Guild Wars 2

Unfortunately, the length of time it takes to revive a defeated player means few people stop to do it during an event (since it’s a long chunk of time in which they don’t get contribution for the event). And trying to quickly revive a downed player often ends up with them (and the rezzer) being defeated because of attracting AoE attention from mobs (“it’s a twofer! A downed and a guy bent over him! Target that area and fire!”).

Easiest fix for this would be to add event contribution for reviving. Every tic of healing you do for a downed/defeated player would be the same as damage on the event mob for contribution.

EDIT: Zerospin apparently had the exact same idea I did as I was posting this…

The mediocre XP reward feels like a poor consolation prize considering the amount of time it takes to revive someone.

You should get more than just XP.
Karma would be nice.

Some karma (not necessarily alot, 10 for characters 3 for NPCs as stated before) would be a good addition to XP for rezzing. Since they’ve changed it so you can’t (for the most part) convert karma to gold.

They could also implement another diminishing returns system to “balance” out the exploiters. /Sarcasm….Cause we know how well those DR systems work…