Guild Wars 2

I support and defend and upgrade.

What do I get? Karma. Worthless to me karma.

Why am I getting karma for defending a tower instead of badges?
Why am I getting nothing for upgrading?
Why am I not rewarded for supporting?

What incentive do I have to WvW as a defending support for my team out in the field if Im robbed of badges for it ontop of it costing me ingame gold??

Please add a badge reward for being a defender, upgrader, and supporter.

I am in fully exotic gear now, I have 61 badges of honor and 700 pvp kills in wvwvw.
something is wrong, I don’t even have enough to buy 1 piece of gear… lol

I too feel punished. WvWvW needs a serious overhaul.

Half the time I don’t know whats happening because I can’t see my team on the map. Devs should take a long look on how the BF3 map/team system is.

I’m so glad Im not the only one. I was feeling like my game was bugged or something. I have countless hundreds of kills and I loot everything I can, yet I have 28 badges. How do people get anywhere close to 300? I am in WvW all the time building and upgrading from my own earned cash and I get squat! I need a reward and a feeling of progression or whats the point anymore? Thats not fun.

I think it’s more like your general approach that is the issue.
Of what I can read here, all your reasons have been for one person only. Yourself.

I understand where you are coming from however. I hate defending anything, as a guardian, because unless I use a scepter, I lag ranged firepower severely and that doesn’t get me many badges, however I can live with this, I still enjoy playing my class and I enjoy playing WvW.

With that said, I still watch WvW and SPvP like this… SPvP = for the single-player/small team guy (the guy fighting for own personal gain, aka you guys). While WvW is for the guy who fights for his/her server and for the benefits of the server.

And to what Vigilence said about the team coordination. There will soon be commanders running around which will help a whole lot.

“What is a commander?”
A commander is a player that can form something called a “squad”, a “squad” is a bit like a raid group from various other MMOs. However, there’s an unlimited amount of space in a squad (for as far as I know) and there are no “raid interface”. The grand idea with a squad is coordinating people. The commander / leader of the squad, can place various signs on everyone in the squad’s map, such as “attack here”, “Defend here”, “Move here” etc.

“How do I become a commander?”
There are NPCs in the WvW and I even found one in Divinity’s Reach that sells a book named “Commander’s Compendium” I think it was called. It grants the character the ability to create squads.
However, Anet wanted to make sure that only dedicated leaders become commanders, hence why they set the price of this book to 100 gold. (which I believe is very positive.)

“How do I join a squad?”
When you target the commander or ANYONE IN THE SQUAD, you can right-click on their portrait and simply click the “Join Squad” botton.
Easy, simple andkitteneffective to pull together all those stragglers around on the map, who otherwise run around like headless chickens.

PS: A tip to how I got +80 badges without much trouble… Arrow carts… You get lots of kills with arrow carts. Lots of kills = lots of loot. Lots of loot = a good chance of badges!

That’s what I get most of my badges from, even though I lack ranged firepower (because I choose not to use a scepter).

Yeah, I have 40 tokens. I loot everything I can, I do my damnedest to slaughter foes. Half the time I don’t even get exp for killing someone. It’s bull. Damage a player, get exp when they die. If they drop a loot bag, get a single badge. Period. The gear you get from them isn’t leet as far as I’ve seen anyway.

I’ve spent 2g in repair bills from dying. How much have I made from WvW? Maybe 20s tops. It’s bad enough siege costs money that you don’t make. If you die to a mob, whatever, but please remove repair bills from player-involved deaths. Even WoW did that, and they want you to spend time to farm gold.