Guild Wars 2

I’m Frustrated.

I completed World 1 Tribulation Mode and never found it as frustrating as World 2 Zone 1 Normal Mode.

See the video below. I cannot make the jumps onto the water spouts next to this mini waterfall. What am I doing wrong? Is the Waterfall hit box too large? Am I not jumping to the right place? I’m completely stuck and cannot pass these few seemingly simple jumps.

http://youtu.be/e-P_AL0CZKM

I know better than to ask for a tiny, tiny nerf on whatever is knocking me back as the S.A.B.’s creator always seems to get very defensive on this forum if anyone tries to claim parts are too hard. For clarification, the preceeding water spouts are no problem at all, so I assume the edges of them do not knock you back? My assumption is my problem is to do with the waterfall. I cannot manage these jumps… any advice would be great! Would be a real kick in the nuts if I cannot access any other part because of one jump near the start I cannot do.

[Apologies for background noise in the video, forgot my desk fan was running and my Mic was turned on!]

From what I noticed from the waterspouts in the jumping puzzle underneath the Adventure Box hub, the knockback actually happens if you are in the air while the previous waterspout dissappears.

You need to jump when they all spurt at the same time and go as fast as you can to the third one. Then wait on the third one for a second until the next one appears and jump to it. Note that the spouts after this are even harder. Once you reach the next rock you again start jumping when they all spurt at the same time, and again wait on the third one for a second and jump to the fourth one right before it appears and then jump into the waterfall (there is a ledge behind it). Be careful to avoid the thin vertical streams of water as they will knock you down into the river.

those two, jump on two sprouts and ignore the third one – go straight for the rocks on the right.

KitaYumi.7048:

From what I noticed from the waterspouts in the jumping puzzle underneath the Adventure Box hub, the knockback actually happens if you are in the air while the previous waterspout dissappears.

That sounds like a horrifically small jumping window. It also seems very unfair if it’s the case… Jumping to a ledge only to be told, after you pretty much landed “lol, sorry bud, the previous ledge fell away so we’re retrospectively knocking you down too trololol”.

Jabberwock.9014:

You need to jump when they all spurt at the same time and go as fast as you can to the third one. Then wait on the third one for a second until the next one appears and jump to it. Note that the spouts after this are even harder. Once you reach the next rock you again start jumping when they all spurt at the same time, and again wait on the third one for a second and jump to the fourth one and then into the waterfall (there is a ledge behind it)

Thanks for that advice. Next time I feel like trying I’ll definitely try this!

Mirta.5029:

those two, jump on two sprouts and ignore the third one – go straight for the rocks on the right.

How do those rocks help? Surely you still have to jump onto spouts 2 and 3 to progress?

Sarie.1630:

Mirta.5029:

those two, jump on two sprouts and ignore the third one – go straight for the rocks on the right.

How do those rocks help? Surely you still have to jump onto spouts 2 and 3 to progress?

not necessarily. What I would do is jump on the first two sprouts, jump on the rocks and climb up like that. Jump on a sprout there, then on the rock on the left. There’s different ways of progressing there. Trying to get the whole line of sprouts right is a brutal way of doing it.

Rocks on the side are your best friends. Please people this new SAB is made to make people actually THINK, do that please.

I’m seconding jumping onto the rocks. And yes, it’s a weird bug that causes you to be knocked back when the spout you’re jumping from moves and you’re in mid air. So whenever there’s rocks nearby take it instead of trying to jump all the spouts. It looks possible but it isn’t really due to that knockback bug.

It’s definitely possible to use only spouts, and probably easier once you get used to it since the timing is always the same. The only rocks I used were the ones on the left before the last 4 spouts.