Guild Wars 2

There are quite a few people who don’t play WvW, but need a Gift of Battle (GoB) to build a legendary weapon. This post is intended to help Player vs. Environment (PvE) players obtain a GoB, but with limited risk.

Before you start, make sure you set the active track to Gift of Battle. The game chooses randomly if you don’t. (This is true once you attain a GoB as well, if you want to go for more of them.) See the wiki, or just click the third tab down on the “B” dialog.

The biggest risk in WvW for PvE players is other humans. Almost all humans are better than you will ever be, so just don’t try taking them on (unless your team has more humans than they have locally – but don’t count yourself). If you see a human player (signified by red colored names and a red, blue, or green triangle over their head), run away.

Two activities provide points without significant risk:

• The Big Spender reward is completely safe. You never leave the starting area.

• The Veteran Creature Slayer reward is mostly safe. You have to slay the veteran, of course, and occasionally you will see enemy humans. For the Veteran reward locations, check the wiki. Make sure you pick one of them that’s close to your waypoint in that zone. That makes human enemies less likely.

A little beyond that, but with more risk, are

• Land Claimer – kill one of those stand-alone guards signified by a flag symbol on the map, and stand in the circle to claim the land. (once)
• Camp Capturer – capture a “camp”, twice. Camps look like tents on the map; hover over them to be sure. And, don’t try to kill the supervisor until after he loses his invulnerability buff (last 5 minutes after the camp is captured).
• Master of Monuments – find your way to one of the monument locations and stand there for a minute. (once)
• Guard Killer – find and kill five guards. The guards at camps count for this purpose, as do the guard you need to kill for land claimer. So, you can double-up those rewards.
• Caravan Disrupter – kill a caravan. The ones standing in camps count, so you can double this up with Camp Capturer.

NOTE: These only progress the reward track for Gift of Battle if they’re part of the dailies, or if you stick around long enough to collect the points (or both).

You do know there is a sticky on this subject?

You forgot to mention boosters that makes it way faster.

Offair.2563:

You forgot to mention boosters that makes it way faster.

Also guild boost, but these are more useful when actively playing not just doing dailies and leaving.

I know this was meant to help, and maybe I am just a jerk? But this had me LMAO when I read it. People in my office now think I am crazy.

But really good list man. Very minimalist of you.

Malerian.8435:

I know this was meant to help, and maybe I am just a jerk? But this had me LMAO when I read it. People in my office now think I am crazy.

But really good list man. Very minimalist of you.

Thanks.

The other thread was how to get good at it. But, I didn’t want to get good at WvW. I just wanted to get GoB. I learned a few things, and for other PvE-only players, I thought they might want to know.

Me, I hate PvP .. but WvW is great.. Sure you can die to other players from time to time but come on.. what’s the fun in it if you don’t at least try. Doing a reward track in WvW takes hardly any skill.. just follow the commander around and do what they ask. and for god’s sake join their discord / teamspeak if they ask. No one likes typing out a Novel on what to do. More people on voice chat, everything goes smoothly.. and if you are wondering what class to bring.. can’t go wrong with a guardian.. metabattle has great builds you can work with!

I disagree any non-WvWers should be playing guardian because it requires timing of stability as well as much more awareness of positioning. I think it would be good advice to play a condi profession with dire / trailblazer’s armor and just join the main PUG zerg (i.e. necro or mesmer).

Unlike power professions, (ranged) condi is easier to play. Dodging bombs is no different than in PvE.

With a ranged power profession such as staff ele, even with marauder’s armor there’s less room for error ; if you put too many pieces of soldier’s you end up less potent than a condi class. Heralds with hammer are another easy option.

Daddicus.6128:

Two activities provide points without significant risk:

• The Big Spender reward is completely safe. You never leave the starting area.

• The Veteran Creature Slayer reward is mostly safe. You have to slay the veteran, of course, and occasionally you will see enemy humans. For the Veteran reward locations, check the wiki. Make sure you pick one of them that’s close to your waypoint in that zone. That makes human enemies less likely.

you forgot to mention what to buy on big spender, Full Soldiers exotics ftw
gives you time to run from enemy bursts

then when you survive you feel like your good then you take the higher risks

then when you tried the highers risks you want more than that

then you start killing enemies with your blob with your frontline ranger on full soldiers exotics and not dying from red circles

then you are officially a WvWer now
and welcome!

Don’t listen to these trolls
If you die in WvW you die in real life, avoid at all costs

LetoII.3782:

Don’t listen to these trolls
If you die in WvW you die in real life, avoid at all costs

Dont worry, there is a waypoint in the bathroom anyway.

I’d have put Master of Monuments as a low risk one like the veteran creature slayer. If a group of humans are trying to upgrade a tower or keep they will try to defend the camps, sentries and dolyaks that feed it.
Most decent players that see you are just trying to get your daily master of monuments won’t try to stop you. And if they do you can respawn and get a different ruin. The only exception to this would be if you are unlucky enough that 3 ruins are your colour and being held at the time. Then they will want to stop you as it can give everyone in your server Bordland Bloodlust and possibly take it away from theirs if they don’t.

Then even if you do get killed by an enemy, it is free to respawn in WvW and there is a repair anvil at spawn so getting killed by an enemy player isn’t a huge risk.