(OUTDATED) How to Grind Certs Easily in PlanetSide 2 (Part 1)

[@Trev0Rear]

you sound like one of the aircraft saftey advisors

[@Alpha00Fox]

Dude you get my like and subscription for this! I went here to look for faster ways but it turns out I was already doing it right in terms of Medic and spotting. Makes me feel way less nooby for knowing this, I'm going to keep my eye out for the other ways. Now on to part 2!

[@WrelPlays]

Oof, this is a really old video, my friend. Part 2 is especially outdated. Feel free to check out some of the more recent content if you're interested, a whole lot has changed in the past year or so. Here's a good video to start with, if you're new to the game: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4OspmRqaLicadk Either way, welcome aboard!

[@Alpha00Fox]

Thanks!

[@jordnot]

A trick to get infinite xp - 2 accounts - 2 sunderers - 1 of your accounts in 1 sunderer fires all the time *there are ways to do that* - the other sunderer resupply.... :D

[@SuperLegendaryBanana]

jordnot Or get a plane and lightly ram it into stuff to damage it, then repair it. Over and over again.

[@Alpha00Fox]

I'm already past all of this though thank you for the other ideas. Thanks to sticking to medic and a few other videos on max and sniper i'm set.

[@KnownAsKenji]

This is a good video. You're a good guy. I like you. I'd like to note that Sunderer deployment during a mass armor push is an equally great way to net certs, especially if you're close enough to the front lines to get a ton of spawns, and if you have capable gunners getting the occasional kill. This can also be used in addition to the methods mentioned in the video, park and deploy the sunderer, repair/heal/capture/kick-ass, and hope that it doesn't get C4'd too quickly.

[@WrelPlays]

Agreed. Covered this in part 2, definitely a fun thing to do late at night when you can't find a decent fight.

[@WrelPlays]

60% audience retention at 6:06, drops to 18% audience retention at the very end of the video.

[@BuzWeaver]

You took the words right out of my mouth. I tell my guild mates on those occasions when a few of them grumble that its fun to be the underdog.

[@chrisbingley]

Awesome vid. My standard cert grind technique is to join a capping squad until we hit something big. then hag around after it and repair *everything.* It takes a while to do this on your own (which is the only way to a decent amount of cert) but it will earn you 10-15 cert depending on the base, plus the capping bonus, kill and support XP etc. Afterwards you just redeploy on your squad leader and start all over again. It's basically a combination of all three methods mentioned in the clip.

[@Threatty]

How to Cert: 1. Find zerg 2. Join zerg 3. ??? 4. Cert profit

[@WrelPlays]

I usually play Light Assault due to their amazing mobility, but I've really been enjoying my Engineer as well. In addition to being a huge asset for vehicles and MAXes, their turret is amazing when set up right. I love sneaking behind enemy lines and mowing people down.

[@KnownAsKenji]

In addition ammunition or repair sundies are affordable to upgrade, and a great investment in the long run. If you consistently go for those big armor battles, it will pay for itself before you know it, and then start earning you dividends. In addition, it's an excellent battle tactic, and people will LOVE you for providing the service. And to top all of that off, for any of the 'supportive'methods in these posts or the video, you will gain even more if it's fellow squad members. So, squad up

[@MongoosePartyBeansMacLeod-3JR]

Back when capping took a little less time I used to hop in an Reaver, go to the map, and look at which bases were getting close to flipping. I would fly there and grab the easy experience and then fly to the next base that was about to flip. It really only works when your faction has a larger pop and is taking a lot of territory fast, but it is also a super easy way to grab a few free certs.

[@WrelPlays]

Good question. Firstly, you don't really have a shot against Heavy Assault's rocket launcher... but off the top of my head, from 15-25 meters sounds about right. Engineer turrets aren't the most accurate tools, but neither are the HA LMGs. If you're talking about a standup fight, the best position for your turret would be on slightly lower terrain than the HA, so you get more shield coverage. Aside from that, aim for the upper chest. I'll likely be doing an Engineer guide in the future. Kudos

[@kan_kan_mikan_]

Killing is a pretty high risk/reward cert farming method. If you are in a heavily crowded area like The Crown, that may work good, but playing support gives more in general. Going to The Crown as an Engineer or Medic and trying to repair/heal everything is possibly one of the best ways.

[@Reaperunit206]

Its a starcraft reference where zerging is when a crap ton of enemy players storm an area or location, the zerg a biological spices in the game starcraft often use this strategy where each unit in the zerg force is expendable (same goes to you if you join one however if your smart you can stay alive and rack up points)

[@Cygnus_B]

You can go with a ESF flying over the map, and if there's someone capturing an enemy base (and if you're close enough to that base) you can receive those points

[@0Cruik0]

A good method for racking up kills in larger, more congested fights. Is to get the carbine with a grenade launcher and go engineer. Drop that ammo pack at a vantage point which gives you both good cover and a good firing angle and drop grenades on enemy positions (especially a sunderer) and you can get great amounts of cert points both from the kills of the grenades and the ammo supply you give your teammates around you.

[@ArmoredChocoboLPs]

Since most of these techniques are fixed now (you need to cap surrounding territories to touch generators, for example), here's a few: - Do alerts. Not only do you get the exp from kills/healing/whatever, win or lose you get a semi-large to massive handful of exp depending how well your faction did. - Combat medic or Engineer. Both these guys are extremely useful and extremely appreciated. Depends if you want to babysit a choke point or heal a MAX. - Make a spawn Sunderer.

[@rockpickable]

when i first started to grind exp i went to all the captured bases that haven't been repaired and repaired everything. generators, turrets, weapon hubs. what an awesome time i had

[@Wopolusa]

when flying the small aircraft ( scythe's, reaver's, mosquito's) almost always fly while holding your spacebar[whatever key you bound lift to] it makes you more manouvreable and you can fly very low to the ground safely

[@binishulman8655]

Look on the map for bases well within your territory that have flashing icons because there was fighting recently and the generators were destroyed. Set a waypoint there and fly there in a fighter jet as an engineer. Once there, fix every single generator, turret, terminal, etc, one by one. Any enemy turrets or terminals, destroy and and repair to make them into your faction's. Then find another base, possibly on another continent and continue. Gets loads of cert points.

[@WrelPlays]

Recapping desolate zones is absolutely a legitimate strategy. Anything that expands your influence and lets you attack from new angles is very welcome. But, this video was about how to legitimately grind for experience/certs, and back-capping is a slow and boring process for doing so.

[@Tergonta]

These are very handy tips and strategies for grinding certs, especially the ones involving the healing and repairing of your faction mates and their stuff. What can I say, I am a team player by nature! :D

[@McPedro96]

Scarred Mesa Skydock, one of the most popular places to capture and fight over, I you're TR or NC. Easy certs there if you're trying to take it and you're the TR. Just get a Sundy with the ams upgrade for 50 certs, get up there close and hide it well. Deploy it with the B key, let people spawn. It's 2 exp per person, but if you're one of the only guys there with a deployable sunderer, you'll be set with exp and certs.

[@LifeofTheOblivion]

If you are going the medic route I'd suggest buying the first level in the med gun slot so you can get more xp from revives and revive maxes

[@RadimentriX]

i'm an engineer and i get my certs mainly with ammo-packages and repairs. i don't kill much because i'm not good at aiming but a 4x-scope on the standard engi-mp really helps

[@CharlieDB96]

I found on accident yesterday, before watching this video, that just putting an ammo pack in the main doorway at the warpgate will get you a lot of XP. Not the fastest way to level up, but for starting players, or new accounts, it could be an easy way to level up.

[@RydWolf]

Not bad. Useful information for those who're finding themselves a little overwhelmed.

[@BG213121]

make sure you have your manual throttle bound to a key. The default game controls don't enable that. Also bind your pitch keys pitch up pitch down I use q and e and have rebound my eject to 0

[@killerdudee]

My three favorite ways to earn certs are as follows: After capping a base, repair EVERYTHING, it adds up quick. Hop into your factions fastest plane and hop from place to place that are being capped, easy exp. Third, get into a plane, fly around an unoccupied enemy base and take out all their turrets (all you have to do is hover! or keep pressing the space bar if you are NC :( )

[@Dunderpunch]

Here's how I learned to fly: I made a Vanu character, and practiced on the Scythe. It controls much more smoothly, so it's great for practice. After that, purchase those.. dang, I forget what they're called. They improve performance, and there's one or speed, one for dogfights, and one for hovering. I personally feel like hovering is the best overall, but I could be wrong.

[@Mitsukakex]

correction on the medic. at max lvl the medic gun gives 100% hp. exp for revives is increase with every lvl put into the medic gun aswell as the time takes for rez(about .7 secs).if you go where the deaths are (bio domes and amps stations) in big fights where everyone dies over and over with max medic gun it seems you will gain more then a person that is getting kills. its x2 exp weekend atm but i ended up getting in a single hour of nothing but rez ( and maybe 4 kills) +100 serts.

[@HerbertKnivez]

Well, if you have a mouse with thumb buttons, set them to pitch up and pitch down, as most people don't have these buttons or haven't set them up, you can easily pull up behind them, they won't be able to keep up as they need to keep lifting the mouse of the pad and putting it back down again.

[@rocketneo5]

OMG thanks I have been looking for a video like this forever!!!!! THX

[@UnstoppableAW]

The best way to get xp is to go to Amerish where there are no people, and use your default Revaer/Scythe/Mosquito gun to destroy all the turrets at your local amp station. (since there's not usually many people on Amerish one faction will usually own everything because of ghost caps, so you don't have to fly far to find enemy turrets). Then, when your faction takes said amp station, go back and repair all the turrets.

[@Emanouche]

Another way I found to make easy certs is rolling with AA lightning tank, You gotta be good at leading a target, but if there is many of them fly boys around, you can rank up exp like it's x-mass. :) Make sure to bring an engineer too, to repair the tank as it get shot, and thus earning more exp as well.

[@TalenX5]

The best way I've found to grind Certs while being a helpful person was is to get on at a time where there is almost nobody online(If you're playing in a server around your timezone, 1:00-3:00 AM is the best time for be) and start capping bases while nobody is online. I usually get 350-500 certs per session, 2 hour sessions, and you don't have to have much of a party.

[@TheHangManFTW]

As a medic, I move around while reviving and healing as to spoil anyone's aim and piss off kill-hungry snipers. Also, I move to the frontlines at medium-long range where NS-11 Plat works best and pop out for the kill. And the occasional ouch when you get shot, use the Nano Regen Kit. Recommended gear: NS-11P: 3.4 scope, compensator, foregrip Pistol: flashlight (SAR purposes) Medical Applicator Maxed Nano Regen Kit Maxed Frag Grenade Nanoweave Armor No glowing helmets

[@vmlinuxz]

VS is a better learning platform because out of the gate their weapons shoot have less recoil or no recoil, their tanks can strafe, and since their tanks hover their tanks main guns don't bounce around like other factions. With that being said, once players start to learn how to overcome the obstacles to the other factions weapons they can win against VS because their weapons hit harder or shoot faster from what I can see, so VS is disadvantaged a bit in the long run (except maybe in theair)

[@WrelPlays]

This was mostly just using the mouse without a lot of tricks, just finding holes and flying through them. The biggest thing for flying an obstacle course like this is learning how big your aircraft is, and keeping that spatial awareness. But I'm utter trash in a dogfight, I'll be the first to tell you.

[@0mgi812]

also, the tankbuster gun on the lib only costs 100 certs to unlock, it can kill a lib in a clip and a half, turrets in about 3/4 of a clip, any esf in 1 clip, and infantry in 1-4 shots is can also kill a lightning from the back in half a clip and 1-2 clips from anyware else and any MBT (except vanguard) in 2 clips from the front/side/top (assuming no armor) i like just gooing to amerish and killing every turret with this thing and it usally gives me 20-30 certs in 10 mins

[@PickleThicc]

Okay, NC infiltrator. Sneak into a a heavily contested enemy base (the towers are the best). Find a spot behind the enemy and boom, 40+ kill streak from point blank head shots. Managed to get about 20 certs in 15 minutes because of this method :D

[@CastledCard]

I think I heard they were adding something that's like an AC-130 in Planetside 2, so this is how it would work. 1. Get AC-130ish vehicle 2. Cert Profit

[@Nyghtrid3r]

Also you should set up a Sunderer in a big fight if there are not enough. Then go with your medic in a room filled with damaged allies, press F and let the XP flow.

[@mascotquellson9906]

Recapping things is pretty important, so even though you don't get much XP, try to do it occasionally.

[@HPmcDoogle]

S'fine. i just love the heroic orchestra the TR uses. It makes the game's grand scale war that much cooler

[@xXTheGreatGooseXx]

They updated the game a lot so getting certs is much easier. Also getting a membership gives you a large XP boost for a month, and I think it's totally worth it if you enjoy Planetside 2. Also you can buy boosts.

[@jase874]

good video, hopefully some of the medics and engineers will do the job they're supposed to do now

[@RogueCowTurd]

a lot of practice, you can check some guides, but the best way is to bind pitch up and down on your mouse buttons, which allows a maximum pitch rather than the usual analog controls (keep them though). You can also bind Roll left and right to your Q and E keys. Mouse and keyboard seems the best. Practice in the VR, good luck!

[@32353235e]

1. Play during maximum pop hours. 2. tank/ha/air spam from maximum distance With such tactics you can easily earn more than 120 certs in 2 hours. I've seen people who can do 80+ in one hour, but they play solely for certs. Since esf has been nerfed recently, the fastest way to kickstart certgrinding is to use tanks from maximum distance. I play nc, and their MBT has slowest fire rate and lowest buff from he shells. However, vanguard's shell already has biggest splash radius by default.

[@profdrsirlukas]

A good way is to play as medic, get a friend to play engineer, then make him repair a damaged turret continuously under heavy enemy artillery fire. You stay in cover and keep reviving him. I got about 30-40 certs in 10 minutes this way, and the engineer got about half that. The medic gun has to be fully upgraded though.

[@zxcvbnm2992]

Using LA and bombing runs with 1 C4 and grande gets about 10 kills a min if your good and in a big battle. Second C4 rarely helps as you will often die right after activating the first as you only have a couple of secs to get your explosives into the biggest groups you see before you get shot. This tactic will often make you run out of infantry resources especially if you use C4

[@BuzWeaver]

No doubt playing VS is another easy way to earn certs. Mattherson was down for about 20 minutes yesterday so a few of us went to Connery and rolled some VS characters. We play NC on Mattherson and we were quite impressed with the ease of play. I was able to gain Certs a lot faster playing VS than NC. The VS weapons and vehicles felt amazing, but we still like the challenge of playing NC.

[@SuperUgybug]

Your piloting skills are SICK!!!!

[@WrelPlays]

I'm big on accuracy and maneuverability, so the VS' lack of (relative) damage didn't really phase me. They seemed like a good faction to roll. But given how often I've heard them called "ez mode", I've been feeling more and more like rolling NC out of spite. Plus, being the underdog is fun.

[@nordicfatcheese]

Getting a good bottom gun on a skilled pilot's lib got me tons of certs. IDK about the Vanu and NC guns, but a lib with a grenade launcher on the bottom is an easy way to rack up kills.

[@jase874]

lol gd to hear! ^^ i only play engineer or heavy assault, i'm always running round as engineer healing everything i see with a health bar above them

[@michaelpepsin9581]

light assault on the roofs of bio labs = GIANT cert goody bag

[@shadowtk421]

in a full day of playing (with just default items) you can rack up 200 certs + but that means always PTFO

[@apuppywatchingvideos]

if you've shit frames + no alpha boost = cert grind: -Start up game for (max) +12 you get for not playing -be Infiltrator class -Take ESF to base near an enemy AMP station, or one of bases with most turrets -As Infiltrator hack that base's vehicle terminal then spawn AMS Sundy (4 medals) -Drive sundy around amp station base using it's turrets to destroy base turrets -When AMS sundy turrets run out of ammo, switch to heavy assault using rockets -All turrets gone, cap base, repair turrets. Repeat

[@ProbablyYume]

Great for those who doesn't know how to grind certs ! My point : Mass killing with bouncing betties as an Infiltrator, or looking for all enemy vehicles and drop C4 on them !

[@AranakAsulis]

I do this: Go to a place most likely of a "three-way battle" and go around the enemy line if they're offence and your trying to defend a base or whatever, and just take out who's ever next to a sunderer or firing at your base. Noobs mostly never pay attention to what's behind them anyway...

[@cpu46]

Yea playing as an underdog is actually a lot of fun in PS2. It makes every victory that much sweeter.

[@SinerAthin]

What is the optimal range on the Engineer's turret? The range where you can still reliably win a firefight with a Heavy Assault, and kill most people before they run away.

[@CreatMind]

Wich cert you had equipped on the scythe when you did those crazy flips around the biolab? that was amazing

[@WKDmurdoch]

Also. SQUAD BONUS XP. If you play a support a support in a squad gets even more xp. So 12xp suddenly = 24xp. It nigh on cuts your grind time in half. If anything I'm wishing that, /that/ was mentioned.

[@demon0fk0]

Sniping at the crown is easy. Both attacking and defending the crown as an infiltrator can earn you an easy 80 certs per hour or more depending on your skill. I do this on my NC with the Longshot and on my VS with the Parallax. Ammo belt helps, or you could just go find an engineer. Easy headshots, tons of targets, almost always active. Just something to try in your free time =P

[@L.Becker]

The best thing is to do everything at once: Fight for a base, do kills there and revive/heal your teammates and cap that base: You can get a huge amount of certs very fast!

[@WrelPlays]

That's a great point. Thanks for sharing!

[@schack101]

well this is why they recommend playing as engineers if you plan on using vehicles and aircraft. you need a lot of certs to fully upgrade any vehicle

[@TheSalmonStories]

Indeed, I played as VS for about a month, then went TR, and I think I had a lot more fun than if I went TR right away.

[@Overlord666fishy]

One of the best ways to get XP is to go as a medic in a biolab fight. 100 XP per revive, when people are dying all around you. I can get about 2-4 certs/min.

[@HolyPoseida]

Wow, your video was actually very helpful. Thanks!

[@Boggy250]

tip: if you are in a flash that's about to explode and you can run over someone, do it, even if you explode before you get him there's a possibility that the flash will keep moving and eventually run over someone

[@Pomerable]

Your videos have taught much, thank you kindly

[@Grizabeebles]

repairing turrets = 5 xp every 2 seconds (minus delays for moving between turrets, etc.) -or- ~150 xp per minute at virtually no personal risk. (Leading to higher sustained xp gain overall) Repairing destroyed turrets behind your own lines also preps turrets for defense against back-capping or shifts in the battle lines. The only downside is occasionally feeding exploiters "back-smashing" in tanks/liberators. Of course, this gives you the opportunity to shoot them down...

[@0mgi812]

clip is a universal term for a pre-loaded amount of bullets in a unordenary fashion, such as a tank buster Gatling belt

[@Wopolusa]

Can you do a video on spending certs for the more expensive items? I'm not in the financial situation where I can be buying station cash and I'm really unsure of what big thing to spent my first 1000 certs on, I'm really interested in either the zephyr for the lib or rocket pods (Whatever their name is) on the scythe as these are both enormous upgrades from the default weapons.

[@HPmcDoogle]

i watched the whole thing c: Cause i like your videos.

[@Reepecheep]

Only problem I had was a little bit of factual errors in this. 1st: You don't get 90 XP from a rez unless you're underpopulated. A resurrect will give 75 exp without a bonus. 2nd: You actually only resurrect allies with less than full if you're gun is bellow cert 6. This wasn't an error so much as something worth mentioning to players.

[@1devilike]

one of the best ways to grind exp is by motion sensors from inflitrators u just throw them in the enemy and for each kill u get motion sensor bonus which is pretty nice exp 20+ exp for each without pretty much doing anything

[@1devilike]

20 per kill

[@jordnot]

A trick to get infinite xp - 2 accounts - 2 sunderers - 1 of your accounts in 1 sunderer fires all the time *there are ways to do that* - the other sunderer resupply.... :D

[@thelogicalfox8270]

your such a great shot I never seen a youtuber get that many kills under1min!

[@spunkflunk]

nice video, subscribed!

[@arcan762]

Your Scythe looked so agile. What upgrades did you have on it? Did you use a joystick?

[@WrelPlays]

Glad I could help!

[@Ghostcamel]

Quick question, are the turrets tracer rounds as bright as other small arms fire? In the vids ive seen of turret combat(actually pretty rare) they seem less bright. And like you mention in a comment they seem really good for shootin ppl in the back ;).

[@SuperGamewizz]

Hey around 0:40 where you talk about cert I think you should play as infiltrators and kill as many as possible in high populated spots note I just started playing 4, 20mins and I'm rank 5 not that hard if you play fps games like battlefield where the bullet drops or other games that have snipers with bullet drop and 2 kills 4 1cert thanks 4 info that's all I needed

[@hardwirecars]

zerg referse to the zerglings in sc and sc2 because they attack in massive and i mean massive groups. funny story the first time a zerg rush was used in a game refering to the sc zerglings was the matrix online because the machine faction in the game would never attack any area during pvp with less then 30 players.

[@fakemann4390]

Here's a bad ass tactic. If you like emptying your mag, as you scream at the top of your lungs, and slaying enemy rifle monkeys, then find a combat medic, an engineer and a max, then play a heavy assault. As the Max and engineer sit there eating rounds and dishing them back, sit behind cover and just empty mags down range. You'll get millions of assists, as the max murders the hell out of stuff. The medic will keep you all healed up, and keep your six covered. This works best near doors.

[@Youareindenial]

Two best ways to grind certs and xp, is either be a medic or an engineer. i prefer medic, as more people are dieing thats like 150xp per heal, usually takes 10seconds and in biolab or other close knit fights thats like 6-10 heals a minute, thats 4 certs a minute, 240 certs an hour. that is ALOT of certs people ALOT. only 5 ish hours for a new gun is a record. will be less certs to begin with but once you max your heal gun and aoe heal you will be racking in even more certs.

[@Sacredl1es]

Use the basic, but set down your sen so you can aim pretty well :) next set two buttons to Up and one to down when you need to go longer then what your mouse can do :) then just pratics :)

[@Youareindenial]

Zerg refers to starcraft which was a faction which had huge swarms, somehow big groups of vehicles, aircraft or players got the name zerg, although im actually unsure about the aircraft and players bit i believe it is just vehicles because zerg in starcraft or robot type thingy's i believe anywa.

[@MadIIMike]

tbh... viable weapon cost is pretty exactly 1000 cert, there might be very few exeptions, but let's say you play Sniper, you need/want the 1000 cert thing, heavy's launchers as well, and engi/light dump their carbines for the new smg - not to mention the 1000 cert AV Turret and the Cert it takes to max. -_- However, AV Turret definetly speeds up cert gain by a huge amount.

[@Snyper20]

Medic makes certs faster than most other classes. I can get about 100 certs an hour in large fights and always have a reserve of 30 or so revive grenades handy.

[@ModernGamer_MG]

LMG + Rockets vs Sunderer/Spawns = Win Infiltrators are fun to catch with my IR scope too :3

[@aldenisawsomeadk4573]

i get 100-150 certs every 2 hours. i use all classes except for infiltrator ( i suck at long range ). Im thinking of geting breaker pods for my reaver, but the reaver sucks compared to the other ESFs. can you make a flying TR, NC, and VS ESF guides? id watch that and id find it helpful. Great video and thanks! :)

[@luisjosp5]

What do you think about dogfighting? or do u prefer the other certification?

[@TheSalmonStories]

If you're going as a support role, join a squad, you get a bonus for repairing/healing squad members and their vehicles. Remember! Every bit counts!

[@DevTheBigManUno]

being an engineer also works for this. More so if you have a suppressed weapon. Because if yer careful you can mop up stray enemies trying ti recap a place.

[@tomstrength]

zerg is a PS2 term... Ps2 Zerg is finding a large amount of players crossing the map, with close to no resistance because the amount of players... if you already knew this, its for those who don't :D

[@Cam77891]

I get 1000s of xp by putting ammo packs like you said in high traffic area that! Is a good tip!!