Guild Wars 2

I tested this with a few friends running with me in the same group. It appears that the more damage you do to an enemy target the better your chances of getting a badge of honor. Also, if you finish a downed target with a lot of health, that increases your chances of getting the badge -if you were not involved in killing him to start with-.

Given that, this is pretty bad for support players -buffs/cc/heal builds-. I can attest to that as my support ele does not get many badges yet my engineer gets more for a similar number of kills.

This has been an issue with previous MMos where healers or support players were overlooked at launch and were not getting certain pvp rewards.

Can we fix this please? At least allow party members to get the same number of badges thus encouraging team play.

Ive noticed the same when comparing my Guardian and Engineer…

Yes, mob (or player) tagging playing a very support oriented build is bad when you’re solo. It’s much better in a group. I dont have the actual numbers but lets say 10% damage tags the mob. But if someone in your group tags it, you can get credit doing 2% damage. This allows for necros dropping marks or mesmers using chaos storm / glamours to tag in groups but not solo. It really only comes into play when you’re running with a huge zerg, not in a group, and focusing on cc/conditions rather than direct damage.