Guild Wars 2

My participation score is erratic and seems to drop for no reason while I am active. I have been reporting it, but was just wondering if this was a common issue or a known bug.

No, it’s not degrading – it will drop even though I am active in events and kills. I get event credit and xp pop ups during this time and it still drops for no reason I can detect. The latest example is going from 82% during a large scale battle in which I was getting player kills. I died, WPed and noticed it had dropped down to 7%. I went from about 90% after capturing a keep, and then 2 minutes later after capturing a sentry point, it was in the 20s. It happens in WvW and EotM.

Like I said, I have reported this, but right now I am more interested in seeing if this is something other people are experiencing. When I run with guildies who do the same content I do in WvW, they don’t have this problem.

Are you sure that you aren’t just moving up to a different level of participation tier? The progress bar is per-tier, so if you are not capped for participation then it would make sense to move from 90% to 20% after earning WxP (you filled in the last 10% of the current tier and earned 20% of the next tier with the sentry cap).

When you start out you are at 0%, and then work your way up to 100% for the first tier (25 track points I think?). You then start back at 0% and work your way up to 100% again to get to the next tier (60 track points). This keeps repeating for each tier until you get to 195 track points and cap out at 100%.

What you’re describing sounds exactly like this.

I think it is. Someone explained it to me and I came back here to say so. I’m a bit embarrassed now, lol. Can you tell I don’t WvW much? :p