Guild Wars 2

Let me preface by saying I hate PvP, in any sense or form.

So recently I got a lot of gold off an item and I bought a precusor. This is my first ever so I’m excited to make it. I have over 75% of the Been There, Done That achievement done, but I’ve hit a wall. Some guildies informed me that WvW would be the hardest to map, and by Grenth they were right. I was able to do my severs Borderland just fine, but how in the hell am I supposed to get the PoI and Vistas in the other forts? I’m on Darkhaven, so Rall eats us and Gates of Madness alive.

Really, all I’m asking is for any helpful tips or advice or anything. I don’t know anything about WvW and I really don’t want to deal with it more than I have to.

Easiest way is to wait for your server to change colours.
There is a tournament coming up in a few weeks that will allow that to happen more often.

Transfer is the easy but expensive option. Wait for the RNG to flip colors is the cheap but time consuming option.

You can start by not treating WvW as the solo exercise that PvE is.

Go into WvW during prime time (for your server) and join one of the WvW-centric guilds. Since you can be in five guilds simultaneously, this shouldn’t negatively impact your game at all.

Rolling with a WvW guild will definitely give you access to objectives of other colours. But do try to not be the kind of selfish user that that pops on to a map and says “Can we take ____?” when nobody knows you – it takes a group of people to take things in WvW, and you showing up as a tourist to see the sights and then leave forever isn’t going to dispose anybody to drop what they’re doing to help you.

So join them and contribute. If you find the group you’re in is close to a place you need, go ahead and suggest it. Give and take, right?

Rimmy.9217:

You can start by not treating WvW as the solo exercise that PvE is.

Go into WvW during prime time (for your server) and join one of the WvW-centric guilds. Since you can be in five guilds simultaneously, this shouldn’t negatively impact your game at all.

Rolling with a WvW guild will definitely give you access to objectives of other colours. But do try to not be the kind of selfish user that that pops on to a map and says “Can we take ____?” when nobody knows you – it takes a group of people to take things in WvW, and you showing up as a tourist to see the sights and then leave forever isn’t going to dispose anybody to drop what they’re doing to help you.

So join them and contribute. If you find the group you’re in is close to a place you need, go ahead and suggest it. Give and take, right?

+100000000

as a commander, when a player comes in and asks something like, “can we take green keep?” i almost always /ignore them because they dont want to meaningfully contribute to WvW, they just want their Poi/vista and to get out, and I will not help them if it puts the zerg at un-necessary risk.

You are in T6, I bet there aren’t many people playing in T6 at night nor in the early morning.

Get 5 people (at best who knows more about WvW than you) and 2 golem per map meet at 3am and get all you need. And as everyone is sleeping it will be only PvE (or PvDoor)

Maybe you can even do it alone, you don’t have to cap the keeps/towers to get the poi’s and vista’s.

Dayra.7405:

You are in T6, I bet there aren’t many people playing in T6 at night nor in the early morning.

Get 5 people (at best who knows more about WvW than you) and 2 golem per map meet at 3am and get all you need. And as everyone is sleeping it will be only PvE (or PvDoor)

Maybe you can even do it alone, you don’t have to cap the keeps/towers to get the poi’s and vista’s.

Again, showing your ignorance of NA bronze tiers.

Yes I am ignorant of NA-Bronze, that’s why I only placed a bet. I play in EU gold. Even there it mostly works (garrison and EB keep will be rather impossible, and I would use catas at bay/hill to avoid the guards) in the early morning. You just have the risk of being overrolled from time to time by some 30+ group.

I’d recommend trying your hand at WvW rather than writing it off as something you’d not be interested in straight off the bat. The easiest way to get your cap points is to just play and roll with some decent groups. Trying to join a WvW-focused guild is a viable option, but don’t expect them to focus on your own goals right away.

I was a player who only entered WvW for my map completion with the full intention of not really returning too much once upon a time. I just rolled with the zerg and picked up my vistas/POIs along the way, whilst learning the WvW side of the game at the same time. As I did the latter, I got more and more into it. These days, most of my play time is spent in WvW and I’m a core member of a WvW guild.

So, who knows. You might even enjoy it and come back after you’ve got your gold star.

I think I can’t understand your “thinking perspective”.
Actually “Been There, Done That” is a Tag that means you have been in every aspect of game and you have Done every kind of style of it. WvW includes it! If you don’t do it properly, you can’t say “Been There, Done That”… (: