Guild Wars 2

When will there be more balances to WvW to sort out the remaining snowballing and when will Orbs of Power be brought back?

With balancing I’m referring to the three WvW bonuses Energetic, Robust and Medic though usually small (10-20%) they tend to snowball a dominating server towards the end of a match-up and it would be great to have these changed to more neutral boosts like the others are for fairer matchups.

I’m sure I’m not the only person who would love to see the Orbs of Power returned to the borderlands as its pretty stale in there. They should be returned with:

• Point per tick value.
• Slaying the Keep Lord allows the alter to be damaged.

Thoughts?

I second this motion.

Yeah, the orbs need to come back. Just not in their previous form where they made the already stronger server even stronger.

dont ask when
ask if

insanemaniac.2456:

dont ask when
ask if

It was stated by a Dev when they were removed they would be coming back once they’ve been reworked but that was months ago but the WvW head developer back then wasn’t very talkative with the community at all unlike the new one.

Would definitely like orbs of power to be brought back in some form.

Give them some sort of reward making it desirable to want to take one, maybe just have it be worth a lot of points or something. Doesn’t need to be the stat buff like before.

Don’t really care what it is, I just liked fighting for orbs.

Well the reason for their removal was to deter hackers. Hackers and Glitchers were capturing Orbs malicously, thats why they were taken out. Plus the loosing it made it a lot harder for the loosing server. Making the winning server even harder.

DevonCarver.5370:

We would really like to bring back the play that orbs provided to WvW. That being said the initial version of orbs was like Swiss cheese.

What you mean hard?
No! Full of holes!

We really want to bring back the orbs in some form or another, but it is a complicated thing and so there is no timeline, nor are there specifics as to what form they would take when they return. We have top people working on it! But I can’t give you anything more than that, as there is nothing more to give.

Quote from the man himself on Orbs of Power on another thread however I’m sure we would really like some insight into why it would be so difficult to just redesign them as a PPT value and put a buff on the Keep Lords that protect the Alter of Power, it would give the borderlands reason to be played again whilst stopping hackers from simply destroying the Alter from beneath or above.

Would also like to see opinions on the WvW bonuses and there late game snowballing effects on dominating servers!

Keep the orbs in the trashcan where they belong.

Cosmos The Cat.2954:

Keep the orbs in the trashcan where they belong.

And why is that, they were a unique and strategical point of interest on the borderlands that made it worth playing over the battlegrounds.

The fly-hacking was an easy fix, instead of going after the hackers they should have just buffed the Guild Lord to make the alter invulnerable whilst hes alive and removing the stat boosts was vital in balance and should simply be replaced with a PPT value.

I prefer the BL’s without the orbs.. Such a better place without them.

The orb-fights on the borderlands were the most exciting and challenging battles I have ever experienced in WvW.

So, orbs with balancing effect – what about this?

• Every orb gives a bonus of +10% on the points per tick.
• Every orb for the 1st server (total score) gives a penalty of -3% on the players stats.
• Every orb for the 2nd server gives no penalty on the players stats
• Every orb for the 3rd server gives a bonus of +3% on the players stats.

I don’t think Orbs should affect player stats at all, that was the whole reason they were removed in the first place.

Orbs made the winning server stronger did they? Interesting, you know what they did on the best game ever created? The more RELICS (orbs) you had the worse you KEEP DEFENSES was. So that you yes would be strong as a PERSON, but you would have to personally man your forts not just say. “Oh hey we got the orbs the 9 guys we leave on at night will keep them safe.”

Ascii.9726:

insanemaniac.2456:

dont ask when
ask if

It was stated by a Dev when they were removed they would be coming back once they’ve been reworked but that was months ago but the WvW head developer back then wasn’t very talkative with the community at all unlike the new one.

my point is that even if he knew when he couldnt tell you.