Guild Wars 2

Hello all,

I’m sort of a noob when it comes to PvP and I’ve only played it a few times. I enjoy it, and I have a question about reward tracks:

About how long does it take to complete a track if I were to exclusively to do solo play (as in solo join)?

Since tomes of knowledge are rewards in every tier, how would doing PvP to collect tomes to level your characters compare in speed to EotM? How about the rewards per time spent vs EotM?

I expect EotM is more worth your time, but even if PvP can get somewhat close it would be preferable, since it’s more fun and less mindless. So, what does everyone think?

Thanks!

PVP is nowhere close to EoTM.

You level up x6 faster in EoTM than in PvP, also make a lot more money as well, as well as collecting WvW xp which is x20 harder to max out than compared to PvP ranking system. Also getting the Legendary titles is like getting the champ titles on every profession like 3 times.

The developers have made PvP achievements easymode yes, but EoTM is as easy as it gets to leveling and above decent loot.

With a good eotm train you can level up really quick, 2-3 levels per hour. Pvp is not as good as eotm for leveling, however it is more fun and dynamic. Each reward track takes 6-8 hours by my estimation, once you reach r30 and higher you also get a leveling scroll every time you rank up. Completing a reward track would give 8 scrolls and you will rank up 1-2 times, giving a total of 10 level scrolls in 6-8 hours.

The 6-8 hours is just a guess, I haven’t done any exhaustive timing.

I do one track in about 1-2 days. But I play alot

But seriously: If you want rewards… don’t play pvp

I leveled all my characters with pvp, just because I only enjoy pvp in this game.

My recommendation:

Just play what you like, the rest will come automatically.

PvP! PvP!

yeah every since reward tracks started my total character levels have shot up. WvW is just so less..reliable, but maybe I just suck. I’m not too fond on it anyway. I’d like to do it more but…eh. Lots of things I’d like to do in this game. It’s certainly faster than chugging through the PvE world, anyway.

You level faster in EoTM but some pvp reward tracks guarantee exotics and mystic clovers

I leveled my character with the tomes. It is slower, since there’s quicker methods. However, if all you want to do is PvP, stockpile the tomes or use them as you go.

proviticus.4183:

Hello all,

I’m sort of a noob when it comes to PvP and I’ve only played it a few times. I enjoy it, and I have a question about reward tracks:

About how long does it take to complete a track if I were to exclusively to do solo play (as in solo join)?

Since tomes of knowledge are rewards in every tier, how would doing PvP to collect tomes to level your characters compare in speed to EotM? How about the rewards per time spent vs EotM?

I expect EotM is more worth your time, but even if PvP can get somewhat close it would be preferable, since it’s more fun and less mindless. So, what does everyone think?

Thanks!

Are you playing GW2 for fun or rewards? EoTM farm trains are boring as kitten. PvP is really fun and you can play stupid builds if you wanna mix things up. Don’t do the EotM trains. It’s not worth the hours of boredom.

Thanks for all the opinions everyone.

I mixed PvP and EotM last night and definitely think that PvP was more fun, but it had the disadvantage of long wait times between every match, which was annoying.

To answer questions, I play for the fun which is why I said PvP would be preferable even if it were less rewarding.

That being said, my ‘endgame’ isn’t PvP or EotM. I’m levelling a mesmer to be able to use in my dungeon/fractal runs if necessary.

I would like to do this with PvP since it’s more fun, but within PvP I’d like to maximize my returns (even though it’s fun enough without rewards), and team arena would be best, but since I don’t have a team it’s solo arena.

Solo arena is the option you click to join solo? Where I have to wait like 10 minutes for the match to start, every time? Then it’s over and I’m back in the HotM?

Considering I’m not good enough yet for joining a team, is solo join what I should be doing? Or maybe joining custom arenas or something? Sorry for the questions but PvP is a lot to take in a first.

Thanks again for all the responses and useful comments!