Guild Wars 2

everything has been said, but the frustration remains, change this kitten!

Kiraki.9761:

2. if everyone was transformed into the same sized character

that is actually a fantastic idea

Tried completeing this yesterday for 14 hours with maybe two one hour breaks. and to top it off my characcter model is the smallest asuran model you can make. I hardly get the chance to see what i’m doing unless i make it to the two bars at the drop but never am i ever able to make it there in time because everytime i jump i go straight into the vortex. among getting stuck on blocks that i’m not able to see at the start which opush me off theee side and then if we wanna take the clipping on the cogs into this? This event needs some kitten good fine tuning. i love the idea of this game but wtf did you guys have to make it so impossible to complete for?

Only 5% intended to complete this? Fine…if this was a perminent edition. It is NOT fine for a temporary, HOLIDAY event! Holiday events should be doable by most people….

Right now I can’t even get to the Clock Tower because all the pre-events for opening up the realm are bugged/stalled on my server (Darkhaven).

My real problem with the tower is that my computer is slow and the acid is fast. Normally I’m always the last of the zerg, and the acid always catchs me because the time reaction of my computer doesn’t let me go faster.

If the acid was just a bit slower I think it would be fine, as it is, I simply can’t do it because of my computer and that makes me sad U.U

This JP is defenitetly aimed for the elite player.

The clock tower separates the men from the boys so to speak. It has nothing to do with casual or hardcore as some have been saying. Those define time spend not how good of a player someone is.
I have done it with all races, but the thing that surprised me the most is how people don’t pay attention to other people. At the start I use a different route from others which allows me to catch up if I have fallen behind or get out in front even more if I had a good start. Yet almost no one followed my path.
The tower requires timing and making sure your path is the fastest one. Yes it is frustrating at times. Yes people will block your view, but that is not insurmountable and past the first 10 seconds won’t matter anymore as most will already have fallen behind or off.

Ask your self why you are failing. Are you to slow than try a different approach when jumping. Are you failing jumps than you need to learn to time your jumps better. Is it the camera than see if a slightly altered path results in a better overview.

As the thread about who completed it shows, more than enough people can do it. Complaining about it won’t get you the achievement though. Dedication and getting better at it do.

I think it’s a great challenge, but by simply making this a private instance, it would be a lot better.

In my opinion, I think having others to fail with makes it a lot more fun, and it helps with the patience factor. It’s great that this event has more of a social aspect to it than most PvE activities.

Puzzle is not hard. I’ve done it with every race. IT is just about knowing where to jump and the dos and donts

http://beta.xfire.com/video/5bc735

davadude.6017:

I think it’s a great challenge, but by simply making this a private instance, it would be a lot better.

Agreed, I feel like that would be a suitable solution for a lot of people. Of course, people would then complain that the camera is far too buggy or that their instance is glitched with flying dragons knocking them off the clocktower. Many people (not all) just want a free and easy ride because effort is just too much, well, effort.

JackDaniels.1697:

This JP is defenitetly aimed for the elite player.

It’s a sad day in gaming history if this is considered an “elite” puzzle.

XiaMae.9874:

In my opinion, I think having others to fail with makes it a lot more fun, and it helps with the patience factor. It’s great that this event has more of a social aspect to it than most PvE activities.

I agree, I think the social aspect needs more recognition. It certainly helped me keep a lighthearted attitude while attempting it, I probably would’ve gotten far more frustrated had I been solo.

done it on all races, big kitten norn small asura whatever.. it is only hard if you look at your char instead of your screen and view. So you want to do jumping puzzles easily? switch how you play. i mean it makes no sense to whine about something if you do it casually. And i mean it. Yes it is a jumping puzzle. it is a hard one. you dont have to do it. if its not fun skip it.

I’ll whine all the other puzzles are easy and that cause some find it fun to do easy puzzles doesnt mean i get to skip the fun so they should make them all harder by this logic right?

Seriously.. ONE jumping puzzle is hard and this much whining..

The thing is, this jumping challenge is way more user friendly than any of the others. No armor repair costs, you instantly get teleported back to the start. And its pretty short as well, with custom music. It is a thing of beauty.

I don’t understand why people feel like everything should be doable by them. Either get the skills, or don’t. I haven’t finished it yet either, I may not by the time the event is over — but I don’t want real challenges taken out of the game. There are too few as it is.

I’ve completed this puzzle a few times now, on both small and big chars, even on a different comp setup, and it took maybe an hour before I got it down the first time. It was one of the most fun things I’ve done in this game, and one of the most adrenaline-inducing moments I’ve had in recent games.

I definitely hope there’ll be more really hard individual challenges like the clocktower in coming patches. Everything doesn’t need to cater to everyone.

i’ve been spending the entire night on it now.
i love the design but the “water” death stuff raises to fast. sometimes when you make a jump the camera moves toward you this is horrible , then a fat norn/charr jumps in front of you and you fall down cause you cant see the spot you jumped to. make it a solo instance

It doesn’t need to be tweaked or changed in any way, the difficulty is what makes this unique and imo the most entertaining thing in this game.

This is me and my guildies at top. One of em is a huge kitten norn ones a charr and me and the other are humans.

CHOAM.7852:
Do you agree that removing the timer/green stuff does decrease the difficulty?

There are other ways to solve this such as the popular instanced idea, or just by fixing the present common bugs themselves will alleviate much of the present pressure. If neither of the two are put in the table, then reducing (by a small tiny bit) the mist from reaching you would help players who reach the last cog after jumping it and not get swallowed like in Super Mario Bros – Lava land. It wouldn’t affect difficulty in any bit, because it would still be challenging. The only difference would provide MORE people the ability to pass it on a lesser time, while still enjoying the game and keeping their sanity in check.

Ascii.9726:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPMQ_ilrxd0

Human/ Charr/ Norn + speed boosts puzzle playthrough are invalid against an Asura with small character builds and no speed boosts.

A bit of constructive criticism over this area:

http://www.killtenrats.com/2012/10/27/gw2-annals-of-horrible-game-design-mad-kings-clock-tower/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KillTenRats+%28Kill+Ten+Rats%29

I’m perfectly fine with only a small number of people making it to the top. At least the achievement means something that way.

Its funny how people who have been unable to make it to the top, claim the collision is bad, or the green mist moves too fast. Yet the people that did make it to the top say the timing and collision are just fine.

The only valid arguments I’ve heard so far are, Charr and Norn obstructing the view, the camera sometimes not cooperating, and the occasional bug where the Clocktower instantly releports you back to the start, or when the final leap to the clockface doesn’t register.

Its really just a matter of skill. If you aren’t skillful enough to make it… why worry about it?