Guild Wars 2

I just started WvW after about a year off. Decided to jump on the new legendary. Needed new mat, so off to WvW. I have no idea how to get them, so I check TP, yup they’re there and somewhat cheap so must be a common drop. However, after playing I am confused as to how to get them, so please help.

After a few hours of boring ol’ roaming (no commander on, so not many on map) I decided to check the wiki. OK, says Rank-Up chests, I had a few of those while playing and only 5 memory of battles so far. On the wiki, under acquisition though, it said WvW reward tracks. Hmmmmmm, that’s interesting, why the difference? So I click the link for Rank-Up chests and the wiki says it drops Proof of Heroics, and Tomes of Knowledge, but no Memory of Battle. There is no link for WvW reward track, because as I understand it, they are new and in “beta”.

So, how the heck do you get these things, Rank-up chests or Reward Track and how much of a grind am I facing, just better to buy off TP? Someone please enlighten me!

Buy them off the TP. I have a few thousand for sale there so I might be a bit biased.

OK so after doing some reading in patch notes – found nothing. Then did some reading on the wiki page history for Memory of Battle and apparently they were removed from rank-up chests (I know I haven’t received any from my 10 chests). As far as I can tell, you only get 15 per track and tracks are kinda slow unless you hit EotM train (which I thought they were trying to discourage that a year ago)

So can anyone confirm this? If so will that severely limit their availability? If I can get 3-4 rank levels during play, but maybe only 1-2 tiers for reward track that seems like a pretty big difference. Because before if they were “dropping like hotcakes” and now you get the 15/track (which I am sure has a daily cap) it seems battles aren’t so memorable now?