Guild Wars 2

So far, I’ve burned about 6 hours trying to complete the Mad King’s Clock Tower, but to no successful conclusion. I’m barely making it past the first 1/3 of the puzzle. And believe it or not, I’ve loved every minute of it.

The fast pace is great, having a “hard timer” like it has is exciting.

My one and ONLY issue is this;

I seriously wish it was a SOLO instance…!!!!!!

(And EVERYONE that I’ve mentioned it to while awaiting a relaunch has agreed).

The model sizes of the Charr or Norn or whatever are not the issue I’m having. And indeed, they really aren’t the issue that others are having, even though that’s what they are mostly blaming it on. What is actually the real issue is that there are models OTHER THAN yourself (myself in this case) stampeding along with you (me).

I can’t tell you how many landings I’ve missed in the mad rush because there was three other character models (regardless of race) between me and my landing spot.

Man I would soooo love to be able to do this puzzle, with everything just as it currently is, ALONE…..

No change in the pace…. the enviro… anything….

Just have it left exactly as it is, and be the only one in there…..

Hey!… I can dream, can’t I ?

This might help a little ^^
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I19GNon_MF8
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Believe me, once you’ve mastered the first 1/3 of the run. Other character models will almost be a non factor as most of them will have fallen by that point.

Also I posted an in depth guide this morning. Let me know if it helps

I agree. I haven’t solved it yet, but could do without the larger races clouding up my view; however, I found it useful following up some experienced Asurans. They were my pathfinders. It’s a 60/40 split in my mind.

I ended up not minding the group of people. My big issue (besides just not being good at fast jumping) is that I use mouse-movement so constantly going to the right takes my mouse off the pad unless I lift it back to the left, which means stopping long enough to do so. At which point, helllooooo green goop. Or at least it slows me enough I reach the leap of faith too late.

I am sure WASD would help … if I weren’t utterly right-handed and completely untrained in WASD use. -shrug- I have given up trying and give all praise to those who have succeeded.

The only real issue I have had over the past 3 bloody days of trying to complete this, is the godawful camera…holy crap I’m so sick of being in the middle of a jump and suddenly the camera freaks out and zooms in on some random floating brick or goes off uncontrollably in the opposite direction. And yes I have it zoomed all the way out, and yes I rotate it as we jump and tried all the other useless suggestions everyone else insists works. Were it not for the camera I bet I could make the entire thing at least 60% of the time….

Try playing late at night. I started playing in an overflow. I stayed while everyone else left and had the whole thing to myself. The other nice thing is that the wait times are shorter.

I’d recommend to follow a guide, I nailed the puzzle with in 2 Hours of attempts then after that I did it a following 3 times.

I ended up loving the communal aspect of it. We were all in this together, encouraging each other, cheering when one of us made it, shouting random memes, singing songs, and joining in misery together. I wish it were easier for those who needed to see their character and the platforms better, but running the puzzle with other people was half the fun for me!

I don’t know how but there was a glitch for me on one of my runs in the clocktower and somehow I was able to do it by myself with no goo coming up at me. I looted the chest that is on the cog that you jump down on and got 6 tot bags. I was taking my time but ended up falling still… and sent back to do it with everyone else.

Thx for all the vid’s and other advice. it’s nice to see people who agree that it SHOULDN’T be a Zero-Effort with 100% reward thing.

Gives me further hope on this games survivability.

Unfortunately, all the advice in the world isn’t making a bit of difference in my case, as following it still hasn’t gotten me any further up the tower.

Plain and simple, just can’t see where I’m jumping/landing in the midst of the mob.

I’ve seen a few other suggestions that had mild plausibility on this. One was for it to remain a mob-ish kinda thing, but all the character models be transformed into like spiders or ghosts, which would reduce the issue I (and sounds like others too) have.

I was thinking, since this is kind of a race-to-the-top, in the Mad King’s realm, the translucent ghost idea makes a little bit more sense, and would add I think, to the overall feel of the event.

Like I’ve mentioned numerous times to others, I SOOOOO DON’T want this to turn into a zero-effort/100% reward debacle. I love the challenge that things like this tower provide.

I Just wish I could see what the heck I was doing, while doing it.

Congratz by the way to those who have made it… your deff. a better speed jumper in a crowd than I am. 8^)

Zeraphina.1053:

Plain and simple, just can’t see where I’m jumping/landing in the midst of the mob.

Once you get a good feel for the layout, this stops being as much of an issue. You might want to slow down at points, with the understanding you’ll screw up that particular run, just so the playing field is emptier and you can try focusing on single jumps.

After a truly epic number of failures, I stopped focusing on trying to beat the puzzle and instead tried to work out how to do <x> jump smoothly.

Donari.5237:

I ended up not minding the group of people. My big issue (besides just not being good at fast jumping) is that I use mouse-movement so constantly going to the right takes my mouse off the pad unless I lift it back to the left, which means stopping long enough to do so. At which point, helllooooo green goop. Or at least it slows me enough I reach the leap of faith too late.

I am sure WASD would help … if I weren’t utterly right-handed and completely untrained in WASD use. -shrug- I have given up trying and give all praise to those who have succeeded.

This gave me some trouble too, with my hand just continuing further to the right. I still walk forward with W though, rather than doing the left + right click thing. I tended to do the quick mouse adjustment during any brief periods where I got to just walk straight forward for half a second, or during any longer jumps.

I think playing with other people enhanced it greatly. What was awesome is that you kept playing with the same people over and over, doing the same thing over and over and it feels like you’re stuck in time, going mad over this thing, it’s brilliant.

It’s also very much like a survival of the fittest, you watch the people in front of you, around you and behind you fall 1 by 1, and by the end of it there is rarely more than 1 or 2 people left. You also get to see the progression of the people around you as they are new or haven’t done it yet, it’s brilliant! Well done arenanet, I also got to know some of the people and became friends with them after spending hours together in this mad puzzle.

Well, stuffed a few more hours of this under my belt…. still not getting any further…..

Only thing that helped me get an extra jump or two in on occasion was to tilt the camera downwards, providing a more “from above” viewpoint.

Perhaps that’s something others could try that are having problems like I am. But it’s not enough to get me any real further progress. Lateness of the hour isn’t making a difference either. More people filling in as others leave.

So I maintain, a solo of this, or translucent ghostly character models to more match the theme of Halloween (and let you actually see what you were doing) would have been preferable from my point of view.

I also just found out that the Dev. that designed this thing expected barely 5% of the community to actually be able to complete it. So again, gratz to those who were able to do it. Your apparently part of the Elite Jumpers.

I’d say from the people I have played with, that 5% estimate is probably right. It was the first time I did something and felt really bad for the people I was instanced with. When I said Good Luck and left, I really meant it so much. Some people have been trying for so long they have taken shifts.

I never had a problem with other characters big or small, I did have an issue with some of the attitudes, but hey, its the net. It’s been way more good then bad though. Some bonding over the challenge.

Always made me laugh when someone would pop in try maybe 5 times and give up in a hissy like it should have only taken 5 minutes and it was “obviously broken”.

Yeah…like I said… I love the difficulty…. the hard-timer of the rising goo is great….

It’s just the not being able to see where the heck I’m landing thing that’s been my issue the whole time…. just can’t get past the 1/3 mark since I can’t see through all the bodies ahead of/around me…

I’m just glad this isn’t Blizzz running this.. or the mass threats of “I’m gonna cancel my subscription unless you make this easier” would be flooding the chat.

I really don’t want them to easify this….

I’d just like to see where I’m going.

Arguably my only complaint. So many people in such a tight space with various character physique builds… well I played an Asura so a good solid hour was me failing at the first hurdle because I couldn’t see where I was going or how much room I had left. :P Hopefully they learn from this and create instances were you either invite your friends or run it solo.

That and I’m kind of hopping Wintersday brings a ski-resort!

Hey…!!! It seems there are actually nubs out there (I’m guessing WoW-ists) who are seriously gripping over the clock tower. So much so, to the point that someone actually started a “props to Josh” thread.

Can find it HERE;

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/halloween/Josh-Foreman-Don-t-be-sorry

While I did give my issue ABOUT the tower, allow me to restate, I LOVED the tower, even though I couldn’t beat it. (Even after almost 20 hrs. of attempts… was the same issue over and over…)

I recommend people stop in at the Josh post and express your appreciation.

Hopefully it will inspire MORE puzzles like this… (hopefully just not in such a crowded manner.) 8^)

I didn’t really have problems of charr and norn blocking the view to my character. I sorta look forward and try to predict where my toon will land, considering he stays in the middle of the screen all the time. After the wall collapses in the first part, most of the other players will fall anyways.

This way it took me about 30-40 minutes from the first try to complete it. :P