Guild Wars 2

I have some questions about contributing to the WvW objectives.
I notice sometimes I get the reward for capturing keeps or towers when I don’t make it to the Lord in times, and sometimes I don’t get anything. Usually I don’t get to touch the siege (I heard if you poke the gate you tag the contribute already.)

So, question is, if a player melee DPS the gate, and just run off killing enemy players, does he get reward for the objective (tower/keep etc) ?

How important is staying inside the cap zone waiting for the tick ?
Thanks.

Sometimes, with supply camps for example, if you were there earlier and you helped defend it, or kill off a few npcs to flip it but got chased off .. when someone from your team actually succeeds in flipping it, you’ll get a partial reward (because at some point you were there helping), no matter where you are on the map.

Pay attention to the details of the reward — it will usually say which objective flipped, and you can then look at a map and determine if you were there earlier.

Now this doesn’t mean every time it flips you get rewarded. It just means you get rewarded until it’s flipped once.

As for towers/keeps, you have to do enough damage (just like pve mob bosses) for it to register and give you a reward. If you just tap the gate a couple times, chances are the rest of the crew who stuck around behind will do more damage and subsequently get the reward. So no, you can’t tap a gate and run off and get reward, unless you do significant damage/contribute.

Staying inside the cap zone will reward you wxp. If you don’t stay within it, you won’t get the wxp.

Afaik for defending you need to kill 1 enemy player nearby(do enough damage to qualify for loot) during the 3 minutes to get credit.

For attacking I think either staying in the circle(when it gets full – going there 1 second then leaving and letting others complete it does not count) or doing enough damage(to qualify for loot) to the lord(tower, keep, sm) or supervisor(camps) or sentry is enough. I usually already move if I get loot(bags, empyrial shards) since there is sure loot at these mobs… so I know I can start moving and don’t need to wait in the circle. If no loot I’ll wait.

Killing players, killing walls or gates does not count for event credit while attacking, afaik. And I don’t think killing the normal npcs there counts.

Also as Jayne said it remembers if you were there earlier sometimes(if you qualified per damage on the lord but could not cap it then).

Luthan.5236:

Killing players, killing walls or gates does not count for event credit while attacking, afaik. And I don’t think killing the normal npcs there counts.

BZZZT wrong.

Killing 3 people in the event area while the keep is owned by an enemy counts for gold credit to the dynamic event.

Killing 3 guards will get you gold credit at a keep, its something I do quite often while roaming or havocing is to kill off 3 guards at an enemy keep then go back to harassing dolyaks/supplydepots/sentries. That way I get full credit if my server takes the keep later (even if its MUCH later).

Walls and doors count too.

Keep in mind you must be in the event area for this to count so if you kite the guards out of the event area then kill them you will not get credit.

The reason most people think walls don’t give credit is because they are killing the wall while their character is outside the event area, so it doesn’t count for credit for that event.

That’s interesting. Where did you get these numbers. By trying out for yourself? Or is this in wiki or somewhere mentioned by a dev? I only noticed by coming to a tower late when we already capped it that I didn’t get reward when I killed 1 enemy(got loot). So I thought they did not count. Did not know it was 3.

So probably at defensive event it also is 3? Since defending you can easily kill more enemies it should bet at least 3 or higher then but I think sometimes I got already at 1 only.

Walls dont count if too far. Tested with trebs and catas. Killed wall, let others take, no credit. ran multiple tests. Had to be almost against the walls.

Doors and guards seem to. Sometimes the circle bugs when just standing in it and gives you no credit, but it isn’t often.

When the walls go down if you’ve been manning the cat you do get wxp/xp. I have run/built catas to get the walls down on garrison and towers so many times solo, and each time the walls go down I see those blue wxp and yellow xp numbers. Not sure why you aren’t getting any. It’s different cap wxp/xp for actual tower though, but I’ve been on the other side of the map and gotten credit for the flip, maybe because I was part of the initial attack (and ran to start push on other tower to split our attack)? Dunno, will have to pay closer attention and report back.