A Stronger Start in World Vs World - A Guild Wars 2 Guide

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0:00 Intro
1:04 Gearing
1:35 Masteries, ranks and abilities
1:54 Access
3:20 Warclaw mount and how to get it
5:05 Supply
5:44 Camps
5:59 Towers
6:14 Keeps
6:37 Castle
6:51 Siege Equipment
10:06 Jobs
11:59 Unspoken Rules
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[@monolofiminimal]

Remember, the true end game in WvW is about getting your opponent to post on forums to get your class/build nerfed XD

[@zaekeon]

Lol

[@flatfoot666]

and answer back him with a "get gud" :p

[@Dualities]

@@flatfoot666 or u mad bro

[@mak9595]

RIP teef

[@aeontiv]

Some advice from my experiences with WvW: 1) If it's your first time, don't use zerk gear unless you are outnumbering opponents in blob, or you are pretty confident in pvp skills and just roaming by yourself. WvW will throw a lot of focused damage out there. if you don't have defensive stats, you will probably melt, often times not even getting a downed state. 2) If you are following a tag, don't try to be helpful and throw down siege. Commanders are paying close attention to how much supply is with them, so they can plan on what objectives to take and when. Instead, mail it to the commander. They will appreciate it as they can upgrade it to guild siege. 3) place a target on commander and do everything in your power to stay as close to the tag as possible. Unlike in pve content, if commander is standing in all the enemy AoE's, you also want to be, as that is where all the boons, healing and support will be. You will die quicker "off tag" in no red circles, than you will inside 10 red circles "on tag" (usually). Bonus: join the commander discord if possible. You never need to speak, but being able to listen helps SOOOOO much and will actually keep you alive longer since you can react easier.

[@rawsalmon75]

www.vabbi.eu/builds metabattle.com/wiki/WvW 2 links to some wvw builds, I would recommend vabbi builds more as I know they're regularly kept up to date. Feel free to tweak the builds to your liking.

[@Walican132]

How do you mail supply?

[@aeontiv]

@@Walican132 if you are talking about supply for building siege, you cannot mail it. If you meant siege equipment, just click commander, then right click their icon and choose "send mail." Then just drag and drop the siege from inventory panel into email panel slots. Hope this helps :)

[@andresrodriguez9841]

I recently tried to get into wvw but I dont find any commanders.

[@ksfarmmom]

How do you find the commander on Discord?

[@Alran109]

Just tried WvW for the first time today after being a strictly PvE player for years. It was more fun than I expected. A little confusing but not too difficult to figure out.

[@alphacore4332]

#1 tip -Don't touch the tactic levers in bases until you know what you are doing They have half-hour cooldowns for everyone on your team and should have a rank requirement, but don't. So just pretend they do.

[@welwyrmientertainment4450]

What are they for ?

[@GreenSnale]

@@welwyrmientertainment4450 pulling a lever will activate the strategic defense for that keep/castle/camp/tower. Some examples include Stonemist Castle being bombarded by an airship, walls becoming invulnerable, supplies being dropped, or even an emergency waypoint that your team can teleport to to try to save your point from being captured.

[@Stdeo7]

@@GreenSnale dude that's so cool lol I'm about to dive into wvw:)

[@nishantkhaklari83]

I think there should be a way to let people know what they are and that they shouldn't be touched. Guides should also include them as it is something fiercely frowned upon by everyone and you become a "troll" even if it wasn't your intention.

[@beckyquenneville4068]

Just cuz of this comment we touching them all

[@mattjohnson8585]

I've been playing casually for years, and have been playing almost daily during the Mad King event. Probably the most intensive I've been about GW2. Also trying fractals, PvP, and WvW recently to go through stuff I really never touched much before. I see now that it's really 2 or 3 games in one. Thanks for the tutorials!

[@Ralesk]

Apropos of unwritten rules: Just like with duels, if people are waiting at the (daily) Veteran Creature spawn point, chances are they are there for that and do not want to interfere with whatever is going on on the map. Leave them be. Better yet, stand in a safe distance, exchange /wave's and jump-jumps and make friends from the enemy server. Tag the beast, let them kill it, win-win! Most of the time, same goes for the random loner on top of a Monument. It mostly doesn't matter if they take it.

[@Ralesk]

Commander tags: on EU servers at least, it seems that yellow tags are often "closed raids" and people will usually get a bit upset if you try to follow them while they're trying to do whatever WvW guilds do in a guild-exclusive way. Best find another tag.

[@Satoog]

Ralesk, thanks for this. Unfortunately we did exactly this running around once last week. Aware of the “rule” now it won’t happen again ... unless they take the first shot :) Cheers

[@Ralesk]

@@Satoog Some people seem to be explicitly on the hunt for people trying to get simple no-impact dailies done (or at least it feels like it when one gets ganked on a veteran nobody should care about XD) Great if it's unintentional and people play nicer ^^

[@pra11189]

@@Ralesk my commander always ends up ranting about randoms following us in stealth when they aren't in stealth which fucks up our push some times so I guess that why they get upset xD other than that they don't really care tbh

[@insertname6143]

@@pra11189 If I'm following but not in squad and they stealth I tend to try and change direction away from stealth group acting as a decoy, or I counter circle the blob so as to hit max amounts head on and then about face to follow commanders tail to finish off any down state I can.

[@justinian963]

Just started getting into wvw and couldnt find a decent guide. Learned through playing but this explained some things I did not yet figure out or did not well understands. Thanks my fav gw2 youtuber

[@MrAnony07]

How have I not found this game any sooner this game mode looks awesome this random video showed up and now I'm downloading the game

[@Xrisus94]

After you are finished with the initial WvW masteries you talked about. Finish the one that makes you carry extra supplies. That is super helpful. In smaller groups. Or if you find yourself dying alot, get guard defence and the one that makes you take less damage from siege. The first siege masteries you should max is: flameram and catapult, then arrow cart and shield generator. They are the most common siege used. Guard killer is also good to get if you want to focus on roaming and flipping objectives. If you want to play a class that's sturdy and you can do ridiculous stuff with, reaper is currently the tankest class that also deals good damage. (shameless promotion to my own channel if you want to see some examples) Firebrand is the spine of every WvW group with buffs, condi cleanse and stability. Weavers are the big AoE skill class but quite squishy, Scrappers are also very good, they are super flexible and super speed is a power creep in this mode. Thevies are illegal.

[@lynpotter6471]

This is a good WvW 101 guide. If you're planning to make it a series, I think people are generally in the dark on the specifics of scoring. For example, every successful Yak journey is worth 1 point. That means that owning camps and protecting the Yaks will earn more points over time than just having fully upgraded keeps with no yaks running. Thus, if you're trying to sway a close match and zerging isn't your fancy, flipping camps and assassinating Yaks is a very effective way to do that. Knowing that sort of stuff helps drive PvP conflict in both volume and variety. Otherwise, it does tend to devolve into Zerg vs. Zerg.

[@Keeperoffyre]

just acquired my Warclaw after spending almost 7 hours in WvW last night. i started at like 6k on reward track and had everything but legs and armor. is totally worth it! now i'm focusing on gift of battle and provisions mastery.

[@monalisa-bs4zs]

im faster without the mount. its pretty useless actually.

[@YupSsBlAzin17]

I can’t find warclaw mastery where is it

[@joshuabadach543]

This is exactly what I needed, thank you for making this. I've been avoiding WvW for a very long time due to feeling overwhelmed, this helped break it down in a way that will help with that.

[@screamingopossum7809]

I'm thinking about doing WvW, so getting this up and running is a great start. Thanks for the guide, great as always.

[@michaelcoffey1991]

Outstanding from someone needing to know and learn the basics. Keep the great content coming you Global Icon and Brand Ambassador

[@CheeseFroger]

This is exactly what I needed! I'll start WvW this afternoon, thanks to you

[@astrid_rc]

In all my years of playing I have never touched WvW, but this was incredibly helpful and inspired me to maybe give it a go. Thanks a bunch! :'P

[@juhokettunen8245]

Very nice comprehensive introduction to the gamemode, thanks! Been playing GW2 for 1000+ hours, but never got deep into WvW.

[@johnnyv9024]

Epic!! I haven't played WvW for years, so this is incredibly helpful

[@j.t.cumming5323]

Thank you for this guide! I'm not really into the "player vs. player" scene, but I want a Warclaw mount for my mount collection. Your guide provides some great tips, and after following your advice, I'm only three pieces away from getting it! After just participating in WvW twice! I'll have to check out your other guides as well. Thank you again!

[@MuklukYoutube]

Thanks for sharing, I'm glad it helped!

[@Noody]

Muk, when did you get so good at thief?! 12:20

[@MuklukYoutube]

Trying times my friend, just brings the kleptomania right out!

[@dmatthews7423]

Thanks for the video! Returning to the game after 5 years or so; this was a great primer!

[@erzefranz3470]

Excellent guide for players new to WvW. Thanks. Posting it in my guild's Discord channel for the new players to read.

[@Humlet.]

Some important advices: 1) check your builds: wvw has its own balance that is different to pve (it has some traits on 5 minutes cd ) 2) check your builds: you should tailor your build depending on what you want to achieve and always keep in mind that the enemies are most of the time real players who try to outplay you 3) have fun, make some friends

[@gorillanuggets7386]

Nice video. You should have pointed out Righteous Indignation. I see so many new players dying to RI. I often feel sorry for them because they worked really hard to kill everything in the camp only to get crushed by the invulnerable supervisor. xD

[@drewharrito5705]

Fantastic video man.. I’ve played GW2 10 years and never tried wvw until now… this is great

[@lestrencisart]

Awesome guide as always Muk, thanks for that!

[@no_one3249]

Thank you so much for all the guides!

[@xxSALTtheWOUNDxx]

Finally a good guide on what the hell wvw is! I also took some notes on your druid build guide, you've earned a sub.

[@repapeti98]

I've just opened a Warclaw skin worth 2000 gems but don't have the mount yet so this guide will come in handy. Thanks!

[@johnthewolfheart8671]

Thank you again! Just started WvW and was so lost for a few minutes until I followed a group.

[@rkbkirin5975]

Very helpful video! I did not know about the auto-loot ability hidden in the Provisions Mastery and I might never have found it without this video :) Also nice to mention the unwritten rule of duels. That's the kind of thing you can't find anywhere lol

[@anewbeginningquinn]

If you stationnary protect a specific location, do it only if you have joined a squad. One problem I had was that I would act as a sentry : staying on top of the walls and looking for possible ennemies to notify my team. But I was not in a party with anyone. So the game would give me shit pips, thinking that i'm half afk or something. If you are in a party, it seems that you get rewards for what they do too.

[@SilenceGW2]

Nice video dude, anything that tries to get more people into WvW gets a like from me!

[@TheSkywriter3]

Awesome content as always!

[@Dragothell]

Extremely helpful and well explained. Thanks!

[@sergiocarreraperez5636]

Havent played WvW since HoT and was Afraid that not having the lastest expansion was going to make it inpoisble to play for me, but now I want to go back and play, thank you

[@ChaiLatte13]

Thank you so much. I just started trying out WvW and wow I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm working on my warclaw now.

[@rainyday13]

I've watched a few of these videos. I'm completely overwhelmed.

[@VII_Spiritual]

Bro you've covered it all :D. Thanks for the enlightenment.

[@hvok99]

Super helpful, thanks for the breakdown

[@hernanbrunini9994]

Great guide my master, I'll follow your advices

[@catalincc643]

Wah

[@igorramos2010]

Wow, that was really instructive. I guess someday I might try WvW too

[@manuelmusetti5026]

wonderful video!

[@MrMongoose30]

Great info thanx!

[@daboiing245]

Nice Video, finally confident enough to start WvW

[@erzefranz3470]

Good guide. Appreciated.

[@KamiKaZeJeremy]

one advice is go to your guild hall and get the WvW reward track or experience boost from the buffs guy

[@amanda.burmeister]

My favorite part: If you are a new player, don't get discouraged when you die! (I was DEF' run over by a mob of unusual size of 2 crowds) and LMAO hysterically about it! This video is Great (I'll be passing it on!)

[@marikafragen8953]

That's a pretty complete guide. There are other things to know. Like, oh, where to place siege so it's effective. How to use siege (effectively). Might take a bit more than a few minutes, though.

[@Satoog]

Fantastic, thanks,

[@the2ndsaint]

I just got level 50 and I can count on one hand the number of times I've managed to win a 1v1 encounter. I play the mode mostly for the reward tracks, but it's pretty discouraging at times. I can never seem to deal damage fast enough to outpace their healing, even using ostensibly strong builds. I think I'm just terrible. Still have fun, though: for the most part I just dance and wave and make myself an obvious target, a tactic which works shockingly well for setting up sneak attacks.

[@neoliticus2199]

nice vid!

[@avielp]

I've been waiting the entire video to see your second weapon set

[@xerodrnk3928]

Yes people! Wvw is easy to get into. We need numbers in there which makes it more fun!

[@flatfoot666]

The +5 supply capacity is a must after getting your warclaw and the glider. The warclaw path reward is not a big deal, you can have all rewards after a night with a squad.

[@DrgonXeon]

have fun stormin the castle :D

[@johnthewolfheart8671]

I'm hooked on WvW now and using it to get my armors, etc. I'm horrible 1v1 but's it's good practice to figure out how to use my key mapping selections under pressure against actual players. totally different vibe from PvE and the use of the Warclaw.

[@damens-xn9pu]

thanks for this, just got back into the game and I love ranger/druid/soulbeast; how to you play your minstrel druid in wvw; trying to figure out what I should be playing in a zerk

[@karabean]

"I do as much damage as a pool noodle" hey that's me 😆

[@Mitsunee_]

mmm... this might be the one type of pvp that I actually like, next to the "your units autobattle the whales and you die, but losing has the same rewards, just half as many" type azurlane has. Just running around zerging stuff was fun in Tera, so I'll definitely try it here (:

[@Subaru_God]

Three years, better late than never. Excellent video. Thank you , M-D-B-R-E Da 4TH

[@JazzyRedMusic]

Coming across this problem where everytime I enter WvW there's no tags and no lfgs. I wander the map aimlessly until im picked off or i find an ally and follow them for a little bit. Is WvW mode just dying or can I really not find any groups??? Been having trouble with this for the past few days, have yet to see a commander tag on any map.

[@queenbombus]

Thanks

[@WhitieWu]

I've been playing GW2 since it was first released but never set foot in anything pvp... I maaaaaay just try WvW thanks to this vid. :)

[@solidarity9371]

Just played this game yesterday. I can't wait to do WvW

[@stefanciltea3186]

thanks :)

[@VocaDollGW2]

I can never find any groups on ANY map nor lfg. What do you suggest?

[@seanbogaard529]

+10 for mentioning Havoc Squad

[@factions999]

hey, im a old wvw player and commander. dont go first for the claw, go for supply capacity because you can take more supply with you and that means - for the blob. next is supply master, you use more supplys by building rams or catas...

[@MuklukYoutube]

Getting the warclaw takes 1 Rank point. Increasing your supply capacity from 10 to 11 requires 5 rank points. I 100% think getting the warclaw first is still more important for mobility on the map. UNLESS what you meant by this is that you think that maxing out supply capacity should be done before maxing out warclaw?

[@factions999]

@@MuklukKZbin yes, sorry! My English is not that good, but I'm doing my best. 1point is OK, do not max. It first, that's what I want to tell

[@TheNamesJT]

So should i go to wvw at level 65?

[@cezzar1985]

Best game type for me

[@followthewolves1991]

I've just started playing wvw and I like it so far. I started it because I wanted to unlock the warclaw mount and I also thought it would be a good way to unlock legendary armor. Just feel like I don't do much becuase I don't have wvw focused gear or builds. I've spent 90% of my time making pve builds and ive even been struggling to get ascended gear for them lol. So idk if I should continue or just unlock the warclaw and dip out.

[@MrBlackdahila]

Here i was waiting for HP trains and I could just get my HPs in WvW

[@DratchGarou]

I tried to do some WvW but it was quite difficult to find where the fighting was. Maybe I was just showing up at a bad time, but do you have any advice for when it seems quiet/dead? Where do I go? Can I still meaningfully get rewards out of WvW if I'm truly alone? I looked for commander tags, tried talking in team and zone chat, and without a warclaw by the time I got anywhere where something had just changed hands, everyone was already gone. I want to play but I don't know where to go!!

[@plastefuchs666]

Yes, if there are no commanders running about you can go and try to capture points. Be it resource camps or just guard posts, all those give you steady progress on your reward track. You also want to see if you have some movement weapon skills to catch up to groups, like Thief bow 5 or even just Ranger Greatsword 3 to get a short boost to join up.

[@khaansulu5695]

hah the MIB clip killed me xD

[@M7mdXG3mZz]

Why are you so amazing if it weren't for you i would've abandoned the game from looong time ago Thank you!!!

[@MuklukYoutube]

Hahaha, very flattering thank you!

[@2Btoobee]

my fav role is ambushing out those roamers when their healths are still low after overtaking camps

[@welwyrmientertainment4450]

Would be usefull If you explain about those levers as well.

[@alexsnel9686]

How do u find which color u r?

[@lakersouthpaw]

Great video, will definitely share with people looking to get into the game mode. If there is one nitpick I have though, it is your advice that a keep's supply should not be used to repair walls. People are often told to stop wasting supplies on walls because the walls are being actively hit by siege. If you just repelled an attack and destroyed enemy siege, then walls and gates should definitely be fully repaired. Like I said though, just a small nitpick of mine in an otherwise great newbie-friendly video. Thanks!

[@creestee08]

thanks my man. gonna do WvW today cuz i need armor skins. sigh.

[@JazzyRedMusic]

I really don't care for pvp or wvw modes in most games, but I do really want a legendary weapon and the reward tracks have mystic clovers >.< So thank you for this helpful start!

[@MuklukYoutube]

You can get clovers in drizzlewood which is PvE if you prefer!

[@ksfarmmom]

Two newbie observations after playing long enough to get the gift of battle I needed and complete most of the warclaw-all the other maps except the Eternal Battleground always seemed deserted. Is this the usual case? And, I waited a long time and kept coming back to see if any groups were trying to take a keep. Most always seemed focused on the castle. Never saw a keep being sieged.

[@kiearawagner7901]

From my oberservation, The Eternal Battlegrounds, and the borderlands on the left-side of the field (the one with the snowy mountains and half of the field being nothing but snow and hills, can't remember it's name, sorry.) tends to be the most active battle-zones. It's understandable why the Eternal Battlegrounds is the most popular and sought after due to SMC being there. Also, in case you are still trying by chance to get a Keep capture, I recommend finding a small group to do it covert-style. Just got my Warclaw today after being stuck on the "take an enemy Keep" Achievement, and we did with only about four or five players as we attacked one that was more or less abandoned save for the enemy NPC's. We also got lucky that the mob was on the other side of the map and didn't realize what was happening until it was too late. But you can certainly get a keep capture with a small number of players.

[@lyraspasar649]

hey Mukluk, do you have any tipps on how to gatter much rank experience?

[@MuklukYoutube]

Just to be where the action is happening. Any time you are with a group of people doing a lot of fighting you will gather a lot more than if you were running around alone in MOST cases.

[@marikafragen8953]

Yup, got most of the warclaw stuff by accident. It is pretty easy to get the Warclaw.

[@PerfectInfectedLife]

i have a gtx 660 and my fps drops like mad when i see a zerg or even when im behind a wall and cant see them is that my cpu and what would you recommend not to fps drop?

[@MuklukYoutube]

Have you tried turning down the character limit? you will still see their outlines and names but with the character limit set to "lowest" it will only fully render the nearest 10 or so people.

[@AvaEnithesi]

Try ticking the option for "Standard enemy models" as well.

[@Kage0No0Tenshi]

Cpu? I have r5-2600 oc to 4.25Ghz all cores smt off and ram 16gb 3600Mhz 16Cl. Character limit most be low or lowest shadows off I prefer in entire game fxaa off too. I play in 4k but still get cpu bottlenecks 45-170fps depending where I am and how much players are there. Gpu usage 20-50% :/

[@13lacklagoon]

If it's off hours and a spot on your server isn't needed protecting a doliak gives you 5:00 min of participation and some points. (only do if space isn't needed on your server) Edit: Give 0 WvW xp though

[@xarmanhskafragos2516]

I liked , subed and commented. Do u think that flamethrower scraper is good for roaming ?

[@MuklukYoutube]

Haven't run into one recently. It might be good for 1v1 fights, but you wouldn't want to pick a long range battle due to your attack range.

[@1urie1]

I got unsubscribed for some reason yet I enjoy this channel most of all GW2 channels. How dare you, YT.

[@doomsdayplayz2117]

Lol I showed noody ur video we was laughing

[@AzrealGaming]

Kewl name

[@jpixelart8472]

Things about commanders. Which class can be. How play like. Etc..

[@SupraSav]

That Will Smith cut has me in pieces dude

[@ryanbackvlogs7356]

I'm finding the amount of info and learning a bit overwhelming. I went to try WvW but server was dead. No tags to follow or anything like that. After some googling it became so complex just trying to find out if a change of server would help, joining the correct guild how to do that, etc I've lost hope tbh.

[@kuraix9817]

I now started playing WvW and I LOVE IT SOOOO MUCH! But for some reason, I get a ping spike up to 1k when the fight starts :(

[@MuklukYoutube]

Try going to settings and lowering the character limit so your game renders less players, can make a huge difference in the massive fights.

[@kuraix9817]

@@MuklukKZbin I did it saw a nice increase in FPS but the ping still high in fights lol I'll make a ticket. Thanks for the tip :)

[@LaHuguu]

Just started WvW from being a PvE nerd. The way to my first Gift of Battle was a pain, my build was awful and my mindfulness of the situations I was in was even worst.

[@YupSsBlAzin17]

Do you need the dlc to get warclaw?

[@MuklukYoutube]

You would need Path of Fire (which was when they released mounts) to get the warclaw, but none of the living world seasons are required to obtain it.

[@knightzix_01]

yes its called find a commander you like if you like playing with this person or feel this person gets things done Add that person to your Friendlist to be updated when this commander logs on

[@bluejay4069]

Is full exotic good enough for WvW?

[@MuklukYoutube]

Yep. You can work toward ascended slowly as you are able, but exotic is nearly as good.