God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals

Maxamus Prozen I I

Maxamus Prozen I I

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2006

Auckland,New Zealand

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So after playing on and off I would like to start a GWAMM character and fill my HoM for GW2 by the end of the year.

Those seem to be the easy ones as I will only get to play about 2 ~ 3 hours a day.

I have about 800 k and 90e.

Legendary Survivor
3 Protector titles
4 Guardian titles
4 Skill Hunter titles
Legendary Master of the North
Holy Lightbringer
Legendary Spearmarshal
Asura rank: Not Too Shabby
Deldrimor rank: Legendary Delver
Ebon Vanguard rank: Secret Agent
Norn rank: Slayer of All

Any Input?

Marty Silverblade

Marty Silverblade

Administrator

Join Date: Jun 2006

What input do you want? You'll want the 3 vanquisher titles and the 3 cartographer titles. They can be done simultaneously if you're comfortable with jumping into HM fairly early. Other than that the titles you listed are fairly easy.

snowman relic

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2009

your just a meatsheild to me

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what would be an easy or good replacement for survivor? my current main was supposed to just farm but i changed my mind so its a little late for survivor after he died

Andemius

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2008

Vanguard's Last Stand [Hero]

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what would be an easy or good replacement for survivor? my current main was supposed to just farm but i changed my mind so its a little late for survivor after he died if you're making a GWAMM char, you want either Survivor or LDoA.

Marty Silverblade

Marty Silverblade

Administrator

Join Date: Jun 2006

It's by no means necessary though. All it means is that you'll need to max another title (I don't think wisdom takes much time if you've got the cash, and there's always the other of lux/kurz and drunkard).

Maver1ck87

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2010

NeMo

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/Agree with marty, vanq + carto is a good place to start, then get the money titles. Instead of survivor just get wisdom, its best title i ever decided i was gonna max, i made a huge profit, its boring, but its account wide, so counts for all ur toons. Buy at 700g (7 for 4.9k) and ask for inscribable golds.

U can resell most for about 250g which basically means they cost 450g each, and if they are all isncirbable u collect loads of good mods, make a couple of storage toons. Then sell the stuff. U can make a pretty huge profit and there are a couple of peeps in game who buy mods cheapish to resell for power trading, but for u, its fast easy well to sell in bulk (which u will have after 10k IDs). I dont know the forums rules about igns or whatever but a friend of mine called Mireless Lore will buy most ur mods!

Gl and happy hunting

Warbog The Slayer

Warbog The Slayer

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: May 2008

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if you're making a GWAMM char, you want either Survivor or LDoA. i dont have ldoa or survivor on my gwamm char ,u really dont need those !

Anti Welfare

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2009

For Goods Sake

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i got GWAMM on my ranger without doing survivor or LDoA. Luxon is an easy title to get if you can find a guild that does non-stop MQSC. get plenty of lockpicks and you can put a good dent in your treasure hunter title also.

TheodenKing

TheodenKing

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2008

DoA

Dark Order of Retarded Knights (doRk)

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Originally Posted by Marty Silverblade View Post
What input do you want? You'll want the 3 vanquisher titles and the 3 cartographer titles.
Just to clarify, 4 vanq titles and 4 cartographer (you get an extra title of each when you finish all 3).

Some of the titles are going to cost you some coin. No real way to avoid that if you want to get done by the end of the year. Stay away from the Zaishen title. Crazy expensive unless you spend all your time in pvp (in which case many other titles will elude you).

Character titles: Drunkard is rather easy, since you can always find people selling booze. Sweet Tooth and Party Animal are easy as long as you have some coin during the festivals.

Account-wide titles: Treasure Hunter requires lockpicks, though retain rate and loot will help offset some of that. Still, theres the time it takes running to the chests. Wisdom title is a bit of a pain, since you need to constantly create inventory space when you are buying unidentifieds in bulk, and deal with all the salvaging and merching that results. Lucky/Unlucky would be difficult to achieve max on in the time you require, though it could be done. (Stand on the corner in Nine Rings and buy festival stuff). Working on Treasure Hunter helps advance this title as well.

Oleg

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2008

The Apologetti

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You can get 26 PvE titles just from playing the game if you can't get LDoA or survivor. That leaves 4 to do. Nearly everyone, including me went for the following 3:

1) Sweet tooth
2) Party animal
3) Drunkard

The last one will have to be an account wide title. I went for Kurzick as it isn't that time consuming (compared to the other account wide titles) and you can make money while doing it. Same for Luxon, it comes down to personal preference.

Although, if you run chests you are effectively working on 4 titles at the same time, treasure hunter, wisdom, lucky and unlucky (using lockpicks). It just seemed a lot slower to me. Then again, it may mean you don't have to do Drunkard, which was a bit painful.

As people said above, if you've got the cash you can buy the wisdom title and possibly even make a profit. I'm not a huge fan of trading though. It takes too long.

I'd suggest farming the hell out of events to get items needed for titles 1), 2) and 3) above. Then when you hit 29, see which title is the furthest along. I'm guessing you'll go for a Faction title at that point.

Whirl E Vic

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2009

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Do drunkard while you VQ and map, you'll thank me later.

I was in the same boat as OP, needing one acc. wide for the 30th. I opted forKurz and did Morostav trail VQ to farm the points. 20k faction or so in ~30 mins, plus plenty of mats and golds from chests/drops. If you do a hardcore farm on one or two of the double faction weekends and donate to alliance you can put a huge dent in it. Should also give you a good chunk of cash to fuel one of the consumable titles as well.

Andemius

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2008

Vanguard's Last Stand [Hero]

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i dont have ldoa or survivor on my gwamm char ,u really dont need those ! Sure you don't NEED them, but since they're mutually exclusive, and Survivor is pretty darn easy, might as well get one of them, makes it easier later on.

GWfan#1

GWfan#1

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2009

My Character Liked Gwen [First]

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You should max sweet tooth and/or party animal by buying spammables from other players you definitely have the money for it. The hardest part is finding a seller really =]

jensyea

jensyea

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Nov 2009

The Underworld

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Isn't it easier to buy tonics for party animal? Because you can spam them in the divinity coast area due to Loose Magic.

Bathal Nasp

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

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GWAMM shouldn't revolve around survivor, because you either have the money or patience for it, or you don't. I wouldn't even contemplate survivor without ~150 Kathandrax hammers. I don't agree, survivor can be easily accomplished in a day or two just by doing punch out.

Premium Unleaded

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2005

Easy is relative, since your method would involve something that I'd personally couldn't handle doing more than 2-3 hours at a time in a sitting.

bsoltan

bsoltan

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2005

UK

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There is a Guide to becoming a "God Walking Amongst Mere Mortals".

distilledwill

distilledwill

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2006

Blighty

The Legion of the Blue Blade

R/Mo

I started playing before titles came in, so no survivor or Legendary Defender of Ascalon (is that right? I always forget!). So these are how I have reached 22 titles so far, and how I plan to reach 30:


1. Tyrian Prot
2. Canthan Prot
3. Elonian Prot
4. Tyrian Guard
5. Canthan Guard
6. Elonian Guard
7. Tyrian Skill H
8. Canthan Skill H
9. Elonian Skill H
10. Tyrian Vanq
11. Canthan Vanq
12. Elonian Vanq
13. Leg Vanq
14. Leg Skill H
15. Leg Guard
16. Norn
17. Asura
18. Dwarven
19. Ebon V
20. Sunspear
21. Lightbringer
22. Canthan Carto

This is where I plan to go from there:
23. Tyrian Carto (95%)
24. Elonian Carto (90%)
25. Leg Carto (1/3)
26. Sweet Tooth (1500/10000)
27. Party (2000/10000)
28. Luxon (9.1m/10m)
29. Leg Master of the North (850/1000)
30. Drunkard (1000/10000mins), Kurzick (0.3m/10m ), Lucky, Unlucky, Wisdom, Treasure Hunter, Zaishen?!


With your 800k +90e you can pretty much buy one title, and the most of the other (Sweet Tooth and Party) just top up the rest you miss by participating and farming in the Halloween and Wintersday festivities - should net you a nice little pot of sweets/party items.
For me, the last one is going to be a bitch, but I figure if I'm drunk whilst I complete the rest of the quests from 22 -> 30 then that should take a huge bite out of the next 9000 minutes I need to accure!

BrettM

BrettM

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2008

Fuzzy Physics Institute

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You will easily max Unlucky while doing Treasure Hunter, and get most of Lucky and a good bit of Wisdom. A little Nine Rings will finish up Lucky, so you get three titles rather easily out of that. I got GWAMM without LDoA, Leg Survivor, Drunkard, Sweet Tooth, or Luxon.

Working on TH/Lucky/Unlucky/Wisdom is a much better use of the money you might spend on Drunkard/Sweet Tooth/Party, because the former titles have benefits to lockpick retention and salvage success. Sell the alcohol/sweets/party items from festivals and events for the cash to fund your lockpick habit.

distilledwill

distilledwill

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2006

Blighty

The Legion of the Blue Blade

R/Mo

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You will easily max Unlucky while doing Treasure Hunter, and get most of Lucky and a good bit of Wisdom. A little Nine Rings will finish up Lucky, so you get three titles rather easily out of that. I got GWAMM without LDoA, Leg Survivor, Drunkard, Sweet Tooth, or Luxon.

Working on TH/Lucky/Unlucky/Wisdom is a much better use of the money you might spend on Drunkard/Sweet Tooth/Party, because the former titles have benefits to lockpick retention and salvage success. Sell the alcohol/sweets/party items from festivals and events for the cash to fund your lockpick habit. Not a bad idea. Will have to consider which is the most time-efficient way to approach it, I'd like to be finished this before GW2 comes out. My funds aren't limitless and I can't play for 6 hours most nights. Its juts 2hrs every other night at the moment.

BrettM

BrettM

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2008

Fuzzy Physics Institute

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Not a bad idea. Will have to consider which is the most time-efficient way to approach it, I'd like to be finished this before GW2 comes out. My funds aren't limitless and I can't play for 6 hours most nights. Its juts 2hrs every other night at the moment. I wouldn't have been able to stand six hours a night of chestrunning myself. I did 25 Boreal chests every day, which took about 30-45 minutes, until I was done. It took about six months that way, but the rest of my playtime could be spent doing things that were more fun. It was also more affordable that way, since I never spent more than 100k/week on picks at most, and the cost went down as my retention rate went up.

_Deals_

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2010

Fort Worth, Tx

[DMNS][HEAT]

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doing luxon and kurzick titles are simple, you get tons of golds from the monsters/ elite tomes and such from bosses and locked chests, you can work on an abundance of titles at once, and the fact gw2 has no release day yet, you have many months to max your titles. i did both kurz and luxon and got my wisdom from them

Vlad

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2009

Canada, UW

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You aughta get all the vanquishing and cortographer stuff done.

A11Eur0

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2005

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Another vote for vanquishing and cartographer. You can do the two of those with skill hunter rather simultaneously....and they'll pay for the consumable titles as well. Use candies, turn off post-processing and run drunken master. don't forget to buy lockpicks. There are very few titles you CAN'T work on while vanquishing...you'll be gimping yourself if you skip that title line. Vanquish EOTN first for your LMOTN title and individual faction titles, making your PVE skills more powerful for the tougher 4-man areas in tyria.

As far as lucky/unlucky...it'll cost you a pretty penny using lockpicks, because if you chest run low level areas for easy lucky, you'll have a higher retain rate so you'll destroy your chances at an easy unlucky. You'll essentially have to drop coin on locked chests and suffer a dismal retain rate to get unlucky high enough so it evens out with your retains later on to max them both. I haven't maxed either and I have GWAMM without survivor/ldoa. Vanquish, cartography, guardian/protector, skill hunter, eotn titles and kurzick/luxon should top you out easily. If you go survivor and both luxon/kurzick, you only need one consumable title, and I suggest sweet tooth...as before, you can run candy while vanquishing/HM missions to give you that extra boost to speed up those titles. party items give no such advantage and drunkard is so hard to maintain while fighting, you'll slip up pretty often and not get the full benefits.

AlyaraSaykomora

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2010

Portland,OR

Enraged Dragons

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What's the best setup to Vanq EotN? I've tried and I often get pwned. 'Course, I started out in Cantha >_> Any tips for those of us who are mostly new to VQing? I havent since 2008...

Bloss

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jul 2009

Me/Rt

@ distilledwill
if you need a PvP title still, make zaishen your last title and get 50/50 HoM otherwise idk, all sound like a pain yes. (if you care about HoM that is)

@AlyaraSaykomora
Sabway and Discordway will be the answer you'll hear the most
Assuming from the info under your name I guess you're a warrior. I dislike warrior in PvE but what got me through some HM was:
1 smite (strenght of honour, smite hex, smite condition, RoJ, Caustion signet (the energy thing) and some optionals: smiters boon + reversal of damage, judge insight, ancestors rage + splinter (spec no divine)
this helps your own damage alot
1 Signet of Spirits healer, SoS, (painfull bond/life) mend body, spirit light, prot was kaolai, wep of warding/resilient, flesh of my flesh and if you're a melee as I guess splinter (if not on smite) is strong ^^
Other was quite optional, usually rupt based or minion master (great with mark of fury and stuff if you use adrenaline skills)

EotN henchies I tend to take zho if I don't take any rupts on heroes, both healers sometimes one, depend how good your surviveablity is and hmm talon or herta would be the best I guess

Marty Silverblade

Marty Silverblade

Administrator

Join Date: Jun 2006

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@AlyaraSaykomora
Sabway and Discordway will be the answer you'll hear the most But you should ignore anyone that tells you to run Discord on a Warrior. I think Sabway is a bit dated but people still run it. Meh.

Also assuming you're a Warrior...

*SoS Rit
*ST/SoGM/ER (go for the SoGM unless you need the extra defense)
*MB/Smiter (Smiter for when there aren't enough corpses for the MB to be viable)

I'm sure you can find the bars.

AlyaraSaykomora

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2010

Portland,OR

Enraged Dragons

W/Mo

And discord is best for Ele's right? Also: I somehow screwed up my f11 key things a couple of weeks ago. I accidentally ctrl alt flipped my screen like 4 times in a row so I switched a few things around until it was fixed and now I can't call what I'm attacking or following. or ping my skill bar.

Can someone please tell me what friggin one it is? X_X

JONO51

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2006

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Did pretty much al eotn vanquishing recently as a cruel spear para. Ran a sos rit with splinter and a few heals, sogm rit and a minion bomber with some prot. henches were herta+2 monks+ mes or fire ele.

Marty Silverblade

Marty Silverblade

Administrator

Join Date: Jun 2006

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And discord is best for Ele's right?
No. Ignore people who worship Discord like it's the best thing ever. Those people have no idea what they're talking about. Spiritway is better. Of course given the current state of PvE you can run Discord and be perfectly successful, but keep in mind it's definitely not the best thing to run.

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Also: I somehow screwed up my f11 key things a couple of weeks ago. I accidentally ctrl alt flipped my screen like 4 times in a row so I switched a few things around until it was fixed and now I can't call what I'm attacking or following. or ping my skill bar. I'm not sure exactly what you mean here. There are Restore Default buttons in the options menu if you need to fix things though (for both interface and key bindings).