Guild Wars 2

Badges of Honor requires immense amounts of player kills to obtain, the drop rate is completely random, and as is it would take the average player months (2 months without jumping puzzle dailies, seeing as they’ve been bugged for a week) to obtain playing casually . My suggestions is that you make events spawn chests that give badges, or reward badges similar to the dungeon reward system. Killing and defending yaks could give 1 badge, supply camps 3, towers 5, and garrisons/orbs 15.

Honestly, I only want two pieces of the set for cosmetic reasons and it’s going to take me ages to get them, I play an average of 6-8 hours of WvW a day on the weekends and end up with 10 badges for my time. (I score plenty of items from players, just 95% of it is salvageable items).

1) If it’s for cosmetic reasons, what’s the rush?

But yeah. As well as that, award badges for doing WvW achievements.

Because some people like myself don’t want to grind to look cool, we want to look cool while we just play the game. It’s not an achievement, it’s a long drawn out effort scoring kills over and over while wearing kitteny medium armor that looks awful the entire time.

I hardly ever get any badges for killing people in wvw… most of those I have have been from puzzles and map completion.
When I compare a kill in which I did most of the work or damage, and other when I hardly did anything but instead went and “finished” the other guy…most of the times I get 2 badges in the second scenario and none in the first. So this makes me believe that the person that gets most credit is the one who does the killing blow, regardless of what happened before, being this a very unfair system.
It should be something similar to the DEs contribution system: bronze, silver and gold. For instance, if you got a bronze contribution to the kill you have a 50% chance to get 1 badge, if you got a silver 100% to get 1 and 50% to get 2, and if you got a golden then 100% chance to get 2 badges.
And make badges not lootable but a currency like karma!!

+1
The badges rewards are inconsistent . Those of us with condition builds / support builds aren’t getting rewarded as often as those with burst dmg builds.

I can generally accumulate 6-8 badges in the three hours I play a night, completely discarding the nights I can actually finish the jumping puzzle and 15 players aren’t camping the beast arena/dark room with arrow carts and ballistae.

Making over 12 badges a night and a handful of silver a night is fun, but it doesn’t happen often. I shrug at this, though. If you really want the vanity gear, grinding for it shouldn’t be a problem, especially with WvWvW being as fun as it is. And…

…I’m just glad there’s no ‘resilience’ in GW2.

there are called “Badges of Honor”
not “Badges of Murder” or “Badges of Slaughter” or “Badges of Killing” etc.

why can we only get them via killing enemy players in wvw?
sure we can get them from jumping puzzles chests too but why limit it to those 2 only?

reviving defeated allies (killed by enemy players in wvw) should have a chance to get honor badges too since reviving is an honorable act etc.

killing dolyaks, escorting dolyaks, etc etc.

I just dont want to have to loot them, it info roaring to die and see six bags laying around you. I’m too busy actualy playing to hit the f key all the time!