Guild Wars 2

Now correct me if I’m wrong, but you get event participation based on the damage you deal while the event is happening. So just helping other players will not get you any participation.

Example:
If you have a support build, lets say a Water Attuned Ele, and all you did was run around on a world boss event and cast healing spells and revived downed players, not casting a single hit on the boss, you would not get any participation experience when the boss is defeated.
Or even more extreme is all you did was revive fallen players.

There should be event participation for those who keep everyone else alive. Why does everyone have to deal damage to be counted?

Maybe count a part of the revived players damage output after revival towards the person who revived them.
Or make the number of HP revived count towards participation score.
Other ideas?

This would count for buffs as well.