Guild Wars 2

So I was just completing a dynamic event by myself when someone comes in and kills a few enemies then just leaves the area. Then I start to wonder if they still get the rewards when I complete the event and if they do then that is completely unfair and rude.

I would appreciate any response, Thanks.

Oh yeah, I’ve gotten golds for just standing in the general area of a DE. I figure it evens out in the end though: If they get a gold medal for doing nothing, at least you’ve gotten extra xp/items/coppers from killing the DE mobs plus the gold medal rewards. If there are a few people that want to just wander around sucking up xp/karma from DE’s that other people are doing, eh, whatever.

You need to kill a certain ammount of enemies to get a gold medal, with a gold medal you get the maximum reward. You dont need to do alot for a gold medal, depends on the amount of people.

I got a bronze for an event I didn’t know was happening yesterday.

Thanks, I appreciate the responses

hehe, there was an escort event that was kind of unfailable.. but was very hard to do solo. I found the guy dead on the road so I cleared a few mobs.. reserected him, and attempted to finish the event. Unfortunately after a couple of waves and zero help, I died. So I was like F this and left him there. About 30 minutes later someone completed his event and I got a gold medal for it.

You do need to do an amount of killing to help the event to get a gold.. killing a few and running is just gonna net a bronze. I rarely see silvers though, so it is pretty obviouse when you are there long enough.

That said, the game HATES support roles. I was kinda low level so the first time I did the shatterer event I concentrated on buffs, heals, and removing conditions (guardian). I still got the chest but the game gave me a bronze for my efforts. ;p

Sooo screw saving your friends and do that dps.

The reward is based on how much you contributed. There are three level’s.
a: bronze, you did very little, maybe kill one enemy. in escort missions it can happen that you are killing a random regular spawn on the path, the escort is miles away and the point where goes as well, but you still get bronze cause you cleared the way.
b: silver reward you get when you do more
c: gold reward is for those thta really anticipate. Though still not needed to stay there fully.

For my daily-events I do a lot of event’s not for the reward, but jsut to make it count. Bronze is enough for that. I have seen the above system is a good system, but sometimes unbalanaced.

e.g. my lvl 30 mesmer (downscaled) can’t kill the champion bandit leader in the cave in Queensdale when there is nobody else around. Yesterday I cleaned the path way to him from the bodyguards, wich is rather easy. Bout an hour later someone killed the champion and I got gold reward for it. In my opinion I only deserved silver cause never touched the champion.

As long as you assist you can get gold BUT if you leave the area before the end you get nothing.

Sometimes I get gold for randomly passing the area ^^
But yeah it’s kinda unfair.

Yea I get bronze for DEs I didn’t even know were happening just by running though. I suppose I’m killing random mobs in my way that are included but most of the time I see no sign giving me a clue.

Some of this ‘leaving before the end’ is people who know there is no more fighting to be done so they just leave at that point while an escort event/quest plays itself out for the next 20 seconds. Bit like the one where you escort a caravan to Claypool in Queensdale. Once the last batch of three centaur ambushes is over there’s no point sticking around. As long as you stay in that zone you’ll get the reward. Following the bull into town just wastes time.

On the other hand though, I had to waypoint after dying, was running back and got the update even though I missed the kill. Which was pretty cool since I had been fighting for a long time.

Maybe the system as it is just can’t filter participation, so it grabs anyone in range? I like it though.