Guild Wars 2

Hello-

I was pursuing the `Lifetime Survivor` Title and had reached around level 20 or so. I got into a battle with an Oakheart that I couldn’t win, but that I also couldn’t get away from, because it would keep spamming `Binding Roots` on me every time I was able to move (an issue of its own, IMHO, but off topic).

In desperation I attempted to log out while still trapped in the roots. After waiting a few minutes I logged back in, and was at the `You have been defeated` state with the request to pick a waypoint to spawn at. After doing this I went to check the `/deaths` report which reported `you have died 0 times`.

After this I then proceeded to reach level 40 without incident, but never received credit for the 200k experience Survivor award. So there is some kind of problem here, but I’ll let ANet decide what it is exactly. Either the achievement text needs to be updated to reflect `without dying or being defeated`, or my earlier actions should have logged a death but didn’t.

When you die, your points start over from scratch whether or not the death counted in /deaths.

Logging out is not the same as exiting the client. For future reference, press Alt-F4 instead of slowly logging out. In the time it takes for the server to process your soft logout you can die whereas the moment you disconnect from the login server via exiting the client, all actions stop.

Anyway, this was brought up a long time ago and Anet decided that it would be fine if the points just reset upon death instead of locking you out of that achievement completely.

Oh, that’s good news regarding the reset. Right now the #1 cause of death for my characters is falling damage, and I’m getting sick of starting over from L1 every time.

Remember, as well, you can not change maps, or the Achievement will reset. Deaths, or no deaths.

Wait, what? So for example if I’m in Metrica province I have to stay there without logging out or going anyplace else until you get 200k experience?

Eggman.1405:

Wait, what? So for example if I’m in Metrica province I have to stay there without logging out or going anyplace else until you get 200k experience?

Yes. Unless the requirements have been changed without notice.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Talk:Hero_%28achievements%29#Lifetime_Survivor_Achievement