EternalTempest

EternalTempest

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

United States

Dark Side Ofthe Moon [DSM]

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Quote:
Originally Posted by thomasnl88
For all Carthographers.. Please!
It is one of the easiest titles to get. Just use the Texmod Easy to Carthography mod --> http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guide..._modifications

And use it.. Should be easy to do all three Campains in one week!

Greets!
Agree, I gave it a try a few days ago and wow, text mod + map overlay for carthogaphy rocks.

quickmonty

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

My point of view, having maxxed 9 titles to date.

LB/SS is probably the easiest, but boring. Got to the point where I was chatting and answering questions in guild chat while doing it. A great place to level up your heroes/pets if they need it.

Skill Hunter is fun, but expensive but you may end up grinding to get more skill points. I see it as the most useful because it unlocks all the elites for use with all your heroes on that account. Also, if you get it on all three chapters you get a fourth title ..... Legendary Skill Hunter.

Protector titles can be a little work. Prophecies and Nightfall aren't too bad, but all those timed missions in Factions can be a real pain.

Good luck!

dr_ishmael

Academy Page

Join Date: Apr 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by EternalTempest
Agree, I gave it a try a few days ago and wow, text mod + map overlay for carthogaphy rocks.
Meh, I completed Legendary Cartographer long before TexMod became popular. IMO, Cart is easier than Protector, especially when you have missions like Eternal Grove and Ruins of Morah where it can be quite difficult to get Master's with a hero/hench team. In fact, I got the Cart title long before the Prot title on all three continents just because there were certain missions I didn't feel like doing over and over. (Still don't have Canthan Prot because of the stupid Grove...)