Guild Wars 2

This is becoming a bit of an issue. There have been instances where a player is either downed or in an unfavourable position and they have logged out, denying kills and loot, then logging straight back in again.

I know some are doing this to save on armour costs, but I see 2 sides to this. Firstly players aren’t getting the rewards from putting the effort in to get kills, and putting themselves in the same situation (mostly being honourable enough to take the hits and pay out repair costs). The other side is that it isn’t that hard to make money in the game. There are npcs and gathering spots which can provide income to offset repair costs, so really if you are just standing around, looking for fights there is no real excuse

The dark side to this is that people are using this to troll, deliberately going after the same people and doing it over and over.

A couple of suggestions would be that if a player is in combat they still incur the penalties and opposing players get the kill rewards, or include a deserter debuff like in Guild Wars 1, denying them access to WvW for a certain period of time. Either way, this issue needs to be addressed.