Guild Wars 2

Short Description: There are many champion kills and events where participation is not counted or is not high enough which causes people to not get credit.

Long Description: In areas with high player turnout for champion kills or champion events, players with low damage can be given no credit for the kill and sometimes even for the event in which the champions were a part.The issue seems to be that it is reliant upon team damage, which can be troublesome for those not grouped and those playing support roles over damage roles.

A great example of this is a pre-event for the Jungle Worm world boss. This pre-event involves an event with 3 champions. From the perspective of a support character (Druid/staff) I have damaged from above 50% health down to below 50% health on the champions and not received credit for the kill (noted by not receiving any experience). Even when managing to do damage (both in the above 50% life phase and below) on all 3 champions, without receiving credit for an individual champion kill no subsequent credit is received for the event.

I apologize that I have not kept track of all the events and champions where this has commonly occurred.

I also do not know other game specific solutions for this. However, I do know that some games will consider healing as a factor of contribution, others will even consider specific buffs from support characters to the support characters dps. There may be an even more creative solution for GW2.

Thank you,
Connie Marie

Been around, and discussed, for ages. I think the advice most often given is to party-up, or use a different weapon/character/build for these type of events if seeking guaranteed reward.

Good luck.

This morning I did Teq and didn’t get the end chest. I gave plenty of damage, I took plenty of damage, I ran back and defended the batteries when required, I saw the end chest spawn but could not interact with it. Not sure what more I could have done really. I think sometimes it just doesn’t tag you as involved.

The jungle wurm pre is just all sorts of messed up. There have been many times where I’ve gotten all champ bags but still no event credit. There have been many times where I got no champ bag but still event credit. I guess it just depends on how many random other things I happen to be cleaving?

DoctorDing.5890:

This morning I did Teq and didn’t get the end chest. I gave plenty of damage, I took plenty of damage, I ran back and defended the batteries when required, I saw the end chest spawn but could not interact with it. Not sure what more I could have done really. I think sometimes it just doesn’t tag you as involved.

Just checking, do you have the pact mastery for autoloot? That loots boss chests automatically so you can’t interact with it anymore.

I agree that this issue has been around and discussed, but I do find it important enough to bring back up, especially with the new expansion specializations.

Yes, switching gear sets and specs to do more damage has definitely become easy to do, however I can say it is definitely not an appealing feature of a game to me if players feel compelled to always have a high dps spec and gear just for credit (for those who enjoy support over dps).