How To Get A Gift Of Battle WITHOUT PvP in Guild Wars 2

[@mismismism]

This helps a lot, the way this game forces you into PVP and jumping puzzles for everything drives me nuts. It's the worst thing about the game, let PVE players earn their stuff in PVE, let the PVP players earn their stuff in PVP and make jumping puzzles minigames for separate rewards. GoB is frustrating me so much, I hate WvW.

[@cloudcleaver23]

Really wish they'd make GoBs tradeable or add a PvE option for them. WvW is not to everyone's taste, and the means of getting rewards out of it is literally just a matter of how many hours of your life you can burn doing something that isn't fun.

[@ewtcizs1101]

I see what you mean, but I also kinda like that this is "forced" for the last endgame items.. I never played wvw and always thought I hated it, but now after I tried it out and went zerging the first few times I really enjoy it every now and then!

[@cloudcleaver23]

@@ewtcizs1101 I'd rather see them draw players into WvW because it's a better way to get something desirable, rather than because it's the only way, if that makes sense. Leaves the really "hard no" people in a better spot and inspires less bitterness in the fence sitters.

[@Moonshainu]

Forcing people to do wvw is a scum move from anet to inflate the numbers on a dying game mode...

[@Luke-mb4rw]

@Dark_Wizard_of_Mu Reading comprehension much? This isn't about hard or not. But fun or not.

[@Raggsocka]

The GoB farming is what made me quit the game a year ago. Just started up GW2 again a few weeks ago and today I gave WvW another try. Took me 20 minutes to completely lose interest in the game again.

[@Castaa]

Thank you for the info! It's never seemed to me like a good idea on Anet's part to force people to play a functionally different **and** competitive game for a important item. Active PvP players don't like it because these allied players are a liability . PvE players don't like it because it's no fun to be thrown into the fire against players with 10 years+ of PvP experience.

[@msiaci7297]

I very appreciate this info coz i m am a casual play which only active for just daily stuff in pve. Thanks for this.

[@traveling.down.the.road56]

I already knew and use most of what you described in this video, but still got value from watching this. Great job on explaining this in an easy way for everyone to understand. I really appreciate and enjoy your videos. Edit: I’ve crafted over twenty Legendary weapons over the last 7 years.

[@mikokuns]

Bro been gone for 7months whereeeeeee you beeeeen you were the best!!!!!!!?????? Hope all is good man

[@abree107]

Mostly runescape, recently a bit of genshin, and then league since the new season started. Just haven't been feeling gw2 and even when I was playing I didn't feel compelled to make anything. Also got a boyfriend. I'm still active in the Overflow Trading Company Discord general chat most days though.

[@blaidehwa]

Thanks dude. As a new player wvw has been awful without a warclaw. It takes me forever just to even get where I want. I never see commanders to follow either. Even if I did I’m left in the dust bc no warclaw.. I’m sure it can be a fun game mode when the stars align but so far it’s the most boring part of GW2 for me

[@alexgg8380]

some "cheesy ways" for keeping the participation up: 1. You must tag everything on map (kill a guard from a camp, tower or keep) --> this will automatically give you a 10 min participation if you side captures it (you don't have to be there for the capture; you only have to be on the map) 2. Kill the Sentry Guard and let someone else capture it (even an enemy -> this still gives you the daily Sentry kill) --> I'm not 100% but If I remember correctly this will give you a 5 min participation 3. Caping ruins gives you a 2 min (might be mistaken) participation (but it has to be a color different than yours) 4. Dolly escort (for the Pack leader Achieve) --> works better with superspeed

[@purp8057]

i wonder where this guy went by far my favorite channel when i wanna learn something new

[@abree107]

I'm still active in most of the GW2 circles I was before. I just haven't been playing myself for a while now. SotO didn't speak to me and they messed with some builds I used to like playing. A lot of the friends I used to play with have moved on and I found myself wanting to play stuff like OSRS more. I'll never say never, but it'd take IRL friends, an old guild reunion, or a future boyfriend wanting to play for me to come back in the foreseeable future.

[@egorshkotin1792]

Thank you! A Very useful and easy to understand guide.

[@thomasmartin5563]

Would love to hear your thoughts on the new expac, story releases, and the best jade bot usages! You’re a pretty level headed dude with a lot more experience in both gold making and the social aspect of gw2 than many random players.

[@abree107]

I've only done the first few bits of the SotO story. I've mostly been playing OSRS. Jade bot was best for magic/might trophies last I knew. The recent price jumps should only make that more true. I'll have to see for story opinions. I'm honestly just glad to be rid of Taimi and to see Felicia Day back in studio for Zojja. I was hoping EoD would be mostly self contained, so the fact that SotO is makes it pretty exciting to me.

[@thomasmartin5563]

@@abree107 dang thanks for the quick response! Still hope we’ll see more content from yah 😛

[@abree107]

@thomasmartin5563 Eventually, when I feel like it. Right now I don't really want to and I don't have much worth talking about. I can make a video talking about the Wizards' Vault but it doesn't matter what the best rewards are, because you have more than enough time to get all of them anyways.

[@rarrie9123]

If you just run around capping the 5 ruins in the avoiding players you can get it done in about 3-4 hours depending on how fast you are

[@tpansen4920]

Thanks for the guide, it really saves me from so much frustration! wvw for new players is just a pain in the... WALK arount the map and get killed. Thats it. BTW my jaw dropped when I saw the amount of gold you are carrying. Translated to RL money thats 7500 $ WTF

[@killerstingray1474]

no longer possible due to dailies no longer in game...

[@abree107]

Yeah unfortunately flipping camps is what you're relegated to nowadays.

[@ninjacuttingonions5861]

Bro ain't no way you stoppep making videos! Found your channel randomly when was searching flipping and your channel is a gold mine! EDIT: Read that you've moved on. Best wishes to you!

[@abree107]

I'm still available on Discord if you join the Overflow Trading Company Discord I'm pretty active in the general chat. Just look for the runescape talk.

[@McPilch]

Escort dolyaks resets participation to 5 minutes. Easiest by far, lol, especially with a herald pumping out swiftness. Got my own method, which I'm glad you didn't cover as if it became popular I'm sure Anet would nerf/remove. Used it over the years to get the majority of my Platinum rank. 😅 That said, even if you don't like competitive, it can be fun joining a PUG zerg for some shenanigans.. but need to watch participation if you're not getting anywhere vs blob servers...

[@abree107]

There's several things that didn't feel good to encourage, so they weren't included.

[@leoo011]

really? im newbie and dolyak is this the first thing i tried, and im also herald lol.. did you get gift of battle by doing that? im still looking for alternative tho.

[@mylena779]

The title of the video says PvP instead of WvW. This may or may not be confusing for new players looking for a guide ;) Besides that, very nice video which explains it well. Will be very helpful to players who are not into WvW.

[@man0fbass]

Worth noting that the vets on desert BL do not count for daily vet slayer

[@abree107]

There's a couple odd ones that don't count, but the ones marked on the map should. If they're not counting, it's probably a glitch or you missed the event participation.

[@jesusfcastrol5904]

Any good build to make this more easy / faster?

[@xXalimousiosXx]

more videos pls why did he stop

[@jeremielavoie1501]

You could also and that's what I an doing escort 1 dolyak every 5 minute and do nothing else you need to escort completly between 2 point for it to work or give a lot of boons to it if you are not there for the whole trip reset timer to 5 minute really easy to maintain participation like that do that while watching a show or something

[@96Caleb96]

Did they remove wvw dailies? i have no tab for it

[@abree107]

@96Caleb96 Dailies are now the wizards vault.

[@96Caleb96]

@@abree107 thought so ty :)

[@grubblin]

just run around WvW and follow commanders for a few hours and you will get this easy

[@yourfavoritesteve]

Duuuuuude, where did you go????

[@abree107]

League and OSRS mostly. Also have a relationship that takes up a lot of time. I'm still active in the Overflow discord general chat most days though.

[@ykwdota]

Hey Abree, what you doing these days?

[@abree107]

@ykwdota I ended up going back to oldschool runescape and playing my ironman. I'm still active in the Overflow Discord's general chat on a regular basis, but I haven't played GW2 much since the original release of SotO. There's been a lot of changes and additions that, while fine, aren't for me.

[@ykwdota]

@@abree107 Thats good. But if youre not happy with those changes you should definitely make a video where you voice those. A lot of content creators quit kinda quietly with SotO. There's strong validity to why that happened, and criticism is way more important to voice than positive remarks, a lot just dont voice criticism bc the ones that wouldnt even care if it was good or bad come after them. Good example is WoW. SOOO many people quit and hate what the game has become, yet nobody speaks out, and the game kept getting worse. Also at least 90% of WoW KZbinrs are Sellouts who get paid and favored by Blizzard.

[@ykwdota]

Although I suppose there is always the risk of band-wagoning, where people just see that video and it cascades into the opposite wanted outcome... Damn how I hate the internet.

[@abree107]

@ykwdota Don't misunderstand me. I think a lot of the changes are really good for the general playerbase. I'm just not the general playerbase and that's fine.

[@ykwdota]

@@abree107 Hmm alright. Still kinda curious what it was exactly.

[@andreistan2830]

or you go to a borderlands and recapture the ruins in the middle. Over and over again in circles. That's what I did for Conflux

[@abree107]

Capturing ruins won't give participation. I wish it did lol

[@Grynjolf]

​@@abree107did that change? I'm pretty sure that's all I did for my gift. Just ran in circles while I had a show on.

[@abree107]

@@Grynjolf It's not worked for at least a few years if that's truly the case.

[@Grynjolf]

@@abree107 maybe I got my participation up doing other things and then just cycled the ruins to refresh the timer. My bad, it's been a year or so since I was playing.

[@Grynjolf]

I just checked. Ya capturing ruins just resets your timer to 2 minutes. so you gotta get it up first, but then you can just cycle ruins to keep it there.

[@stagetired]

Just find a tag and follow it. Most braindead activity in the game

[@rmzzz76]

I don't know how people find WvW in GW2 fun, but you have to do 8 hours of this garbage to get Gift of Battle. There should at least be an option to do sPvP to gain the Gift....

[@bretlamb5454]

Promo*SM 💦

[@majinpvegeta]

"If you're like me and don't enjoy the WvW game mode" that's sad to hear. If anyone is struggling with doing any WvW stuff, try to look for a guild that is recruiting that you can play with. It made playing in WvW way more enjoyable.

[@Safineya]

I've been putting off the wvw for my aurene leggie for a while but imma kick myself through it for that fashion wars