Guild Wars 2

Can someone explain to me how the lifetime survivor achievement works?

Is it like guild wars 1 where if you die one time with that character it has no chance of getting the “survivor” title? Or does the experience counter just reset with each death, allowing you to progress in the achievement even if your character has already died several times?

I started out by searching google, then came here to the forums and did a search as well. I might have overlooked something but I couldn’t seem to find one single concrete answer.

If this information has already been covered in a FAQ somewhere please let me know.

Thanks in advance for your help.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hero_

It says therein:

Lifetime Survivor
Only mostly unkillable.
200,000 Exp without Death +5 Arenanet points
500,000 Exp without Death +5 Arenanet points

Also this resets if you change map. It’s a bug turned into a feature. Probably because they couldn’t be bothered to fix it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Lifetime-Survivor-Achiement-bug/989146

Good advice in that post. Basically, I did it by finishing my mapping of Lornar’s Pass, completing the daily achievement, and then killing mobs and doing events until it completed. You can’t zone or log off or it resets and you have to start over. When you kill mobs keep on the move as you get bonus experience for not killing in the same area. If you see the bonus experience start decreasing just move on to a different area in the same map (no zoning!!).

ohhh, 500k. I thought for a sec these were the same amounts as that monthly achievement a few months ago. but that one was 100k. I was going to suggest crafting to get it (that’s how I met the 100k one), but I doubt you can get 500k experience from crafting (at least not cheaply… you could always spend like 200g and get 4 crafts to level 400. It might not even require 4 – but I would bet at least 2)

I did it with jewelcrafting in LA using mats I’d gathered over time. I wasn’t even trying for the achievement, it simply popped up after I leveled up about 5 times.

For price, I have a guildmate who’s found some guides and has leveled multiple crafts to 400 for under 2 gold each. My jewelcrafting isn’t even 400 yet; since it seems you can get 10 levels per 400 points of crafting, I guess I only raised it 200 points for my survivor. I might have had some points already in for running around in the world, of course; as I said, I wasn’t doing anything but getting into the zen of watching JC skill rise so I wasn’t tracking achievements.

i did the [Penitent Path] Tunnel events in Orr with XP boosters. 17k xp each event, and back then the groups seemed invincible, so you never died.

i originally thought it worked like Guild Wars 1, so i was bummed that my guardian did not make it. but i got it after a few days in Orr, and it was a nice feeling to see it ping in my UI.

still trying to figure out the critical damage one.

The best way to get this achievement is to level up your crafts in city. Because it reset not only on death but also on map change (and i change maps often) so it’s hard to get it in normal play, at least for me.