Guild Wars 2

Not getting any badges outside of running siege as a support is getting old. Though that also has a lot to do with non damage focused specs getting shafted in rewards in general.

Dynamic Events and everything in this game favors tunnel vision DPS when calculating rewards, why?

I already know condition damage and contribution is being looked into, can you at least acknowledge this issue for characters more geared for support too? All it does is really discourage people from playing beneficial specs that isn’t all about the CRAZY CRITS.

Make Badges of Honor a currency you get automatically like Karma from completing events. It sucks that my Necromancer in full Shaman gear can get Gold contribution in taking a keep but absolutely no Badges of Honor(outside of manning sieges) while the group I’ve been keeping up with wells and transfusion rakes in them by the handful.

This is an important issue because badges are used to buy the exotic Invader weapons and trinkets (Pow/Tou/Vit).

I don’t necessarily know that this is the answer. There should be a reward for the actual PvP part of WvW.

However, whatever it is should be clarified by the Devs, so players can rationally make a choice which set of armour/weapons/trinkets to go after.

Well, your main role is to do damage, whichever class you are. So if you are not, you don’t get badges. Siege is great and all, and can yield badges if done correctly, but if you could farm badges by sitting at a 100% safe spot inside a tower or keep, everyone would build siege there and get free badges for doing no work.

So yes, you get rewarded for engaging in tough fights and winning, and you get less reward for sitting in the rear with the gear, as they say.

You still get credit for a Tower or Keep capture if you’re one of the guys who helped siege the walls/gate. So that’s rewarding. Badges are rewarded for killing players. Go kill players.

You’re missing the point Vexus. We are killing players, lots of them, but we’re not getting badges for it a lot of the time. I agree with the OP on this, as a Staff Ele I enjoy WvW but I don’t feel like I’m getting properly rewarded for it at all.

I just got done discussing this after being asked, “whats the return on investment after selling all my collectables and other items, to make gold for siege equipment?”
And, I guess the only answer, is world stats?

But wait I cant trade world stats for anything? So I suggested maybe a chest would drop in the winner’s keep for 20 mins or so before the reset? That wouldn’t reward everyone who participated through out the week. And badges dropping or being gained from events would only make them Farmable.
SO, what needs to be done is:
Upon the start of a match, a timer should start in your WvWvW tab that reads x amount of hours in WvWvW this week. If your world wins the weekly match up, then you will receive an in game mail with x amount of badges and coin based on your total hours contributed to the winning teams victory. You could even throw in some siege equipment if they have dedicated x amount of siege or ungodly amounts of time.