Best build/strategy for the Survivalist Trophy?

[Mesca 0]

Does anyone have any tried and tested build's or strategies that will make getting the Survivalist Trophy any easier (legitly)?

Edited January 28, 2011 by Mesca

[lujate 578]

What do you consider illegitimate?

 

I imagine that most of the builds on the wiki would work. My thought would be a melee (or BFG) Seraphim with a massive DP shield, but I am no expert.

[Mesca 0]

What do you consider illegitimate?

 

I've read of one method of quickly trying to exit via the XMB to prevent the save after a death, and another where you must backup your save to a USB and reload if you die.

Those. and any other way to cheat/glitch.

[lujate 578]

It should not be a problem.

 

Also check out this thread:

http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=12973&

[ZardoZsays 0]

So I'll assume you are shopping/socketing up?

 

My favorite build so far,

 

Unkillable Seraphim(naturally without a shopper you are quite killable)

Tactics Lore

Dual Wield or Ranged (1-hand ranged+shield)

EW Focus

RT Focus

RT Lore

Concentration

Constitution

Warding Energy Lore

Armor Lore

Toughness

 

Divine Protection and Warding Energy are modded for max shield energy and less cost. Pelting Strikes, Flaring Nova and Archangel's Wrath are the primary attacks.

[essjayehm 58]

Uhm, howzabout a Shadow Veil build? Just do not take any escorts/minions and you should be fine!

[lujate 578]

My (untested) suggestion would be a pole arm Seraphim with a huge Divine Protection shield. Pump Willpower and WEL to boost your shield. Mod Hallowed Restoration for Recuperation and put it on a combo after Pelting Strikes. Use the PS/HR combo for everything and find a LL% pole arm for boss fights

[Mesca 0]

So I'll assume you are shopping/socketing up

No, I don't have a shopper.

 

I was thinking of just using the Combat Art's Pelting Strikes, Dashing Alactricity, Divine Protection, and Battle Stance; Keeping them all at level 1.

 

Then using the skills:

Tactics Lore, kept at my level

Armor Lore, kept at my level

Dual Wield, kept at level 1

Constitution, kept at my level

Toughness, kept at my level

and Combat Discipline, kept at my level

 

I was hoping to have high damage, high HP with some damage mitigation.

Played in Bronze naturally and grinding to match the levels of the bosses.

 

Let me know what you guys think?

[lujate 578]

I am not sure a level 1, unmodded Divine Protection without WEL would be worth doing.

[Mystix123 60]

...and another where you must backup your save to a USB and reload if you die.

This one doesn't actually work (as many learn the hard way). Unfortunately, some learn when they're trying to do something completely legit (such as swap their hard drive for a bigger one).

Simply copying the file to a USB key will lock it from being able to trade and obtain trophies (due to using copied data).

You would actually have to back-up the entire hard drive (using the Backup Utility), then restore it. Probably the easiest way to go about restoring your data to the new hard drive, but some people attempt otherwise.

 

Uhm, howzabout a Shadow Veil build? Just do not take any escorts/minions and you should be fine!

This is the build that came to mind when I looked at this question originally (but didn't have the time to reply until now).

 

Let me know what you guys think?

I have to agree with Lujate on this one. You're going to need some Focus skills in there to be safe.

If you're going to be depending on Divine Protection at all, then you'd be better taking Rev. Tech. Focus (to mod Divine Protection), increasing the level (when modded for the Cooldown reduction per level) and using Warding Energy Lore. This will help prevent you from taking any actual damage.

 

You'll also want to consider Exalted Warrior Focus (as 3 of your listed Combat Arts are from that Aspect), mainly to control regeneration times. Keeping Pelting Strikes at level 1 won't allow you to achieve high damage (especially to counter not having Divine Protection if you choose not to go that route), so you'll want to boost this (generally through Pelting Strikes+ equipment, such as socketing Pelting Strikes runes into weapon/armor slots).

 

Otherwise to those details, I don't see you having any issues with that build on Bronze until you hit the Nameless Guardians.

[Mesca 0]

Otherwise to those details, I don't see you having any issues with that build on Bronze until you hit the Nameless Guardians.

 

They have me worried. A side question that is kind of related,

but does the enemy levels found here http://www.sacredwiki.org/index.php5/Sacred_2:Enemy_Levels apply to bosses? Meaning the Nameless Guardian's will be somewhere around level 45?

If that is the case I will grind to at least 45 before I even attempt them.

Edited February 2, 2011 by Mesca

[Mystix123 60]

They have me worried. A side question that is kind of related,

but does the enemy levels found here http://www.sacredwiki.org/index.php5/Sacred_2:Enemy_Levels apply to bosses? Meaning the Nameless Guardian's will be somewhere around level 45?

If that is the case I will grind to at least 45 before I even attempt them.

You wouldn't need to grind that high to match them. The Nameless Guardians have a minimum and maximum level range for each difficulty.

 

I apologize in advance to whomever from this forum discovered and created this. Credit (and thanks) to you should go here, but I have it copied and pasted into a Notepad file, and I don't remember who was behind this.

Nameless Guardian Levels

Difficulty	Minimum Level	Maximum Level
Bronze		26		40-41
Silver		26		75-76
Gold		66		120-121
Platinum	96		160-161
Niob		136		215-216

 

So the Nameless Guardians will be of equal level to you from level 26 to 41 (assuming a high Survival Bonus), then they will stay constant.

I'm not 100% sure if these numbers are dead-on for the PS3 version, but from casual observation (going back to Silver with a 100+ character), the ranges are pretty close.

[lujate 578]

I still say LL% and a big shield.

 

Luring the Guardians into the hall also helps. I earned the Survivalist trophy this morning with my 3-aspect caster Seraphim, and that is how I did it.