Guild Wars 2

The tittle says it all. It’s ridiculous how often this is happening. Most people don’t seems to care anymore because this is happening across all servers. Earlier today a Dragonbrand hacker hacked an orb from Blackgate. We could see the Orb fly extremely fast across the Dragonbrand Borderlands map from Dreadfall Bay to the Dragonbrand Garrison. All of this happened while ALL of our gates were up. All we could do was stand and watch as the orb flew away. This type of behavior should not be overlooked in any game. Anet please do something about this.

This just happened to us (Fort Aspenwood) as well. We took the orb from Dreaming Bay (held by Dragonbrand) and put it in our garrison. Dragonbrand took DB and then suddenly the orb was flying out of our garrison and back to DB. Frustrating.

From the other thread -

Sad to hear. I’m from Dragonbrand — personally I hope that they remove the orbs at least until these hacking issues are fixed. Then, they shouldn’t re-implement the orbs because they aren’t fun. I don’t want to have an advantage or a disadvantage vs enemies, that should come from tactics and strategy, not boosted health and stats.

This game isn’t DAoC, in DAoC we had guards that were quite strong, and lost strength as you captured more points. That’s just one of the MANY differences, including no moronic “scoring” system, because most DAoCers played to kill people, not to win something with no reward. Heck, DF was a better reward than ‘winning’ WvW anyway. Regardless, it’s not DAoC, it’s a different game, and stat boosting ‘relics’ or ‘orbs’ shouldn’t be part of GW2.

TL;DR: Just get rid of the stupid things. I don’t want the bonuses anyway, plus it seems that ANet can’t keep their game hack free, so in that case just get rid of the orbs.

…another win for Dragonbrand. Huuurah!

Its just demoralizing. I was there when Dragonbrand stole the orb from us (Fort Aspenwood) a little while ago and I don’t have any desire to play WvW right now.

Whats the point in fighting for stuff if hackers are just gonna steal our orbs, or hack mesmers into place for portal dropping? I’m not arguing the validity of mesmer portals, but now we have to question whether that mesmer was hanging around or if he hacked his way inside.

It just kills my desire to play WvW, and I LOVE WvW.

I used to like WvW a lot. Not much point now.

That said, if you are going to give combat bonuses to someone, give it to the losing side or the undermanned side. Give the non-combat bonuses to the winning side as a reward for winning.

Magic Find when you are undermanned? How is that supposed to help?

I laugh when people compare this game of 1 month, to DAoC of 11 or 12 years. It’s going to take some tweaking, and there are going to be hackers. Just keep the constructive feedback rolling in, and things will get better. They are miles above any other modern game out there right now, when it comes to WvW or RvR.. Whatever you wish to call it. The only thing I wish they had in this game is a Realm Rank system, like Camelot (Which wasn’t implemented at DAoC launch either.)