Guild Wars 2

I, fairly recently, came back to GW2 after an extended break and have noticed a couple of things with the World Events that I would like to see adjusted.

1) Change the “knock back” mechanic to a “knock down” mechanic. For those like my warrior (hand to hand combat) and my elementalist (delayed area attack, e.g. Ice Spike), having the Veterans and Elites knocked back is just a pain. Having several rangers knocking the mini-boss back and forth is truly annoying. The mechanic is OK for soloing, but just shouldn’t be used in group events.

2) Aiding allies should count toward the group event award. My Water-Staff elementalist and staff gaurdian are trying to help keep the melee group alive and condition free, but not doing a whole lot of damage. It is annoying to get silver or bronze rewards because we didn’t deal much damage. I know the awards aren’t much, but they do add up over time. If I did 5000 damage which might get me a silver, would the 5000 in healing and 10 conditions removed get me a gold?