It's a common complaint. Vigor requires about 100k ap in total. You also really want caltrops eventually...it's about to get very good. That's 185k ap. Some tips:

1. Go into a delve and kill a boss once per hour. This puts a buff on your character sheet that gives you +20% AP. Bam...grind reduced.

2. Be aware there's about to be a midsummer festival where you get scrolls like all the previous festivals...just instead of Double xp, this one is double ap. Just FYI so you don't feel ripped come summer. It already passed pts testing.

3. Wall and door repair are a good way to turn gold to ap. Buffed on the boss kill thing a repair is worth 81 AP, so 10,000 ap costs you 11k gold, not the worst exchange in the game. After a battle, you can easily nab 2k in repairs. Or go in off hours and go to the far keeps your team owns. There's always good wall repair opportunities there.

4. A keep take is worth min 6k. Resources are 1.5k. So a complete ring is 10.5k norm, 12,600 buffed. To get your vigor, you're talking 7ish complete keep captures, 15 for caltrops. This is doable in 1-2 sessions of pvp. Follow the Zerg to the next big battle.

5. Your value as a low level NB isn't to be in the middle of your group. Honestly...that's not even the value of a high level NB. Get up on a tower and keep watch. Poison inject people attacking your team from afar. Watch your team's back.

6. You can have one home campaign and one guest. You can group and follow anyone into any campaign. The only advantage of your home campaign is leaderboard tracking...which you don't need right now. Play in any of them.

7. On PS4 NA, Azuras Star is empty. People use it to play pve and get achievements. You can ap farm here pretty well. Go take resources. It'll toughen you up, lol. For a stamblade, cloak into the tower then kill tower mage, flag menders, flag,guards, door mender, door guard. Then stand on the flag and watch your back. It's easier with a friend when at low levels.

8. Whenever you're playing pvp, carry the five repeatable quests from the base. If playing like in tip 7, do those specific resource captures. That makes it 1600 ap for the resource and a bonus 2k. If playing broader pvp, work toward the other quests. Note that you can drop them and pick up a new one and *sometimes* get a better objective. If you get a keep capture way on the other side of the world, drop and pick up until you get something favorable. If your team goes for a scroll, go drop and pick up until you get that scroll quest. If a scroll is returned and your up on the map (notmin a delve) you get the complete.

9. On the business vet campaigns...Scourge for you...massive zergs are constantly pushing the other teams back. When you look at the map and your team has been pushed aaaaaaaaalllllll the way back and lost their keeps, if it's a busy play time that's a good time to jump in and wait for your guys to gather their forces. In many cases, once this happens it'll be bam. Bam, bam like five keeps in a row.


Good luck. You're right, vigor will change your stamblades life...especially someone who was spoiled by a mega-healing main, lol. Just keep at it, and be thankful they changed the system last year...I worked for 1.1 million ap to get vigor...ugh. THAT was a long grind. But it also made every alliance war level up feel like a massive accomplishment.