Orbs of Power going away in WvW
Orbs of Power going away in WvW
After a careful reevaluation of orbs of power we have decided to remove them from WvW in an upcoming build. As implemented, orbs tend to strengthen teams who are already winning and make it even more difficult for underdog teams to fight back. In addition, the current implementation seems to be irresistible to hackers/cheaters and will require significant modification to prevent cheaters from having an unfortunately large impact on the state of any given WvW game. Under the circumstances we believe that removing orbs completely is a better choice than attempting an in-place redesign/re-implementation as it will immediately put a stop to all orb hacking. It is likely that orbs, or some orb-like mechanic, will return at some point in the future, but only after we are confident that they will not exhibit the sorts of issues that we see with orbs today.
I guess that's one way to deal with the hacks.
Orbs and the Outmanned buff were such bad, ass-backwards ideas to begin with. I'm surprised it's taken this long for them to address it.
I'm surprised that they can't address the hacking issues that the orbs cause. They'd rather take a game mechanic out than deal with the real issue. And I think that's their biggest issue, they just fail at fixing the major problems. The rampant botting and hacking will continue. Now Mesmers will hack into keeps and portal bomb it instead of stealing orbs.