Guild Wars 2

Why, why why, Are there no badges of honor for support orientated classes???? Why. Why does Anet neglect Support Classes? This is a highly arguable issue. Why am I not getting Badges of honor for what I do as a support class? Why Anet, Why? Why can’t I be as praised as any Zerker class build in wvw for playing a support class character?

What are the ways you can get Badges of honor? Do they even include support class options?

I recieve maybe 1 per 3 hours. what gives Anet? whats the problem with the way I play?

This is obviously important to you, given the fact you’ve bumped your own thread twice in the space of 5 minutes.

I play a support Guardian. It could be your playstyle as I have no problems with Badges. I certainly don’t get as many as the Damage dealers, but I do get quite a few.

Same to me, I have a Guardian and a Necro, I can get much more badged with Necro mainly on zerg vs zerg fights… lots of area damage effects. But I can get a good share of it with my Guardian too, and I play full support with him.

Mesmer support here, well, mainly support, Im just bad at my profession, mesmers suck at tagging enemies, hence we only get a few kills=few badges, but I haven’t seen the problem really, I got my 500 badges for the legendary (which one day in this year I may get) got some invader weapons for my alts, and at the beginning I used to spend all of them for siege. still have some extra in my inventory.

Get in a group with Dps classes, you support them, they kill you get badges! Do that support thing you claim to do!

Dredrum.2563:

Get in a group with Dps classes, you support them, they kill you get badges! Do that support thing you claim to do!

There’s still a horrible annoying lack of badges for support! 1-2 badges per 3 hours is terrible and should be fixed! It should not be based on group damage!

Simple. There is no honour in support. All support classes are dishonourable.

CHIPS.6018:

Simple. There is no honour in support. All support classes are dishonourable.

I suppose theres honor in jumping puzzles?

My Necromancer is built as a tank and I stack nothing but Power, Toughness, and Vitality. I don’t trait into Curses, or Soul Reaping and I only put 10 points into Spite just to get the reduced cool-down on Focus abilities. I still manage to easily get about 20 to 30 Badges of Honor every hour or two and I would classify myself as a tank support. Learning to damage your foes significantly while supporting your allies will increase loot bag drops and as such, will indirectly increase the chance you get Badges of Honor.

If you are struggling to get Badges of Honor as drops here are some things you should consider:

1. Bags of Loot are dropped from slain enemies but the only way to attain these drops is by DAMAGING your opponents. You must deal a marginal amount of damage to your opponent before he is slain. Surprisingly, this amount is very small and may only be about 10 to 15 percent.

2. Are you level 80? If not the amount of damage you can deal is quite little as you don’t have max stats, max traits, or rare/exotic gear to amplify your damage output. Once you hit 80 and are geared your damage output will balance out and naturally, more bags will drop.

3. Are you in a party? Parties provide more chances of dropping loot, both literally and figuratively. Drop chances are increased and it’s easier to do more damage to a particular target because your party can single him out.

4. Are you running with the zerg? It’s much harder to get Bags of Loot to drop in a zerg because so many people are attacking an opponent so quickly. Often it may seem that you hit an enemy hard but it’s likely your allies melted him before you could even do 10 percent of his health in damage.

If you want Badges of Honor the fastest I would suggest running a 5 man havoc team and flip camps while ganking enemy players. Make sure, even if you “support” that you are damaging your target as much as possible. I guarantee this will increase the chances of getting badges quickly and efficiently.

I get about 1 an hour or so on my shout heal hammer warrior, and thats running straight into 50 people and fighting through the thick of it.

meanwhile my zerker mesmer just gets constant badges, throw a ibezerker into the zerg at 1200 range and i’m tripping over bags for far far less work.

thats just how it is