Character Progress Thread

[Skallagrimson]

at last i made it!
GWAMM!

Awesome dude! Grats on the GWAMM!



And Arcane, Max Kurz is an awesome feat! Grats, man!

[Alaris]

at last i made it!
GWAMM!

Congrats! Pics are in order dude! We want to see the proud GWAMM!

My kurzick title? Its nothing. I will say congrats to fifione, but I confess that his post only made me extremely frustrated.

The last bit of the title hunt is not aboout gameplay skills.

I understand the frustration, I'm in the same boat... The last three titles are very boring, long, costly... and boring. But hey, it's a test of patience and endurance.

I've been managing the boredom by watching 4 seasons of Family Guy, listening to lots of comedy, and getting a lvl 29 Warlock Blood Elf and several other chars to lvl 15-20 in WOW.

Th at 8575 by now... Coffers dry. But I'm not in a hurry, I'd rather dual-game than farm, so that's what I do.

Point is though, that fifone got GWAMM the same way we all did / will / wish we did, by doing lots of achievement-based titles, and finishing up with consumables-based titles. However he financed the last bit, he also did the first bit. Besides, generating the cash is a feat in itself.

TH - (...) thats 12 500 000 gold (...) 4.5 million by luck + drops.

2-3 million by my estimates. And that's merching all the stuff.

Here's how i did it in two weeks (...)

But honestly i don't see many PVE titles (except for LMoTN, Guardian, Vanquisher and Survivor) that require a high skill level.

You technically didn't do it in two weeks, you finished off titles you already had a good head start on (including cash from previous farming). I'm happy for you, well done.

If you count those hard-to-do titles with all titles that come almost free with them (reps mostly filled by doing those) that gives you 19-27 titles (depending on if you also include carto and skill hunt, which I did).

I mean, sure, you could max rep titles by farming, but who would want to waste time maxing asura with raptors if they mostly get it free for doing MotN?

[fifone]

Alaris you said it a lot better than me :)
My point, which i guess i falied to make, was that i had the money necessary for the last titles before tackling them.

And i forgot to say that i was already halfway through TH and wisdom by playing normally

@ Alaris: here's the pic http://www.psworks.net/gw016.jpg

@ Thul: guess it's time for a survivor :P

[Lady Rhonwyn]

Congrats, fifone!

About that TH, I've been keeping tracks.

I seriously started on TH/lucky/unlucky in November.

TH was at around 1200 chests (max 10.000)
lucky almost 800.000 points (max 2.500.000)
unlucky about 65.000 points (max 500.000)

I didn't write down everything for every day, but some. The numbers are all about the 7250 chests I did follow.

I used 7250 lockpicks (aka chests). I retained 4893 lockpicks, which means I broke 2357 picks. Those lockpicks cost me 2.946.250 gold (or would have cost me, if I hadn't gotten lockpicks now and again from quest rewards or drops, but let's assume I bought them all for 1.250 gold).

I never sold anything but to the merchants. This gained me 1.836.039 gold. So, it all cost me 1.110.211 gold. If you're a good trader, you'd probably have better stats, but I just don't have the heart for that...

(I didn't count the double lucky/unlucky weekend, as that would have missed my numbers up majorly...)

[Arcane Guardian]

Whatever. Grats to you again then fifone.

Sorry about my rant but... just leave me alone. Its not going to help me, if you calculate the cost of your TH titles here.

When I was at 27 titles ( 26 + survivor), I had two paths to follow from that point on:

1. 2 consumable + kurzick
2. TH + Lucky + unlucky or alternatively wisdom

I have talked to a lot of people, what should I do etc. and what is less costly. Even talked to Rhonwyn who just did the calculations here.

As you can see, I went with the 1st option. I wouldnt do that, if all the advice and calculations was against it.


Seeing your numbers now, and knowing that I spent all my time and effort wrong, only makes me feel even worse, and I didnt think that was possible.

Thank god I still have some friends in GW or else...

[Alaris]

Oh, and a monk!

I'd have gone for monk primary if by the time I started playing monk my Ranger wasn't already KoaBD(27) !!

Seeing your numbers now, and knowing that I spent all my time and effort wrong, only makes me feel even worse, and I didnt think that was possible.

You and I both!

Treasure hunter has been a real test of patience... and sanity. My progress has really slowed lately because I had to dual-game to keep it interesting.

If I had to do it again, I might have gone for Kurzick instead. Seems like AB would be way more interesting, even if it would take longer.

Anyway, that's all I have to say for now.

[yobam]

My ranger is still at 25. I've been playing the monk quite a bit lately. I just started a mesmer again today. Hopefully I will try to stick this one out, I always end up deleting them. They just seem very different and I will have to force myself to learn it. Maybe if i hurry and throw an elite set of armor on her I won't delete her. I tend not to delete them after I do that

[fifone]

Thanks Lady!
I didn't keep much track of the numbers involved in TH etc, but yours seem right. I'm not much of a trader either, but Unids sell pretty easily.

[Lensor]

Seeing your numbers now, and knowing that I spent all my time and effort wrong, only makes me feel even worse, and I didnt think that was possible.

Heh, you and me both man.

I had calculated, in a huge exel spreadsheet, how to get GWAMM the cheapest (not fastest) way possible. And as my char is pre-titles, survivor was not available.

At that time HFFF was an option that took time but gave a lot of money back, so that was a given choice. After that I figured treasure, but not wisdom (i.e. sell golds) would be the second one, hoping to be able to run people's lockpicks for the final levels. Opening all those chests would give me almost maxed lucky, so then that was number three. At that time, before the unlucky rebalance, unlucky was not even to think about. Leaving a consumable for number 4. Since I got over 3000 party points during Gaile's farewell, I chose party. This scheme would make GWAMM almost "free".

My beautiful plan did not turn out too well.
For one, HFFF was killed, so now there is not any profit to talk about from the Kurzick title but it still takes a lot of time. The chest running business (running other people's lockpicks) has almost tanked completely due to very few chest drops actually being worth all that much anymore. The unlucky was changed so I would be way better off maxing unluck than a costly consumable. And TH/Wisdom were made account wide, so now it looks like I made a bad choice selling off golds instead of ID-ing them myself. Not to mention that unid prizes are now lower, I suspect much due to the kegfarm.

So now, if I stick with my plan I will end up with 31 max titles at pretty much the same time as I hit 30. (getting unluck from those chests).. Alternatively, I can stop going for party, meaning I wasted all those party points. I could also drop Kurzick for Wisdom, meaning again wasted effort. A lose-lose-lose situation really.

So yes I kick myself every now and then. But, hey, at least this way once my GWAMM+1 (ETA just before GW2 comes out) is done all my mules will be just one title from KoABD.

[atlantis I need you]

As I am a junior title hunter, this seems like very useful thread...Please, continue...

and thank you...