Guild Wars 2

For me this was a balance issue which got fixed and im pleased with the results and already having better game time from it in WvW

Swapping the outmanned buff with the Orbs buff was a brilliant idea from the community. Instead it was taken away completely which is kind of sad as the community idea was thrown away. I think ANET shouldnt be to scared of taking in a good idea from the community. However in a sense I dont blame them as there are so many bad ideas floating around of what balance is etc.

Anyway – heres some of mine:

The orbs lower repair/siege/upgrade costs by 5% each – It would also be brilliant if owning the orbs gave a global bonus % to magic chance and karma and XP to the PvE’ers of the world that owned it.

This would give PvE’ers a reason to go into WvW before going to a dungeon.

Please add your new ideas (Please dont just revamp the old orbs stats bonus but come out with completely new ones!)

Leave it this way it’s way more fun.

I’m having so much fun on Gandara this week, matches have never been this close. Fort Ranik used to get all the orbs due to their sheer numbers but now we’ve moved from third to first and keep swapping first and second with them.

Fort Ranik have the numbers to make us poop ourselves when they’re running towards us in their GIANT zerg but when they stop to fight we chip away at their numbers until they’re manageable. Keep the orbs out, it’s all about sustaining your ownership of the map now. Sacrificing one spot for a more important spot…. it’s so much fun!

I agree, while the orbs were there to give bonus’, I like it better now since it gives you a real feel for how your server matches up against the other servers.

Orbs should give bonus to not give stats to make them harder to kill but reward players who have them. Like give more karma, gold, influence, things that cannot give huge benefits besides to the side with more of them to give unfair advantages like more damage, health, toughness, etc. Then once they can figure out how to patch or stop players from exploiting to get the orbs easy they can restore them with new things like I first said.

But you still have the same issue of the folks with the bigger force will almost always have the orbs in their possession. Without the Orbs these forces are having to go on the offensive all the time because they can’t rely on buffs and other in game rewards for their win/prosperity.

Fort Ranik used to be leagues ahead of us and now they’re fighting for first place with which they’re only managing to achieve (just about) with night capping duties. Pretty sure they’ll take the lead as we’re now into a time when folks go to work but… fun times!

Orbs give more of a reason for players to do wvwvw. Right now on HoD we normally do not have many players on since we lost so many players. People need a reason to do wvwvw and id rather have bonus’s to exp, karma, etc then stat bonus to give a unfair advantage to other worlds.

Old idea to change outmanned with orb buffs still a good idea to me…