Guild Wars 2

I’m wordering what anet thinks we should be making in terms of badges per hour…

I do about 2-3 hours of WvW pretty much every day that I can play and during those hours I make about 1-3 badges! I’ll travel around with the zerg or shoot a treb at a wall for 20 mins or defend keeps, pretty much a little bit of everything and I’m only making 1-3 badges a day.

To buy a full set of wvw badge gear (not including weapons) costs 1889 badges. so if i average out my 1-3 per day to 2/day it’ll take me 944.5 days. That’s just over 2 and half years! This really does not seem right…

I think there should be way more oportunities for badges in WvW. like getting them for participating in keep takeovers and whatnot. Also maybe they should just go directly in your invintory because when there’s 50 people around you trying to kill you there isn’t really enough time to stop and loot stuff. Not only that, just spotting the loot can be tricky, there’s just so much going on at all times.

I likely wont buy every single badge piece but im sure there are those out there that might want to and 2 and half years really does not seem right….

Im an ele, you want some spare badges bro?

yes please. lol

Hi,

I’m pretty sure the drop rate during beta was higher (2 in every non-npc lootbag). Maybe they didn’t adjusted the price of items.

Anyway, you can also get badges by doing the puzzles jumps (5-6), or do enough damages to structure’s “lord” when capping (1-2 badges).

i think the drop rate is okay…not perfect. but i have 10k kills, iv got about 1650 badges…not including the countless ones im sure iv missed.

But yea..ele…so i get heaps in comparison.

I think the drop rate was high in beta, it was nerfed at one point in live but im pretty sure its decent again now.

You can get around 40 per day just doing all 4 WvW jump puzzles daily.

^ considering you can do them and have the territory without trouble.

I, as a thief, dont have too many aoe spam crap. I can try bowing while defending, but that’s about it. And I really have a hard time trying to get these things, it’s really troublesome.

@sirevanac, have you tried spinning to win?

For some classes, getting badges is rough whilst for others (Ele) its pretty easy. I think one of the problems is that quite often, bags can quite easily be hard to spot etc. I think the badges should be automatically rewarded to the player instead of a random drop in a bag that the player may or may not actually see.

Sirevanac.3178:

^ considering you can do them and have the territory without trouble.

I, as a thief, dont have too many aoe spam crap. I can try bowing while defending, but that’s about it. And I really have a hard time trying to get these things, it’s really troublesome.

I, also a thief, don’t have any problems with any badges. D/D, P/P with a handy shortbow in inventory and that’s it. I’m crit damaged spec with 25/30/0/15/0 with emphasis on singling people out of the mob. I’ve gotten more badges on my thief than I have on my elementalist. I just bought a Gift of Battle yesterday and roughly sitting at 170 badges left. Here’s some inspiration.

All it takes is manipulation of your skills/build to the maximum advantage.

I’ve missed tons of bags, and I still have about 1,500 stockpiled. Loot bags are determined with a similar system to PvE- be sure to tag players with damage instead of going pure support.

Similarly, if you only roll with MASSIVE zergs, you won’t get to tag as many kills (you may get exp, but you’ll get fewer bags).

The sweet spot seems to be taking down massive zergs with 5-20 players- loot bags, loot bags everywhere. Jumping puzzles and taking down Supervisors at camps, Tower, and Keep lords are other good sources, as others have mentioned. Manning siege when under assault will often net you tons of bags- I got knocked off my arrow cart and found myself surrounded by bags! Just wish they had F-free autolooting in WvW….

@Monsoon

They drop every 1/3 or 1/4 kill for me. But I do actually get bags from just even stabbing a downed opponent once or twice just before the finisher or damage finishing.

anyone notice a significant increase in bag drops (and therefore badges) after tonight’s patch? Maybe they tweaked the algorithm to give more badges to roles other than heavy DPS (i’m support ele)…idk, i was getting them at a much higher clip after servers came back up. could just be a coincidence i suppose.

I am making about 4-5 badges an hour on average, I think. You have to make sure you spam “F” to pick stuff up.

Just in the last three days, I’ve picked up about 110 badges.

They really, really should make badges in WvW go directly to your inventory or some sort of gold-like currency system rather than dropping a loot bag. It was a problem that was, if I remember correctly, talked about briefly during the beta weekend events, but nothing was done about it.

@schadensfreude:
what class you playing?

I, as a now level 73 ranger on Ehmry Bay, have gotten six badges. I have played over 16 hours of WvW, and almost never do anything but participate in insults and large fights where I help kill many, many enemies.

I get the experience points for each kill, the game registers my participation. But I only get a loot bag about every 15-20 kills, even when I ignore the fight and meticulously comb the area to make sure it didn’t drop where I previously was (since, you know, shortbow tends to make me need to move around quite a lot to get those bleeds). I don’t usually get loot bags when I finish the enemy, either.

Of the loot bags I do get, well, six badges. I also get the experience, but my WvW kill count doesn’t go up. These have to be related, but I’m getting really frustrated. I was participating back when Ehmry Bay could actually accomplish anything, and I noticed I just wasn’t getting the kills in my log, but was getting the kills when it came to gaining experience. I have no idea what’s going on, but it makes the entire idea of WvW completely worthless to me right now.

The reason why I think badges are hard to get is because if you scroll down to the bottom of exotic weapons (or armor, forgot which) there is an item needed for legendary weapons. Making the badges drop at a reasonable rate would make legendary weapons easy to get now would it?
So to say, having an unreasonable drop rate on badges is actually reasonable in some sense.

Also if you really want badges, I suggest the jumping puzzles if you can do them; they can give 10-20 for each one finished. I’m not sure if EB gives more because of the difficulty.

I also seem to get a horribly low rate of badges. I’ve done many hours of WvWvW as an ele and only have about 200 badges. Although, part of this issue (maybe a big part) is that I am sure I have passed up “many” bags. Also, I have played as support ele for a good portion of my time, and I don’t believe support is rewarded for their help. I guess just being pure dps is the most rewarding at the moment.

Im a Guardian.

Im getting 80-100 badges daily ( about 4-6h of wvw all maps )
Sorry but problem is on ur side.

I was feeling in a similar boat. I am a trap/condition damage ranger, but before I wasn’t really choosing the right traits. Recently I adjusted them along the precision line for some ground-targeted traps and faster recharg, etc, and I have noticed a spike in my pickup. It frustrates me that I love my ranger, and I am really jealous of the ele’s that get to brag about their badges because of their awesome AoE. Mobile trabs are helping, but yea, I play a lot of WvWvW, I feel like I am at least a decent player and I think it will be awhile until I get what I think is an acceptable number.

Granted, I dunno if I even want to use the Invader’s gear because it has no condition damage, and about 75% of my damage comes from traps, so I might just stop doing WvW for awhile.