Where to start my survivor?

Well, I wanted t ostart my survivor is Prophecies, but all my friends are saying Nightfall for quick armor and heroes. What should I do with me ele?

Start in Nightfall, do Fedex quests in Cantha, easy XP.

Agreed. You can get max armor real fast in NF. And as soon as you can, get to Cantha and do the quests in KC and the Marketplace.

Prophecies isn't too bad to start in.

1. You can do Charr at the Gate a few times for easy xp.
2. You can get a run to LA and then to Kaineng for armor and xp.

For Nightfall, you can get armor straight away, but can't get off Istan as easily.

Cantha is a mixed bag. Easy xp on Shing Jea but exploding Afflicted.

I say start where you feel most comfortable. You can start anywhere and get max armor pretty quick. Just a preference of looks imo. (character wise)

However early Prophecies can be a bit iffy (I'm thinking of the PvP when going into Post, but this can be circumnavigated), so be aware that it could fall apart, but if you're not level 20 or so that should be ok. Nightfall would be a good place to start, what with people doing taxis to the Docks every hour, and the presence of heroes. Factions of course has the wonderful free-exp quests in Kaineng, but early starts there can be awkward with the afore-mentioned Afflicted.

I'd say Nightfall personally, just for the ease, but you must also take into account how your Ele is going to look, don't want to be staring at an ugly Legendary Survivor now do you?

If you have the couple plat it takes to pay for rune then definately prophecies. Get out of pre as soon as you can and make sure to skip the arena you have to fight in by logging out before the fight starts and logging back in. Then pay for a run to la and go to nf for the herores and then to factions for quick leveling. Now make sure when you go to cantha you take the quest from prophecies and not nf.

Ya, this sounds good, I do like the look of proph eles better. I do like the idea of jsu getting to la, and my one friend can even run me to droks he said so we'll see thanks

Running to Drok's on a survivor? That's a bad idea as there is a point (I can't remember which bit) where the mobs are pratically on the party spawn point. In all of my runs as soon as the runner hit the mobs all the runnees started taking a lot of damage, resulting in us all watching the runner go through the area. Most runners (if not all) refuse to take survivors for that and other reasons. You'd be better off going to Kaineng from LA.

Dreadnought's Drift is iffy for survivors because the mobs can spawn uncomfortably close.

oh ok well then nf it is, thanks a ton guys

This might be too late, but here it is anyway...

Why would you travel all the way to Droknar's Forge when you have access to the other campaigns? Kaineng armor is only like an hour away from Beacon's Perch if you h/h the missions or five minutes if you get run. Not to mention that the risk of death is negligible.

To be honest, I'm surprised that a market for Drok's runs still exists. Prophecies-only players are probably the lone people who really desire them.

Droks runs are also useful for those who just want to cap 1 or 2 elites from shiverpeaks/ring of fire.

To the OP:

Cantha is the fastest, tyria is the slowest, but start wherever you feel most comfortable with. I usually make a Canthan solely because I like the canthan faces more.

OH don't worry about it guys, I sorta combined information. I'm gonna go through Nightfall for a bit, get my heroes up a bit, maybe get to 20 in nf, idk yet. I bought my max armor at the the Docks last night, got my frry to la, and will do the cantha quest sometime when I feel I'm strong enough. But not yet. Idk now if I should waited for Cantha armors, but the reg armors in Cantha aren't that great really beside one, so I stayed with Sunspear Thanks for all the help guys, my long quest toward survivor begins.

The area you're talking about is the second area outside of beacons. I tried getting a run to droks on my survivor and its not possible. There are 2 huge mobs right when you zone in. Even if you dont agro them they walk to the portal and get you in the corner.