Guild Wars 2

It’s about time I started to work on my map completion and my first legendaries, I thought exploring WvW map would just be like PVE maps, so I left WvW maps for last. Now that I’m in, I find it exceedingly daunting.

I’m playing on Sanctum of Rall and currently I have our home borderlands and Devona’s rest borderlands 100% completed, leaving me with the eternal battleground and Anvil’s Rock borderlands. Right now, Anvil’s Rock is dominating and they are occupying the entire eternal battleground and their homeworld.

Are there any ways around it? Can I guesting to Anvil rock or are there ways to sneaking into the the tower’s and castle solo? I don’t care for much about participating in WvW, I just want my gift of exploration and be on my way.

You can’t guest to another server’s WvW or enter an objective without taking it. However, match-ups change every Friday evening so you aren’t always playing against the same servers and as the same colour.

Just check the WvW maps regularly, it may take several weeks but it’s really nowhere near as difficult as getting the rest of the legendary. Your server is ranked quite low, but so are the opposing servers, so you’ll get a lot of variation in the match-ups.

Buy gems and transfer to T1. It’s the meta solution to all of WvW problems.

Guide for WvW map completion

Method 1: (only for active servers)
actively follow the commander around the map as they take things

Method 2: (any server)
transfer to an active server and follow method 1

Method 3: (most popular method for lower tier servers)
Run to objectives on reset night to get exploration quickly (before your server loses things). WvW matchup resets 1 hour and ~5 minutes after the daily reset on Friday night (currently 5:05 PM PST)
When the matchup resets, your server has a claim over all the keeps and towers in their Borderland and the keep and 4 towers for your corner in Eternal Battlegrounds.

When reset occurs go to your BL and run like crazy (bring swiftness!) to the 2 souternmost keeps (Bay and Hills) get all the POIs and vistas there. Then move north from them visiting towers, camps, and the garrison. You should have the 3 keeps and all the towers and camps north of Bay/Hills (dont worry if it takes more than 1 week). If your server still has stuff in EB, then go there and pick up your keep, 4 towers and the 2 camps on your side (will likely need more than one week for this and BL). to get the stuff in the south, you have to wait until your color is NOT the same as the BL (go to BLs that are “not your server name borderlands”)(unless you are really fast and can get to that southernmost tower before the enemy gets it). You will need 4 friends. You can activate the commander NPC (seigerazor/siegecrusher) if he is there. He will help you take the tower closest to your spawn. You can also take the 2 camps nearest to your spawn and get the south skill point/vistas.

Stonemist Castle will probably be your biggest issue if your world never takes it. The best way i can see to do it is to follow an enemy zerg into it (be careful they will see you as an easy target). Stealth is your best friend (if youre a mes or thief just equip your stealths and carefully fun around the perimiter picking up the POIs, otherwise bring a freind who can stealth you). You have to follow your enemy through the inner gate as well in order to get the skill point (this should be done after most of them leave).

Tips:
*Be patient, this is a PvP map and it might take some time to do if your server has 0 presence
*Always avoid enemies when you can. Anyone that sees you will tell their 50 “freinds” in map chat and generally try to engage you
*Stealth, speed boosts, and even invulnerability skills are very helpful
*non-peak times can also be helpful if you are against servers where people actually get some sleep

Good Luck with your exploration

Dude, I feel your pain, the first time I did it I didn’t know anything about wvw. I waited 4 weeks for 1 Vista and a poi in 1 of the garrisons. 4 WEEKS! during what I’d learn later was a 13 week matchup with us (SF) and FC. I’ve done it twice more on that account, but am now working on the first world completion on my second account. It’s still SF and it’s even worse than the first go around.

If you like your server, get to know wvw, find a commander you like and stick with them. Or transfer, but, know that it won’t necessarily be easier on another server.

It could be worse – you could be in T3 where the dominating server (varies each week) controls 2/3 of your borderlands, EB and the third enemy’s borderlands =P

although, i think Gobble D Goop has the right suggestions for you, i’m just being cheeky.

SoR actually has a pretty good chance for world completion right now, as you’re likely to bounce through tier 7 and 8, so you get a good variation of colors, and some weeks where you can dominate certain time zones.

Also, Both night capping and follow along the GSCH main zerg in prime time works, both should get you just about everything in a couple of weeks. And that is actually quite a short time for world completion in WvW for most.

This topic again…if you start thinking of doing world completion, make sure you start on wvw right away, as has been said many many times before, it can take weeks to get everything.

Loosmaster.8263:

Buy gems and transfer to T1. It’s the meta solution to all of WvW problems.

You’ll have less chance of getting map completion in T1 than in T8. It’s actually easiest to complete in T8 as you can get your PvE guild, if it’s large enough, get on the map you need completion on, and completely take it over if you have a decent amount of people. If that happens in T2 or T1, you’ll simply get farmed for loot bags while you try to run around taking points.

SoR is taking 2nd most likely, which increases our chances of rolling blue next week. We did have a huge brawl this weekend and took Valley keep a few times, it just happens, we cant schedule it.

GSCH rarely steps foot in EBG, you should add me to your friends list and look for me in EBG this friday. Be prepared to fight and maybe spend a few hours with us, also download teamspeak. it will greatly enhance your wvw experience and you might even discover why we luv it so much.

Anet intended that you have to actively participate on all aspects of the game including WvW to have a legendary, You are not worthy of a legendary of you don’t. hahaha

But seriously, transferring or wait for a good match up roll that could take months are your options

I’m starting to think we should beg the mods for a sticky on how to get map completion in WvW, and the time frame it requires. (This has probably been suggestion thirteen brillion times before.)

joneirikb.7506:

I’m starting to think we should beg the mods for a sticky on how to get map completion in WvW, and the time frame it requires. (This has probably been suggestion thirteen brillion times before.)

Good suggestion.

On a different note, I dont see the use of completing all of the BL maps seperatly. They are just copies, why not make one enough. Nobody likes Wvw map completers, not the WvW players and not the Pve players.

Tom Gore.4035:

joneirikb.7506:

I’m starting to think we should beg the mods for a sticky on how to get map completion in WvW, and the time frame it requires. (This has probably been suggestion thirteen brillion times before.)

Good suggestion.

i can start a topic with my guide at the top if it helps

Reverence.6915:

Loosmaster.8263:

Buy gems and transfer to T1. It’s the meta solution to all of WvW problems.

You’ll have less chance of getting map completion in T1 than in T8. It’s actually easiest to complete in T8 as you can get your PvE guild, if it’s large enough, get on the map you need completion on, and completely take it over if you have a decent amount of people. If that happens in T2 or T1, you’ll simply get farmed for loot bags while you try to run around taking points.

Yeah… no. Their PvE guild would need to be massive to do this even in the lower tiers. As it is right now SoR runs an event every night to bring in their PvE players and they will have us outnumbered for a couple hours until the event ends and we farm the hell out of them during the events. PvE players can’t even blob properly, we can easily spread them out by giving a couple roamers to chase and if we push them they scatter and run.

The only thing I’d add here that hasn’t already been said is: when your server owns something, log in with all of your toons and do the map completion one after another.

It’s way less tedious than trying to get it in the future and having to wait, so do them all now.

I’m still not sure why PVE-ers have to 100% all the WvW maps (three of which are the exact same map :|) for their completion achievement. They should just separate them and make two achievements (assuming that the WvW players even care enough to have one for themselves), one for WvW and another for PVE. That way — as a PVE/SPVP player — I won’t have to take up a slot in the WvW lobby when I have no intention of running with the zerg. Not to mention that it’d just save every PVE-er from the frustration that is being ganked when you’re minding your own business, wandering from POI to Vista to POI and have no desire to fight someone.

Honestly, it’s pretty much a win-win for everyone.

But yeah, if you’re struggling, you’ve pretty much just gotta wait for your server to be pitted against a lower tier “underdog” server (sorta) or follow the WvW zerg until you get to your destination. With how WvW is, your zerg will probably steamroll through the PoIs you need! Though don’t expect them to stop for you, so… you know, be ready to apply swiftness and catch the kitten up.

EDIT: Apologies for bumping. I’m not sure it’s actually a crime to do so (since if no one shows interest, it’ll be buried within a day or two), but I feel obligated to apologize and acknowledge that I have bumped a thread in my sleepiness. My brain literally looked at the override button and mindlessly checked it. :|

Wouldn’t be opposed of having two separate achievements, both giving one gift of exploration (so you could still do both achies for 2 of them) and a unique title for each.

Actually, that’s a pretty awesome idea.

thorsonwong.2805:

I’m still not sure why PVE-ers have to 100% all the WvW maps (three of which are the exact same map :|) for their completion achievement. They should just separate them and make two achievements (assuming that the WvW players even care enough to have one for themselves), one for WvW and another for PVE. That way — as a PVE/SPVP player — I won’t have to take up a slot in the WvW lobby when I have no intention of running with the zerg. Not to mention that it’d just save every PVE-er from the frustration that is being ganked when you’re minding your own business, wandering from POI to Vista to POI and have no desire to fight someone.

There is no such thing as PvE-ers or WvW-ers or PvP-ers, there are only Play-ers. If your trying to get POI solo, your tieing your own hands. Ask the map for help. Generally they are more then happy to aid you where they can.

coglin.1867:

There is no such thing as PvE-ers or WvW-ers or PvP-ers, there are only Play-ers. If your trying to get POI solo, your tieing your own hands. Ask the map for help. Generally they are more then happy to aid you where they can.

Although a player that nobody knows showing up on a map and imploring people in /m to “attack (T3 enemy-held keep while outnumbered buff is showing)” is not going to make people drop what they’re doing and rush to make it happen.

If there is a commander tag showing, you join and contribute, and ask for it. Since it uses other people’s time and expertise, you can’t just expect them to do it for you immediately.

thorsonwong.2805:

EDIT: Apologies for bumping. I’m not sure it’s actually a crime to do so (since if no one shows interest, it’ll be buried within a day or two), but I feel obligated to apologize and acknowledge that I have bumped a thread in my sleepiness. My brain literally looked at the override button and mindlessly checked it. :|

Hilariously, it was almost against the rules of the WvW forum, you were one day early.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/A-Note-on-Necroposting-don-t-do-it/first

coglin.1867:

There is no such thing as PvE-ers or WvW-ers or PvP-ers, there are only Play-ers. If your trying to get POI solo, your tieing your own hands. Ask the map for help. Generally they are more then happy to aid you where they can.

There is most certainly a thing as PvE-ers/WvW-ers/PvP-ers. I know plenty of people that would never touch WvW in their lifetime, both PVP/PVE players alike. And they exist in troves in the GW2 community. Some people want a more casual experience, so they stick with open world content (a la events/world completion), others want dungeons, some prefer only WvW, and some just want to write their character’s lives in Tyria as an RPer. To lump us all in one massive group is a disservice to our diversity as a community.

And to paraphrase what (to my understanding/interpretation) someone else said; getting people to help you in the Eternal Battlegrounds (or any BG, assuming that it’s mildly busy) isn’t as easy as a quick “Hey, PvE player here! Could we redirect the zerg over to that keep? I need the SP that’s there. Thanks!” If the achievement was made separate for PvE/PvP (or in this case, WvW) this would be a non-issue. And as a person who knows nothing about code, I can’t say for certain, but I doubt it’s outrageously hard to do this, anywho. At least not for someone with a mild bit of experience in that field of work.

Also…

Kaos.9162:

Hilariously, it was almost against the rules of the WvW forum, you were one day early.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/A-Note-on-Necroposting-don-t-do-it/first

…That needs to be sticky’d! As someone who is completely new to the forum scene (and the GW2 forums, especially), I was completely unaware of this.

Actually that thread used to be stickied a month or two back, but they seem to have cleaned up the stickies a bit again. Would also still love a "Map Completion" sticky as well, it gets asked almost every second day.

:D
Never leave wvw map comp for last