What's the easiest way to get the Gift of Battle?

[GW Noob.6038]

@Bigpapasmurf.5623 said:

@GW Noob.6038 said:

@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'.

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.

Woot! Thanks, Papasmurf!

[GW Noob.6038]

@"Blood Red Arachnid.2493" said: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.

Very well thought out, thanks for posting that! Doing the metas in HoT usually gets me 3 or 4 BL chests...which I bought gobs of keys for, the last time they were on sale. BL chests regularly give out Hero boosters which , in turn, can be used to boost my WvW exp. Speaking of the Skirmish chests: which items are the best to select? Hero Badges? Testimony of Heroics?

[L A T I O N.8923]

@GW Noob.6038 said:

@"Blood Red Arachnid.2493" said: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.

Very well thought out, thanks for posting that! Doing the metas in HoT usually gets me 3 or 4 BL chests...which I bought gobs of keys for, the last time they were on sale. BL chests regularly give out Hero boosters which , in turn, can be used to boost my WvW exp. Speaking of the Skirmish chests: which items are the best to select? Hero Badges? Testimony of Heroics?

Go for badges of Honor and trade them in guildhall for badges of Tribute.

The runes from testimony are worth slightly more then badges but liquidity is worse(selling speed and stability on the market)...on superior siege you barely make Any gold so dont bother buying that...unless you need the gold

Edit: grammer

[Ashantara.8731]

@GW Noob.6038 said: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

I already told you that in my response. Did you even read it?

There:

@Ashantara.8731 said:

@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.

[lare.5129]

to get gift you should not think about gift. Target find some interested, roaming/squad/some achievement/get diamond chest/etc and play and not look on cycled gift track. After short time you will find 10+ gift in your bags.

[Dawdler.8521]

@L A T I O N.8923 said:

@GW Noob.6038 said:

@"Blood Red Arachnid.2493" said: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.

Very well thought out, thanks for posting that! Doing the metas in HoT usually gets me 3 or 4 BL chests...which I bought gobs of keys for, the last time they were on sale. BL chests regularly give out Hero boosters which , in turn, can be used to boost my WvW exp. Speaking of the Skirmish chests: which items are the best to select? Hero Badges? Testimony of Heroics?

Go for badges of Honor and trade them in guildhall for badges of Tribute.

The runes from testimony are worth slightly more then badges but liquidity is worse(selling speed and stability on the market)...on superior siege you barely make Any gold so dont bother buying that...unless you need the gold

Edit: grammerOr if you want to skip extra steps, just get dyes and sell directly. Less coins per chest but easy to do. Can also open all and hope for good rares to sell, that could be worth much more than tribute badges.

[L A T I O N.8923]

@Dawdler.8521 said:

@L A T I O N.8923 said:

@GW Noob.6038 said:

@"Blood Red Arachnid.2493" said: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.

Very well thought out, thanks for posting that! Doing the metas in HoT usually gets me 3 or 4 BL chests...which I bought gobs of keys for, the last time they were on sale. BL chests regularly give out Hero boosters which , in turn, can be used to boost my WvW exp. Speaking of the Skirmish chests: which items are the best to select? Hero Badges? Testimony of Heroics?

Go for badges of Honor and trade them in guildhall for badges of Tribute.

The runes from testimony are worth slightly more then badges but liquidity is worse(selling speed and stability on the market)...on superior siege you barely make Any gold so dont bother buying that...unless you need the gold

Edit: grammerOr if you want to skip extra steps, just get dyes and sell directly. Less coins per chest but easy to do. Can also open all and hope for good rares to sell, that could be worth much more than tribute badges.

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[Cristalyan.5728]

@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?

You don't have any easy way for the GoB who is in the same time fast enough. You can have the GoB in an easy way, by doing daily missions in WvW - it will take a long time. Or you can have it faster (around 5 hours if you use all the boosters / or 8 hours without any booster) but that means you have to play WvW.

No matter the route you take, from your post in understand you don't like WvW. So, for you, unfortunately I don't see any easy way. Sorry to be so direct, but if you don't like WvW, you will consider a torture even the ~5 hours (minimum) needed. The only help you can have is your desire to craft that Legendary weapon. If you want it, then you will do a reward track in WvW.

Advice - don't watch your reward track progress. Don't consult your chronometer every 5 minutes. Play.

[GW Noob.6038]

@Ashantara.8731 said:

@GW Noob.6038 said: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

I already told you that in my response. Did you even read it?

There:

@Ashantara.8731 said:

@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.

They do stack...the Hero booster + Black Lion booster + Celebration booster = 85% exp. Because they're all of different quantities...if you were to add the EXP booster to that mix it doesn't give you another 50% increase (because you already have a 50% increase from the Hero booster) but it does give you an extra 2 hrs of duration, for a total of 4 hrs.

[Ashantara.8731]

@GW Noob.6038 said:They do stack...the Hero booster + Black Lion booster + Celebration booster = 85% exp. Because they're all of different quantities...

Really?? =) Had I only known back when I wasn't a WvW regular. :lol: Oh well, you live, you learn. ;)