Honor Badges
Badges of honor are funny. When you need them, you don’t have anywhere near enough. When you don’t need them, you end up with way more than you could ever spend.
Maguuma
1 kill should equal 1 badge – no exceptions.
Obviously the price of items should be increased accordingly
Terror [TG]
Dragonbrand
I agree. But I also realize that rewards in this game are crap, unless you want to mindlessly farm dungeons. It was my belief that they wanted to get rid of farming. Or did they change that motto at some point?
Also, aren’t bags suppose to turn into chests if they have something valuable in them? I’ve picked up a few badges inside bags, I believe they are chest worthy, given the rarity of them.
Kal Snow – Norn Guardian
Badges of honor are funny. When you need them, you don’t have anywhere near enough. When you don’t need them, you end up with way more than you could ever spend.
This totally… When i wanted invaders badges to build a bunker engi, I wouldn’t get any.
Now that I do not need it I am swimming in badges so I just buy random stuff like gift of battle(which I had no intention of using and probably will not use) or 50 arrow cart bpcs, golem prints and forge omegas for the heck of it.
Changes are days away. Flame on if you need to though.
As for drop rates – zerging is the worst way to farm badges. Small group capping is as fast, generates more encounters, encounters which resolve as quickly, and result in more badge drops. I always make sure to burst as much damage as I can on a kill before he dies. I get 1 or 2 badges every other kill.
That said, yes, bring on the loot changes including badge drop rates. (todays update should effect WvW aswell as PvE)
You can get an exotic off the trader with minimal effort, yet to get an orange invader is hours and hours of WvW. Even if you run in a grp slaughtering it takes a lot of time. I don’t get why it is such a big discrepency. If ascended pieces eventually get bought with these I will rage a little.
There is an easy solution to this problem. Just put JPs in all the borderlands where there is a chest that will produce badges of honor. Then we can all fill the queue and farm badges without actually having to kill anything.
Anet has recognize they need to add incentive to playing wvw, which likely involves better badge rewards.
I got well over 300 over the weekend, not hard to get, really less complaining and more killing and you will have your badges.
Commander Plok The Original Leader of Shadow of Agony [GOAT]
From my time in WvW, which maybe not alot compared to many other players, has netted me under 250 badges. The same amount of time farming now very boring dungeons(done them alot after all) would net me 3 full armor sets probably.
I bought this game to WvW, that was what caught my attention mostly, yet I do far more PvE just to so I can get my toons geared and lvled. I think thats a shame.