Guild Wars 2

Hi forums.

I see this phrase a lot in WvW, and I could never get an explanation in chat of what it meant.

So what exactly is “Orb Hacking”? How does it happen? Can anything be done about it?

O.o

Basically what happens is a guy either exploits terrain or flies into your keep, grabs the orb (or just kills the altar so you have nowhere to put it), and peaces out. Most infamously they fly in, kill the altar and grab orb, then fly it out.

Mesmer spec ops are often mistaken for this.

It’s someone that hacks the game so that they can steal the orb from the enemy base and then teleport to an area where no players can reach them unless they are hacking as well, creating an unfair advantage. Since the hacking player is shown as an invader for their name, it’s near impossible to report said player effectively.

LOL Happening now in HoD battlegrounds.,.. HoD hackers took orb. Saw one earlier destroy our Altar flying everywhere.

ask henge they seem to like to do it they just did it to us

Don’t blame the server. It’s not like we can stop him.

Sure it was just one or three? Same time these fools were hacking, another group got inner keep of garrison without taking walls down (Mesmers and their friends)…. Sure they got wiped but people took advantage of those hackers keeping everyone busy….. just saying…. So far it was only HoD fools that I saw, ET did it legit at least… good fight on Bluevale.

Chuck stop blaming an entire server for a few hacking people. Other people attacking towers probably didn’t even know and as far as I know HoD reported their own players for doing it. Just stop it.

Tdawg.8309:

Chuck stop blaming an entire server for a few hacking people. Other people attacking towers probably didn’t even know and as far as I know HoD reported their own players for doing it. Just stop it.

It’s hard to not blame a server when the whole server is benefiting from this hacking.

Chuck Norris.4527:

Sure it was just one or three? Same time these fools were hacking, another group got inner keep of garrison without taking walls down (Mesmers and their friends)…. Sure they got wiped but people took advantage of those hackers keeping everyone busy….. just saying…. So far it was only HoD fools that I saw, ET did it legit at least… good fight on Bluevale.

I was curious too about how they got in garrison given that it was not breached nor , to my knowledge, any gate/wall taken down earlier to allow any mesmer to sneak in. Anyway the screen shot was the response I got from someone in HoD who participated in that attack. I didn’t take more screen shots of that conversation but basically a mesmer used an exploit/glitch to get into garrison (I’m not giving details for obvious reasons). The guy said he wasn’t happy to be part of the attack once he fully understood how they did it.