Guild Wars 2

I also quit this game because of skyhammer. It ruins the whole solo arena system and I don’t have time to play with a team

http://strawpoll.me/1666010/

When will skyhammer be removed?

Helseth tage sizer denshee rom for EU

Skyhammer was never in teamq rotation. However you guys are right, this map doesnt belong to any kind of competitive queue

GoogleBrandon.5073:

“What keeps you playing PvP?” and “What can be done to create a more enjoyable experience for everyone?”

I just dont play it.

I really like GW2 but the fact that i cannot play it with 1 or 2 friends makes me play other games instead. Also, the solo arena experience is really bad (skyhamer cough cough)

Find another game that you can play with 2 friends and stop the frustration.

> How to create a more enjoyable experience? Duo queue & remove skyhammer.

they arent working in pvp close thread

Yeah, because nothing is going to happen

Good pvp, but it has 0 dev support so it’s really stale and gets old fast

gg wp

Amstel Steel.2058:

Phaeton.9582:

Amstel Steel.2058:

@Helseth

What are your thoughts on the pros and cons on racial divisions? Would the increased queue times outweigh the ability to partake in matches/tournaments exclusive to a certain race or races of similar scaling?

?

Or, how would you like to see the asura issue handled?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Asura-Animations-Visual-Effects-are-Broken/page/3#post4132507

Asuras are not even an issue. They should fix 4v5, matchmaking, ladders, skyhammer, class balance, proper rewards, game modes, etc.
before.

@Helseth

What makes skyhammer such a competitive map?

silvermember.8941:

Obsidia.5127:

This will do nothing for Guild Wars 2.

Whether or not it does something, how does that affect you in any reasonable way? Does it take away something from you? Are you negatively impacted by it?

If it does nothing that is fine, live goes on. Gw2 pvping not working out, is not the end of the world, afterall it is just a game.

They could use the resources and money to actually fix the game and hire someone, everyone knows really few devs work on pvp if any

They should be more respectful to their tiny community and listen to us

No one understands why is skyhammer still in the rotation.

I bet they also know it’s an awful map but removing it now would discredit them

They can remove the posts but not this
http://strawpoll.me/1666010

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

because, it is balanced, that is why.

berserker stance
- 8 or 10 seconds duration
- 52 or 50 seconds down time
- immune to conditions only
- will die from direct damage
- susceptible to crowd control skills
- take up 1st utility slot

endure pain
- 4 or 5 seconds duration
- 56 or 55 seconds down time
- immune to direct damage only
- crippled, chilled condition effects still affect movement speed
- susceptible to crowd control skills
- take up 2nd utility skill slot

balanced stance
- breaks stun upon activation
- from 8 seconds duration of stability and swiftness
- 40 seconds recharge time, around 30 seconds down time
- stability boon can be very easily removed
- will die from condition damage and direct damage
- take up 3rd utility skill slot

mesmers get it free from f4, no need to use utility skill slot
engineers and elementalist only need to use 1 utility skill slot

warriors need to use all 3 utility skill slots to achieve the same effect, and yet the stability boon can be so easily removed.

it is balanced.

warriors do not have un-removable stability unlike mesmers, engineers and elementalist.

Engineers and elementalists cannot do actions while they are immune.

Warrior can solo 2 people while being immune.

Engineers and eles lose the node while they are immune.

Warrior doesn’t.

Also, the durations

etc
etc
etc
(I’m not talking about mesmer because it’s the weakest class, so nothing to say)

Also, let’s not talk about HP pools & toughness

This map is crap

Seen on reddit, where people is also complaining about this map:

From the Introducing the new Skyhammer PvP Map blog post:

“‘We’ve been working on it for 4 months on and off, doing a lot of iteration, trying to get it right,’ Bearce says. ‘Of course, we work on multiple maps at a time – but this one is special. I think players are really going to respond well to Skyhammer.’”

“‘One thing I’d been advocating for a long time was an elevated map where you could push people off to their deaths,’ Darrin Claypool says.”

“‘From a design perspective, the PvP team really wanted to create a super-weapon map where your team fights to control it so they can control the map,’ Claypool continues.”

“One thing we have noticed while testing is that people started bringing a lot more control and stability skills in their builds. Underutilized skills like the Thief’s Needle Trap, Tripwire and Scorpion Wire or the Engineer’s Magnetic Bomb and Personal Battering Ram, now suddenly have real lethal potential.”

“We’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback from our playtesters,” Bearce says. “Pretty much as soon as we threw this in for testing, our internal playtesters said, ‘This has to go on Live”

Related pic

Evan Lesh.3295:

We did ship with 3 round round tournaments with 8 teams and rewards were based on placement. However, the barrier to entry was high and queue times were long. Having a structured (in-game) way to support multi-round tournaments again would be fun though.

Reimplement free tourneys limited to one per day.

One tournament every day at 21.00 for example.

The system could start with 8 teams only but it would be even better if there was no preset number of teams

ie; only 2 teams join make it 1 round, if 4 teams join 2 rounds, 8 teams 3 rounds, etc

Rewards would be adjusted depending on the number of teams (gold? Gems? Titles?)

Also after you are eliminated in later rounds you are invited to watch the finals

JonathanSharp.7094:

This is a good point. We’d like to revisit this system at some point.

What types of specific stats do you want to see (keep in mind combat stats vs “gamemode” stats)? How much info is too much info?

I think it’s good to show more info for these types of things, but keep in mind that if we add too much, it can be overwhelming for some players. Due to that we’d want to find a nice balance between too little and too much.

-Total Damage done
-Total Healing done

- #of kills (only the player stomping or last hiting the downed gets the kill)
- #of assists
- #of deaths

I really think that K/D/A is important in GW2 because of it’s nature. Sometimes you don’t know what’s going wrong and this info would be really helpful.
ie: you may be dying too much (too many deaths), maybe you are too bunkerish (low Kills & assists), the bunker is not stomping properly (too many assists), the far point assaulter is being killed all the time, etc.

You played with cleric? Mate, there’s literally no cleric eles playing competitive pvp. That amulet is nothing but heals, you really lack all the damage.

If you are playing that build you are harming your team.

So the PvP update is a pile of crap?

on topic

As everyone knows you can get out of LOS in waterfall, so foefire was imbalanced as the blue team had this advantage.

However now you can do the same in quarry.

I expect more changes like this one in other maps. I’ll give a couple of suggestions:

>Some boxes or objects you can use to jump to the upper level of Nifhel midpoint
>A very small roof in Skyhammer midpoint that you can use to cover yourself from the hammer

Evan Lesh.3295:

Would this work as a pre-match filter for matchmaking, or as a map vote system?

The best idea i’ve read is:

When queue pops two maps are selected randomly. Then players can vote which of the two they preffer before joining.

The map that gets the most votes is the one that will be played.

The advantage is that it won’t make queues any longer

Just use this poll instead: http://strawpoll.me/1666010

It has more than 2k answers

And then there’s also people that afks just because it’s skyhammer..

No

15 chars

Yep. This map is not balanced at all.

Most of the time the team with more engis&mesmers will just win.

edit: We are now at 70%-30%

Really good stuff, I hope anet hears the part about high end pvp rewards.

Over 2000 votes by now.

69% asking for the removal of the map.

Waiting for anet opinion on this

Apparently the original topic was removed somehow.

I guess it was a little mistake by some forum admin because I cannot see any other reason. I mean, we are trying to improve the game right?

Anyway, here’s the poll:

http://strawpoll.me/1666010

Currently there are over 2k responses and 70% of the people ask for the removal of this map.

How many total votes did the other poll have?

This one is close to 2k

CureForLiving.5360:

Oh I’d rather see ANet address some of the balance issues in PvP before they start removing maps from solo queues.

Actually skyhammer itself is already a source of imbalance

5 engis team can beat anything there

They are not updating.(((

^ +1 this guy knows what he is talking

Dear Anet:

68% of your population hates this single map. This means 68% of your customers don’t like your product.

There are many threads in your forums poping up every day about the removal of Skyhammer.

The main skyhammer thread has over 4000 views and many pages filled with complains.

This map is very well known for glory farm abuse and other exploits. There are many other bugs related to knockbacks. Also, sometimes you fall down and you are not killed so you cannot respawn.

Many hardcore PvPers have quit the game and this map was one of the reasons.

Skyhammer was released on July 9th. After almost 1 year the hate towards it is still growing.

I wonder how long can anet ignore their community

Ele is only viable now because of the awesome celestial amulet and the broken runes of strenght. If they are nerfed the ele will be back to crap lvl

Id like to make a point.

The “Remove Skyhammer” percentage is actually higher than the poll shows. Keep in mind that many people has quit GW2 because of this map and they don’t visit the forums anymore.

I’m sure, however, that many people would come back if this aberration was removed.

I just want a new game mode so I dont have to play skyhammer again

Anet, remove skyhammer and spiritwatch from solo arena.

Sincerely, your community

Darnis.4056:

Yea cause soloque is serious business..

Soloque is supposed to be casual and fun.
Skyhammer is the only time I have fun playing soloque, because no matter how awful my teammates I Can still do work on the team and win matches we shouldn’t have won.

No one has fun in skyhammer.

Skyhammer heroes belong to hotjoin

Yo, this is my daily remove skyhammer post.

Remove it. It’s crap.

Skyhammer and spirit watch ruin PvP.

It would be a really nice implementation for the game. Coming from League of legends it is a feature i really miss.

To balance it make both teams have at least 1 duoq premade.

Currently if you want to play with a friend you have to lf 3 more. That may not want to continue after you lose 1 game and then you have to start lfm again.

Chinchillo.5769:

Ban Titanium, gg.

This map, unfun and bugged.

Remove it

Engis in skyhammer

They specc as bunkers and can knockback you to death easily.
If you choose to ignore them they can just oneshot everyone in a teamfight because they have a free skyhammer.

They are godlike imo

Solstice.1097:

“they’re firing on our position”

you have to be somewhat near the treb fire that is incoming or you won’t hear it. but you should hear enemy grabbed a repair kit, enemy repaired their trebuchet, etc. only reason with those settings i can think of is if somehow your sound is coming out in mono, either left or right channel only, and the other channel is where the voice was coming from?

I dont hear the warning even if they throw trebuchets to me.

I recently reinstalled the game and started pvping again.

However I noticed that when I’m playing Battle of Kyhlo I don’t hear the “Trebucheeet” voice anymore. I don’t get the repair kit messages either.

Were they removed? Does this only happen to me?
If yes, should i reinstall?

Here is a pic with my sound settings:

shaolin.9716:

I’d rather have a way to select which map I want to tournament in. Skyhammer is actually a great map. Whiners will keep whining unless this map becomes a braindead map like the other ones, ruining it for those of us who enjoy it. I was pretty sad when I saw how they added safeguards to the map because of whiners, as all it does is make pulling abilities that much stronger than pushing/fear abilities.

Whiners? It’s called balance mate. When some classes clearly dominate in this map it should never be in a ranked rotation

Obsidia.5127:

No – It won’t ever happen.

They don’t want to double the amount of players in SoloQ.

Holy cow, how many patchs do I have to wait for them to remove this map. I want to come back to gw2 but this map …

I saw the tournament of legends yesterday and the game seems way better nowadays. However, if you can’t make a team you are forced to soloqueue and this map destroys the whole experience.