Guild Wars 2

Hello there, I need help understanding how this new pvp reward track actually works. I’ve never done pvp before and I would like to know how rewards work and if doing group or solo is better? Thank you for the help.

Grind through various matches of PvP, they’ll add in a few percents to the overall track you have selected.
Yes you can switch tracks, I believe.
I’m not sure if solo or group is faster.

When you choose to go to PvP there is a chest icon on the left hand side of the window. Select this and you choose which reward track (there are 40 rewards per track) you will earn points toward (it can be any of the ones unlocked). As you play matches you earn points to gradually unlock them. Evidently you’ll earn more points for a win but you also earn them for a loss.

I’ve done both hotjoin (find a server and join the game) and solo arena and they both work fine but I believe there is a limit per day to how much of the reward track you can earn from just playing hotjoin.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pvp-reward-tracks-and-gear-unification/

Hot Join Win: 500 rank points
Solo Arena Win: 1000 Rank points
Hot join Loss: 200 rank points
Solo Arena Loss: 300 rank points

I think it takes 1000 rank points between each minor reward on the reward paths.

How’s the reward for it compare to general pve?

laokoko.7403:

How’s the reward for it compare to general pve?

If I remember this right:
You’ll get two weapons and one armor piece for the track along the way as you finish it.
To kit yourself out with all of it, you’ll need to repeat the track a few times.

Compared to PvE dungeons, honestly I think you can get it done faster via PvE.
As for non dungeon related rewards, mostly transmutation charges, tomes of experience, and the greens you get from a champ box are sprinkled around.

For those who PvP mostly, this is a good update.
For those who PvE mostly, you’ll probably wonder why you aren’t just getting the stuff from killing random mobs.
For those who do both, you basically get the better deal since you play a few rounds in PvP then try your hand at the dungeon.

Thanks alot guys, This really Helps!!

Thanks previous posters, i was wondering why my bar wasnt advancing some of the time, I live in an area where the game switches days in the late afternoon, so this would make sense. Also, in response to the “whether its quicker to run dungeon or pvp for the wardrobe/weapons” i like this new set up, as it is sometimes difficult to find a group to dungeon with, a great way to get the gears solo

Always do team queue, you can queue up alone and there are better rewards.

There is no point in doing hot join or soloq at all, except that they offer additional sub-standard maps.