Guild Wars 2

This is not a biggie but this morning I was doing the daily events thing and I happened to be in a map with many, many players doing the same. I missed out on being counted as having “done” some of the events despite being present throughout them. And on the flip-side I got credit for an event that I had only just reached, before I had chance to do anything.

On the “defend the base” type events most of the attackers were being intercepted and trashed miles away from the base, by players who knew the spawn points. I was standing inside the orange circle with nothing to defend against so I can understand it if the game decided I was not participating on that particular one. However, on one of the “escort” events I followed the oh-so-slow pack bull and made sure I tagged some of the ambushers but still did not get a credit for the event. It was notable that due to the large quantity of players the mobs were going down in seconds so registering a kill was not easy but I definitely hit a few and got some loot to prove it.

There were plenty of events and it did not take me long to notch up the 4 I needed but I am curious as to what I could have done differently.

So my question is what is the criteria for being deemed to be have “done” an event?

it depends on the event, but generally: tagging mobs. the orange area circles are just guidelines, and have nothing to do with where you will earn event credit.

pro tip: if you are in a party, you get credit for the mobs they tag, and they get credit for yours. since this is shared you also get equal tagging for loot tables and the like. this is why everyone in large boss fights or event chains are spamming “LFG” in local chat.