Guild Wars 2

Maybe it’s just me, but I get the feeling the “orb like mechanic” people enjoyed was the open world capturing and transporting of a physical object. The buffs were a part of it, adding weight and importance to the task, but it was the world event which drew everybody into it that really made it magical.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not hating on the new content/buff like a lot of other people are, but I wanted to ask and see if my impression was on the money or not?

I like the capture points just fine. Hate the stat buff.

Ross Biddle.2367:

the “orb like mechanic” people enjoyed was the open world capturing and transporting of a physical object

Exactly
Something different from snorefest in a circle/square/triangle.

YES!!

People have been saying this the whole time.

What we liked about the Orbs before was the Capture the Flag-like game style. Not the stat buffs. So they give us back the stat buffs and remove the CTF element? What?

It really was the only other PvP game mode in GW2, besides “conquest”.