Guild Wars 2

None of my other friends have complained about this, so I don’t know if it is just me or not.

Within the last couple days I’ve been doing some events and only getting bronze rewards. Except, I’ll be there from start to finish, attacking the entire time, I even use Time Warp and speed up my attacks, I summon illusions so they do damage, I drop Chaos Storm and do even more damage. Why shouldn’t I be getting gold? Last night a friend and I duo’d a champion in a Norn area. It took us around 15 minutes. That’s 15 minutes of NON STOP ATTACKING. What would be the issue? Why wouldn’t I get a freaking gold from that? I didn’t even get loot, yet he did. What’s the issue here? I’ve tried using different weapons to see if maybe my staff just wasn’t pumping out enough damage, but it happens with all my weapons.

Kill drops are largely (entirely?) determined by damage contributions. Support, CC, and healing roles receive lesser rewards, while DPS is favoured. I haven’t encountered the exact issue that you’re describing; I’ve generally seen Bronze rewards in PvE only when I stumble on an Event at the last minute and barely help out at all. Assuming that it isn’t just a bug, here are some suggestions:

• check your gear. Ensure that it’s level-appropriate and that its stats are appropriate to your build (e.g. condition damage or precision or whatever).
• run Dungeons. Chests and completion rewards are given to all party members.
• participate in world boss fights. The chest rewards are quite generous and you don’t need to do a huge amount of damage in order to earn them.
• do WvW events. You can get Gold credit for most of them based on presence/proximity, even if you never attack anything.
• if you’re doing group PvE, then optimize for damage. As a Mesmer, you’ll probably want to either summon a lot of clones and shatter them OR summon a few Phantasms and keep them up. You might also consider switching to Sword for your main weapon – it has respectable DPS and surprisingly good frontline survival (once you understand how to use dodge, interrupt, distortion, etc).
• petition/complain about it until the developers boost kill rewards for non-DPS roles.

Sometimes it makes no sense. There are times when I know I put in major dps on my warrior and then I get bronze. Other events I have shown up in the last 15 seconds of an event, shot a few things and got gold.

It seems to be based off of effort/time.

If I’m at an event standing around for mobs to come in, randomly it seems like I get silver.

However if I make it to thelast 30 sec of a 6 min event, but that full 30 sec I’m attacking and killing, I’ll get gold.

It could be a bug though, if it’s happening all the time. Use the report bug feature in game with kitten of the event and you getting bronze

report it. if it’s a bug, hopefully they can fix it. there are account specific bugs still lingering in this game.

for example, masterwork harvesting tools are completely useless on my account, almost always returning scrap materials instead of anything usable, regardless of level. report it, hope for a fix in the future. best you can do.