I’m on Stormbluff Isle and have played on the SBI Borderlands map for the last 5 hours or so, and have been in our WvW for the last 7. We are currently active against HoD and ET. While we have been doing very well this week and currently hold all 3 orbs and are 10k ahead of 2nd place realm (ET), there is a very serious bug that may give us an advantage later in the week.
http://i.imgur.com/hRzYr.jpg
As shown in this screenshot (SBI = blue), the Orb of Power on the SBI Borderlands map is uncaptureable, and the northern-most altar is attributed to SBI. I can verify that this orb would NOT had been in play for the last five hours, as our central garrison was only briefly lost for 15 minutes out of, what I’m told, the last 24 hours. However, at some point HoD or ET may make a strong play for the garrison and find the orb is not there.
As I saw it, the orb was originally held within the SB central garrison. The garrison was captured by HoD, and the orb then showed as grey—out of possession—however it did not move from the lord’s room in the garrison. HoD or ET would have to confirm what happened next, but I saw the orb vanish from the map, and it hasn’t returned for the last six hours. This has been confirmed by a number of other SBI players, none of us can see the current location of the orb on our SBI Borderland.
Currently the starting location for the orb shows as SB controlled, but the orb is not there to be captured. HoD and ET appear to be making plays for our central garrison, so it’s unclear if the orb is visibly in our control there, but from our perspective the central garrison is empty—the altar is grey, as are the altars of the other two keeps on our map.
When I (SBI) approaches the blue altar, it gives me an F option to steal the orb of power, as if it isn’t in our server’s control. Hitting F does nothing. HoD and ET have led upwards of 20 people raids on the northern supply camp, leading me to believe that they see the orb or altar in our possession up here (they do not tend to overplay like this for the other supply camps).
And that’s all I know. As of yet, this hasn’t affected the scores in our contest, but at some point we may lose control of this borderland and the orb should technically come into play. It won’t, and that will begin to give us an unfair 5%/50 advantage. Please look into this—just don’t reset the WvW week, because we are kicking all kinds of tail in there!
Edit: This may simply be a SBI-only display issue, perhaps the orb is in our control in the Lord’s room, but HoD held the garrison long enough to start that thing moving, and nobody ever saw it move.
