Guild Wars 2

Seriously. as a support type Guardian I get crap for badges. My kills in the past two hours in WvW has gone up by 200 and I have received 1 badge from all my bags, all 8 of them.

C’mon – there has to be some reward for being support (aside from helping your server), right now, it’s craptastic.

My mistake I thought your main complaint was no support role love. Are you talking total numbers of bags you’ve picked up off the ground or total numbers of loot bags in your inventory? You should have gotten many many more badges than that off of 200 kills. When I run my support thief build I still get about 1 badge out of 6 kills. Are you doing any damage or just running the role of spiker?

Hammer damage, staff AOE, heals. I don’t die often so, picking up my bags is easy. Just not getting many bags and even less badges. I’d say in the past few days – 500 kills and, maybe 20 badges, 50 loot bags.

I mean if I fire off as a DD, sure I’ll get a bunch, but, that’s not the role I actually enjoy playing. Support is just not getting the rewards.

Just really discouraging.

I play full support Guardian like yourself and the only real way to get badges in bulk is having to play more aggressive with the staff and walls of reflection.

WoF will get you the most tags. Staff symbol does dmg and you can throw it in a group of enemies. Got up close, throw some hits, and retreat.

I mean, I don’t care about badges ATM. I just use them to buy siege.

Try spending the evening escorting yaks and building siege in camps, keeps and towers and see how many you get

I currently spend more (repair bills, blue prints) than I make in WvW (which is all I care to play) and am not happy that important tasks that don’t involve lots of killing go largely unrewarded.

I know ANet is rightly concerned with bots. I would be fine with account-bound rewards that I could use for gear and blue prints as a reward the time and effort, and offset the expense of doing the dirty work. Something is better than nothing.