Permanent pre-Searing character

A permanent pre-Searing character (or "perma-pre" for short) is a dedicated character that remains in Pre-Searing Ascalon (the tutorial area of the Prophecies campaign) permanently.

Reasons for staying
Typically, people stay in pre-searing longer than necessary for several reasons:


 * Because they prefer the smaller community.
 * To obtain the Legendary Defender of Ascalon title.
 * For nostalgia reasons (e.g. to enjoy the special flair and beauty of Ascalon or simply to do something different).
 * To recruit new players to guilds
 * Helping friends and guild mates
 * For farming:
 * Gifts of the Huntsman are relatively easy to farm and are cheap way of earning consumable-based titles or earning income.
 * Some farm dye in pre, because they believe that the drop rate is higher than in post-Searing and the monsters are trivial to kill.
 * Farming Hunter's Ale

Restrictions
Perma pre-searing character have to deal with the restrictions and limitations of the tutorial area, most importantly:


 * There is no storage; you cannot transfer items from Post-Searing characters.
 * There are no armor crafters, only simple low-level armor from collectors.
 * There is only one skill trainer, who offers only a limited set of skills.
 * Attribute Points cannot be maximized because the attribute quests are only available outside of pre-Searing.
 * Once chosen, the secondary profession is fixed until the character can Ascend.
 * There is no access to PvP in pre-Searing. The only opportunity is at the Ascalon Academy, as part of the sequence that takes you to post-Searing.

Trivia

 * Charr Bags were introduced as part of the February 14th, 2007 game update. Small equipment packs were added in the April 23, 2009 game update.


 * Before the March 3rd, 2011 update, perma-pre characters did not have a way of adding titles to their Hall of Monuments Reward Calculator. The update added Kimmes The Historian to fix this.