Guild Wars 2

Trying to decide between edge of the mist and eternal battlegrounds solely on reward track speed.

Any strategies are appreciated, ty.

I thought that eotm didn’t figure into any WvW rewards anymore…. ???

Once you ramp it up to the max amount, it doesn’t really matter. It’s all time based and you can complete a track in about 8 hours. That’s assuming they follow the same rate but I did hear somewhere the EoTM is slower.

Just find a big group in either map and contribute. You will get up to max points per tick every 5 minutes, and from there … it’s just spend 8.5 hours in wvw. You can spread it across days and weekends, or knock it all out on a day off. To avoid any burnout I suggest spreading it out over a short period of time that works within your schedule.

Easiest things to do while en route, that commanders may not stop for … sentries, escorting dolyaks (at least close to the keep) … repairing a damaged wall ensures points per tick, and of course… capping the larger objectives with the group – like towers and such.

I’ll give an example … if your team is in EBG and they are taking ANZ (tower), drop your supply on the siege and run over to the close by camp and cap that too – generally about 4-5 players dump there supply into siege prints and start heading over there anyway, by the time you return the gate should just be breaking open and you will make it in for the cap on the tower too. If you don’t want to venture that far, just keep your eye out for sentries while you run.

This works for almost every tower on every map. Some have a sentry between you and the camp.

The easiest of course will always be where the largest groups are running and capping.

Thanks for the responses. I did it yesterday in one long go. Seemed reasonable until around the 6 hour mark. 8 1/2 just too long imo. But its done so gg

The “outnumbered” buff adds 50% participation gain and can usually be found on one of your enemy BL’s. Just roam and flip camps/sentries or towers if you can find a few more people.

Do the WvW daily. Each daily gives you a potion of WvW rewards, which gives you 250 points for the reward track. You can do 4 WvW dailies per day, thats 1000 points per day. A lot of them can be done solo really fast.

When I remember correctly the maximum-points-per-tick is 195 in external battleground and the home borders which is higher than in the Edge of the Mists.

Cap camps/towser etc. as fast as you can to reach the maximum 195 points per tick. It helps to be in a group that caps larger items (they give more), or be on a maps with the ountnumbered buff, or if your guild has the "Guild WvW Reward Track Boost "

If you then have the maximum of 195, it gives you 195 point every 5 minutes at the tick, you just have to stay on the map and participate a little because if you are 10 minutes inactive, the point-per-ticks will decrease.

You can switch maps and even leave WvW without loosing your points-per-tick (but the 10 minute timer is still active) but you have to be on a WvW map at the tick to advance your reward track.

So, if you have 195 points-per-tick and you play in primetime and your map has waiting queues, help and do what the commanders say. If you are playing off-peak and others do not need your help, just escort or kill a dolyak, or turn a camp, every 5-8 minutes.

Get up to the 195 participation level then you can spend it standing at garri “scouting” the south capping a ruin every 5 mins to maintain participation. The irony is that you can pretty much go and watch something on another monitor and you’re still being useful if you keep an eye on south garri.