Guild Wars 2

It seems like you may be having two issues right now with events.

The first and something that needs some fixing is supporting in a fight. Giving boons, removing conditions, blinding or other disables on the enemy and what do you get a bronze and no loot. It seems to me this kind of teamwork should be rewarded not the other way around.

The other on is aoe adds over killing the boss. I am not saying kills adds should be less rewarding but cause of the loot drops on the adds it is more rewarding then killing the boss. This issue is not too big but does make people want too play the person that can kill all the adds as well as hitting the boss.

I got a silver or bronze once when I thought it was b/c I revived too many people and it took away from my damage output. I could think of no other reason, b/c I’ve done that event several times and always got gold.

Yeah there was one event I kept getting bronze and silver. I went back when I got my flamethrower and got gold 3 times in a row. I stayed there to test my theory

I agree, on a couple of events I went pure support on my engineer and took out the Elixir Gun, and other elixirs. On smaller, easy events, I could do enough damage to get gold, but on harder events even though I was buffing and healing as many as I could, I could only squeak in enough damage to get a bronze, or if I was lucky a silver.

Healing and buffing should both add to contribution levels in events.

I definitely second this. Support roles in big dragon fights tend to get shafted a lot because they are dealing with mobs, walls, etc, and not doing direct damage to the dragon itself. I had a friend who didn’t get a medal even though he showed up halfway through the claw of Jormag fight because he was focused on keeping the golems up and resurrecting people.