Silverwastes Shovel

[APrincessOfAlot.4735]

 Other than the Silverwastes Reward Track, is Silky Sand the only other way to obtain the shovels?

[DeanBB.4268]

Just running around doing events in SW will net you shovels.

[APrincessOfAlot.4735]

Thank you!!

[Sobx.1758]

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Silverwastes_Shovel#Acquisition

[Elricht Kaltwind.8796]

I've never done the reward track and I have more shovels lying around than I can shake a shovel at 😄 just from playing Silverwastes normally 

Edited February 1 by Elricht Kaltwind.8796

[ShadowCatz.8437]

3 hours ago, APrincessOfAlot.4735 said:

 Other than the Silverwastes Reward Track, is Silky Sand the only other way to obtain the shovels?

As a general rule: doing map meta will reward you what you need to unlock chests that you will need keys to open (Shovel work as a key here with some special tools to locate where those chests should be).

Meta for Silverwastes are called RIBA after those fortifications you need to defend before you get to final stage of map meta chain. Do this a couple of times and you should have enough shovel (or keys) to run a chest run in SW.

I would recommend to have at least a couple of other person to help you out while doing chest run in SW as it is very easy to draw aggro or getting attacked because of all events going on in SW while using Shovel which replace your normal weapon skills with new skills and you will lose that Shovel if you change back to your weapon skills to defend yourself.

That is why it is best to have other players to help out while you are searching and digging up chest, so you don't lose that shovel.

You see this explained in GW2 wiki about SW Shovel.

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Notes

Anomaly:

The shovel is consumed when equipped instead of when a chest is successfully discovered, and unequipping it does not reimburse the item. Because of this, it is possible to lose all shovels without actually discovering any chests.

• Once equipped they must be used or dropped before the player can use their 1-5 skills. They cannot be returned to inventory.
• If not used, a shovel will expire in a few minutes.
• Usually, the shovel will be consumed (broken) on "digging"—but will not "break" when used to "search" (sonar).

Reward tracks (I would think you talk about WvW or PvP) can also reward map items depending on which track you pick, but it isn't a replacement for running PvE meta if you really need items from map related chests.

Here it can even be better to pick Festival tracks as those only last for that time an Festival event duration is ongoing and you then need to wait until next time it will be up (as a part of options for Reward tracks in WvW/PvP).

Don't forget to change to another rewards track when Festival event (and track have been closed) is over. You can set it to repeat that track again when have finished (small icon with arrows in a circle).

Edited February 1 by ShadowCatz.8437