User:Rumian/Defender Of Ascalon

Rumian/Defender Of Ascalon
Campaign	Prophecies
Title type	Character

The Legendary 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.

Defender of Ascalon title track

Tier	Title	Level in pre-Searing
1	Legendary Defender of Ascalon	20

Acquisition

The object of this title is to get to lvl 20 without doing the quest Ascalon Academy and leaving Pre-Searing

For the first 10 levels, players can gain experience from killing monsters and completing quests.

After hitting level 10 Lieutenant Langmar in Ascalon City will give you a daily quest that provides 1,000 XP and mobs that scale to your level.

Notes

• It's advisable to not do all the quests in pre-searing right from the start. You get to lvl 10 by doing quests and killing foes. The most foes are low level meaning that in later level's you don't gain experience when you kill foes.
• Start the quests you need to do to get the skills you want from the start but don't finish any quests you don't need to finish to get the desired skills.
• Try farming enemy's that are the same level or higher to get as much experience as possible.
• When hunting Charr at lower levels, you can use Ben Wolfson (from the Across the Wall quest) to help you kill foes; he deals a surprising amount of damage and is rather durable for a level 5 NPC. As with any allies, you will not gain any experience from foe deaths unless you contribute to the kills.
• When you reach level 10 you can start doing the daily quest from Lieutenant Langmar. The enemy's encountered in these quests will be roughly the same as your level so you keep getting experience from killing them.
• you can do the quests in pre searing any moment. There are a few points that can make maxing this title a bit faster.
  • When you are halfway level 8 so you get to level 10 and can start the daily quests
  • When you are level 13 so you get level 14 and the enemy's in the daily quest start to be of a higher level
  • When you are level 16 so you get level 17 and the enemy's in the daily quest start to be of a higher level
  • When you are level 19 so you get level 20 faster

Trivia

• Gwen, a Red Iris Flower and a banner of Althea's Actors Stage are featured in the statue.
• Before the March 3rd, 2011 update, the only way to achieve this title was to death level. The update added new quests in pre-Searing that provide enough experience (through rewards and killing foes) to allow one to reach the title without dying at all.

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Captain Langmar—or Lieutenant, as her rank was then—is making an appearance in Pre-Searing. She's got two good eyes and nine new daily quests with her. These quests will scale both in difficulty and rewards relative to the level of the player taking the quests. Because of this, these quests will always remain relevant to your character's growth if you are trying to reach level 20 in Pre-Searing.

This addition is mostly to provide a legitimate way for players to achieve the Legendary Defender of Ascalon title. Previously, this title was obtainable only through an unusual exploit of the game's mechanics: "death leveling." For this exploit, players allowed enemies to kill them repeatedly until the enemies leveled to a point where they were once again worth experience to the player. This was an incredibly time-consuming process, often requiring months to achieve. While this shows noble dedication from our players, we should not have encouraged such a counterintuitive style of playing. Instead, we are adding these daily quests to do the title justice and to let players legitimately play the game to earn the title. After all, do you really feel like a Legendary Defender of Ascalon after letting the charr kill you endlessly?

These quests become available to players once they reach level 10, to avoid confusion among new players about how long they should remain in Pre-Searing. Because these quests occur daily, obtaining the Legendary Defender of Ascalon title is still going to require a major time investment from the player and should not devalue the achievement of those who already have it.

— Developer updates

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