Guild Wars 2

I’m a Minion Master Necromancer focusing on tanking stats. Yesterday I had a couple surreal moments concerning dynamic events.

The first happened as I was taking a food break. I noticed a dynamic event start up just as I was getting up to get some food. I was standing at the edge of it so I figured I’d be safe enough. I walk across the street and eat my meal, by the time I get back there is a notification that not only did we win the event, but that I had gotten gold for participation. I got gold on a dynamic event for standing there with my minions out.

The second happened later after I had left my Flesh Wurm in the middle of an outpost that sometimes has a dynamic event (the moot). I had forgotten about it and moved on to a different area (same region so it didn’t desummon). Some time later I get a notification that I won a dynamic event with gold. I got gold in an event that I wasn’t even present for. It wasn’t even showing up on my map!

My question is, if my single, unmonitered Flesh Wurm can earn gold in an event for me, how are other people having so much trouble? The biggest complaint I see is from people building condition damage and not being able to apply stacks. I think that if there are so many people applying stacks to the enemy that you can’t get enough damage in to be considered a gold level contributor, perhaps you should find a different way to contribute. You have abilities that deal direct damage, use them. It really doesn’t take that much damage to get gold, you just have to make decisions that are actually contributing. I’m pretty sure that if your condition damage isn’t earning you Gold, you will actually do more damage to the enemy by swinging with the direct damage that you do have. Or just go somewhere else and stop wasting your time. Obviously if you are only earning copper the people there don’t actually need your help.

I know the comparison with my Flesh Wurm isn’t a direct parallel. Most people have trouble with the big boss events with tons of people. I still think the point stands, it isn’t that hard to earn Gold. Just make decisions that are actually contributing, your condition damage literally isn’t.

Why do you think there is an engineer parked with his turrets out and afk alot of the time in the kessex hills bridge event? At least on far shiverpeaks.

The complaints aren’t about getting “gold” in a dynamic event (as if anyone farming Orr even cares about that really). It’s tagging every single mob that spawns so you’re able to get the drops (the REAL “gold” in a dynamic event).

Going to say your flesh wurm situation is highly unlikely. You see flesh wurms do not attack unless you attack, I am 100% certain about it. They might attack if they are hit, but they die really fast if a mob is beating on them. They also teleport with you if you use a WP. It is more likely you killed a mob along the way that counted towards an event and got gold that way, I’ve done that myself.

As for getting golds, the problem isn’t at random small events with a few people doing them, where you’re minions/flash wurm got you gold. It is at the bigger events(usually kill champion) where getting a gold becomes a huge competition. Go do Harathi Hinterlands meta centaur event. The final boss is always a toss up for my necromancer DD or not. My warrior on the other hand gets gold every time. Thief it depends on DD or condition spec/gear. I’ve had my level 80 condition thief get silver in that event even though I was D/D, using heartseeker(pre-nerf), and on the boss the entire fight.

The problem is the contribution system. It only accounts for damage done and enemies killed(kills being determined by damage done :P). So spending the fight rezzing people, removing their conditions, buffing, etc does not get you gold, yet is integral to the event succeeding. Condition damage restrictions keep them from doing enough damage to meet the gold contribution level(determined by damage done). Even if a condition specced class uses DD abilities they are still lacking in damage done due to DD spec classes setting the average damage done so high.

It is not just a matter of using some DD abilities for condition specs and letting everyone die to do some DD isn’t a good option for those that want to do support. The problem is the contribution system and it needs fixed.

It may be a bug, but I find all the summonables at times attack without me attacking. It’s actually really annoying when you didn’t want to go after certain mobs at the time.

The real gold is the money you get from selling loot to venders.

No one gives a flip about the Gold medal – its easy to get.

Few people care about gold medals. They are getting MUCH easier to obtain since the population at most DEs is much lower now. It used to be be harder because I think it was the relative % of damage you did compared to other players. If you are one of say 3 players at the DE you barely have to do anything to get a Gold medal.

As the above poster said, it is the G coin that people care about now.