I’ve been running into an issue trying to complete my monthly experience survivor achievement. (Finished all but this part).
My counter appears to stop going up when I log out. I’ve hit 80some thousand xp a couple of times now without dying, but then when I inevitably need to log out and take a break or sleep or whatever, the counter stops.
Is this intended? Known?
I can’t imagine they would purposely make it so logging out of the game stops it. Not only does this encourage unhealthy behaviour, it is simply not doable for those of us with a job/family that prevents us from sitting down for many hours at a time.
As a follow-up, can anyone recommend relatively painless ways to go about hitting this achievement? My highest level is only 53, so no level 80 areas please.
Edit – I’ll also add that at no point during this time did I even go into a downed state. If leaving a zone resets the counter, that REALLY needs to be clearly stated.
The counter resets whenever you go into the downed state or whenever you leave the zone, that includes logging out or leaving an overflow zone.
This is what I’ve read, someone correct me if I’m wrong.
That is incorrect; you can be downed and the counter won’t reset. The counter resets when one of three events happens:
• You are defeated (not downed).
• You change zones
• You log out
If you use a waypoint within a zone, essentially going across the same area without moving to a DIFFERENT zone, this does not reset the counter.
I seriously hope that this is a bug because it makes grinding out 100k XP in one zone without dying or exiting the game extremely tedious. It can be done in about 3-4 hours if you have a fresh zone to work and you completely 100% the zone in the process (I had about 20k to go after 100%ing the zone).
Hope this helps and I’d love an ArenaNet response as to whether this bug is going to be addressed at some point.
Slightly related, does crafting xp work for this if all the xp is gotten without zoning or logging out?
From what I understand, crafting XP works. The area where I got my 100k XP didn’t have crafting stations so I cannot verify this personally, but I do not see why it wouldn’t work.
Heck, even the ~1,000 XP I received for completing the “75k XP without dying” milestone in the monthly achievement counted toward it
Slightly related, does crafting xp work for this if all the xp is gotten without zoning or logging out?
From what I understand, crafting XP works. The area where I got my 100k XP didn’t have crafting stations so I cannot verify this personally, but I do not see why it wouldn’t work.
Heck, even the ~1,000 XP I received for completing the “75k XP without dying” milestone in the monthly achievement counted toward it
Thanks! This makes me wonder if there are any higher level explorable zones with a cooking station.
Thanks! This makes me wonder if there are any higher level explorable zones with a cooking station.
Possibly! I’m only in my mid 40s so I honestly do not know but I bet you can find some higher level zones with crafting stations online somewhere. I have also heard that once you hit 80 getting 100k XP in one session is a fairly trivial grind.
Hopefully the way it is now is not the intended way this achievement should work though.
Yes 100% for sure Crafting XP counts for the monthly. I know cause that is how I got mine in Lions Arch.
As you will find the 100K amount becomes super easy as you level up. The high zones give more xp/kill. Also as you get high level the xp you get from crafting scales with you. Some guys are reporting 11K and up per completion. So while 100K is very hard # to hit when you are starting out it becomes super easy to hit as you get higher up. Just hang in there and things will work out in the long run
This deed is at least better than the old one where 1 death and it was done forever.
For every ounce of dirt you throw you loose and once of ground.
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