Guild Wars 2

Cerise.9045:

You don’t need to finish a player to get credit for the kill.

Indeed not. But (no clue if this is a bug or not) I find I rarely get kill credit unless I do damage to the target whilst they are downed.
I don’t have to execute, but I do have to stand there spamming auto-attack.

I’m playing a ranger and I understand your trouble.

The problem is that generally fights in WvW will be stalemates where no one really dies (except a few that position foolishly) until one side routs and the other team charges them down.

I don’t know why, but I only seem to get kill credit and loot for a player if I stand there mindlessly shooting at them whilst they are downed. (If I try charge them for the execute, a melee player finishes it before I can do anything, I get nothing for the kill.)

I think that something should be tweaked regarding credit for player kills, because currently I get rewarded significantly more heavily for mindlessly spamming low damage AoE than I do for picking off single targets caught out of position, or taking out the enemy siege from behind.