Guide to WvW Rewards

Introduction

WvW is often considered one of the least rewarding game modes, this is true and real

WvW Reward Tracks

Reward tracks are one of the main reward systems in WvW. They have several exclusive rewards such as Gifts of Battle. Repeatable reward tracks can be set to automatically restart by clicking the infinity symbol next to the name of your active reward track. Reward tracks can be advanced by Potions of WvW Rewards acquired from WvW dailies.

• Players interested in legendary crafting can use the Gift of Battle reward track
• Acquiring Triumphant Armor skins from the Triumphant Armor Reward Track is the most efficient way to unlock the precursors for WvW Legendary Armor
• The most profitable reward tracks are non-repeatable reward tracks:
  • Grothmar Valley Reward Track
  • End of Dragons Reward Track
  • Shiver Emote Tome Reward Track
  • Bjora Marches Reward Track
  • Silverwastes Reward Track
  • Crystal Desert Reward Track
  • Warclaw Reward Track
  • Tangled Depths Reward Track
  • Auric Basin Reward Track
  • Verdant Brink Reward Track
  • Drizzlewood Coast Reward Track
• The most profitable repeatable reward track is the End of Dragons reward track
  • Selecting a Berserker item from the Canthan Armor Box to sell on the trading post provides a large part of the profit
• The most profitable reward tracks when disregarding Mystic Clovers are the Halloween, Wintersday and various Dungeon reward tracks
• Stat selectable exotic armor can be acquired the Triumphant Armor and Legacy Armor Reward Tracks

Boosters

Assuming 100% uptime of Tier 6 participation it takes 8 hours and 35 minutes to complete a reward track. There are three types of boosts that can speed up your reward track completion time; Unlimited boosts, consumable boosts and event boosts. With maximum boosts (other than event boosts) track completion time can be shorted to 3 hours and 45 minutes.

Unlimited Boosts:

• [https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/WvW_Reward_Track_Enrichment WvW Reward Track Enrichment}
  • Mutually exclusive with WxP Enrichment
• Guild Enhancement: World Reward Tracks
  • Mutually exclusive with Guild WXP Gain

Since both unlimited reward track boosts compete with world experience boosts players will need to choose which to use. It may be useful to swap between the two depending on activity, since WXP is much easier to gain during active times while the Reward Track boost constantly provides the same value. In general however, gaining more WXP is better than gaining Reward Track progress because extra WvW ranks allow you to progress the Skirmish Reward Track more quickly and increases your versatility by unlocking WvW ability points. There are two notable situations where players should always use the Reward Track boosts instead of WXP:

• Players that only want to complete the Gift of Battle Reward Track
• Players that will not benefit from increased ranks in completing the Skirmish Reward Track

Consumable Boosts:

• Experience Booster
• Celebration Boost
• Festive Gobbler Boost
  • Acquired through the Zhaitaffy Gobbler or Snowflake Gobbler
  • Both are gem store items only available during their respective holiday events of Dragon Bash and Wintersday
  • The Snowflake Gobbler is significantly more efficient to use than the Zhaitaffy Gobbler
• Black Lion Boost
  • Acquired through Black Lion Statuettes, this gives a 25% boost but with a short 30minute duration and requires opening Black Lion Chests.

Event Boosts:

Spirit Shards

WvW provides a significant amount of Spirit Shards though the Tomes of Knowledge given in WvW Reward Tracks. Spirit Shards can be an extremely profitable resource but are click intensive to process.

• Players interested in legendary crafting can use spirit shards to turn Mystic Coins into Mystic Clovers
• Profit can be made with material conversion by buying lower tier materials from the trading post and Philosopher's Stones with Spirit Shards then combining both in the mystic forge into higher tier materials
  • Fast Farming provides a full list of activities with a link to the GW2 API for current trading post prices.

Skirmish Reward Track

Pips

• [ Memories of Battle]
• Skirmish chests

WvW Skirmish Claim Tickets

legionaries

Memory of Battle

Memories of Battle ("Memories") are used in Legendary crafting and to purchase Ascended equipment in WvW

• Players interested in legendary crafting should save memories
  • Coalesence requires 1750 memories
  • Warbringer requires 750 memories
  • One full set of WvW Legendary armor is 3000 memories or 6000 memories for the Mistforged variant
• Players not interested in legendary crafting can sell memories on the trading post for gold
• Due to the high cost of memories purchasing ascended equipment is not recommended, it is always cheaper to sell memories on the trading post and buy the materials to craft ascended equipment
  • An exception exists for Ascended trinkets from the Skirmish Supervisor these trinkets are more expensive than other methods of trinket acquisition but can be cheaply stat changed
    • The Jade variants also have access to the difficult to acquire Ritualist's and Dragon's stats

Skirmish Chest

• The most profitable use of Skirmish Chests when considering gem conversion price is purchasing Transmutation ChargesBold text
• The most profitable use of Skirmish Chests for players with enough Transmutation Charges is purchasing Testimonies of Jade Heroics (See Testimony of Jade Heroics section)

Karma

Karma is not a WvW exclusive currency but is abundant in WvW due to the large amount of events that can be completed. Participating in attacking or defending objective events will provide a scaling amount of karma based on the type of objective. There are a very wide variety of ways to spend karma.

• Players interested in Legendary crafting can buy Obsidian Shards from Tactician Deathstrider in Orr
• The most profitable way to spend karma is on time-gated activities:
  • Pact Scout's Mapping Materials from the Pact Supply Network Agent which requires completion of the PvE Pact Commander mastery
  • Antique Summoning Stone from Leivas which requires completion of the End of Dragons story
  • The Karmic Converter which requires completion of the Exotic Hunter achievement
• The yearly Wintersday event has notable ways to spend karma
  • Frostbitten gathering tools can only be purchased during Wintersday and are the most profitable gathering tools that can be used, though they lack the convenience of infinite tools
  • Wintersday presents can be bought in bulk making them one of the easiest ways to spend large amounts of karma quickly
    • Wintersday presents typically drop significantly in price during the Wintersday event and must be held for several months for optimal profit
• Fast Farming provides a full list of activities with a link to the GW2 API for current trading post prices.

Badges of Honor

Badges of Honor (or "Badges") are mainly acquired through daily reward chests, and killing players or npcs.

• The most profitable way to spend badges is buying Badges of Tribute to sell on the trading post from Davis the Survivor located in any guild hall of sufficient level at the War Room.
• A secondary use for badges is buying traps and tricks or food and utilities from the Permanent Portable Provisioner

Testimony of Jade Heroics

Testimonies of Jade Heroics are acquired through reward tracks and skirmish reward chests. Testimonies of Jade Heroics can be converted into rewards and Testimonies of Heroics or Testimonies of Desert Heroics at the Heroics Notary located in the spawn area of every WvW map.

• Testimony of Jade Heroics can be converted into any other type, but other types cannon be converted back into Jade.
• The different types of Notarized Scroll of Heroics can be used to complete Hero Point challenges in a different area of the game.
  • These completions finish a random hero challenge in their area and count for map completion
  • Notarized Scroll of Heroics unlocks a random Central Tyria hero point.
  • Notarized Scroll of Maguuma Heroics unlocks a random Maguuma hero point.
  • Notarized Scroll of Desert Heroics unlocks a random Crystal Desert hero point.
  • Notarized Scroll of Jade Heroics unlocks a random Cantha hero point.
• The most profitable use of Testimonies of Jade Heroics is converting them into Testimony of Desert Heroics to buy runes
  • Superior Rune of the Firebrand is typically the highest price and sell volume rune
  • Some recipes have a higher price per testimony than runes, but typically have much lower sell volume
• Durability Runes can be purchased through Testimonies and are the optimal choice for several WvW builds.
• Though more expensive than buying from the trading post, Superior Siege bought from the Permanent Portable Provisioner with Testimonies can be very convenient and help you avoid carrying several types of siege you don't often use.

WvW Rank

Each time your WvW rank increases you gain a WvW ability point to spend on increasing your versatility in WvW. Take a look at our optimized guide to WvW ability points to learn how to spend your points.

Guild Missions

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