Guild Wars 2

Hi.
I hope I can get a little advice here about how best to finish my map completion achievement (if I even can). with the exception of Rata Sum and the Black Citadel, I’m down to WvW maps. the problem is that I’m on the Eredon Terrace server- last place in all of the WvW lists. Without changing servers is it even possible to complete the WvW maps? I am a mostly solo PvE player without much WvW experience so I’m not sure what’s involved. Just wondering around on some of the maps got me killed pretty quickly, so I’m not liking my chances. I’m not against learning WvW, it just doesn’t seem like Eredon Terrrace is the place to do it. Also I’m without a guild or friends to lean on. I wondering how the upcoming WvW tournament would affect my chances. Frankly, I’m really wondering if this is even an achievable goal given my circumstances – should I just write this one off and move on to some other achievements? My main character for this is a mesmer with mostly exotic and no ascended gear if that helps.

Thanks

Join another server for a few weeks and get into the borderlands.

Thanks for the reply.

I should have been more clear. at 1800 gems (somewhat north of 20$) that’s a little steep for one achievement unless moving servers has some other really compelling benefit. I have about 30G to my name right now so converting gold to gems is out as well. It looks like this is one achievement I’ll have to back burner.

Just be patient and persistent. Think of each death as a learning experience.

Ask in the mesmer forums for a good build (PU something….. most solo players won’t engage you cause like, bleh, PU mesmer….).

Whenever you are on and have time, open your WvW panel and see what your side owns (or better yet, use a site like: http://www.gw2score.com/livemap/Eredon-Terrace to see exactly what you have). Take a run through and get every point you can which is easily accessible.

Looks like it’s been a few weeks since your server changed color, and that makes it difficult, but it will happen (it’s somewhat random each week). Check each week to see what color you are and get everything easy on the north side of your current home border and your “third” of eternal battleground. Get the south sections of each enemy borderland when possible. Eventually you’ll get everything this way.

Try joining a guild which does WvW at least occasionally. Advice on the forums isn’t as good as experience alongside other experienced players. You may find it fun, many previously PvE only players do.

Thrashbarg.9820:

Looks like it’s been a few weeks since your server changed color, and that makes it difficult, but it will happen (it’s somewhat random each week). Check each week to see what color you are and get everything easy on the north side of your current home border and your “third” of eternal battleground. Get the south sections of each enemy borderland when possible. Eventually you’ll get everything this way.
.

Thanks, I hadn’t actually registered that colors rotated. I’m used to logging in and seeing Eredon Terrace with a sliver of the pie.

This info helps since I can be patient if it’s an achievable goal. I just don’t want to be in a situation where I’m banging my head against the wall several months from now. So I’ll just grab what I can when I can and wait for things to change. Thanks again for the advice.

thanks also for the build tips. I’ve tried the PU mesmer, I’m just not very good with it yet. In PvE I usually run a Phantasm build. The times I have been killed I was just wondering around and got Zergged because I wasn’t paying attention.

I think I would like WvW, There just doesn’t seem to be much activity related to it on ET. or perhaps I just haven’t connected with the right people yet.

anyway, thanks for all the suggestions.

Just piping in to add that with a new WvW tournament coming up things are likely to get more active even if your server isn’t very WvW-oriented, so keep an eye out during that time if you’re still missing stuff by then, you might just get lucky and be able to grab some tower or camp you’d been missing by jumping in during a push.

What timezone? If you in oceanic timezone, i can have my guild cap whatever you need during weekends for you. If you play NA find any of the big guilds and ask nicely if they can cap what you need before reset. Sometimes when were up against heavy number servers theres not much we can do, but when we get a rallynight going we can usually flip most whatever.
Contact me in game, and you can always stop by our community website to say hi
http://eredonterrace.enjin.com

I always found that doing wvw map completion is best done early hours of the morning. If you can find a few other tormented souls to do it with its much easier to get. Although 20 supplies and guild catas will get most walls down with minimal running for extra supplies…

Well when I saw the title my number 1 tip was going to be ’don’t leave WvW till last because it needs to be done a bit at a time’ but I guess it’s too late for that now.

But it’s still true. The most common problem I see people having with WvW map completion is that they want to treat it like a PvE map – completing an entire map in one go before moving on to the next – and it just doesn’t work like that.

Instead what you need to do is check all 4 maps on a regular basis and get points as and when you can. Try to vary when you do it too. Early in the morning/late at night is good for some points, peak time when your server is most likely to be taking new locations is better for others. Also the maps reset on Friday. When that happens the colours will sometimes change and all locations go back to their default owners so that can give you an opportunity to get some extra points too.

Also bear in mind that just because a server own a place doesn’t mean they’re actively defending it. Most players will be in one or two big groups and therefore all in one part of the map (you can usually tell where from chat) and the rest will be relatively empty. Keeps and towers will still be a problem because they have walls and doors to keep you out but camps and open areas will have nothing to stop you mapping them.

Finally don’t be afraid to join the zerg if they’re going somewhere you need to get. Even if they fail to take a keep or tower (or Stonemist Castle) they might break in long enough for you to map it.

Ummmm for those of you suggesting early morning, FYI ET has no early morning/late night crew, the only time we have a strong presence is NA prime, and Ocx Prime….

By the way note that Stonemist Castle never rotates. Given how ridiculously outmanned Eredon Terrace is even relative to, say, Kaineng, you might want to MAKE SURE you cap the points in SMC in the rare event ET holds it. Aside from SMC, get all points of interest on reset, when you can generally count on taking your borderland, EBG keep and its surrounding towers – in 3-5 weeks you should have all except SMC.

Also, after capping SMC with your main, cap it with your alts until someone retakes it. SMC is not conquerable by outmanned worlds without trebuchets (and often golems in addition to superior rams) at their disposal, and the cost is prohibitively high enough that you won’t see this happening very often. Don’t forget to thank and/or give blueprints to the commander who capped it, WvW coms run a very resource-limited charity work.