Guild Wars 2

As the title says, what methods do you use to get the most badges of honor? I’ve seen people with a LOT of badges and I get them so very rarely. Almost half of my badges are from the jumping puzzles. Can anyone shed some light as to how you personally get those badges of honor?

Best way to get them (I think) is to kill people. And the “safest” and fastest way to do that is to defend a keep. Stand on the wall and drop oil on people zerging the door. Or use any big AoE.

I get my badges fastest when I’m on seige equip defending a keep.

Spryt.8012:

Best way to get them (I think) is to kill people. And the “safest” and fastest way to do that is to defend a keep. Stand on the wall and drop oil on people zerging the door. Or use any big AoE.

I defend a point whenever I can, but I almost never get bags of loot and fewer still have marks.

Siege engines. I’m pretty sure the odds of getting a badge are related to how much damage you did. So if you’re a support class, you should probably look into being the first guy to the cannon or else plopping down your own arrow cart or well-positioned ballista.

For example, sometimes we defend a keep by putting about 4 ballista behind the door. The enemy bashes down the door and boom-pow, they all get massacred by ballistas. I will sometimes instead stand there with my flamethrower. I get a lot fewer bags and badges with my flamethrower than I do if I’m on one of the ballistas, even though I’m pretty sure I got a piece of everyone (I get plenty of XP with the flamethrower, but fewer bags, presumably because the ballistas are getting them all).

Slamz.5376:

Siege engines. I’m pretty sure the odds of getting a badge are related to how much damage you did. So if you’re a support class, you should probably look into being the first guy to the cannon or else plopping down your own arrow cart or well-positioned ballista.

For example, sometimes we defend a keep by putting about 4 ballista behind the door. The enemy bashes down the door and boom-pow, they all get massacred by ballistas. I will sometimes instead stand there with my flamethrower. I get a lot fewer bags and badges with my flamethrower than I do if I’m on one of the ballistas, even though I’m pretty sure I got a piece of everyone (I get plenty of XP with the flamethrower, but fewer bags, presumably because the ballistas are getting them all).

Which is kind of sad because if you are geared toward support you should be…you know…supporting.

The game rewards you for dealing as much DMG as possible to as many people…and it laughs in your face if you want to help teammates and be rewarded for it. You can spend your entire time defending a keep rezzing and healing and buffing (and even debuffing), but if you got no oil
S…the game doesn’t even register that you helped defend. You get no reward. Its screwed up.