Guild Wars 2

(I’ll preface this by saying I’m not a heavy WvWer, so I have limited experience to draw on. Apologies if this is a stupid question.)

I was in my Borderland today, capped a monument on the way out of home base, and was on my way to another objective. Roughly 30 seconds after capping that first objective, a 1:30 timer countdown popped up, after which my percentage participation dissipated within seconds. Is this incredibly strict fall-off a new thing?

I could’ve sworn that grace period for “inactivity” (which, in my case, was just traveling to the next objective) was much longer; I distinctly remember playing around in WvW after the tracks were first added and someone commented that you had maybe eight or nine minutes to do another WvW activity/contribution before the countdown started and your participation degrades.

But a : 30 warning and 1:30 timer seem excessive, no? As it stands, there’s no way I can get to another objective before my participation disappears.

(EDIT) The wiki confirms my thoughts, that the “inactivity” window is supposed to be longer: 10 minutes, not thirty seconds or a minute and a half. What’s going on here? Why is my participation so quick to deplete?

Thanks.

IIRC a patch or two ago they did something to monument capping as it was too easy to just maintain your participation by walking into one every few minutes for near afk rewards.

Now you can still basically get that but at least you have to kill something (sentry) instead of just walking in and out of monuments every 10 minutes.

Edit: Found the patch message – “If a player’s only participation is capturing ruins, their WvW participation will decay faster.”

Ahh okay so it’s not the timer overall, just related to monuments. That explains it. Thanks!