You don't ever see the orbs that you generate, only the ones your teammates do. Whenever you generate orbs, other players see them drop off of you and even after they die, they can pick them up.
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I mean, the orbs that [i]other people[/i] generate for [b]me[/b] disappear on death, and if this happened in PvP, then you couldnt fill up on orbs after you had died. See what I mean?