Guild Wars 2

Why does the Potion of PvP Reward grant 250 points towards the reward track, but the Potion of WvW Reward only 200 points? Both reward tracks need 20,000 points to be completed and the “progress per time” is still more rewarding in PvP than WvW. This looks like a clear disadvantage for WvW players to me.

Did you click the “potion of wvw reward” link you provided? It said it is 250 points clearly.

Also according to my experience, 2 potions of wvw reward will move 500 exp forward.

I get 250 Reward Track points from WvW potions, but what I don’t get is any bonus points from boosters when used. I had thought boosters affected these Potions, but I may have been mistaken.

Does anyone have any Dev statements or patch notes, etc. about this?

From Wiki:
These potions are obtained from Daily achievement reward chests that have a WvW objective and grant 250 points towards the currently selected reward track and are not affected by boosts.

Experience boosters, and the guild buff can boost gain by 60% and the outnumbered effect provides an additional 50% boost to participation.

Potions just award a fixed amount of points towards a track.

Hmm, I tested it again. My fault. They both grant 250. Maybe they changed/fixed it?
But what I know for sure is, that the Birthday and Celebration Boosters don’t work for the WvW reward tracks.

AllNightPlayer.1286:

Hmm, I tested it again. My fault. They both grant 250. Maybe they changed/fixed it?
But what I know for sure is, that the Birthday and Celebration Boosters don’t work for the WvW reward tracks.

Wxp and participation are not the same thing. Wxp is awarded for doing a variety of things in wvw, this increases your participation rate in wvw which determines how many points you contribute towards progressing your reward track. Wxp is not actually used for reward tracks.

Both of those boosters give an effect called Celebration bonus, which btw will only stack in duration, meaning if you use both of those boosters at once, it will give you 25 hours of the same bonus and not a 200% combined effect. These boosters will help increase your WxP gain, but will not effect reward track gain.

X T D.6458:

AllNightPlayer.1286:

Hmm, I tested it again. My fault. They both grant 250. Maybe they changed/fixed it?
But what I know for sure is, that the Birthday and Celebration Boosters don’t work for the WvW reward tracks.

Wxp and participation are not the same thing. Wxp is awarded for doing a variety of things in wvw, this increases your participation rate in wvw which determines how many points you contribute towards progressing your reward track. Wxp is not actually used for reward tracks.

Both of those boosters give an effect called Celebration bonus, which btw will only stack in duration, meaning if you use both of those boosters at once, it will give you 25 hours of the same bonus and not a 200% combined effect. These boosters will help increase your WxP gain, but will not effect reward track gain.

WxP and participation are indeed not the same thing however, the celebration booster should increase the participation tick reward in WvW.

From the wiki for Birthday/celebration boosters, if you clicked on them to read it:

“10% bonus to reward track progress.”.

Also noted as a bug on the wiki is that this isn’t applied to WvW reward tracks. If it is bugged and doesn’t work, it should be fixed to be fair between PvP/WvW tracks.

Haleydawn.3764:

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AllNightPlayer.1286:

Hmm, I tested it again. My fault. They both grant 250. Maybe they changed/fixed it?
But what I know for sure is, that the Birthday and Celebration Boosters don’t work for the WvW reward tracks.

Wxp and participation are not the same thing. Wxp is awarded for doing a variety of things in wvw, this increases your participation rate in wvw which determines how many points you contribute towards progressing your reward track. Wxp is not actually used for reward tracks.

Both of those boosters give an effect called Celebration bonus, which btw will only stack in duration, meaning if you use both of those boosters at once, it will give you 25 hours of the same bonus and not a 200% combined effect. These boosters will help increase your WxP gain, but will not effect reward track gain.

Also from the wiki for Birthday/celebration boosters, if you clicked on them to read it:

“10% bonus to reward track progress.”.

Also noted as a bug on the wiki is that this isn’t applied to WvW reward tracks. If it is bugged and doesn’t work, it should be fixed to be fair between PvP/WvW tracks.

Ah sorry didn’t notice that, haven’t used them in awhile.

I used 80 wvw potions a few weeks ago to get a gift of battle starting at zero. Got me all 20k I needed.

The loot on the track itself is awful.