In pre-searing, there are only two ways to get experience: killing foes and accepting quest rewards. The amount of experience from quests is fixed and does not change, but the amount earned from killing foes decreases as your character levels (down to 0 if your level is superior to the foes' level + 6).Cognitive language learning strategies as a result, it makes more sense to kill as many high level foes as possible first and wait until you get little to no experience from kills to start claiming quest rewards.Cognitive language learning strategies

That being said, a few quests are interesting to complete quickly, because they are required to get skills at low level. Test is one of those, since you will only get access to the skills if you complete it.Cognitive language learning strategies furthermore, the access to secondary profession trainers (and secondary profession skills) requires its completion. You can also take and complete message from a friend and the following war preparations, or keep the reward from message from a friend (a small 100xp) for later.Cognitive language learning strategies if you complete test, war preparations will not be available anymore. Conversely, you can't do test before accepting war preparations's reward.Cognitive language learning strategies lastly, adventure with an ally allows you to get the skill resurrection signet, which can be useful if you plan on playing with someone else.Cognitive language learning strategies

• do accept the rewards for test. Alternatively, you can choose not to complete it, especially if you have access to the fire imp and plan to follow the ice elementals path (see below): the imp will do most of the killing for you on this path and if the lack of the first skills may slow you a bit, in the end the 500xp can make a difference if taken at level 5~9 rather than level 1.Cognitive language learning strategies

• start one secondary profession quest (from those marked (§) above). Many players prefer the ranger's companion because it allows you to tame a pet (which can turn into a powerful tank at higher levels) and teaches you troll unguent.Cognitive language learning strategies however for your secondary profession choice, elementalist is another good option for monks, mesmers and necromancers to make use of glyph of lesser energy and fire storm (monks will otherwise struggle to deal damage).Cognitive language learning strategies

• wizard's folly: starting from foible's fair, you can farm ice elementals and hulking stone elementals to reach level 9 (a 5 minute run yields about 600 xp for level 7 characters). (the alternative run extends to the catacombs.) this is an easy and fast run especially if you can deal fire damage, the best way being by summoning a fire imp.Cognitive language learning strategies

• charr at the gate will spawn four charr at level 4-5; prince rurik will be happy to kill them for you. Don't forget to abandon the quest before talking to rurik again, lest you take the quest's reward (or alternatively use a second account to hold the quest).Cognitive language learning strategies the quest involves a lot of walking (to reach the gate and to take the quest), so you may not find it as fast as the ice elementals path.

• the farmer hamnet rescue provides an easy, if not the best, farming opportunity: it takes 30s-2mins depending on your profession to kill the two vanguard foe bandits who spawn just outside foible's fair and the nearby monk at the resurrection shrine will help by healing you and/or tanking.Cognitive language learning strategies re-enter foible's fair and re-exit once then use the command / resign to re-appear close to the portal every run. This is one of the easiest ways to get the survivor title in pre-searing (especially if you can summon the fire imp).Cognitive language learning strategies

• before the march 3rd, 2011 update, the only way to achieve this title was to death level. The update added new quests in pre-searing that provide enough experience (through rewards and killing foes) to allow one to reach the title without dying at all.Cognitive language learning strategies this also enables access to the survivor titles, see also legendary survivor of ascalon.

Captain langmar—or lieutenant, as her rank was then—is making an appearance in pre-searing.Cognitive language learning strategies she's got two good eyes and nine new daily quests with her. These quests will scale both in difficulty and rewards relative to the level of the player taking the quests.Cognitive language learning strategies because of this, these quests will always remain relevant to your character's growth if you are trying to reach level 20 in pre-searing.

This addition is mostly to provide a legitimate way for players to achieve the legendary defender of ascalon title.Cognitive language learning strategies previously, this title was obtainable only through an unusual exploit of the game's mechanics: "death leveling." for this exploit, players allowed enemies to kill them repeatedly until the enemies leveled to a point where they were once again worth experience to the player.Cognitive language learning strategies this was an incredibly time-consuming process, often requiring months to achieve. While this shows noble dedication from our players, we should not have encouraged such a counterintuitive style of playing.Cognitive language learning strategies instead, we are adding these daily quests to do the title justice and to let players legitimately play the game to earn the title. After all, do you really feel like a legendary defender of ascalon after letting the charr kill you endlessly?Cognitive language learning strategies

These quests become available to players once they reach level 10, to avoid confusion among new players about how long they should remain in pre-searing.Cognitive language learning strategies because these quests occur daily, obtaining the legendary defender of ascalon title is still going to require a major time investment from the player and should not devalue the achievement of those who already have it.Cognitive language learning strategies