Defender of Ascalon
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The Defender of Ascalon title can only be gained by attaining level 20 in pre-Searing Ascalon, the tutorial area in Guild Wars Prophecies. This title can be displayed in the "Honor" monument.
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[edit] Defender of Ascalon title track
Tier Title Level in pre-Searing 1 Legendary Defender of Ascalon 20
[edit] Acquisition
Since the highest-level creatures in pre-Searing Ascalon are the level 10 Charr bosses, and that a character stops gaining experience when he or she is more than 5 levels higher than the creature killed, level 16 would seem to be the maximum obtainable level for a character in pre-Searing.
As a result, the only known and confirmed method of attaining level 20 in pre-Searing Ascalon is to do it via "death leveling". It is a technique in which a player repeatedly lets his or her character get killed by hostile creatures. Enemies do gain experience when they manage to kill your character, and the repeated killing of the player's character will allow the creatures to level up. This way, you are able to gain experience again by killing your enemies once they have leveled up within the +/- 5 levels range.
The 5-level experience cap works both ways. Since experience is only gained by enemies who are not more than 5 levels higher than your character (e.g. an enemy that repeatedly kills a level 10 character will stop earning experience once they reach level 16) so there is no point to try and level the creature any further. As such, it takes a lot of time and effort to earn this title.
Others have already tried to level up enemies by letting them kill pets or minions, but those are not feasible. It was discovered that pets only give experience upon their first death and minions don't give any experience at all. Therefore, the only way is to use one's character to level up enemies.
Two characters can death-level together, but there is no real advantage in doing so. Time saved from only having 1 resurrection delay per 2 kills is negated when those two characters have to split the experience for the kill later. Although it is possible for one character to move far away from the other so as not to share in the experience.
[edit] General steps
- Create a character of your choice.
- Complete the first few quests, but do not accept any reward for any quest after your first skill quest (which is the quest after War Preparations).
- It is advisable to accept quests that offer skills at the beginning, but do not accept the reward.
- Despite what many people think, it's advantageous to take a secondary profession early on. You can choose between having a 2nd profession and being stronger right away, or leave them for level 19 and struggle your way there. Make sure you take advantage of every secondary profession quest before making your final choice, though.
- Level up solely by killing creatures of the appropriate level in Lakeside County and Regent Valley.
- If you have chosen the elementalist profession, it's advisable to travel to Wizard's Folly. Travel to where the Elementalist Aziure is, and nearby, in a cave, are loads of Ice Elementals, who take double damage from your most powerful spells - Flare and Fire Storm.
- An alternative is to repeatedly do the Elementalist Experiment quest, where many Ice Elementals (level 1) will spawn. Let them stack up and use Fire Storm to dispatch them all. Do not accept the quest reward but simply return to an outpost, abandon the quest, and repeat.
- If you have chosen the Monk Profession, it's advisable to travel to the catacombs to train the first few levels, as your smiting prayers give double damage against undead.
- Bear in mind that you receive the most experience by killing foes that are of the same level or higher than your character.
- Some quests like Charr at the Gate will spawn large groups of enemies. It is recommended to repeatedly abandon and re-do the quest since Prince Rurik and his guards can do the killing for you, once you are level 8 this is the quickest way to level up. There is also a level 5 Rogue Bull in the creek down the hill you can kill so you can get more xp from one run. Also, some players may find more efficient to zone back to Ascalon while one of the Charrs is still alive, thus avoiding having to abandon and ask again for the quest.
- If you have chosen the elementalist profession, it's advisable to travel to Wizard's Folly. Travel to where the Elementalist Aziure is, and nearby, in a cave, are loads of Ice Elementals, who take double damage from your most powerful spells - Flare and Fire Storm.
- Once you reach level 5 or 6, head into Wizard's Folly and repeatedly travel up and down the road killing things, or head to the cavern north west of The Barradin Estate and grind on the hulking elementals.
- At level 11, it is time to move into the Northlands and hunt the Charr instead. You may start earlier (level 8-10) if you have a partner you can hunt with.
- At level 14, you will need to start killing the Charr bosses in the Northlands.
- Once you hit level 16, you will have to start "death leveling" enemies just to gain more experience (see notes for a more detailed guide).
- When you reach level 19, go and accept all those quest rewards you've been skipping. The total amount of experience reward will push you to level 20 or close enough as to only need a couple more "death leveling" sessions.
- Congratulations! You are now a Legendary Defender of Ascalon.
[edit] Notes
- This title track will only show up in the Hero Panel when your character has reached level 12.
- The Survivor title track is mutually exclusive with this title because the only known method of attaining this title is to use death-leveling. The following alternative strategies will not permit gaining both titles:
- Experience from quests: The experience available by completing all quests is only about 12,000 xp. This is enough to get from level 16 to level 17, but not level 18. This is almost enough to get from level 19 to level 20. To compensate for the difference, a player must death level.
- Having a friend death-level: Pairing with someone willing to death level for you will not work because of the lack of reusable res in pre-Searing.
- Using pets or minions to death-level monsters: Minions and pets also don't provide experience for death leveling.
- Death leveling can take months to get from level 16 to level 20.
- When hunting Charr at lower levels, you can use Ben Wolfson (from the Across the Wall quest) to help you kill foes. It should be noted that if he kills a foe without you damaging it, you will gain no XP. He deals a surprising amount of damage and is rather durable for a level 5 NPC.
