Guild Wars 2

First was nightcapping, and then came the orbs bonus excuse for losing.

Now that orbs are gone whats next ? what will be the next big excuse to lose without consecuences or self blaming?

i am reading tons o people happy now that there are no orbs saying that now his server will pwn because the only reason they were losing was the orbs bonus and not nightcaping, or enough people or will to fight back and to plan tactics ahead or organize themselves.

I am sad that orbs are gone, bad move Anet. I am pretty sure that you removed it because the hacking problem and not the forum crying about orb bonus. Because i think you played daoc and because you said that WvsW was not about fairness or 1 vs1 but was about epic battles and tactics, but without orbs we lose a MAJOR focus in borderlands and Major tactics and planning to hold or capturing the orbs.

Fixing orbs for hacking isues only needed 2 fix:

- Altar inmunity while the inner door is closed or while the lord is alive
- Fix the bug that you can carry the orb without apearing in the mab.

And MAYBE MAYBE reduce the 3 orb bonus to 10% +100 stats

I read you when you say that the orbs will come back, but like many others said i fear that Anet developing focus isn’t in WvsW and i fear that Anet don’t realize that the best endgame that this game have is the WvsW.

Gw2 is a great game/mmo one of the best i have played but it feels like if you did wvsW as an after thought for the game and you focus isn’t there. We have tons of eSports games, whe have tons of Pve and story driven games, but we are short on 3 faction/realms/servers grand escale warfare games, So please Anet work more on WvsW

It really did give a unfair advantage to a server with more players and having all three orbs making it harder to fight back. So I do few its more even now that they are gone for now. Although i would prefer they gave like more money, karma, badges based if you had one or more orbs then stats.

I cant remember anyone saying orbs is the reason they lose, a lot of people say orbs were the reason teams lose by so much though.

The biggest problem with orbs was not hacking, it was the fact that whatever team has the most offpeak players would start the next peak session with not only a huge map advantage but also a huge stat advantage. It meant that even if you could match them 166v166 you were still losing out because everyone of their players had 15% more stats.

Actually I am happy orbs are gone because my server was pwning TOO much. Now that they are gone, it is a little more challenging.

Best move for WvW to date.

I’m glad they are gone. I really want to see the results of this buff. As the OP you make the claim that people will find a reason about losing ala nightcapping and Orbs. Well let’s see by Sunday/ Monday how the server scores are. If we still end up with the shutouts then the Orbs didn’t really have much of an effect. If the matches are much closer in score then they did.

that’s why I’m glad they are gone. Not because it “might” cause an unfair advantage, but because we get to find out for sure. either it will shutup the complaints or justify them. So take it as a positive move for one form or another.

I kind of agree, orbs were exciting, stat imbalances were not.

I still think orbs should just give a huge bonus to PvE stats: karma, xp, mf, and gold on DE’s.

yeah i always told my own server to stop whining about not having orbs.

guess what?

they stopped whining about them and using them as an excuse as to why we lost and we started doing much better in wvw as a server.

ofc some people now whine about being double teamed instead LOL.