Guild Wars 2

In WvW at the moment I feel like there is a real lack of support classes, I guess because people prefer to be actively killing people and doing damage rather than healing and removing conditions etc.

I started to play on a Guardian recently to help out more protecting the people I play with so that we could have greater success in some of the fights/sieges that we have. The main difference I have noticed after switching was the lack of credit for kills and capturing points.

If you don’t deal damage to a target you don’t get any credit for it, even if you were healing the people around you so that they could kill said target. This is especially true of large scale fights in keeps/towers, I have blocked a lot of projectile damage while we’re attacking a gate and after we get inside healing against the damage the defenders are putting out in there final defence and still only get silver for participating.

I think there should be a system for credit as someone who is blocking damage or effectively healing players around you. Some of the things that could be taken in to consideration for this are:

• If you heal a player who is taking damage from a target(s) and they get a kill
• If you block damage it should count the same as healing (see above)
• Removing conditions should count as if you had healed the amount of damage that would have been taken

At the moment there is no incentive to play support as you get far more for just running in to a group of people and spamming aoe abilities to tag as many people as possible and then hoping they die so you can loot all the bags.

tldr: Support classes need credit for kills & captures

As well as the backstab doing double damage from behind if you timed it with the use power signet for +150% damage you would get some big numbers.

I mean i crit for 13-14k with sword/pistol using the combo, if people have low toughness

During the 24hr matches and now in the 1 week matches the garrison lords in the borderlands had a tendency to become invulnerable making it impossible to take the garrison.

I play on Gunnar’s Hold and currently Gandara have managed to hold their garrison since day one of this WvW match due to the fact that you can’t kill the lord and therefor can’t take the garrison. The buff he gets is Determined

I remember seeing something a while ago about this and anet asking for more details and screenshots. I’m guessing a few thousand people will have reported this so far and we still haven’t heard anything back about it.

I would love to know:

• What triggers it?
• Is there is a way for players to fix it?
• Is it intended?