Guild Wars 2

Lachanche.6859:

I am strongly positive that you have been cc’d to lesser extents than what i am referring to.

That makes no sense, since you have no historical access to any of my past games! Which means you do have a very high opinion of yourself!

Which is fun since that’s what you just did.

The art of irony is lost on you.

Candar.8140:

That makes no sense, since you have no historical access to any of my past games! Which means you do have a very high opinion of yourself!

Or it could mean that i have a very low opinion of your rating.

The art of irony is lost on you.

Almost as much as the art of coherence is unknown to you.

The thing with skyhammer is not the easily noticed stuff. Not a warrior with knockback or fears, not an enginer with knockbacks, not a mesmer with their Focus pull. No, the thing is stuff we can’t do kitten about.

A thief that pulls from stealth and we can literally do NOTHING about it because lolstealth.

Don’t worry, I’m sure he/she has some snappy oh-so-clever “l2p” retort for that too. (Or maybe “that never happens to me!”)

Lachanche.6859:

Or it could mean that i have a very low opinion of your rating.

So in regards to your orignal comment: “being CC’d to oblivion”… How does that relate to my rating, considering you have no clue to any of the past SoloQ games that I have been involved in? Just because I disagree with your point of view, you decided to make this personal now?! Pathetic!

Qaelyn.7612:

Don’t worry, I’m sure he/she has some snappy oh-so-clever “l2p” retort for that too. (Or maybe “that never happens to me!”)

It happens less these days. Perhaps people got bored of it. But I just got one more like that.

There I was, epic fight against a tanky ranger. We’re blasting each other and trying to see who can gain an edge. Suddenly, pull, plummet. Kitten…. Ok, I snark on map chat. Thief answers smugly. Go back to the same point. Thief was still there but waiting on top of the ramparts. Jumps down. Stealths. Since I saw him this time I had my finger on Elixir S. He pulls, I press the button. We start to fight… He is kitten.. Pardon, I mean, his skill is subpar. Doesn’t do much, evades lots, etcetc. Suddenly, stealth. I check my Elixir S since I knew what was coming. Nope, still 30ish seconds to kittenay, I leave.

Staying there would simply be another plummet to my death so I gave him the point despite being at 90% HP.

• ‘to go.’ and ‘Okay’ when put together are censored? A cordial doubleuteeff at these forum filters.

The filter is terrible in part because it ignores spaces. (Remove the one after “go” and before “okay” and you’ll figure out what it objected to.)

I just played my first Skyhammer match on my engi. The other team had four necros. I got feared off once, and CCed other guys off maybe twice? Could have done a lot more, I didn’t spec deliberately for it.

Much as I described, it was a lot more about cheesy kills and avoiding cheesy deaths than it was about PvP.

This map is a joke, and the dev team’s stalwart refusal to address the complaints about it currently ranks as my single greatest disappointment when it comes to GW2 (which in most other respects I think is very well run.) Even if they aren’t going to remove it from solo queue, it would be nice if they would at least acknowledge the many people who don’t like it and explain what they are or are not going to do, and why.

Candar.8140:

Lachanche.6859:

Or it could mean that i have a very low opinion of your rating.

So in regards to your orignal comment: “being CC’d to oblivion”… How does that relate to my rating,

lol quite simply if you play with scrubs in the lower % you may get the occasional fear off the edge but it is only when you rise the bar that all sorts of stealth shenanigans start to ruin your day.

considering you have no clue to any of the past SoloQ games that I have been involved in?

You know, if it looks like a pear and tastes like a pear it is highly unlikely that it is an apple.

Just because I disagree with your point of view, you decided to make this personal now?! Pathetic!

The passive aggressiveness is strong within you, combined with the fact that you conveniently ignored the analogy of Qaelyn it makes it even more obvious that your true purpose is trolling.

The only thing i hate about this map are engi and thief’s stealth pulls.

Candar.8140:

Skyhammer is clearly unique

I got onyl one thing to say about skyhammer:

delete it.

or at least let it be just a troll map for hotjoins.

I hate Skyhammer, why!

• Door to Cannon is bugged and sometimes you will fall throw the ground and die.

• Lag make’s it so I bug out on the jump pads, I get stuck allot on jump pads unable to get back up.

• Engineer’s stealth then pull me into the glass and I die.

• Engineer’s run 10000 knock-backs and sit on the Hammer soon as you enter they just knock you back until you fall to your death. (I run stability but they just remove it within seconds.)

• The map promotes being rude to each other.

• The map promotes cheese builds that have no counter on skyhammer.

The list goes on I hate the map wish it was removed from Solo Que, so I could go back to not having to worry about getting a bad map.

The fact that Skyhammer asks you to adapt a bit isn’t a bad thing in itself. It’s just that the reward/punishment involved is too large. It doesn’t just bring up the effectiveness of a certain part of the game; it raises that part of the game to be the most effective strategy and by too large a margin.

If getting knocked off the map didn’t kill you but, let’s say, immediately warped you back to spawn without any respawn timer it would be a lot less problematic.

Personally I really see the hard effort and work put into skyhammer.

The dev made this map after a very long time and many features ingame derived from the original designs of this map.

The design and layout of this map are beautiful!

That said, I understand that when the community after all your hard work comes forward and simply says…what a horrible map! that hurts the devs that are trying to provide you with new content.

However, all the above said, I do not think that it is a Tournament worthy map, simply due to exploit mechanics which de-position the already imbalance on classes.

I have played my warrior since alpha, even when no1 took a warrior, i still did, now their FotM, ok whatever, I can play this map, but as a fun map, I can not take this map seriously in Tournament perspective.

To many times people rage-quit, or all relog to engi / necro and just cheese mode the map. This is just not fun to play WITH or AGAINST.

Even on my engi, I still feel the map to be cheesy and really inappropriate in a tournament rotation.

So in my opinion Skyhammer is a beautiful map, but hot-join fun and giggles only. It does not belong in a tournament map rotation.

Edit: Sorry devs, I know it hurts keep seeing these things, and placing it in Hot-join only is the last thing you want cause it will end up like raid on the unicorn and just become a graveyard map nobody plays..

Except glory farmers..

But its just not a map suitable for tournament.

Unfortunately, skyhammer and spirit are the two worst PvP maps. Even more unfortunate is that those maps are the two newest so I don’t have a lot of confidence in the future.