Guild Wars 2

Title says it all.

Please disable the orbs until they can be properly captured from an opposing side. This is just getting beyond silly.

There have been a few suggestions on how to alter the orb mechanic so an individual can’t magically swipe it run off with it. Personally I’d like to see something along the lines of the altar being invulnerable until after the keep lord dies. But I’m not terribly picky.

But please just disable the mechanic until you can fix it.

Jorm

+1 orbs should be disabled or at least remove all the buffs they give.

I’m very annoyed that people still do this. I wish they would monitor these occurrences more often. It’s easy to tell when something like this happens. The time it takes to change hands, and the location. I just wish they had a referee for each W3. It would help out a lot!

Disabling the orbs would be Arenanet admitting that the hacking is a serious problem.. I would be very surprised to see it happen.. but I would LOVE to see it happen, while they are at it .. redesign the orb/outmanned buff please :P

Yesterday on Deso, people were pumped up to play the new week of wvw after getting night capped to death by french servers… today people have a bad taste in there mouth after seeing orbs hacked and it’s messed with the morale of the whole wvw community on our server.. it sucks.

Same. It kinda defeats the purpose of even trying when you keep seeing people flying overhead with them.

I still say that orbs could be fixed just by saying (the only time an orb can be taken is when the keeplord is down).

While I understand the idea of the actual tactic of snatch and grab (as a fun tactic not this exploit way) I would conceed this “fun tactic” in place of a more stable one that makes sense anyways.

So just have the orb tied to the lord , if the lord dies in the keep, the orb is free to be taken, if not it’s stays till lord is down….

End of Line.

This is an acceptable solution. I would put my vote behind disabling orbs until the problem can be resolved.

I agree that storming the garrison JUST to take the orb is pretty fun, and a bit of a rush, but the amount of rampant exploiting/glitching/abuse of terrain or ability “undocumented features” far outweighs the fun value.

There are several problems with wvwvw at the moment but this is one that really requires a quickfix, i.e. disable until a real solution is available.

And I would have thought that Anet would have disabled it by now because it shines a light on other problems like flyhacking, teleporting, speedhacking, etc…

Jorm