Guild Wars 2

I know there are a few posts about the orbs already, but I think its important that we bring this issue up as many times as we can to emphasize the severity of the issue.

The orbs seriously compound the power of already dominant worlds and leads to inevitable basecamping and total domination in most borderlands. It needs to stop.

On the other hand, the side that is being camped and has no motivation to participate in wvw gets the arguably useless undermanned bonus.. The side that is obviously losing is not going to benefit from extra exp and karma.

Orbs should offer the current undermanned bonus, and sides with significantly less holdings in a given borderlands should be given something equivalent to the current orb bonus. This would promote a healthy back and fourth between the three sides and make it more likely for all players to have a good time in wvw. I am from Yak’s bend, and we dominated pretty much the whole map last week. It was not fun. Throughout most of the day, the only place we could go to get some action was at the enemy spawns. I felt dirty doing it, but thats the only way i could get the badges i needed to complete my set =. = Now we are in the position of the side getting camped and it is equally unfun.

Seconded.
The orb bonus needs to change to something like the undermanned one so people will want to have the orb and that the strong servers don’t get even more overpowered.

100% agree, now watch all the winning server players storm in telling you orb buffs are fine.

From what I’ve seen since launch, the match is over once one team gets all 3 orbs.

I’m just going to keep switching servers to the winning team until this is fixed, if that means I have to pay a fee to switch servers, then I guess GW2 has become pay to win.

I should also add that our world lost our 2 orbs because some hacker blazed through and stole them while both outer and inner gates/walls were perfectly fine. I was defending the north east gate when they blew past me leaving a trail of yellow sparks that the orb left behind.

We finally recaptured one orb tonight and placed it in our garrison. It was stolen again, probably by the same guy. The garrison’s upgrades are all still in tact so i know there wasnt a siege = .=