Marky.3756

Just to add to this, as I wanted to scratch my jp itch just now and ran some random jp's I could think up, the same thing happened to me. Kinda disappointing when you're looking forward to it 😅

I faced a similar situation a little over a year ago when working on my first legendary, so here's some things that helped me quite a lot. Take this with a pinch of salt, I'm by no means an expert, but I since farmed 4 Gifts so I must be doing something right 😅 There's two major playstyles you can do in wvw casually: roaming or following tag. Following tag, if one is up, is you just joining a commander on any map and going by their lead (keep in mind, some of them are organised groups that use discord), and roaming is you hopping from camp to camp either solo or in a small group and flip things, kill guards, etc. Personally, I prefer roaming for getting progress towards the Gift, just because it is slightly more flexible. If you roam, to begin with, stick to the camps closest to your realm's homebase, as they tend to be fairly easy to flip, and if all of them are taken, switch maps to check the other ones too. Once you're more comfortable, and depending on your build, you can move deeper into enemy territory and flip camps/do things there. Depending on what you go with, but assuming you'll roam, find a good roaming build on any major build site for the profession you enjoy. Some professions are obviously better at this, but for casual Gift farming it isn't a huge deal. Get some boosters, food, enrichments. I used the birthday booster, xp booster and the black lion booster, some food for stats, as well as the WvW Reward Track Enrichment This is important: ALWAYS DO SOMETHING! As you increase your participation through a variety of different activites on any map, you'll increase the amount of progress you make towards the gift with each "tick" (every 5 minutes, you'll progress on your selected track depending on participation), but if you stand around for too long doing nothing, you'll lose participation again, thereby lowering your progress each tick. OPTIONAL: I'd highly suggest to put the gift of battle reward track on hold first, and work on the Warclaw mount reward track first. It's a huge gamechanger, and is worth the minor detour for the quality of life you'll gain from it in the long term. It took me an average of 4-6 hours of playtime for each Gift (these don't need to be in one go, and can be spread out). Also, ending on a word of encouragement: I am not a fan of pvp whatsoever, in any game (mostly because if I engage in combat with another player my brain goes into full blown panic and I just randomly mash buttons), so was dreading getting the gift massively and put it off for way too long, but was pleasantly surprised about how realtively effortless it is to get, and how little direct pvp there is if you're roaming and flipping camps. Hope this helps, and good luck! ❤️ Quick post edit: Actually let me add one more thing, if you just so happen to be on Underworld (EU), and wanted to group up to get started let me know. I don't actually need any Gifts at the moment, so don't have any real plans to head back to WvW, but am happy to hop on and give a hand if needed 😁

Just adding my +1 here, hoping it helps in getting it resolved quicker. I'm also not able to salvage items received from the Aurora collections. Already reported as bug 🙂