It’s terrible map, everything based on fears, knockbacks and luck, absolutely afwul designed map.
80’s: Sylvari Necromancer (Main). Human: Thief, Warrior (PvP Main), Engineer. Charr Guardian
Luck is in crits.
Your positioning is at all times either in your control, or in your opponent’s control. In that regard, it’s LESS luck based than any other map in the game.
Hit level eighty
Priorities, what to do?
Spend hours with dye
Yeah, it’s funny how it’s not in rated group tournaments but remains in the solo-queue.
The map is terrible and shows a complete lack of understanding for competitive PvP.
If you don’t expect serious players to endulge in it, why must the rest?
I think rotation is broken. ALL DAY i’ve got ONLY skyhammer
80’s: Sylvari Necromancer (Main). Human: Thief, Warrior (PvP Main), Engineer. Charr Guardian
It’s a gimmick map that encourages troll builds. Just for sad laughs, I run a rifle bunker engi with flamethrower, bomb kit, battering ram, accelerant-packed turrets and elixir X. There is not enough stability in the world to counter all those knockbacks. The build is absolutely not viable in any way outside of Skyhammer, but extremely effective there due to the map’s silly insta-kill mechanics.
Skyhammer is the epitome of “player versus environment” and as such, it should be relegated to the hotjoin abyss where it belongs.
Been here since launch
Legend S1-S3 with 100% solo queue 100% conquest
Filthy casual, 6k sPvP games
On my ranger I switch to lb and zerker instead of axe/torch and carrion.
On my guard, i swap hammer for staff.
On my warr I swap in fear me.
On my thief I swap in scorpion wire.
All classes can make adjustments to make them viable on skyhammer.
What I want fixed it the “glitchiness” of the breaking glass and the general “I wasn’t standing there on my screen!” crap. I shouldn’t need sub 40ms just to play a game without being frustrated (I’m at between 70-100ms on the east coast.)
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I’m okay with removing Skyhammer from tPvP, but I really don’t mind the map too much. It accentuates character positioning much more than the other maps.
Getting knocked back off of the map is relatively easy to avoid as long you’re paying attention to your positioning. It’s the fearing and the pulls that can be very dangerous.
Anytime I’m at a point, I make sure that I’m not close enough to the edge to be knocked off, which I shouldn’t be because I should be on the point trying to decap or capture it.
I also really enjoy the hammer room. All of the pitfalls and the edges of the room make for a very exciting and difficult place to fight. Positioning really becomes key here, as well as baiting and kiting.
If anything really needed to be changed, I think I would change the actual power of the hammer, or the CD on the attack. It’s too easy to aim and covers the entire map, so its basically a more powerful trebuchet that can be fired anywhere and aimed much easier/quicker.
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Why is this thread listed as one that a DEV has posted in, but there is no DEV post.
Curious…
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Btw great map for Quake III.