I dont get why Anet haven’t still removed this crap from solo q… 99% of players hate it, a lot of time we have to play 4v5 because ppl dont wanna play it…and it’s still there
really there is no reason, just admit that it was a failure and remove it…failures happens, but keep failing is kitten
I dont get why Anet haven’t still removed this crap from solo q… 99% of players hate it, a lot of time we have to play 4v5 because ppl dont wanna play it…and it’s still there
That may be true, but on the other hand 127% of players love it, so your argument is invalid.
On a more serious and less melodramatic note, I get why some people don’t like skyhammer.. Tbh, it’s not my favorite map either, far from it. But these claims of “overwhelming majority” and forum polls are just anecdotal evidence and as such they are completely useless.
I dont get why Anet haven’t still removed this crap from solo q… 99% of players hate it, a lot of time we have to play 4v5 because ppl dont wanna play it…and it’s still there
That may be true, but on the other hand 127% of players love it, so your argument is invalid.
On a more serious and less melodramatic note, I get why some people don’t like skyhammer.. Tbh, it’s not my favorite map either, far from it. But these claims of “overwhelming majority” and forum polls are just anecdotal evidence and as such they are completely useless.
If you read the many threads about skyhammer you will find explanations of why it is not fit for solo queue.
No other map has inspired multiple polls, threads, and people outright quitting because of it. If I started a poll “take foefire out of solo queue” its going to get no or next to no votes, because people are happy with that map.
That may be true, but on the other hand 127% of players love it, so your argument is invalid.
On a more serious and less melodramatic note, I get why some people don’t like skyhammer.. Tbh, it’s not my favorite map either, far from it. But these claims of “overwhelming majority” and forum polls are just anecdotal evidence and as such they are completely useless.
322 votes, within a community this small, gives a pretty solid indication of what the overall opnion about this map is. 80% of those that voted disliked it in the soloqueue.
If it was a poll that was held on the LoL forums, sure.
322 votes, within a community this small, gives a pretty solid indication of what the overall opnion about this map is. 80% of those that voted disliked it in the soloqueue.
If it was a poll that was held on the LoL forums, sure.
And yet there are people even in this thread that do like Skyhammer or don’t mind it enough for it to be removed (like me, I’d much prefer some minor tweaks to the map). Besides 322 votes is still miniscule compared to at least 15k players and that’s not counting NA.
Anet should implement a ban option for each player to individually ban 1 or 2 maps he doesn’t want to play on.
But that’s what every other game does.
GW2 can’t be like every other game, GW2 better than other game, GW2 special.
If you wanted super… super average… go play your WoW.
In GW2 the land is rainbows and sunshine… I mean… for anyone who tries to walk this game, you’ll always be falling over reason.
trolls love skyhammer, everyone else hates it.
there was a skyhammer appreciation thread on here and all of the comments were things like “lolol playing my engineer is so fun on this map!” trolls trolls trolls…
they should remove skyhammer from ALL pvp modes and add a new npc where trolls can queue for only skyhammer.
i love playing hotjoin and i’m sick of playing afew games and then switching servers because the map rotation gets back around to suckhammer.
Honest to god i just went to forums to make a thread to remove Skyhammer from SoloQ rotation but i realized there was one already.
Played 3 skyhammer straight… 2 losses and a win, all 3 matches were so terrible and boring, full of a full cc engineer with stealth/pull/punt that i’m honestly going to play BF4, so…
Just give us the option to NOT play this map, like a ban or something, for crying out loud.
I dont get why Anet haven’t still removed this crap from solo q… 99% of players hate it, a lot of time we have to play 4v5 because ppl dont wanna play it…and it’s still there
really there is no reason, just admit that it was a failure and remove it…failures happens, but keep failing is kitten
I used to rage about Skyhammer every day.
But then I just joined teamQ like everyone else. Better rewards and no Skyhammer.
The only down-side is that you occasionally play premades during prime-time.
Only engineers, thieves and necromancers love skyhammer. The map is notoriously class biased. Who ever has the most knockbacks and stealth pulls wins. I added necromancer to the list simply because fighting them in the extremely small area were the hammer is located is a absolute nightmare. Their marks and other skills literally take up 90% of the entire area. Its like battling inside of a shoe box.
Perhaps Anet is arrogant and just refuses to remove the map because of the time spent creating it. I personally do not feel that it belongs in the game, it feels like something geared towards a first person shooter.
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Remove the map from solo queue untill you have tweaked it enough for players to like it.
Like: Remove the glass panels around the side points/time to make them break WAAAY longer, remove hammer or make it dodgeable, make the hammer platform bigger and with no breakable glass.
That would make me like it ALOT more
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I dont get why Anet haven’t still removed this crap from solo q… 99% of players hate it, a lot of time we have to play 4v5 because ppl dont wanna play it…and it’s still there
really there is no reason, just admit that it was a failure and remove it…failures happens, but keep failing is kitten
I used to rage about Skyhammer every day.
But then I just joined teamQ like everyone else. Better rewards and no Skyhammer.
The only down-side is that you occasionally play premades during prime-time.
Haha, same here. I occasionally do a solo queue but immediately regret it if skyhammer pops. There seem to be a lot of people joining team queue solo or duo anyway.
Remove the map from solo queue untill you have tweaked it enough for players to like it.
Like: Remove the glass panels around the side points/time to make them break WAAAY longer, remove hammer or make it dodgeable, make the hammer platform bigger and with no breakable glass.
That would make me like it ALOT more
This.
I like the map as well but a thing i really hate is thiefs or engineers going stealth and doing scorpion wire and im dead. There’s no counter play for that…
Making the time for the glassplates to break longer would prevent that from happening a lot. And cannon is op
If you have the right profession/build your laughing. If you don’t you probably wont laugh much.
Other maps have particular NPC and mechanics that play out but don’t feel like they intrude the way Sky Hammer does.
A warrior, a guardian, and an elementalist walk into an open field…
The Warrior turns to the guardian and says, “Did you hear something?”
Guardian replies, “No, but how’d the elementalist die?”
The only part o Skyhammer I don’t like is the power of the cannon, it requires nearly no skill to use and does way to much damage to way to large of an area. If it was more on par with trebuchet I would be totally fine with it. The area should not be so large that it is often nearly impossible to get away from, it should be just a little larger than a point, imo.
I love the dead falls, the general map design is lovely.
The cannon is to strong in skyhammer,reduce the dmg on it.If i;m able to hold it the entire game,this will happen.
That is a terrible example, for one, 6 players, so it is hotjoin or custom, two the levels are stacked very heavily towards your team, not that rank is the end all of skill, but there is an obvious experience landslide here.
The only part o Skyhammer I don’t like is the power of the cannon, it requires nearly no skill to use and does way to much damage to way to large of an area. If it was more on par with trebuchet I would be totally fine with it. The area should not be so large that it is often nearly impossible to get away from, it should be just a little larger than a point, imo.
I love the dead falls, the general map design is lovely.
The cannon is to strong in skyhammer,reduce the dmg on it.If i;m able to hold it the entire game,this will happen.
That is a terrible example, for one, 6 players, so it is hotjoin or custom, two the levels are stacked very heavily towards your team, not that rank is the end all of skill, but there is an obvious experience landslide here.
It doesn’t matter if it;s hotjoin,its just a prime example what happens when someone is able to cap it the entire match,solo q/team q/hotjoin,it happens in all..This was just one scrnshot i could find,since i dont make them all the time.
I actually really like the overall design and layout of Skyhammer but I think the problems lie mostly with the mechanics of the map/game not the hammer its self, although a change wouldn’t hurt:
1. You shouldn’t be able to be feared off of ledges. That’s just an extremely basic thing that WoW got right that should have already existed in this game.
2. Either extend the amount of time it takes to break the glass or make it only able to be destroyed by the hammer because all it does is cause troll knockback/pull mechanics to make the game less fun.
3. Make the hammer aoe smaller. Seriously the size of the thing is ridiculous. I don’t even care how much damage it does I just want to be able to get out of it ever. And tbh I could live without this change.
Like I said I really like the design but it’s just too much of a troll map to even be fun.
In my honest opinion i think skyhammer is a fun created map.
However, it is indeed a map with some major design flaws when looking at it from a tPvP perspective. It should not belong in solo-q or any tourney for that matter.
Skyhammer = Fun map for Hot-join fun and giggles, absolute garbage for tPvP rotation
Skyhammer isn’t a problem as a map, but it doesn’t belong to soloQ as it’s a trolling, jp-like map.
It doesn’t suit to tournament pvp mode as it’s more about taking control of the hammer by launching foes to ground than competitive pvping.
Yes, I personally hate this map too as I prefer to fight instead of trolling ppl with ccs. It suits hotjoin only, nowhere else.
I don’t really like skyhammer generally, but i do believe it brings, with Spirit Watch, some diversity in the actual meta.
It’s not really fun facing warriors or mm necros sitting on each shrine over and over.. At least, these maps offer an other way of winning
