Guild Wars 2

As it stands the clocktower could use some help. if you want to keep it as is, I suggest make it a solo instance, like a dungeon. that way nobody gets in my way. I can tak buddies with me fine.

Secondly, the option I prefer, stop forcing me to wait for the acid to rise. I did part 1 so quickly, just so I can wait for the acid to rise again? Then it is followed by a succession of quick jumps and a small jump down….into the acid presumably, unless you had insanely quick reflexes.

I understand it is supposed to be hard, but hard doesn’t translate to excrutiatingly frustrating!

please.

fix it.

I like difficult things, but not if I can’t learn from my mistakes and get better. As it stands I can’t get much further than the first clocktower explosion. Simply because people get in the way, I have no time to adjust my camera for the following jumps because the acid is too quick after the forced pause and some people grief by stacking speed boons.

For a holiday event, I dislike it. I loved the art, but the actual tower is annoying.

And I did not even mention the camera issues.

If you are fast enough to have to wait for the second explosion, you are rewarded with a chest. You should have time to open it if you’re that quick.

Just wait an second before going and let everyone else run first, once they take off go right behind them, you’ll have full view of your character and still plenty of time as long as you don’t mess up.

I don’t see the problem with waiting at the beginning. Its a way to let everyone get out of the cutscene and up to a “safe” area before the thing really starts going, and its not that long a wait.

Waiting for the puzzle to start again after you fail is a much longer wait.

I personally love the event and wouldn’t change it for the world except to perhaps shoot Charr and Norn characters with a shrinkify ray for the duration of the event.

I’ve completed it 6 times out of around 50, I’ll probably be doing it even more tomorrow with some friends of mine.

I loved every second of the 4 hours it took me to finish.
So much rage and laughs…
Just keep trying. It’s hard, but if I could do it, anyone can with a bit of perseverance.
If you are getting frustrated, just look at all the other guys falling and laugh at them!

I really don’t see the problem with this event as it is. I have completed it easily enough, and I do not see having other players in it as a problem. If anything I think it adds something to it as you get to see people falling down as you go, which is always funny. I believe that doing it alone would be quite boring.

Clock tower should be solo that I totally agree with because it does cause the following problems:

- One people don’t be quiet and nothing worse to see tons of white text and nothing else. Even if your done it you can make others people life worse by spamming random stuff.

- Two some people like speed some people don’t and again this causes more problems

- Three the size of characters if your the smallest character it’s very hard to see especially if you got some very large players in there as well.

I think people should have the choice to do it alone if they choose to. Not everyone enjoys a group of people because it’s hard to study mistakes when its hard enough just to see your character alone.

My problem is that being forced to wait while acid is chasing me is the cheapest way to make the game hard. it’s called artificial difficulty.

Go play a mario bros game to learn how moving levels should be done.

Maybe also for how jumping controls should be done.

;)

Having to wait while death is chasing you is a very huge deal when I have to time jumps while fighting both the camera and huge players.

make it solo and remove the wait time.

ToxicToothpick.4396:

If you are fast enough to have to wait for the second explosion, you are rewarded with a chest. You should have time to open it if you’re that quick.

are you attempting to deceive me? why?

Having just completed this jumping puzzle, I have to say that I am glad I managed to do it … but, it wasn’t the most fun thing I’ve done in GW2 so far – it really wasn’t.

While I firmly believe that big rewards comes from big challenges (i.e. the exotic boots and other chest goodies), I also believe that everyone should at least have a fair chance at getting all of the Halloween achievements.

Some issues and suggestions:

• There is a MAJOR camera collision issue just after the very first cogwheel. When you jump and your character touches that small floating block in your path, the camera tend to spazz out very badly, making that part of the jumping puzzle more an issue of luck rather than skill.

• The non-instanced nature of this puzzle creates problems, especially for players who’d like to take their smaller asura, human or sylvari characters through this puzzle. In the end, I rolled a norn, made it big, and dyed my armor pieces ridiculous colors to make it stand out more amongst the crowd.

• Due to the nature of this jumping puzzle, it should IMHO be instanced, or at least thinned out in terms of player count.

• Players should not be able to grief the event by using mid-puzzle speed buffs. I’ve had a few cases of this happening, despite the skill bar being locked. How they managed to do it, I’m not sure – perhaps it was auto triggered by some class-mechanics, but this shouldn’t really happen.

• To give everyone a fair chance at getting 100% completion for Halloween, I would decouple this jumping puzzle from the achievements – the chest awards and a guaranteed exotic alone should be worth it.

While there is a great sense of accomplishment when you do finish this, I would lie if I said it didn’t come with a fair amount of frustration … all one needs to do, is to check the player chatter during this event. I’ve found it mostly negative, with the occasional vocal minority giving it high praise.

Frustrations (and the issues above) aside, I do think the idea behind this jumping puzzle is a good one, and overall ArenaNet have designed wonderfully creative and challenging events for Halloween – probably the best I’ve ever seen in an MMO. However, I stand by what I said above. Take it as constructive criticism.

I finished it 7 times across 5 characters, norn/asura/huma/sylvari – in the midst of a dozen other players of all sizes. You do it enough times and you start to feel when its time to jump regardless if you can see yourself or not.

Its like riding a bike. You might fall a few times (or in this case a couple hundred) but once you get the feel of it it is simple; almost trivial.

Nothing is wrong with the puzzle as is. /my 2c

I think he’s talking about the chest that you get when you have to go down. (to go up)

Enough said lol.

Ps: I’m playing an Asura.

the tower is absolutely insane, the difficulty is absurd, I can’t see my character, and it is down right no fun at all. Within my first 15 minutes of trying it I have become very angry and lost the will to play the game as a whole. There is no reason anything should be this difficult.

Apparently, if that was the real Joshua Foreman’s Youtube account and not someone posing as him, the tower was designed with only 5% of all players being able to finish it in mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXRTfI06pXY
You should be able to find the comment by searching ‘dang’ though the pages.

If that’s true, knowing that doesn’t help very much, as it makes something like this would be less likely to happen, if they don’t want people to be able to complete things.

billjenkins

Definition of ragequit :P ..
Not a gamer if thats all it takes to make you quit. In which case as your not a gamer and are just playing for a bit of entertainment …you shouldnt have a problem not being able to do said event/achievment. Achievments are ..achievments… .meant to show you done somthing worth mentioning. Meaning not everyone is going to be able to do it.
Its like if you never learned to ride a bike ..you cant go out and tell every1 else in the world to use stabalizers and expect them to ..no ..instead you keep trying till you learn.. Same principle here.

SolarNova.1052:

billjenkins

Definition of ragequit :P ..
Not a gamer if thats all it takes to make you quit. In which case as your not a gamer and are just playing for a bit of entertainment …you shouldnt have a problem not being able to do said event/achievment. Achievments are ..achievments… .meant to show you done somthing worth mentioning. Meaning not everyone is going to be able to do it.
Its like if you never learned to ride a bike ..you cant go out and tell every1 else in the world to use stabalizers and expect them to ..no ..instead you keep trying till you learn.. Same principle here.

I dislike people like you the most, because you defend everything and anything instead of listening.

Maybe you should read what others have said about it.

I don’t need it to be stupid easy, but there is a fine line between difficult/hard and “omfgwtfbbqfml”.

from my experience people are more pissed about 1)player interference, 2) framerate issues, 3) glitches, 4) camera issues than they are pissed at just the general idea of difficulty.

just because YOU made it doesn’t mean it was fine. I can admire a difficult game for being difficult as long as it does not take cheap shots. Like this case here.

Drekor.5217:

Just wait an second before going and let everyone else run first, once they take off go right behind them, you’ll have full view of your character and still plenty of time as long as you don’t mess up.

And you think that, out of the 15 people in the instance, you’re the only one who will have that idea? Or that none of the others will be slow and end up on top of you anyway?

All you achieve by starting late is give yourself no way to recover from a mistake or a momentary lag spike.

There’s absolutely no reason for this to be a forced group instance, especially with so many players in such a small space, and where certain races (norn, charr) have big advantages at the cost of everyone else.

Being a huge norn in pink armour doesn’t just give you a much better notion of your own location, it also causes people around (inside you, hidden by you) you to mess up sooner, which leaves you alone and undisturbed for the rest of the race.

And that’s without taking into account people casting speed buffs and messing up your jumps, people bringing minions, people posting huge walls of text with /say to deliberately block other players’ view, etc..

A timed jumping puzzle is supposed to be about fighting against the clock and the course. It’s bad enough that we have to deal with GW2’s horrible camera that bounces in and out for no reason; we should not also have to deal with other players blocking our view (be it involuntarily or, in many cases, deliberately).

Another video, helped me a lot. There’s lots of spots where you only have to jump once instead of twice, saving you lots of time. Find these spots and use them.

Makovorn.1706

In the end, I rolled a norn, made it big, and dyed my armor pieces ridiculous colors to make it stand out more amongst the crowd.

Exactly. I’ve never seen as many level 5 max-size norns as today in the Clock tower.

When players feel the need to roll characters that they know will cause maximum inconvenience to other players just to be able to avoid the design flaws in the game, it should be pretty obvious to the designers that they messed up.

The tower layout is fine, the speed is fine. The camera isn’t fine (far from it) but we can live with it. Making players unable to see their own character or the way in front of them is not fine, and this should have been obvious if the puzzle was tested at all before release.

I tried 4 hours then decide to skip this puzzle.
Maybe that’s what ANet want
MAKE PEOPLE SKIP THE EVENT THEY DECIDED

ive been going for 6 hours, why cant i do it