Guild Wars 2

I just had this odd little idea.

Currently the badge system is largely random as far as I can tell. You seem to have a 20-30% chance to get 1-2 badges for killing an enemy. I guess it’s ok, but not really satisfying (personally I believe there’s a little more to it than just random chance).

Anyway, I was thinking what if it was possible for a player to acquire a “bounty”. Ergo, for each player you kill (must deal at least 30% damage) your bounty is increased by one badge. That means instead of dropping 0-2 badges on death at a random chance, you drop your bounty’s worth of badges.

Now this would largely be a hidden mechanic. So aside from counting players won’t know how much they are currently “worth”. The enemy players wouldn’t know either until they looted your body….and suddenly found a dozen Badges of Honor.

On the positive side ganking players would be discouraged as they’d never be worth any Badges. It might lead to a light badge inflation but nothing too drastic.

While I think it is an interesting idea….one situation pops into my mind…

People who run siege weapons would have crazy high bounties, compared to people actually fighting. I don’t think someone sitting on a ballista is worth 10+ badges just because they were using a ballista….so maybe you would have to exclude siege kills? Or make it like 1 badge per 4 siege kills or something.

I like the idea of bounties or guild/player WvW ratings.

Interesting idea but it would devalue the badges.

I say if this would be the case they should allow the badges to be put up on Trading Post…

let me make a alt account first, ill swap deaths with you everyday.
This is giong to be farmed like hell if implemented .

nice idea though.

I’m not entirely sure, but there might already be a Bounty system in place. It’s not pronounced as a system like this. This is speculative based on what Anet has said.

Anet has said that an enemy that have been up longer have a larger experience bonus reward. After 1000’s of kills in WvW. I noticed that the Bonus XP gained varies a lot. I also noticed that the higher bonus XP often has a loot bag, and even higher tends to have better chances of a badge.

If this is the case where another player has been on the battle field longer(no dying) and maybe more kills. They are becoming worth more with increased odds of a badge.

It’s only observed speculation of course. It could be what I am seeing is based on relative level. Being level 45 it could be level 80’s getting killed that are worth more with increased badge drops. However, I hear level 80’s raking in badges.