Guild Wars 2

I’ll make this really brief: I want the achievement, and to complete the holiday. I could take or leave the exotic. I just want to finish this before I lose access to the JP for a year.

Why not a second version of the tower with a much more relaxed timer but with no real reward except the achievement and maybe a few ToT bags?

The tower is great as it is.

You’d still get the unique skin exotic for being able to do the version driving everyone up the wall.

My suggestion is meant to offer a concession to elderly/disabled gamers while not taking away from the prestige (or being able to show off mastery) of a difficult challenge. Win win.

But it is taking away from the prestige if youre offering a much more easier jumping puzzle. This is a huge debatable topic and it is much more complicated then just adding in a normal mode. Its called an achievement for a reason, because you have to work to achieve it. If you cant, then theres nothing lost. Also, the skin Isnt unique, Its the 70ish exotic skin, buyable from the TP for a small sum.

Im with this 100%
After 5 hours of failing Im having about as mutch fun as having my tooth drilled and thats too bad the JP was the thing I was looking forward to the most.

I want a million dollars. How about MegaMillions gives me half of the numbers and the power ball so that I have a higher chance to win.
YEAH!

This was constructive how?

I thank that is a fantastic idea! +1

No offense or anything, but you need to open the dictionary and find the meaning of the word “achievement”!

The fundamental issue isn’t the jumping puzzle. It’s that there are other players obstructing your view. Making other players invisible would in fact make it a lot easier. Now the question is does ArenaNet want to do that?

What I love about sports is how teams compete, then at the end they give everyone a trophy, even the last place teams…wait…

I’d rather see a hard mode added, where the tower is three times the current length.

The Clock Tower is awful. Primarily because my right-mouse button is half-broken. So at any given moment when I try to turn, I might not turn and just run straight off the edge. This forces me to miss jumps I’ve made a hundred times, and know that even if I get further than I have before chances are my mouse will screw me over before I finish.

I’ve probably dropped about 10 hours total into the clock tower and have yet to complete it once. I’ve gotten very close several times, but my mouse always messes me up.

Normally my mouse doesn’t give me this much trouble, but normally I’m not constantly being forced to turn and continuously move while balancing myself on small ledges against a timer.

HamFrozenSolid.5734:

The Clock Tower is awful. Primarily because my right-mouse button is half-broken. So at any given moment when I try to turn, I might not turn and just run straight off the edge. This forces me to miss jumps I’ve made a hundred times, and know that even if I get further than I have before chances are my mouse will screw me over before I finish.

I’ve probably dropped about 10 hours total into the clock tower and have yet to complete it once. I’ve gotten very close several times, but my mouse always messes me up.

Normally my mouse doesn’t give me this much trouble, but normally I’m not constantly being forced to turn and continuously move while balancing myself on small ledges against a timer.

It sounds like your mouse is awful, not the jumping puzzle.

My guild members and I were doing the Clock Tower Puzzle for hours. All but 1 of us got it, some of us ran it multiple times to get Trick or Treat bags. After trying it for hours you pretty much memorize where to go.

The “Achievement” from doing this shouldn’t be because we were able to vaguely make out a jump and platform when the screen was blanketed with Norn and Charr. It’s not a hard puzzle, but it should be able to be instanced “Solo” so we don’t have to deal with other people as obstructions.

As for a Normal Mode this would in no way make it less of an Achievement since doing it in it’s current form would give you the Exotic reward and the other would give you whatever or no reward except the Achieve.

I myself am just tired of having to deal with HUGE character models making it harder to see landings or edges of jumps when I am being timed rather quickly to keep pace with completing it. I have plenty of gear and don’t care about the loot, but I would like to get the achievement.

But most people didnt do this for the exotic reward, people did it for the achievement of saying “Yes, I worked my kitten off and was able to do it”. For myself, it got to the point where I didnt need to see where my character was, all I looked at was where I was jumping next. I didnt do it for the boots that I ended up NPC’ing anyways, I did it because I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it.

Yeah boots were pretty ugly considering how much it took to get them. I might just pop them out once in a while to show off but .. it was 100% for the achievement, which I thought went for the title but doesn’t. Still happy i did it though. I wouldn’t mind if they did like a practice tower though if they only gave a couple ToT bags as reward

Just to make a note, unless its different for heavy armour. Light and medium use a non-unique skin you can get elsewhere in the world, so the only thing you lose by not finishing it is the 10 achievement points and a ‘free’ exotic that you may not even use with a common(ish) skin.