Guild Wars 2

Skyhammer has the potential to be a really fun map in hotjoin where you can just screw around and have fun, but I don’t think it has any place in competitive play like soloque.
The class that has the most knockbacks wins – an engineer with shield/flamethrower/tool kit can easily just knock and pull people off ledges and win fights, this does not promote fights that require skill. It’s especially problematic with the skyhammer, an engineer can basically sit on the skyhammer for the entire game and destroy enemies in teamfights with almost no opposition. The skyhammer alone is also nonsense, aside from the fact that you can more or less endlessly knock people off it and keep the skyhammer for the entire game, if you compare it with the trebuchet on Kyhlo it is far easier to aim and it can’t be destroyed. On Kyhlo if you do not want to deal with the treb can choose to sacrifice time to go and destroy it in order to remove it from teamfights. Such an option does not exist for the skyhammer, there is no way to temporarily deactivate it so that you can focus on winning a fair teamfight. I can imagine one of the goals was to make Skyhammer a map with a lot of verticality, but imo Spirit Watch and Temple of the Silent Storm are much better examples of maps with elements of verticality that make it somewhat more interesting and open up strategic options. If you want to stand on a ledge and rain hell down on a teamfight without exposing yourself to cleave damage you can do that, but enemies can knock you down or pull you into the fight in order to counter this tactic. This forces you to fight on point and use your dodges, defensive and healing skills effectively to stay alive. Whereas on Skyhammer if you get knocked back you just die, no amount of skill will save you from falling damage.

TL; DR Falling to death is bs for a competitive map, Skyhammer should either be reworked to remove falling to death (which sort of defeats the purpose of the map) or it should be removed from the soloque rotation (people can still enjoy kittened knockbacks in hotjoin where the aim is to just have fun)

One would expect that all those issues with that map should be fixed before putting it into any rotation.

But again, it’s A.net we’re talking about.