Guild Wars 2

I dislike this map very much atm. Not because of the constant knocking off, or the jump boosters s up, I like that kind of environment. What I dislike is the constant camping of the laser. It hurts like hell, I don’t even think it can be dodged (tried several time on thief, maybe it was just bad lag, every day, but I cannot dodge it. Maybe a bug idk) and it has a very short cooldown. The majority of matches I play either my team or their team will have 2-3 people sit in that room and hold it hoping someone will go and cap.

Only solution? Send someone else up there to camp because there is no way to shut it off and you sure as hell don’t want the enemy to have it. It takes away from the match having someone just sit in a room and wait, atleast in the Battle of Khylo you can destroy the treb and there is time before the repair kit appears.

With all maps though, you want some side objective to spice things up from the lackluster domination so I suggest this. Remove the laser and change it to a console. The console will determine who can fall through the hologram panels when they are broken and it cannot be changed for X minutes or seconds, perhaps 90 seconds it will stay on one side. This discourages camping because you have no use standing in a room for 90 seconds (or w/e the cooldown may be) but it still maintains the bonus objective aspect because a good team or even player can utilize them really well (immobilize being the best tool).

That or triple if not quadruple the cooldown of the laser shots. Most matches don’t support large enough groups to be contesting a point without a giant laser beam interrupting them. The laser AoE is massive, and you do not want to be struck by it but by the time you can put any effort into contesting a point, the laser AoE is back. Secondary objectives should be something you go out to collect(orb, cannon balls, buffs) or defeat(lord, svanir/chieftan, treb), not camp(laser of doom).

I’m sorry but I have to totally disagree on this one.
The skyhammer is by far the most interesting map du to this special item.
It’s a choice to either spend manpower taking the SH and keeping its control or having a stronger squad on the ground.
Skyhammer rate of fire is rather low and has a huge call sign, you don’t have to dodge it just moving is enough.
Redirecting the hammer to a different target takes a long time too.
So it’s an interesting tactical point.
PLease keep it as it is.

Some days ago, i’m suggets to developers delete this map or at least exclude it from tournament list. And what do you think happened? This topic was deleted simply. Of course it’s a lot of more easier, than admit their mistakes and work on them. Especially when you heard every day laudatory odes about how great game you create guys and etc. Yes, this game is great beyond doubt. But we are all humans, and we are all can make errors. And i can repeat, that this map it’s a most worst map ever. At least from the balance standpoint.
So, for skyhammer lovers, free advice how to easy win at this map. Engineer with supply crate and 3 turrets control the skyhammer, and mesmer guard this engi. All other players playing in field with gun support. That’s tactic enough to win against any team on this map.