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LDoA Guide for Elementalist by Shade[edit]

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This guide is focused on getting the Legendary Defender of Ascalon title for the Elementalist profession as fast as possible with little, to no outside help. This guide is under the assumption you have the bonus weapons and summoning imp. The guide is always open to being updated. The original google docs version can be found above. Click expand if available to see more indepth descriptions. If you have any questions or anything you would like to assist with, please feel free to contact me through my discord: Shade#2029
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Unless you are instructed to do so, do not turn in any quest rewards.[edit]


1. Start by creating your character. Enter /bonus and set your weapon sets.

The weapon setups are: Luminescent Scepter with the Tiger’s Roar, Nevermore Flatbow with the Serrated Shield, Luminescent Scepter with the Serrated Shield, and the Soul Shrieker with the Serrated Shield. Discard the rest.


2. Talk to the Town Crier and take the quest Message from a Friend.


3. If, at level 16, you will be able to use another account (an alt account or a friend) with a new character of the same primary profession as you, Accept the reward for Message From a Friend, but do not take War Preparations yet.. Go outside into Lakeside County and take Elementalist Test from Howland the Elementalist, but do not do the quest yet. Go back inside Ascalon City, talk to Sir Tydus, and take War Preparations. Walk back out into Lakeside, and proceed to step 4. Do not accept the reward for War Preparations. If you will not be able to do this, Do not turn in Message From A Friend and miss War Preparations permanently. Keep Message From A Friend as active. Go outside into Lakeside County and talk to Howland the Elementalist. Accept the quest Elementalist Test. Proceed to step 4.

4. Complete and turn in Elementalist Test for the reward. Do not take Further Adventures. Walk northwest to Lady Althea and take A Mesmer’s Burden. Kill the Rogue Bull and head to Ashford Abbey.

For shortcut details on Elementalist Test, click here.

5. Take A Monk’s Mission. Go into the Catacombs, turn right, and talk to Necromancer Munne to accept Rites of Remembrance.

If you want to be faster, you can grab The Necromancer’s Novice as well, and complete A Monk’s Mission and Rites of Remembrance without healing skills; see here.

6. Complete the objectives for Rites of Remembrance and A Monk’s Mission.

7. Take The Necromancer’s Novice from Muune and then go with her and complete it, killing all foes you see along the way. Map back to Ashford.

8. Exit into Lakeside and walk southeast and pick up the Beautiful Feather, then take Little Thom’s Big Cloak, The Hunter’s Horn, Unsettling Rumors, and The Worm Problem.

9. Head south into Wizard’s Folly, and continue south and enter Foible’s Fair. At Foible’s Fair, talk to Ralena to take The Supremacy Of Air quest.

10. Exit into Wizard’s Folly. Head southwest to Elementalist Aziure and take The Elementalist Experiment.

11. While waiting on the foes to spawn and ball on her, go kill the Tower Golem off to the north for The Supremacy Of Air. Come back and kill the Ice Elemental Shards to finish the quest, then map to Ascalon City.

12. Accept the following quests: The Poison Devourer, Bandit Raid, The Wayward Wizard, Charr At The Gate, Trouble In The Woods, and Poor Tenant. Map to Ashford Abbey and complete the next objective for Unsettling Rumors.

13. Farm the bandits from the Bandit Raid quest outside of Ashford until Level 7.

For information on how to optimally do this, click here.

14. As soon as you hit Level 7, head to Devona and complete the objective for Trouble In The Woods. The head into Regent Valley.

15. Go south and take The Ranger’s Companion from Master Ranger Nente, and go tame a Melandru’s Stalker. Now walk to Fort Ranik and enter.


16. Map to Ascalon City and exit into Lakeside. Follow and complete the objectives for Charr At The Gate, then take Across The Wall from Gate Guard Torin. Now enter into The Northlands.

For more info on the gate, click here.

You will now begin farming Charr, the guide to do so is here.

17. Go complete the first objective for Across The Wall, killing any foes along the way.

You can either complete the final objective for the quest, or, if you struggled with the first charr groups, keep him with you to help until you are more comfortable. Keeping him with you will slow you down over all as you will either have to walk all the way back to complete the final objective, or redo the first objective again once resetting the instance. Only do this is you are having a hard time at level 7.

18. Complete the quest objectives, then start farming charr all the way to the end, as well as oakhearts and grawl along the way until you out level them in the future.

If you die while farming, you spawn by the gate and should just rezone. You can also do this on purpose to reset the area faster. You can also map back to Ascalon and walk back to the lever and repeat, but that is slower.

19. Once you hit Level 10, map back to Ascalon City.

You can now start picking up your daily Vanguard quests. You want to wait until one of the three charr ones become available. Complete and turn in any while waiting for those to be available.

Continue charr runs including vanguard foes until level 14. At this level normal charr give no exp, only vanguard charr and charr bosses. Continue farming these until 16.

20. Once you hit level 16, we will now be turning in and completing all quests. Die to respawn at the shrine, enter Lakeside, and turn in Across The Wall. Then map to Ascalon City and turn in Unsettling Rumors.

21. If you have War Preparations, now is the time to bring the second account or player of the same profession into your party. If you have Message From A Friend, turn it in now. Also try to bring an extra person or account with you for the next quest.

22. Exit into Lakeside and take the quest Adventure With An Ally and immediately accept the reward if you have someone with you, or come back with someone later and accept it. If you have War Preparations, turn it in.

23. Take Gwen’s Flute, and Further Adventures. Then head south to the devourer cave, picking up the Broken Flute along the way. Accept The Egg Hunter from Duke Gaban before going in, and complete the objectives for both The Poison Devourer and The Egg Hunter. Turn in Egg Hunter and head into Regent Valley.

24. Go turn in the reward for The Ranger’s Companion, head to the objective for The Hunter’s Horn and complete it, then go back into Wizard’s Folly and turn the quest in to Aidan.

25. Then map to Foible’s. Do the objective for The Wayward Wizard and turn in The Supremacy Of Air. Then enter Wizard’s Folly.

26. Head north, and then west, killing bears until you get a Bear Pelt. Continue and talk to Orion Elek to finish The Wayward Wizard. Go enter Green Hills County and then run north to The Barradin Estate and enter.

27. Map to Ashford and exit into Lakeside. Complete Bandit Raid and turn it, Further Adventures, and Trouble In The Woods in to Devona. Then take Opposition To The King, and Tithe The Ashford Abbey. Complete and turn in Poor Tenant. Turn in Little Thom’s Big Cloak. Talk to Pitney, complete The Worm Problem and turn it in, then pick up The Prize Moa Bird and map to Ascalon.

28. Turn in The Wayward Wizard and Charr At The Gate, then pick up Charr In The Catacombs.

29. Exit into Lakeside, turn in Gwen’s Flute, then grab A New Elementalist Trainer from Haversdan and head over and trigger the dialogue between Rurik and Osric. While waiting, go take the quest The Rogue’s Replacement from Old Mac, and immediately turn it back in to him. Then go back and pick up A Gift For Althea quest. Turn that quest in to Althea, as well as A Mesmer’s Burden.

30. Map to The Barradin Estate and take The True King, then map to Fort Ranik and turn in The True King. Exit into Regent Valley. Get the quest The Orchard and go complete and turn in this quest. Map to Foible’s Fair.

31. Exit into Wizard’s Folly and go to the wizard tower to turn in The Elementalist Experiment and A New Elementalist Trainer.

32. Now map to Ashford, Turn in A Monk’s Mission, The Poison Devourer, and complete the objective there for Charr In The Catacombs and then enter the Catacombs. Turn in Rites Of Remembrance and The Necromancer's Novice. Accept Necromancer as your Secondary Profession. Complete the objective there for Charr In The Catacombs.

33. Go back to Ashford, enter Lakeside, then continue into green hills county and complete Grawl Invasion and turn it in. Then do the objectives for Opposition To The King and Tithe The Ashford Abbey and take The Power Of Blood. Map to The Barradin Estate.

34. Exit into Green Hills and enter the catacombs. Complete The Power Of Blood then go to Oberan and complete the objective there for Charr In The Catacombs, and take The Accursed Path and complete it and The Prize Moa Bird. Turn in The Accursed Path, then map to Ashford.

35. Exit into Lakeside. Go turn the quests Opposition To The King, Tithe The Ashford Abbey, and The Prize Moa Bird in. Map back to Ashford, then exit into Lakeside and go turn in The Power Of Blood in Green Hills. Then map to Ascalon.

36. Turn in Charr In The Catacombs. Take A Second Profession quest and turn it in. Take and turn in The Path To Glory and map out before the timer ends.

37. Your level 16 should be near finished. Now continue Vanguard quest farming until level 20.