Guild Wars 2

Not sure if I should file this in “bugs” or suggestions. Currently, I can do WvW and rack up ~100 kills and walk out with maybe 4-8 badges. I’m judging my kill count by the stacks from my sigil versus how often I get downed; eg. after a long wvw session, I might have been downed 5 or 6 times and have 25 stacks for what feels like most of that session.

I could be and almost certainly am missing loot bags. I reflexively hit space after a kill just in case, but often the bags spawn quite slowly or not near enough to my location to loot. So, I could be missing up to maybe 50% of my true badge potential.

I understand that direct-to-inventory is planned (and I hope makes it’s way to PvE, too), but even so, that’s 8~16 out of 100 kills. IMHO, I should be getting at least one badge for every kill that I substantially assisted on.

The way it is now, it feels completely random. Some solo kills will generate nothing. Some light taps to a downed player before someone finishes him will generate 2 badges. Why this is happening is incomprehensible and really should change.

The chance of scoring a badge also has to do with the amount you contribute in terms of damage to the kill. Your stacks will come, even if you only tag an enemy in passing who is then killed shortly after. You may want to test doing more damage to single targets that die. On a good night, I can get 15-20 badges in an hour or so. However, I am a thief and usually only do high, single-target damage.

Ah, I thought that was the case, but that’s completely disproved by the time I got 2 badges for tapping a downed target once. I wasn’t mistaken about the hits, too. I did almost nothing at all and got 2. Other times, as I’ve said, I’ve gotten zero for a completely solo kill (that’s actually pretty common).

So, there’s some other mechanic going on besides total contribution or that trumps contribution; eg. it could be a range-to-target thing. I get a LOT of ranged kills and that tap was from very close range (rounded a corner and there he was with peeps on him).

Well, it’s a lot of chance right. You COULD get 2 badges for barely hitting a guy; however, you are more likely to get badges from doing more damage to them.

For example, the times I get the most badges usually are times when I am defending a tower against a zerg and lobbing Cluster Bombs on them for decent damage. But times when I am just messing around 1v1, I get less since I am contributing more, but to much fewer people.

Also, it is worth mentioning the Guild Claimers drop badges to, so you might want to get a group to go and take camps/ towers.