Guild Wars 2

ok I mentioned this before, about the issue with leveling in WvW.

well lets take my current situation.
Iam trying to level through WvW, since Anet says its visible. Level 9, been here for a hour.

I will attach a pic of what we done in terms of map control.

Now whats going on,,,

Well in the current Borderland (which I am in since other WvWs are full)

I notice my server is getting double teamed by the other two servers, and we are pretty much camped at starter base. other waypoint we have is contested.

now how do a level 9 character like mine level in this situation? We cant seem to capture anything, and killing doesnt seem to reward much at all.
So what do we do to level in WvWi in this situation?

You can level through defense.. events pop during defense. just hold the tower and you will get xp

The map doesn’t look one-sided at all and there are at least 4 battles you can join in on when you took that screenie.

I can understand how you’re spoilt for choice

right now since that photo we only took 2 places. a nearby tower and a supply camp. we greatly outnumbered but no buff.

I decided to simply log. isnt fun nor worth the time.

Was wondering how we lost that Orb

Gates of Madness should just sit on the sideline without their hacker getting them the orbs they are useless.

It’s all about killing the veterans that sit in the middle of the roads, and killing supply dovaks. They are easy kills that can be done with a small group, and are generally not defended much, even less so if the enemy team is over confident. Gorilla tactics are your best friend to be honest. It’s not about taking over that enemy keep with 10 billion trebuchets around it. It’s about taking out supply camps.

You can also look for the PvE events that take place near the corners of the map.

You level fast in WvW if you participate.

Take a keep/tower, defend a keep/tower, take supply camp, kill dolyaks, kill veterans and flip control points.

You do not need to a) outnumber the enemy or b) own the map to do any of the things. You will properly need a bit of coordination or a at least a small team willing to do things though.
You might die (often) but you’ll level and learn at the same time.

DEFENSE IS THE BEST XP! (and karma and money)

The defense event cycles. Every cycle, the enemy must do damage to a gate or wall and you must either help kill 1 enemy or you must repair something.

If this condition is met, you will get at least a bronze for that defense tick.

In a nasty defense where your team is barely holding out, you get tick after tick after tick of XP. It’s actually the #1 way to level. Faster than PvE. Faster than offense. If you could arrange this condition to happen all the time, you’d be level 80 in a few days.

What actually is terrible for XP is to be on the other side of this fight — attacking a defended enemy keep where you just can’t quite seal the deal. There’s very little XP for banging on walls or killing defenders. Offense MUST capture the structure to get mission success rewards.

So it’s an interesting dynamic. Offense wants to cap-cap-cap-cap as fast as possible. Defense wants to find one good place to make a stand and do so, preferably for several hours.

yeh i like how the wvwvw xp gain works; Skirmishes dont really get you a lot, even single kills are not worth it, which means there are fewer gank groups than say in Warhammer Online, where you can get more for killing a single player than an entire keep take.

In GW2, this isnt the case. Sneak around, find a Dollyak, kill it, run off and hide. rinse and repeat. We were doing that the other night and got some great xp right out from under HoD’s nose.

Often, following the zerg isnt the best way to lvl, those guys camping your spawn are lvling real slowly. There is usually more than one way out of a spawn, find it and go gank a dollyak or two