Guild Wars 2

(posted in bug reports, reposting here for greater visibility)

Went out roaming for an hour WvW yesterday, as I require 60 more badges for the next war room upgrade. I figured, 60 would be easy to get. From a normal quick roaming session. For the first 30 minutes I wasn’t paying attention to my currencies. Then I checked. No change. So I started watching after each capture event.

I took 5 sentries, 2 camps and several shrines.

No badges. Nothing.

Only badges I saw yesterday were from doing the WvW dailies.

From the standpoint of guild hall war room progress, this is a serious setback/bug.

Anyone else noticing this?

Was it in WvW proper or EoTM?

I tested after you posted. Occasionally if I did not tag the camp supervisor for enough damage I would not get the 2 badges of honor.

It does work, but I suspect that is more nuanced in terms of how much damage you need to do to the boss (rather than standing in the ring). You’re more likely to get the reward if you are partied up in a group of 5 and not zerging.

I have only gotten badges of honor for capturing keeps and such.

it was in WvW proper. and I have done some additional investigation on this. 2 days ago I roamed with a buddy for about an hour and we took 4 camps, a ton of dolys and a few sentries. later on he took a keep with some friends of ours. here are our results:

camp 1: 2 badges
camp 2: 0 badges
camp 3: 1 badge
camp 4: 0 badges
keep 1: 1 badge

we both got 10 badges from 1 daily and 20 from another daily.

these results just feel low to me. I am mostly a roamer — camps, dolys, sentries and towers. prior to HoT I remember being able to go into WvW for a few hours and be able to afford buying a weapon or piece of armor from the Wvw badge vendor. at least 100 badges in a few hours.

to make matters worse, we now need them for certain guild hall war room upgrades.

i know EotM badge drops were nerfed, but it feels like WvW proper drop rate was nerfed as well.

sirjarros.4107:

it was in WvW proper. and I have done some additional investigation on this. 2 days ago I roamed with a buddy for about an hour and we took 4 camps, a ton of dolys and a few sentries. later on he took a keep with some friends of ours. here are our results:

camp 1: 2 badges
camp 2: 0 badges
camp 3: 1 badge
camp 4: 0 badges
keep 1: 1 badge

we both got 10 badges from 1 daily and 20 from another daily.

these results just feel low to me. I am mostly a roamer — camps, dolys, sentries and towers. prior to HoT I remember being able to go into WvW for a few hours and be able to afford buying a weapon or piece of armor from the Wvw badge vendor. at least 100 badges in a few hours.

to make matters worse, we now need them for certain guild hall war room upgrades.

i know EotM badge drops were nerfed, but it feels like WvW proper drop rate was nerfed as well.

Yes, farming Badges is now a nightmare, the droprate is 0-2 for practically all objectives now (regular WvW and EotM). While most items you can buy cost in the hundreds of badges :S
Especially the fact that you rely on RNG to even get them to begin with (since it is like a 33% chance to get nothing) makes it extra sour.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Badge_of_Honor

One never got many badges from taking camps – I think wvw wasn’t nerfed at all concerning badge drop rates, EotM was.