Maybe if there was some sort of freak winter weather replacing the tropical theme of the island:
Freeze the water,
The capture point is now in an underground dome carved in frozen water.
4 tunnels in the ice lead to the dome with the capture point, 2 on the sides of the ship’s bow, 2 on the sides of the stern.
There’s a ‘skylight’ at the top of the dome. A small cylindrical hole with a few platforms so people can go down through it faster, in exchange of taking a bit of fall damage and being in danger of being pushed down.
Exits from base:
Players now fall into piles of snow instead the water. There’s no fall damage on those piles.
Elixirs of Heroes.
These can still be picked on the ship, and make the user immune to damage for 2 seconds on use, but prevent capture for that time.
Cannon.
Instead picking cannonball bundles and carry them around to load the cannon, then it becoming usable by anyone, whoever uses a cannon ball gets an effect similar to the Supplies in stronghold, that looks like a floating cannonball in their shoulder, and a stack of 5 ‘ammo’.
Players can gather up to 10 stacks of ammo, but picking cannonballs is no longer instant, it requires 3 seconds of channeling. This channeling can be interrupted by damage.
The cannon now only has a single ground targeted AoE skill instead 5, but it can’t be used without stacks of ammo.
hmmm sounds good!
but instead of freezing with ice, what about turning water into jade ?
I would actually love the map to keep the water but remove the annoying pets. Water is what made this map so unique.
I don’t think much work would be needed to somewhat balance underwater combat (considering how few weapons and utility skills there are). But that is just not a priority for a-net, which I can understand.
Yes it is extremely hard to balance underwater skills since the majority of skills are useless or don’t function properly. You are adding the Z to the X/Y equation.
Maybe if there was some sort of freak winter weather replacing the tropical theme of the island:
Freeze the water,
The capture point is now in an underground dome carved in frozen water.
4 tunnels in the ice lead to the dome with the capture point, 2 on the sides of the ship’s bow, 2 on the sides of the stern.
There’s a ‘skylight’ at the top of the dome. A small cylindrical hole with a few platforms so people can go down through it faster, in exchange of taking a bit of fall damage and being in danger of being pushed down.
Exits from base:
Players now fall into piles of snow instead the water. There’s no fall damage on those piles.
Elixirs of Heroes.
These can still be picked on the ship, and make the user immune to damage for 2 seconds on use, but prevent capture for that time.
Cannon.
Instead picking cannonball bundles and carry them around to load the cannon, then it becoming usable by anyone, whoever uses a cannon ball gets an effect similar to the Supplies in stronghold, that looks like a floating cannonball in their shoulder, and a stack of 5 ‘ammo’.
Players can gather up to 10 stacks of ammo, but picking cannonballs is no longer instant, it requires 3 seconds of channeling. Each channeling gives 5 ammo. This channeling can be interrupted by damage.
The cannon now only has a single ground targeted AoE skill instead 5, but it can’t be used without stacks of ammo.
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Maybe if there was some sort of freak winter weather replacing the tropical theme of the island:
Freeze the water,
The capture point is now in an underground dome carved in frozen water.
4 tunnels in the ice lead to the dome with the capture point, 2 on the sides of the ship’s bow, 2 on the sides of the stern.
There’s a ‘skylight’ at the top of the dome. A small cylindrical hole with a few platforms so people can go down through it faster, in exchange of taking a bit of fall damage and being in danger of being pushed down.
Exits from base:
Players now fall into piles of snow instead the water. There’s no fall damage on those piles.
Elixirs of Heroes.
These can still be picked on the ship, and make the user immune to damage for 2 seconds on use, but prevent capture for that time.
Cannon.
Instead picking cannonball bundles and carry them around to load the cannon, then it becoming usable by anyone, whoever uses a cannon ball gets an effect similar to the Supplies in stronghold, that looks like a floating cannonball in their shoulder, and a stack of 5 ‘ammo’.
Players can gather up to 10 stacks of ammo, but picking cannonballs is no longer instant, it requires 3 seconds of channeling. This channeling can be interrupted by damage.
The cannon now only has a single ground targeted AoE skill instead 5, but it can’t be used without stacks of ammo.
hmmm sounds good!
but instead of freezing with ice, what about turning water into jade ?
having quit long time ago and returning right before HoT i’ve been wondering what happened to that map
there totally must be a map with water combat, its a very interesting and even outstanding feature of that game but i guess Anet is just lazy to consider in their PvP balance decisions the water combat
The thing that really made this map unique in my eyes were the Sharks that became allied to whichever team held point B resulting in a 1v1 on B “ALWAYS” going in the favor of the point holder.
Why not transforming the Pirate ship into an Air Ship that could be LEAP on?
Remove water to make a canyon like thing… and keep the point down below… This would help make rotations on the map. Putting the point on the pirate ship is kinda a linear rotations… could be cool tho, like dodge balling Foefire.
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