Please do not remove or lower Cloud Nine's appearance

[Valence]

I do not know how it is on JP datacenters and how the Cloud Nine map is proving "unpopular" as YoshiP said in the last live letter, but I've been queued up on EU regularly in the past weeks, and CC does NOT happen during volcano map, but DOES spawn during Palaistra or especially Cloud Nine.

So I guess it's stinky volcano map that's unpopular on EU. Do the devs only monitor JP datacenters or what?

I'm not saying this because as a ranged player I like Cloud Nine (I really do), but because volcano is actually NOT popping in the evenings here. Recheck your data, if you care about EU that is?

[Ransu]

Cloud nine is a terrible map. The queues on aether go completely silent when the map is in rotation.

What they SHOULD do is make the rotation random when the new map comes out. There will be 4 maps at that point which is enough variety for the maps to be set to random instead of just playing the same damn map for 1.5 hours.

[Elfidan]

Cloud nine is a terrible map. The queues on aether go completely silent when the map is in rotation.

What they SHOULD do is make the rotation random when the new map comes out. There will be 4 maps at that point which is enough variety for the maps to be set to random instead of just playing the same damn map for 1.5 hours.

Yeah set times for maps kind of sucks. I would also prefer random and a rotation.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

How about no more of this "rotation" thing where people can ask "which map is currently up?" and instead make the map be selected once you are at 10/10 players ready?

That's how the old Feast maps before Crystal Tower used to work, like with Wolves Den Pier and Lichenweed.

[Nikoto]

If they remove Cloud Nine I'm going to shit my pants, get rid of Volcanic Heart instead!

[ThaCa]

C9 is worst map by far so good riddance.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

I'd get rid of the volcanic map LONG before I get rid of C9.

[Edelgarde]

Delete C9. Absolute worst map and the deaths you get is completely unjustified. Like imagine playing well and knowing when to retreat in a fight, but the absolute crap camera angles will not show that there was a tornado right behind you, completely knocking you back and causing you to be out of position where the enemies can now finish you off after the help of the tornado. Imagine that. Not only that, you can never predict when the next turbulence will come, so by the time it's coming, you may have used it during a crucial moment of the fight and you just have to prepare to take it without your guard. Sometimes I park myself on a potion so I basically don't take damage, but I take wasting time damage. So it's not your fault when you get screwed over by it. You should never be holding onto your guard for the next turbulence. That is an awful mechanic and purely RNG. You have no control over it.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Tbh I don't even mind the tornados and gust mechanic.

I do mind the objectively awful map layout in regards to using objects / walls for cover, like anyone who has dabbled minimally in map design can tell you this map is awful with a single tight checkpoint in the middle without any flanks.

It is Ranged and WHM heaven, any melee that needs to engage has to go right into your territory and unless they can actually capitalise on their engagement, they have nothing to play around. I mean look at this map objectively and tell me "this is a good map". I can understand the hate on Volcanic Heart, but what Volcanic Heart does right is giving various areas to hide behind, which I believe is crucial in good MMORPG pvp maps, or any good pvp maps period.

Literally just open boxes on open boxes.

[Valence]

So C9 is not okay because it favors ranged, but volcano map is somehow okay even if it favors melees (and some casters that don't give a shit about walls anymore now...)? Have you tried even casting on volcano map? It's hell