Guild Wars 2

Skyhammer is fun map… as activity event not as pvp map. They honestly should just make it an activity event like crab toss or the winter brawl, handle everyone an engi gun that has 1 knockback, 1 pull, 1 jump and w/e.

But yeah this thread will be probably deleted heh.

No offense, but basicly you could stop making videos and just list up all knockbacks certain professions have. Would save a lot of time.

You are simply running around in hotjoin an knock people, from which a lot play obviously rly awfull, off the map.

Those aren’t even some funny/skilled kills. Just total average stuff.
Wow, you knocked a player down the map.
Everybody already knows, it is easy to knock ppl down.
So whats the point?

inb4 “mod deletes it because hurr durr”

i agree.

But it doesn’t matter how many threads we put on the forum, devs don’t care and this map will stay.

Yesterday i got raged against because as a thief i was not using scorpion wire ( lol), i can’t even count how many ranks i lost in the leaderboard due to this map.

But whatever.

power already said in some stream that the map isn’t going anywhere, that they would at least try to fix the bugs it has first.

The map is complete garbage. Signed.

Not to be rude but this petition has happened like 5 times. Either it’s going to happen or it’s not. More petitions won’t change that. Just bump the old ones enough times, and let those get bigger and you might get a response.

ronpierce.2760:

Not to be rude but this petition has happened like 5 times. Either it’s going to happen or it’s not. More petitions won’t change that. Just bump the old ones enough times, and let those get bigger and you might get a response.

you’re right

we should necro all skyhammer threads so that they cover the whole first page

it got buried, we should remember devs mods had to merge thread for this kittenING MAP

Why the kitten (<- French Connection UK) do they merge all of the Skyhammer threads?

I know, they want to “clean the forum”, however so much ANet does those days seems more like they try to veil all the criticism.

Can’t say I didn’t call it. Got merged. xD

ronpierce.2760:

Can’t say I didn’t call it. Got merged. xD

Merged better than infracted -.- which is what I was expecting.

Im gonna go start necroing skyhammer threads.

No one wants it. Yet they haven’t removed it.

It’s a hotjoin map.

If Arenanet keeps this map in the rotation it should be able to be opted out of imo

infantrydiv.1620:

No one wants it. Yet they haven’t removed it.

It’s a hotjoin map.

Stick to speaking for yourself, kind sir.

There’s a whole lot of people who like that map – they simply have no reason to come to the forums creating dozens of threads ‘we love skyhammer’. It’s those who can’t adjust to the map who are creating threads upon threads how skyhammer sucks and should be removed.
Being more vocal entitles that ‘side’ to nothing.
The map is really nice, different than others, and plays out well if at least 2 people on your team understand splitting and can pull it.
Contrary to popular belief, it’s not just about spamming the hammer or fears/cc, either. People doing it are people who would spam whatever they are given on any other map, and who i am happy to drop with my d/d ele.

best map i luv it.

In a week i got skyhammer 50% of my solo q.

I lose nearly all time.

I don’t want to play cheese.

Remove this crap

I don’t even care about my leaderboard rank ( that dropped ridicolously), i just hate it.

Like everyone else

There are actually a few good points on the map:

1) The jump pads and arches are really fun and make for some interesting and complex play using LoS and AoE, as well as acceptable uses of knockback to give yourself breathing room or time to set up some longer-casting abilities.

2) The multiple layers that the map provides are pretty fun to play with and allow for some interesting plays.

3) The middle capture point is pretty fun to play around, as is the area immediately next to the ground level portal.

Despite this, there are multiple places where the map falls short:

1) It is far too easy to instantly kill with very little counterplay or risk. The way the game is balanced, plays that deal high damage should be very risky, and Skyhammer destroys that by making it possible to have almost no risk while getting nearly instant kills.

2) The above mechanics affect classes differently. Certain classes have enormous advantages over others while playing this map, to an unhealthy degree.

3) The skyhammer itself is sort of a pain in how it is high damage, cc, and knockdown, as well as how the design in the immediate area around includes every one of the other problems the map has. It is the single easiest place to kill with cc or knockback, in addition to the small size which makes positioning difficult to work with and AoE difficult to avoid. This makes it so that easy-to-play tactics are much more rewarded, and skillful play has barely any effect.

My solution would be to either remove the glass panels entirely, or rework the level so that when you fall through them you fall to another layer of the map rather than instantly die, and make it fairly easy to get back up so that you aren’t completely boned by falling through.
Secondly, the skyhammer itself needs changing. Falling off the platform should not kill you. My personal idea is that it would teleport you back down to the surface and apply a debuff that prevents you from entering the portal for several seconds.

I think we can all agree though, that the map is not particularly fair or good in its current form.

Change skyhammer to activity event like crab toss…. remove from pvp, ty.

They fact they are frantically merging threads means they are at least aware of this one, and purposefully avoiding answering to it.

Oh well, as players all we can do is keep bumping this thread up or making more threads. We are powerless to do anything else, besides completely ditching SoloQ and using TeamQ (it’s what I’m doing).

ArenaNet, please remove this godawful excuse of a PvP map from Solo Queue. Either that, or change the map mechanics (no more insta deaths from falling). Make another platform just below the Skyhammer level, so falling off will mean you have to run back to the fight instead of dying. Also the Skyhammer cannon does EVERYTHING at once (massive damage, knockdown, can’t be dodged/blocked) and needs a nerf in at least 1 of those aspects.

Skyhammer still needs to be removed from solo queue, 3 months later. We’re not complacent, Anet. It’s a non-competitive map.

I still think it should be removed from at least solo queue, but I think it could be improved by increasing the size of the control room substantially, putting walls around CM, and removing holes from CM.

OR-doing that for all the other nodes.

That would at least increase the build diversity for the map and put more emphasis on some of the interesting points of the map like the jump pads and verticality.

It’s a terrible map in every way possible, it should be removed.

Well here is skyhammer for your skyhammer on top of skyhammer….

Funny coincidence. They should make standard hotjoin games that exclude certain maps. Let’s start with Capricorn and Skyhammer.

^—- with you /vote get rid of skyhammer

I actually had a custom server running with normal hotjoin rules without Skyhammer and Capricon for about 3 months. I even specified it in the title. No one joined. And if they did, didn’t stay.

echo.2053:

Well here is skyhammer for your skyhammer on top of skyhammer….

There were actually only skyhammers just before you took that screenshot .It was not a display bug since i tried 3 servers out of curiosity.

I was like

I genuinely hate sky hammer. In general I just skip it and spectate for the round since playing on it just kittenes me off. Does anyone actually like this map?

i think ther should be a few servers that keep skyhammer…but please take that map out of many many servers please. thats the one map i usually either wait till its over or log to another server

sulbrij.4590:

I genuinely hate sky hammer. In general I just skip it and spectate for the round since playing on it just kittenes me off. Does anyone actually like this map?

I do

Problem?

Yes it sucks when you want to play and the whole thing is filled with skyhammer games.

Not even hot join players want skyhammer yet it’s still in solo queue… just lol

unfortunately i’m forced to play skyhammer in tournament, i don’t like the jumping points, breakable glasses and on top of that the cannon is way too much powerful.
The map favours too much classes with knockbacks or fears

everytime you log in and press play now. first map showing up.. Skyhammer.. press play now again, next map.. skyhammer..

i guess they have to datamine and scew the stats so skyhammer seems populated.

Thats the new tactic, force you to like skyhammer.

It is due to the fact that skyhammer is first in the rotation. They reset the servers a few times yesterday and after such a reset youll see only skyhammers.

- I would be willing to pay 100 euros for a “skyhammer skip pass”.
- Playing on this map is so annoying and unenjoyable that i typically logg off right after playing it.
- I cant really recommend GW2 to my friends as long as this map is still part of the rotation.
- I havent bought anything recently and whont buy anything from the gemstore purely due to skyhammer.
- Its very likely that i will switch to wildstar (and recommend anyone who asks me to do the same) if this isnt out of the rotation soon.

GW2 pvp is like a really good looking girl. Really sweet, pretty, intelligent. The complete package. The only bad thing about her is that she smells horrible.

That horrible smell equals skyhammer. Something needs to be done about it. Or i whont be able to stick around. Its literally unbearable.

I will even pay you kitteng 1800 gems just to have option to never get skyhammer or spirit watch in soloq anymore. PLEASEEEEEEEE remove that crap already THANK YOU.

Cynz.9437:

I will even pay you kitteng 1800 gems just not to get skyhammer and spirit watch in soloq anymore. PLEASEEEEEEEE remove that crap already THANK YOU.

What is wrong with spirit watch? People don’t like skyhammer because you get 1 shot by being bashed off a cliff. Spirit watch doesnt really have that does it?

Lordrosicky.5813:

Cynz.9437:

I will even pay you kitteng 1800 gems just not to get skyhammer and spirit watch in soloq anymore. PLEASEEEEEEEE remove that crap already THANK YOU.

What is wrong with spirit watch? People don’t like skyhammer because you get 1 shot by being bashed off a cliff. Spirit watch doesnt really have that does it?

Spirit watch comes down to which team has warriors and which doesn’t. It is as imbalanced as skyhammer.

Anet, do you guys just enjoy the fact that people hate that map so much? Sry, not everyone is Grouch and plays engi.

You know what? Every time i get skyhammer i will make a post in this thread.

Yep, here we go: second skyhammer in a row~

remove that kitten please

oh look spirit watch, heavily favored toward warriors…we all should play warriors, right anet?

oh and guess who won? the team who had a warrior (yep, it was my team but still)

This thread’s name should be legion, cause it’s many!

Everytime my solo queue pops up with the name “skyhammer” in it, the first expression that comes to my mouth starts with an F.
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Fabulous! More cheese!
What I suggest is for anet to remove this map from the rotation, and then make another game mode, and call it, Gimmick PvP (gPvP for short). Then they add Skyhammer and Raid on the Capricorn and maybe Spiritwatch in it and now the mice can go in there and cheese each other all day long and let us play solo queue in peace. I would very much prefer Raid on the Capricorn be in the solo queue rotation than Skyhammer!

Skyhammer tho……

Have we not agreed that you do not need skill to win on this map?

remove skyhammer

this thread is pretty old. why hasnt anet seen it?

“There seems to be mixed opinions on skyhammer”

ANET

translation: ANET likes it and most players do not.

bdg.6782:

remove skyhammer

this thread is pretty old. why hasnt anet seen it?

Simple they DGAF

reply number #501?

Please just remove this map from solo queue, along with spirit watch(although not nearly as bad but people just tunnelvision orb too mcuh)