Level 1 in Ring of Fire! Is this really possible?

I was going to put this in the level 1 in droks thread, but thats closed now.
Some months back I was in Ring of Fire, trying to get a group (no monks as usual), when along comes a level 1 monk. I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it with my own eyes, but here are some screenshots anyway.





He was saying something about getting run to THK, and doing that with 1 henchless. Not sure how that would stop him getting exp from the mission though...

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I sure hope that isn't photoshopped. To me, it's basically impossible to get run on Thunderhead Keep without getting the experience from them defending the king. A level 1 getting experience for having his party members kill level 20 mursaat would level him up automatically, even without the 1,000 XP from completing the mission.

exaclty what I think also he would have lvled up for sure for being a lvl 1

Unless you die in the beginning of THK there really isn't much you can do to stay level one. Not to mention in presear I think you have to do a couple of quests that add up to roughly 50% of level one meaning extremely low tolerance for exp once you hit THK.

Don't have any idea how that could happen.

you cant, i THINK the total required missions adds to at least lvl 2.

Well, how many required missions are there?
Sanctum Cay
THK
for starters..

I don't think you need to be ascended to go to the Ring of Fire.

So, all you need is to be run from Beacon's Perch to Droknar's to Thunderhead Keep.

Complete Thunderhead Keep and you're at Ring of Fire.

So, THK is really the only one that you can't avoid getting experience for. Can anyone answer the question - do you still get experience after you die in a mission from your party members killing the monsters? I though the answer was "yes" (I'm 100% sure that you get the completing the mission experience).

sanctum cay isnt required only THK is

Dont have to do sactum cay, you can get run from beacons to droks to THK,

You also can just stay behin in THK and not get any exp, as long as your not need anybody argo circle, but you would the 1k exp at end of mission.

I think you have to do like 2 quest in pre then fight the ranger boss but if he did that with other people, no henchies, and just stayed behind it could be done, but the only hard part would be the pvp arena at the end of pre, making sure you dont get exp.

It is possible but really hard to do...


LOL all beat me to it....

I think they nerfed this... You used to be able to get through pre doing less quests, but now the total ammount of required quests to go to searing is like 150xp away from lvl 2. assuming you died at the start of the fight and didn't get any experience when you seared, you'd still get 1k experience from THK, making you lvl 2.

so, it WAS possible, but not anymore, as far as i know.

pretty sad to watch ppl pay eachother game money to beat the game for them...too bad we cant prevent running any further then what we allready have.

yea seriously, running should be considered an exploit and those who run or get ran should be Banned

Yeah, after completing the game ten times people still should follow the original mission/quests path and not get ran around!!1


...What?

Do you really think the path to droks is there purely by accident or just maybe put there for the very purpose of people being able to be ran through so they won't have to play there 4th or 7th character through the game if they choose not to

Anet has stated very clearly that the entire path there was just for that purpose.
If you don't choose to be ran somewhere don't do it but why the hell do you think you should tell other people what the can or can't do when it is an intentional part of the game

It's not photoshopped, although as I said, if i hadn't seen it with my own eyes I wouldn't have thought it possible, and would have thought the same thing. Anyway, he made it sound like he somehow glitched THK to not give him the xp for finishing the mission.

in pre sear if u get someone to do the quests for u and stay away from the combat u can get much less xp than what you would normally.

Also... if u just stay back at the start of THK u still get xp from the Ice golems and stone summit at the start

Jiao

Why not?I do this, all my charactos have never been ran to droknors, if you dont want to play through the game make a pvp char, sure i dont do every quest but i try.

Thats exactly why I support running, so that you can make a viable PvP character in the shortest amount of time. Playing through the campaign once, maybe twice, is bearable (even fun). But after that the only reason I would play is for unlocks. Being run to locations speeds that up a lot. Why would ANet want me to go through the same hassle over and over again ?

My sarcastic post tried to hit you, but obviously missed.

I agree with Rilder.

Anyway, back to the original question. AFAI can remember you can't get to ring of fire with less than 1600 EXP. Anyone know what EXP you need for level 2?