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I need the Gift of Battle for my legendary weapon, but I'm awful at PvP type of content. What are some good ways of gaining participation points whilst avoiding contact with other players? Someone made a video about repairing walls in keeps and castles, which is great IF your team has keeps and castle that need to be repaired. I watched another video about about killing Veteran mobs as a way of gaining participation points, but I can't find the video atm. I know about killing sentries and caravans and stuff like that, but is there anything else?

EDIT: Wow! Just took me about an hour to get 330 points! At that rate it would take me 12 days at 5 hours a day to get to 20,000! :.(EDIT #2: Thanks for all your suggestions, guys!EDIT #2.5: I keep getting sent to the smallest, most unpopulated areas! My team will have 2 sectors under their control and 'Team Green' will have 15 sectors under their control. And I never get attacked by one other guy, it's always 2-3 others against me...on one occasion I was attacked by 5 guys! So brave. :PEDIT #3: I will never undertake anything that has the word 'collection' attached to it ever again!!

Update: Thanks to you guys I got the Gift of Battle! Thanks again for sharing your experience and wisdom!

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Flip camps, sentries and yaks. Check the map and hover over camp icons for RI timers. Kill tower guards, especially in the south as those flip a lot. West and east keep guards too if they are t0 or t1. The reason to kill those guards is because your server might flip them and you will get credit.

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@GW Noob.6038 said:I need the Gift of Battle for my legendary weapon, but I'm awful at PvP type of content. What are some good ways of gaining participation points whilst avoiding contact with other players? Someone made a video about repairing walls in keeps and castles, which is great IF your team has keeps and castle that need to be repaired. I watched another video about about killing Veteran mobs as a way of gaining participation points, but I can't find the video atm. I know about killing sentries and caravans and stuff like that, but is there anything else?

Contact as in enemies or contact meaning enemies and allies? If the former, then look for a roaming party or join a roamer as they typically work by travelling the backends. Pending on what server you are on, the group of awesome fam I run with would be more than happy to help.

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Get your participation up to T6 and then do things on the maps to refresh the decay timer. The best use of your time is so do things that refresh the timer by the full amount (10 min) such as flipping camps.

There are others but flipping is probably the best if solo and if you want to avoid fighting others. Some advice is to never kill the guards if the veteran supervisor’s invulnerability timer is greater that 2 minutes as you risk the guards respawning. I also highly suggest not aggroing any of the guards until the invulnerability timer is gone otherwise the objective will show up contested on the map and attract enemy roamers. I also suggest learning where to fight the guards to ball them up so you can quickly burst them down. Typically you want to be already capping the camp when it shows up as contested.

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Here is what I do I load up on boosters that work in WvW https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World_Experience#WXP_modifiers

Things to note:1)Use a Birthday Booster it gives 10% bonus to your reward track2)If you can get a Candy Corn Gobbler and keep using it till you get the Experience Booster from it. It is random but every time you get the XP Booster it will give you another 7 minutes of its effect and it does stack. This will give you 50% bonus to your reward track. *Make sure to use the gobbler when you are in a WvW map because it rules out 3 of the possible 6 boosters you can get from it because they are not allowed in wvw. So you have a better chance of getting the XP boost.3)Use a Guild WvW Reward Track Boost from your guild hall. This can give you a possible 10% boost to your reward track if the guild your in has it maxed out.

Then just stay active doing things said above. You will have your GoB in not time. I complete a reward track each night doing what I just listed.

See you on the battlefield my friend. Also don't take death to seriously it really is no big deal. Have fun out there!

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Just flip the camps nearest your team's spawn on opposing BL. 9 times out of 10 there will be teammates with you and no other enemies. If it is just you, fighting the camp guards is easy pve anyways. If an opponent comes and you die? So what? what exactly are you afraid of?

Veteran creatures are also nearby your spawn and are pure pve.

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@"Excursion.9752" said:Here is what I do I load up on boosters that work in WvW https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World_Experience#WXP_modifiers

Things to note:1)Use a Birthday Booster it gives 10% bonus to your reward track2)If you can get a Candy Corn Gobbler and keep using it till you get the Experience Booster from it. It is random but every time you get the XP Booster it will give you another 7 minutes of its effect and it does stack. This will give you 50% bonus to your reward track. *Make sure to use the gobbler when you are in a WvW map because it rules out 3 of the possible 6 boosters you can get from it because they are not allowed in wvw. So you have a better chance of getting the XP boost.3)Use a Guild WvW Reward Track Boost from your guild hall. This can give you a possible 10% boost to your reward track if the guild your in has it maxed out.

Then just stay active doing things said above. You will have your GoB in not time. I complete a reward track each night doing what I just listed.

See you on the battlefield my friend. Also don't take death to seriously it really is no big deal. Have fun out there!

Can't beleive I forgot about my collection of boosters...thanks for reminding me! The way the wiki reads, all these different boosters will stack?

28 EXP boosters (+ 50% WvW reward track)16 Celebration boosters (+10% WvW reward track)18 Heroic boosters (+ 50% WvW reward track)7 Black Lion boosters (+ 25% WvW reward track)

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@"GW Noob.6038" said:EDIT #3: I will never undertake anything that has the word 'collection' attached to it ever again!!

Errr... WvW is fairly simple, once you get the hang of it. Find your server's TeamSpeak or Discord, connect, join a squad, have fun. It helps to get decent WvW equipment, exotics should do for someone who doesn't intend to play the content frequently.

The Gift of Battle can be obtained in one session (i.e., one afternoon/evening of playing WvW, I suggest the weekend).

@"GW Noob.6038" said:The way the wiki reads, all these different boosters will stack?

Not that I know of.

Edit: "Any number of boosters of different types may be consumed together and their effects will all be active."(Source: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Booster)

So no, several XP boosts or several Reward Track boni can't stack.

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@GW Noob.6038 said:

@"Excursion.9752" said:Here is what I do I load up on boosters that work in WvW

Things to note:1)Use a
it gives 10% bonus to your reward track2)If you can get a
and keep using it till you get the
from it. It is random but every time you get the XP Booster it will give you another 7 minutes of its effect and it does stack. This will give you 50% bonus to your reward track. *Make sure to use the gobbler when you are in a WvW map because it rules out 3 of the possible 6 boosters you can get from it because they are not allowed in wvw. So you have a better chance of getting the XP boost.3)Use a
from your guild hall. This can give you a possible 10% boost to your reward track if the guild your in has it maxed out.

Then just stay active doing things said above. You will have your GoB in not time. I complete a reward track each night doing what I just listed.

See you on the battlefield my friend. Also don't take death to seriously it really is no big deal. Have fun out there!

Can't beleive I forgot about my collection of boosters...thanks for reminding me! The way the wiki reads, all these different boosters will stack?

28 EXP boosters (+ 50% WvW reward track)16 Celebration boosters (+10% WvW reward track)18 Heroic boosters (+ 50% WvW reward track)7 Black Lion boosters (+ 25% WvW reward track)

Yep...all from different sources

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You don't really need to be any good in pvp to participate in WvW. Repairing, flipping camps and sentries, killing guards and any other solo stuff will get you in more 1 vs X pvp situations and is painfully slow and much more scary for a new player that doesn't like pvp. Running with commander and other players will get you much more participation and there is safety in numbers. You don't need to be in a squad if you don't like to interact or expect abuse (which doesn't really happen in my experience so I would definitely encourage to join, many don't require TS if you don't like that). Just stay with the group, tag enemies and stand in circles when they flip stuff. You will also finish dailies without even trying.

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@Bigpapasmurf.5623 said:

@"Excursion.9752" said:Here is what I do I load up on boosters that work in WvW

Things to note:1)Use a
it gives 10% bonus to your reward track2)If you can get a
and keep using it till you get the
from it. It is random but every time you get the XP Booster it will give you another 7 minutes of its effect and it does stack. This will give you 50% bonus to your reward track. *Make sure to use the gobbler when you are in a WvW map because it rules out 3 of the possible 6 boosters you can get from it because they are not allowed in wvw. So you have a better chance of getting the XP boost.3)Use a
from your guild hall. This can give you a possible 10% boost to your reward track if the guild your in has it maxed out.

Then just stay active doing things said above. You will have your GoB in not time. I complete a reward track each night doing what I just listed.

See you on the battlefield my friend. Also don't take death to seriously it really is no big deal. Have fun out there!

Can't beleive I forgot about my collection of boosters...thanks for reminding me! The way the wiki reads, all these different boosters will stack?

28 EXP boosters (+ 50% WvW reward track)16 Celebration boosters (+10% WvW reward track)18 Heroic boosters (+ 50% WvW reward track)7 Black Lion boosters (+ 25% WvW reward track)

Yep...all from different sources

I found out something: The effects of the boosters will stack, but only if they're different from the ones you have active already. For example: if you have an EXP booster going and you activate a Heroic booster you won't get the exp boost because they're both 50%, but you'll get everything else - including double activation time. Now, if you activate a Celebration booster you'll get an extra 10% exp boost in addition to the 50% from the EXP booster.

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@Bigpapasmurf.5623 said:

@GW Noob.6038 said:I need the Gift of Battle for my legendary weapon, but I'm awful at PvP type of content. What are some good ways of gaining participation points whilst avoiding contact with other players? Someone made a video about repairing walls in keeps and castles, which is great IF your team has keeps and castle that need to be repaired. I watched another video about about killing Veteran mobs as a way of gaining participation points, but I can't find the video atm. I know about killing sentries and caravans and stuff like that, but is there anything else?

Contact as in enemies or contact meaning enemies and allies? If the former, then look for a roaming party or join a roamer as they typically work by travelling the backends. Pending on what server you are on, the group of awesome fam I run with would be more than happy to help.

I'm on the NA server 'Sanctum of Rall'.

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@GW Noob.6038 said:

@GW Noob.6038 said:I need the Gift of Battle for my legendary weapon, but I'm awful at PvP type of content. What are some good ways of gaining participation points whilst avoiding contact with other players? Someone made a video about repairing walls in keeps and castles, which is great IF your team has keeps and castle that need to be repaired. I watched another video about about killing Veteran mobs as a way of gaining participation points, but I can't find the video atm. I know about killing sentries and caravans and stuff like that, but is there anything else?

Contact as in enemies or contact meaning enemies and allies? If the former, then look for a roaming party or join a roamer as they typically work by travelling the backends. Pending on what server you are on, the group of awesome fam I run with would be more than happy to help.

I'm on the NA server 'Sanctum of Rall'.

Not vs ya atm, however I will hit ya up when we are...even if we are enemies, we can help escort ya and fend off any of the 3rd server together.

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I came up with a process that was so effective that... I actually stopped doing it. I wanted to play WvW for real with extended periods of time, and doing this method got me gifts of battle faster than gifts of exploration. It's a three step process:

(1): Do your standard PVE stuff for the day. HoT Maps. PoF Maps, Fractals, Dungeon Runs, just whatever. Enough so that you've gathered an extremely large cache of miscellaneous items that would take an hour to sell.

(2): Do the simple WvW dailies. By simple I mean stuff that you can complete that doesn't involve fighting another player. Basically, anything other than defender killer, keep capturer, location defender, etc. You can even take a tower solo/duo if you're not fighting BG this week. By doing this, you get your participation up. You can find out how much "participation" you have by scrolling over the little icon on top of the map window. Here, you will get your rank (goes up to tier 6), the participation bar, and when you'll get the next wave of progress and awards. If you don't get this maxed out from dailies, run around the map killing sentries and swapping camps, maybe helping another person take a tower they're doing it.

(3): O.K. Once you have t6 participation, you'll want to go to an enemy borderlands. Whichever one is the least active. Then, fill your inventory full of all the stuff you want to sell. Then, with the trading post window open, you'll want to start selling stuff. If your bar is about to get below tier 6, run out and take a camp/kill a sentry if you want. If you're particularly skilled, you can sell stuff while running around the map in circles, taking and killing stuff. Once you're done selling stuff, just sit at the BL entry point until the progress bar ticks down, and then you're done for the day.

Just repeat this process each day, and you'll have the Gift of Battle before you know it. Now, a lot of people will hate me for explaining this, but here's how it all works. In WvW, there's multiple kinds of experience:

Leveling ExperienceWvW Rank ExperienceSkirmish ChestsReward Track Experience

Each of these is gained in different ways. The important one here is Reward Track Experience. See, this kind isn't earned by killing other players, or repairing walls, or taking camps. At least, not directly. The Reward Track goes up from drinking the potions awarded from doing the dailies, and it also goes up every 5 minutes when participation is given out. This means that, once you've got your participation bar up, you get reward track experience for effectively doing nothing. So long as you do something occasionally, you're getting progress.

This is where it helps to be the king of multi-tasking. Doing all of my merching while running around the borderland is my method, but you can effectively do anything.

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