Guild Wars 2

I play on Anvil Rock and once Friday and once tonight (Sunday) the orb of power disappeared from the map after Northern Shiverpeaks took the orb. We were fighting them for it and it just disappeared from the map. People in chat said they saw the first carrier drop the orb and another pick it up and go invisible. The Orb never reappeared on the world map and Northern Shiverpeaks ended up with the orb.

I have read that this is a bug. Is this true?

Some are saying a thief can almost perma-invis while carrying the orb therefore not allowing the orb to show up on the world map.

Northern Shiverpeaks is exploiting this bug and it is very disappointing. We spent all evening defending and planning ambushes for that orb and it just disappeared and reappeared in the NSP keep.

What is going on?

Theoretically a group of thieves could keep the orb carrier invisible permanently, by stacking and cycling group stealth skills. Would be great to see it done. Ups to that group if that’s what they did!

That is probably what they did then. Northern Shiverpeaks did it twice to us this week.
It seems like an exploit to me.

I think that the orb should never disappear from the world map.

I have actually received a reply from a player on Northern Shiverpeaks (NSP)

He was also at the fight and he said that the original NSP orb carrier died and the orb was picked up by an AR player but it didn’t show up on their map either and that player was not stealthed. It was only sheer luck that the guy who saw it kept track of the AR player and got the orb back again.

This is sounding a lot like a bug and it would help if a developer could confirm that thieves can shroud the Orb from the world map.

It is most definitely a bug.

This matchup we had our orb stolen twice, first time recovered second not. Both times after the initial carrier died the icon vanished.

In our previous matchup, we got an enemy orb but died carrying it, someone picked it up again and had an icon but there was also a (slightly darker?) icon still at the drop site.. an enemy then picked this one up aswell, and took it another direction but the initial icon still remained – now 3 icons. BOTH keeps then showed the icon yet it gave the bonus to us, however 30minutes later they got the bonus and we lost it – both keeps still showing an orb AND both still being invulnerable until the altar was damaged.

Orb’s are buggy!

Same thing happened to us tonight.

I think orb carrier actually died. After, this Orb dissapeared from the map and the quest with the timer appeared to everyone on our side.
4 Mins later it was on their castle and the quest dissapeared.

Was very strange.

Orbs need to be disabled until they can address all the problems they cause.

@Nean That is absolutely hilarious. Its obviously bittersweet but LOVE the screenshot