Guild Wars 2

It happened yet again tonight on Desolation. A french player runs into our Garrison on our border lands where we had the orb, he picks it up, and walks out of the door with it to the waiting french group and ‘gives’ it to them.

This has been happening several times now because the free server transfers make it very easy to do. Our morale instantly dropped since we already face impossible odds.

We managed secure the orb again before it got carried away, however, the altar always bugs out when this happens, and we were unable to put it back in our garrison. 15 minutes later the orb respawns at the north altar, and a blob of 50-70 french pick it up again and carry it to their completely fortified keep, because for some stupid reason the designers thought it was cool that the realm defenders cannot pick a beter orb location, and need to wait for an enemy zerg to capture it first?

This is just annoying as hell, and it is happening too often now.

Close free transfers, prevent ‘friendly’ players from picking up placed orbs, and allow defenders to decide where they want their orb; usually garrison, not an undefendable supply camp all the way north of the map.

Report any players doing this to Anet.

In the mean time, do the same to them :o

stof.9341:

In the mean time, do the same to them :o

I’m not sure if recommending someone should commit a bannable offense is good advice.

Do not do the same thing back. You will be banned.

This is indeed extremely lame. When you can’t win, cheat. GG.

Just report them, as soon as one gets banned all his mates will get the message.

The Dude.6942:

This is indeed extremely lame. When you can’t win, cheat. GG.

Not wery smart, Using this tactic on a large skale will most likely rank the server way higher than they are suposed to be ranked.
Have fun the next 3 months when they lock down the server transfers and battles lasts for 2 weeks lol. then agen im pretty shure the other servers will enjoy it big time

You normally cannot pick up the orb from an altar. So what you are saying seems a little bit suspect.
The only way you can pick up the orb after it has been placed on an altar is for the altar to be broken.
The Quaggan’s lightning bolt can in some instances destroy the altar at Garrison. If this happens, then anyone can pick up the orb. However, just because someone picked up the orb and left the keep with it doesn’t necessarily mean they meant to ‘give’ it to another server. If the altar is broken, you have 15 minutes to plant it on a different altar; thus if the Quaggan break the altar, it is legitimate to try to carry the orb to a different keep before it resets. If you got caught by the enemy after trying this, that is just bad luck, not exploiting.

Good old free transfers at work again

It is not possible to pick up an orb placed on an altar.

Btw. we had an invulberable chuck norris keep lord yesterday, because the altar got oneshotted by the quaggans and then it was bugged, several attempts to kill the keep lord (we stopped defending the keep) were not succesful.

This is a heavy form of griefing.

I thought there was a shield around orbs once places on alters that pushed players back, making them unable to touch it? Atleast this is what happened to me and others around our home borderland alter.

Am I missing something here?

Last time I tried picking up the orb from a broken altar I was unable to, I wonder if they changed it or things were bugged?