Shooting for survivor, in cantha

Play a ranged profession (ranger, paragon, or any of the casters except Necro because of the sacrifice).
Play through the game normally. It isn't that difficult, really. Just make sure you actually care to be a good player and learn how to play your profession without getting killed ^^;

Don't rage quit when someone agros a big group. You'll be fine if you're a good player Yes, even if you're the last one alive, and THEN you gotta leave because you can't finish the quest/mission alone!

Bring a real monk that you KNOW is good, not a henchie or hero.

If there are minnions (and there WILL, in factions) always stay WAY behind them.

If you're on the back, and a bunch of monsters somehow come to you, run / kite away from them (preferably where there aren't any other monsters :P

Be careful of those spikes eles! This is when it helps to stay back!, because usually the first person to charge in will be the one who gets spiked, and probably dead :P

My boyfriend has lost a paragon and necro rank 2 survivors, because of that.

Instead of hitting alt+f4 when you panic, hit G (guild), then hit Guild Hall. Ofcourse, this only works if you have a fast computer. On my boyfriend's laptop, I can go get myself some coffee instead of yawning waiting for the Guild window to show up :P

Mapping to guild hall is usually faster than logging out. (That is, even if you close guildwars, your character is still logged on aNet's server for a little bit.)

If you lag a lot, play on Chinese districts.


My Mesmer has done all 3 campaigns plus EotN, goes to AB when bored, and is still Survivor r2, needs ~4700 points or so until Legendary Survivor
I hate those so called survivors who quit on your team when they panic... Yup, I play with PUGs, because I HATE HATE HATE playing alone... I get so bored. It's way more fun to play with other people.
I DO quit when I panic, but only when playing alone.


Just play as normal, or you'll hate the title. Or if you're a title wh0r3, go ahead and get the title the boring way :P

I'm currently playing an Assasin survivor. The only things I'm afraid of are the Afflicted with their explosions and elementalists. Microing Tahlkora and casting PS on myself has been ftw so far. As far as playing is concerned, I went to Boreal station and EotN to pick up Ogden, Vekk and Gwen. Then returned to missions and quests in Cantha and Elona.

I'd farm for Survivor XP and get the title out of the way ASAP. Some people say that farming the title is the dishonorable way to get it, but who cares? I don't like to take chances and lose a character to something totally outside my playing ability (lag, disconnects, bugs).

I'd be REALLY enraged if I played the entire game, spent on captures, etc, only to lag and die at over 1 Million XP, after 100+ hours on the character.

Other day I lost a Survivor at Kilroy Boxing due to lag and he had 1.180 Million. Was I pissed? Very much, but I had spent like only 15 hours total on him and not much cash, so I just remade and tried again. Got Legendary 3 days ago doing full FoW runs (because I was sick and pissed at Kilroy) until 1 Million XP and finished the remaining 300K on HM Snow Wurms (just to avoid dying at the very end...).

The time you need to get the title playing normally is high. By the time you get the title this way, you could have failed and tried about 5 times with a farming method such as Kilroy.

Keep that in mind, and have fun, don't die.

Play with friends or guildies, particularly with Factions missions. While missions are easy they have some bosses there that can do some very, very nasty things.

Watch out in Boreas Seabed mission, the Spear can kill you in one hit (apparently it's a bug but it's kill 2 survivors of mine).

Watch out in afflicted missions - if you are a warrior just stay back!

If you are lagging, don't play on your survivor.

Wait for double cap weekends to get serious about capping.

Always make sure there are 2 copies of PS in your team! And micrio at at least 1 heal-hybrid.