Guild Wars 2

I’m an Engineer ( grenade build ) doesnt matter if i use rifle or grenades i seldom get a loot bag with badges of honor. Went 2 hours, was in on lots of kills, some solo and no badges while others were getting lots.

Can some one please explain why im not getting my fair share ?

No idea… I can kill ppl from start to his death alone n din get anything. I can hit ppl 3 hits n get 2 medals. Go figure…

For the most part, if you’re tagging kills you’re doing the right thing to get badges. (You can tell you’re tagging if you get xp.) Beyond this there’s nothing special to get the badge. (Unless someone can confirm that MF makes a difference.)

I’ve gotten roughly 750 badges for 4k kills or about 20%.

There are a couple of things I can add that I have seen or heard.

Firstly if you are in a group, your drop rate goes up, even if not helping each other. I have experienced this, I do not see the logic behind it or have an explanation.

Next you have to watch the ground sometimes bags take a couple of seconds to spawn and can easily be missed. This might be due to the rendering bug who knows.

I have about 1500 kills and about 200 badges. I am sure I missed a mountain of bags while killing and moving, or getting killed before being able to loot.

Other then that if your getting xp for the kills you are doing the right thing. Just understand the drop rate is very low and its a bad system, that is why there are so many complaints about it on this forum.

pigtaro.2749:

No idea… I can kill ppl from start to his death alone n din get anything. I can hit ppl 3 hits n get 2 medals. Go figure…

Now that seems quite… random…

Camo.7581:

pigtaro.2749:

No idea… I can kill ppl from start to his death alone n din get anything. I can hit ppl 3 hits n get 2 medals. Go figure…

Now that seems quite… random…

Yes. Very random. I haven’t been able to see any pattern to it. But 20% is about right. I got almost 5000 kills n 1000 badges so far.

At first I thought if u hit e enemy enough u have a better chance of getting a badge. But only recently I hit a guy in his downed state 3 times n I got 2 badges. So I guess e badge is really random.

Not random. Deal more dmg to enemies you get higher drop rate of badges (I tried playing my tank elem and my Glass Cannon thief) It seems that my thief gets more badges than my elem and it isnt random. In fact, if you try to put a Ballista in front of the spawn port of your enemy server and ballista the hell out of the people in there ( when in ballista you deal 5k dmg to enemies) there you can see the the bags dropping in your side contains atleast 1 badge per enemy you hit with your ballista and dies

I used to think that too… Until 1 got 2 badges wif just 3 hits. Lvl 80 ranger, so very little dps. If its so, then I must be very lucky tt day

I have 1k WvW kills and only 100 badges. Have spent about 10 or something on siege though. But not much improvement.

My issue is that it takes a moment for bags to render when you get a kill. So if you’re not paying attention you can run by your loot bags. As a result if I’ve been in a big scrap i tend to do a quick double back and most times I’ll have missed some bags.

I hate the rendering issues in WvW.

The dps is the factor I’d say… I have about 640 kills and 100 badges on my Engineer. Mostly ranged attacks… my gear is all <75 @80. More than half my badges are from using Siege equipment… the ‘big’ hits. If your dps sucks… which mine does atm… and you aren’t the one planting the ‘flag’… you aren’t going to get badges. Siege is about the only exception to planting the flag.

Kinda sucks… as even when my dps goes up… more and more folks will have legendaries…and then my better dps will still be lower… which will continue to equate to lower badge counts.

Same old tune.

Don’t forget to spam your action key lads.