Guild Wars 2

Well, I forgot how many times I lost exp due to inactivity while I’m active in an event. For example; the pact survivors event. While I’m just following the survivors, because there’s literally nothing else to do, the game suddenly says I’m not attending to this event anymore due to inactivity, and I don’t get any exp when the even ends. I saved every single pact survivor the event needs, which is 10, and I killed every mob on the way, but I got no exp, because the event tells me nothing to do and just follow the survivors?

I also had the same problem on several different events. Not fun, ArenaNet, not fun at all.

I complained about that event over a year ago because the NPC’s run slow enough that they cause you to lose credit. the only workaround I found was to make sure that I killed whatever spawned before they reached the camp.

There was the one where you escorted the three pact leaders for that camp. The event didn’t end until after their long conversation which could also cause you to lose credit.

It seems to be extremely variable on what it does. I’ve not had what you describe, but I have quite often been told that I won’t receive rewards due to inactivity… for an event that ended possibly over ten minutes prior. I’ve also occasionally contributed 1 kill/handin to an event and then wandered away but remained in the map, and 5-15 minutes later been awarded gold participation.

It’s also inconsistent as none of the events on the new map have the inactivity timer. You. An tag an event and then AFK to get credit when someone eventually completes it. I’ve left events several times because I got annoyed by the scaling only to get credit much later while doing something else.