Guild Wars 2

Remove Skyhammer from unranked.
Revamp Spirit Watch to make it more fun.
Delete Skyhammer completely.
Bring back Capricorn at least to hot join.
Delete Skyhammer.
Delete Skyhammer.

thank you

Well well well, that’s a thread I haven’t seen in a while, thank you sir.

You forgot “remove Skyhammer.”

Seriously though, skillhammer is one of the most obnoxious maps around. I really like the map layout, but that kitten skillhammer just hits too hard.

naphack.9346:

You forgot “remove Skyhammer.”

Seriously though, skillhammer is one of the most obnoxious maps around. I really like the map layout, but that kitten skillhammer just hits too hard.

I’t also really easy to dodge, and lets you 5v4 the other team on the map. I don’t really like Skyhammer (I never pick it), but so do most players, that’s why it’s almost never chosen. If it is, it means a player voted for it, and he deserves a fait chance of playing the map. If you really, REALLY can’t stand one game of Skyhammer out of 30 unranked matches, play ranked.

skyhammer is a kitten fun map imo. but not for competitive gaming. its kitten good for death match like games.

I’ve never voted for skyhammer or spirit watch, but I have fun playing when they come up 1 out of every 30 games or so. It’s just capping points like every other map. No one is going to win if they only focus on the hammer or orbs. At worst you have 1 team member occasionally dealing with the special mechanic. On temple you have to dedicate like 4 players to the special mechanics, and that’s the best map out there. Foefire you might have your entire team on the special mechanic.

I honestly believe the skyhammer hate is for no other reason than mob mentality. Can you honestly even remember the last time someone knocked you off the map? I can’t. It doesn’t happen anymore, and the hammer is dodge-able.

Sorel.4870:

naphack.9346:

You forgot “remove Skyhammer.”

Seriously though, skillhammer is one of the most obnoxious maps around. I really like the map layout, but that kitten skillhammer just hits too hard.

I’t also really easy to dodge, and lets you 5v4 the other team on the map. I don’t really like Skyhammer (I never pick it), but so do most players, that’s why it’s almost never chosen. If it is, it means a player voted for it, and he deserves a fait chance of playing the map. If you really, REALLY can’t stand one game of Skyhammer out of 30 unranked matches, play ranked.

If you CAN dodge it.
It’s not like the guy on skillhammer blasts away at empty points. He blasts on players, who are engaged in combat, possibly have already expended their dodges or are otherwise unable to react. If you plan on dodging and eat an entangle just half a sec before it goes down, you won’t be able to pop a cleanse and dodge in time. You are just dead.

You know, Skyhammer might be a fun map, if the canon dealt like half the damage, but inflicted a debuff(let’s call it disorientation) on anyone knocked around by it.
The debuff could even be an area effect, which happens regardless of whether you were hit or dodged the shot.

Just imagine Skyhammer leaving behind a field, where opponents move 50% slower and have reduced endurance regeneration instead of just one shotting everyone, who couldn’t dodge in time…
Let’s say, 7.5k damage and a field for 5 seconds.

naphack.9346:

If you CAN dodge it.
It’s not like the guy on skillhammer blasts away at empty points. He blasts on players, who are engaged in combat, possibly have already expended their dodges or are otherwise unable to react. If you plan on dodging and eat an entangle just half a sec before it goes down, you won’t be able to pop a cleanse and dodge in time. You are just dead.

You know, Skyhammer might be a fun map, if the canon dealt like half the damage, but inflicted a debuff(let’s call it disorientation) on anyone knocked around by it.

You could say the same about Battle of Khylo. Except that on Khylo, the treb is harder to dodge, and yet you don’t see any experienced players getting hit more than once per game by that thing. Skyhammer is a bit easier to operate, granted, but also easier to predict. The damage is in the same order of magnitude.

The only real problem with skyhammer is the fact you can fall off the map so easily, because it just heavily favours certain classes/builds.

Just remove the breaking glass and make it harder to fall off the map or even completely impossible.

Skyhammer itself isn’t a big Problem, even way easier to dodge than the treb. You could even leave the possibility to knock one out of the Map around the skyhammer, cuz maybe 1-2 builds per team specifically for the Map (or at least little tweaks in the build) are okay, but on Skyhammer, on every point and objective, classes like Necro and Guardian just rule.

Hi, I’m the OP of this topic:
I wrote it when I was enraged.
I actually like the map when it is really not about getting 500 points but just shooting/bashing each other. My problem is, that I run really specific build (probably non-meta, because I’m hipster) which is useless on this map because as a Guardian I need to equip hammer, scepter, shield and I lose all my ways of getting swiftness and my damage is halved. On any other map I can run this build and it is okay. Even on Spirit watch… That map is more or less okay, I like that you drop the orb when you become invulnerable, but it is just boring, and people usually don’t defend the points so it is hard to win something solo.