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Survivor with Story Books

Book(s)	Missions	Max XP		Books for $$		Notes
		NM	HM	NM	HM
Flameseeker	18	80k	120k	8k	12k	Longest book; highest reward; many missions are very long and some can fail close to the end
Shiro's Return	11	40k	60k	4k	6k	Short; Eternal Grove and Imperial Sanctum may be tough with AI team
Night Falls	17	60k	90k	6k	9k	Long; Dzagonur Bastion and Gate of Madness can be a pain with AI
Young Heroes of Tyria	12	N/A	67.5k*	N/A	6,750k	Short; HM ONLY; simple starter missions; * XP reward varies depending on where you turn it in, and is highest from Gordon Ecker
Heroes Handbook	11*	12k	18k	1.2k	1.8k	Shortest book @ 11 pages filled vs 16 pages; easy once you master DD and ATFH; faster than Young Heroes; * 5/16 entries are automatically complete after the first time
Mstr. Dung. Guide	18**	80k	120k	8k	12k	**Does; SUICIDE comes to Mind - Easy Kills to YOU!; Can be done if you are not rushing through and know what to expect and know the spawns.**

• In conclusion, I would place my top bet on Young Heroes of Tyria or Hero's Handbook.
  • YHoT is relatively short and very simple, even in HM, since these are starter missions. You can also choose to get 4,500 SS or LB rep or a cool 90k Kurz/Lux title points at the cost of ¹⁄₃ of the XP, increasing the number of books needed from 19.8 to 29.7. If you do 30 books and take them to Cantha, you will get an impressive 2,700,000 faction title points - more than rank 8 if you start from scratch, or over 0.25¼ of the entire title track! - Note these are not actual faction you can spend, but go straight to your title track.
  • Hero's Handbook is easy and fast if you can run Destruction's Depths reliably, and provides nice rep rewards for EotN titles, if you don't have them yet.
• Note that the decimal points in the number of books required do not scale with the number of completed pages because of the "buffer" missions. They're only there instead of just a straight rounded up integer to show how close you are and if you'll need most of another book or can go kill a couple of worms in Ice Cliffs to finish up the title.

Time/XP/Risk - Young Heroes of Tyria (YHoT)

	XP Gained	Time	Risk	Notes
Great Northern Wall	3,500	12 min	low
Fort Ranik	4,600	17 min	low
Ruins of Surmia	8,700	28 min	med	Popups, patrols and Rurik can cause overaggro
Nolani Academy	5,000	19 min	med	Patrols and Rurik can cause overaggro
Borlis Pass	4,700	19 min	low
The Frost Gate	5,300	19 min	low
Gates of Kryta	3,800	17 min	med	Lack of corpses for meat-shields, spike dmg, Hablion overaggroes and fails the mission -> best not to trigger him
Minister Cho's Estate	4,200	11 min	low
Zen Daijun	3,200	12 min	high	Multiple eles with Mind Burn targeting back-line -> my only deaths -> **Keep Protective Spirit up at all times**
Chahbek Village	1,100	4 min	low
Jokanur Diggings	2,800	11 min	med	Fire traps + mobs that will happily finish you off after walking through one
Blacktide Den	2,400	12 min	med	Grenth's Balance + Skale stampede
Total	49,300k	181 min (3 Hrs +/-)	med	Should be 0 deaths with experience and caution -> LEARN the SPAWNS!

• If you can survive filling 12 Young Heroes of Tyria (YHoT) books without any deaths, you can do the title in only 144 missions and about 36 hours of effort/playtime -or- (15 books, 180 missions and 45 hours of effort/playtime if you want the 1.35M Kurz/Lux title points instead).

I just copied over the tables and a couple of comments from the original archived conversation, which is [1]. I added a few touch-ups.

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