Guild Wars 2

I’m kind of a newb. Does this help my server? Will I get Pips.

And does just killing the local wildlife help with pips or otherwise?

It does not help your server win. It does progress your participation track but does not help your server winner. If you are a roamer and want to take a defended North camp you can delaying and flipping centaurs/skritt. This will be long enough to make some defenders bored into leaving North camp undefended. This is how I have flipped some t3 north camps solo before.

It’s ok to give away all the secrets when you’re a plat I suppose. It’s not like some of us lowly golds wanted to be able to use that shortcut a couple of weeks longer before the zergs added it to their patrol route.