Guild Wars 2

Are others missing the ORBs as a focal point for WvW?

That is my question, forget the hacking as we all lothed that. Forget the buff they provided, they were just wrong. But I am missing the orbs as a focal point in WvW, with out them I am finding it’s become even more so of a zerg fest for WvW.

I am just finding WvWvW is just missing that something the orbs provided for me.

Whatever it did provide doesn’t weigh up to autolosing if people have 3 orbs, orbs getting hacked, etc

I’m not. Can’t speak for others.
WvW was a zerg fest to begin with … if you let it. I find nothing has changed except fewer exploiters and less complains.

I miss them, I think there is a lot less of an emphasis on good defense when the maps aren’t full now that they are gone. Especially when the choice is between defending a single keep on one map or potentially easily taking a couple of keeps and towers on another.

Yes I am missing them as it makes the game more bland

Much more bland now. No reason to upgrade stuff after the weekend. You will make more karma if you take towers/keeps/garrisons as fast as possible, and leave it with no upgrade and just back take it later for more karma. Really, why upgrade when there is nothing to protect than the number ticking which really only matters for the top 3/4 servers.

That 15% boost in health was a very noticeable survivability increase and I miss it.

Glad they’re gone. They encourage rich-get-richer gameplay (plus the whole hacking thing). I haven’t found my drive to take/defend keeps diminished at all. I’m still motivated by getting as many waypoints out as possible.

As long as orb-hacking is prevalent, I don’t miss the orbs.

If they can ever get that fixed, I’d like to see them return, but rather than providing stat buffs (to the already winning team, solidifying their lead even more) I’d prefer if they came up with alternate buffs. Examples might include, you can carry 2 more supply for every orb your team has, 5-10% gold price cut on keep upgrades for each orb, etc. The team could build/upgrade faster, but wouldn’t become nigh unkillable players (like when they had 3 orbs before).

Having best match so far.
K those orbs.

Enjoying the orbs being gone. Will be glad when it’s back and less hack-able, but for now, it’s making the matches a lot more even and exciting!