Guild Wars 2

I’ve been trying to search for a topic on this to no avail, so I’m just going to ask for some clarification. Do defeated players, ones you have to do hard revives for, count towards the scaling of enemies during events such as in the Silverwastes?

I hear people go back and forth on this during Vinewrath and the wiki doesn’t seem to provide any information regarding this specifically besides, “Events scale both up and down according to the number of players who are currently participating.”, which I’m under the assumption is that when you tag an enemy in the area, you’re participating, whether you’re active, downed, or defeated.

Can anyone clarify for me? Thank you in advance.

I believe dead players count towards the scaling as well. If they didn’t, then having 15 people dead out of 20 fighting a boss would still make it a doable fight. Which it doesn’t.

Arenanet staffers have posted elsewhere on this forum that once players become inactive, they no longer contribute to the scaling of an event. That said, they did not share how long a player has to be inactive/defeated/AFK in order to stop contributing. It might take a few minutes, which in the case of a Vinewrath boss is entirely too long.