Guild Wars 2

Just disable them. At least until your servers can properly identify clients bending and breaking the rules.

Either that or make the orb a control point instead. Make it so that the orb cannot move.

Unless I’m mistaken, the orb cannot be moved from an alter unless the alter is broken.

i honestly agree with this… if you guys cant figure or straighten out the orb hacking/exploits, what not just TAKE it AWAY already!!! No point if there are ppl able to bypass everything while others just try to abide by the rules, it’s ridiculous…

Orb buffs need to stop giving buffs to combat stats. Its absurdly bad design to give the winning team even more strength.

If you work hard and that equals winning you should get a pat on the back. Sure it gives an advantage but that means you just need to work harder as a server to get it back. Why do so many ppl want easy mode? O i know ty WoW for giving us lazy gamers who get stuff handed to them.

Gajumat.4068

What does that have to do with the price of rice in China?

fishergrip.4082:

Orb buffs need to stop giving buffs to combat stats. Its absurdly bad design to give the winning team even more strength.

That’s small potatoes at this point. The flying and wall hacking are much bigger issues.

ANET please… idk your reasons for still having orb active with all these exploits around and the fact that 3 orbs + full coverage is just so much to deal with from the beginning if you’re on the receiving side with an OUTMANNED buff that even enemies can see… it’s like saying “oh they have outmanned buff, and we got 3 orbs… what are we waiting for, FEEDING time!!!”

Has ANet even said something about the existence of fly/wall hacks?

There have been a lot of screenshots/videos of supposed hackers/exploiters but never any real confirmation from ANet as far as I know.

Please just disable them until you figure out how they are exploiting the orbs, it’s seriously ruining the game. You will lose players fast if you don’t resolve this issue.

/support

The buffs destroy any resemblance of balanced combat. Especially when only 2 out of 3 servers are actively participating in a match up. Quickly allowing for another server to completely and utterly dominate and you can’t dig yourselves out of that hole with the unmanned buffs. It’s not much fun for the “winners” or the “losers” because there’s no reason to go fight at that point. Dominate servers get bored easily because there’s nothing to take. Underdog servers stop trying because they just get destroyed even attempting to do something. It’s a lose lose situation and the game loses it’s overall population. That’s not even taking in consideration of hacking issues. That and it’s probably time to end these server transfers because it’s throwing off the matches too.

But tha jes be me opinion.. I be only a pirate o’ da seas of Tyria.

/spit

Never mind the hacking, just removing the orbs would make the game more balanced…

So if they can’t code a solution then I say cut from the coding and take the orbs out…

At any rate, won’t matter much soon, players are abandoning WvW in droves, it’s basically become a Friday night race for the queue, by Sunday no one is logging in since
one server own 3 orbs and their solo players can take out 3 ennemies on his own, if he’s lucky enough to run into such a huge ennemy group anyhow…

Seriously it’s a ghost town in WvW, very halloween appropriate tho, I guess less players makes their game look better so that’s what they are aiming for, for sure videos on youtube of 100 ennemy players being all invisible and killing HONEST PAYING CUSTOMER in waves while ABUSING the game mechanics is NOT GOOD for business? LOL who knew…

Hopefully they have a great special release for christmas, I cant have a game without a christmas tree in it and tons of man hours should go towards getting ready for the holidays… THAT matters…

Orb hacking has been going for months now. They need to deal with this crap.

I agree with disabling the orbs. In addition, there needs to be a point for each individual player to participate in WvW; there shoud be few if any passive server buffs for points. A dynamic system akin to DAoC where Realm points, based upon personal participation, were an incentive to PvP.

Calae.1738:

fishergrip.4082:

Orb buffs need to stop giving buffs to combat stats. Its absurdly bad design to give the winning team even more strength.

That’s small potatoes at this point. The flying and wall hacking are much bigger issues.

Hacking may be worse, but its hardly small potatoes. It is terrible for WvW balance.

The simplest solution for the players of GW2 to force Anet to address WvW issues, and there are many, is to just refuse to WvW. It is happening on many servers atm.

As has been suggested elsewhere, I’m a big fan of swapping the Outmanned buff effect for the Orb of Power buff effect.

I agree, its taking them too long to act on this

If we all feel this way, me included, then lets prove it by protest.

Do not take the orbs from where they spawn. When they are on the top of the map simply do not go for them. I know it is hard to get a real server to participate in this but if they are going for it just say I dont like how the orb bonus works, its unfair and I will not help because it will ruin this weeks match. This is what I have started doing.

Maybe this will catch on and each server can have their one orb while we have some more even matches. ANet has shown they will not be fixing this anytime soon so it would be up to us if we really feel this way.

alter needs to be immune to damage just like the keep lords are unless doors are broken down

fixed

orbs are very important for WvW they exist because its 1v1v1 and not a 1v1

fishergrip.4082:

Orb buffs need to stop giving buffs to combat stats. Its absurdly bad design to give the winning team even more strength.

Agreed, majority of the time the winning server has the orbs and with 15% to stats is just hilarious. I don’t understand how someone would think that was viable imo opinion. Like it has been said a million times. The orb and the outmanned buff should be switched.

Its tiring that after the weekend wvw is done for the week. One server gets the orbs and its near impossible to catch up. So people just discouraged and don’t bother. Or, its boring as heck to be the winning server because there is little to do.

my social casual pvx guild doesn’t have any issues fighting opponents who outnumber us with all 3 orbs when we have outmanned buff.

group skills and tactics >>>>>>>> orbs by far.

so dirtyklingon… what will happen if both parties have same grp skills/tactics IF NOT superior to your socia/casual pvx guild… ofc only thing is that 1 will have 3 orbs and the rest outmanned buff, then what? … ;-)

Agree; remove them from play until the hacks are addressed.

If and when they can ever prevent the hacks, we can consider rebalancing. Until then, just remove them altogether.

lady lisz.7849:

so dirtyklingon… what will happen if both parties have same grp skills/tactics IF NOT superior to your socia/casual pvx guild… ofc only thing is that 1 will have 3 orbs and the rest outmanned buff, then what? … ;-)

srsly? rly? wut

if both parties are equal than the best man wins that day. if they have superior tactics and skill, then the best man still wins.

why would that be different with or without orbs?

this isn’t hello kitty island warhammer pvp lakes tol borad adventure.

wvw is meant to be unfair. that’s one of the best parts about it.

dirtyklingon.2918:

wvw is meant to be unfair. that’s one of the best parts about it.

No actually that’s the worst part about it.

And there is a difference between slight advantage and absurd advantage. 20 v 10 is unfair, 20 v 1 is really unfair, 20 v 1 with the 20 buffed 15% is really really unfair. You see where this is going?

Thanks moderator for moving this to the suggestion forums!

Agreed.

ty moderators… and dirtyklingon, cant really explain it to you of what we experience on higher tier matches obviously it’s not as bad as it seems to where you guys are right now… this would not been brought up in the first place if it was not an issue. ‘+150 pts’ on all stats is a big difference and that’s just a start… try transferring to other servers that affects this then justify for yourself… but right now ppl here know for sure you do not understand what is being brought up