Guild Wars 2

Why have a minimum amount of damage dealt at all? So long as a player deals damage, lands a condition, or otherwise gets locked into combat that player should be considered tagged.

Why?

We’re all well aware of the tagging meta. Warriors, guardians, necros, and stronger aoe classes/builds tag really well (some more than others). By the simple act of showing up, and spamming auto attacks in many cases, wading into the fray with little regard for anything other than keeping stability up, and exercising blast finishers, the ability to tag, and out-tag some, is incredibly easy. Meanwhile another class or build who comes to the fight adding just as much importance via conditions, healing, or utility is not nearly as well recognized. Even though he took part, and is as important to the meta of combat as his direct damage counterparts.

Simple solution: Broaden the spectrum of what it means to tag. Make it easier, essentially, to include all.

Consider a battle, 30 v 30. Each side has a solid mix of classes and builds suited to the job at hand. For this example I’ll use some obvious extremes. So the warrior wades in, swinging his sword, tagging multiple different single target with each and every swing. That’s great, that’s what he’s good at. With ease, in the next few minutes that follow, he’s managed to hit and tag almost all of the enemy force (par for the course). At the other end of the spectrum you have the mesmer. Maybe he drops a glamor field, deals some aoe confusion procs, gets a couple hundred damage on a target from a chaos storm, drops a clone in the midst of a zerg which gets instantly killed dealing random conditions (such as vulnerability, or some piddly damage bleed), fires off an iWarden as folks are running by, catching only a single hits worth of damage . All things that often times aren’t even enough to tag an enemy (or simply not designed to), but still have their place in the game. What would be the result from broadening the tagging spectrum given this scenario?

The warrior will still do max tagging as always. Only now the mesmer will be playing the same game, and getting equally recognized for his involvement. Thus everybody wins.

Yes/No? Why/Why Not?

Why not, rewards are comparatively terrible in WvW anyways, why not increase them for those who can’t tag much at the moment. However, I’d rather have more exciting updates to WvW than this, and tagging minimum damage is already pretty low. So maybe put this on a low priority.