Guild Wars 2

Anet should add more 5 and 10 baubles to the SAB.

The thing is this: I dont like jumping and I really dont care for the Super Mario thing… What I would like is events that are for everyone… not just for people who like these things. April Fools, Christmas, Halloween… people who play the game but dont care for jumping puzzles should be included in the holiday festivities in a meaningful way and not be made to work at something they really dont like in order, not just to get the rewards, but to actually participate with other people in the game society.

This issue really highlights a major rift I think… there is so much talk about the coins and how you can get baubles. When my friend, an avid gamer and lover of this event, took me into the cube to show me the ropes he rushed through it and went straight for the baubles. He was farming for the skins. I, on the other hand, did what I do in the game. I wanted to experience it.. I wasn’t in a hurry to get to the big boss. I wanted to see the scenery and smell those little square flowers. Same with jumps in the big world. I go with guildies and they are in a big rush to get to the end. The way I have played the game is to take the time to take in the view. Maybe this is one reason Im not a great dodger… I think too much.

I accept that I need to learn better jumping and dodging to enjoy the game the way I do at the end…because I wont get there if I dont learn it. But to be left behind in events that should be for everyone is too much like the real world. What are we doing here is escaping that … so, why cant they do what they said and make it for everyone? They made infantile.. that’s good (for me) but why not leave the chests in the world? That helps some of us feel included

Boinky.4092:

What I would like is events that are for everyone… not just for people who like these things. April Fools, Christmas, Halloween… people who play the game but dont care for jumping puzzles should be included in the holiday festivities in a meaningful way and not be made to work at something they really dont like in order, not just to get the rewards, but to actually participate with other people in the game society.

Hmm… I do seem to recall doing more than jumping puzzles in the previous two holiday events….

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

The open world Super Adventure Box content was only there for April 1. Tyria as a whole has now been returned to its former state and all the animals are back inside the Super Adventure Box in Rata Sum..

Which kind of sucks since the in-game mail about this only got delivered today!

Seriously guys. Chill. All the “I don’t wanna jump!” stuff has got to stop because it’s not making any sense. Ok, you don’t want to jump, fine, but you don’t have to jump if all you want is the same rewards you could get from the open world boxes. If all you want is standard baubles, you can play in Infantile mode, which doesn’t have any jumping, and get well more Baubles per unit of time than farming open world chests.

You can even play the game on normal mode and get dozens upon dozens of Baubles with minimal to zero jumping (at most a few low risk, low frustration jumps). You might have to hit the space bar a few times, but you’d be at no risk of losing a life for a little bit, and they give you five for free. The only things you need actual jumping skill for is pushing through to later zones, completing the boss battles, or eeking the very most Baubles out of each zone.

1-1 is extremely forgiving., so complaining that it’s impossible to earn Baubles in SAB because you “don’t like jump puzzles” is like saying that the “Ambient Killer” daily is impossible because you “don’t like tough combat.”

Open world chests were their own kind of fun, I will miss them for that, but anyone that could earn Baubles using the open world chests could just as well earn them through the SAB without needing to be a jumping master.

I haven’t seen one person in this thread say they “can’t” earn them through SAB.

Several people left mopey responses about throwing their spare baubles away like there was no way that they could collect enough to get by. You can speedrun 1-1 and 1-2 in about six minutes, and it really doesn’t take a ton of skill either. If you really have zero skill at it you can still collect more baubles in a few minutes wandering around 1-1 than you could from open world chest farming, and you can reset the dungeon and do it all again (the only things that are daily locked are the final chest rewards, most of the baubles reset each time). You don’t have to play SAB with the character you want a skin on, they don’t need to be any particular level, so you can use any character that isn’t busy in the world, make a run or two per day, and then get back to open world stuff, it’s really not a big deal. This isn’t like making people run Fractals or Dungeons or doing the clocktower to get a reward.

Keep in mind though, if you try to buy a weapon skin using Baubles instead of Bauble Bubbles, you’ll need to collect 10,000 of them over the period of a month, so I don’t think it was ever actually feasible for players to farm open world chests to get weapon skins.

Infantile mode appears to be bugged at the moment. I am not overly fond of these types of jps so chose the Infantile Mode just to see what it was all about. I also chose this mode so that I would have less irritation than I figured I would receive doing those other ones.

What a mess. I got through the entire thing to the cage at the end…then nothing worked. The cage seemed to be permanently locked. I finished all but the last portion of the achievement because that darned cage would not open.

I fought that crazy thing on top of the cage and died twice since it bounced me off to the ground below. Gave up after the third try because it seemed fruitless.

So needless to say, not only did I not get the final completion for that Infantile Mode, I also did not receive my rewards for at least going through it.

Seems the ending is bugged so you cannot complete it at all.

As much as I loved the open world chests, people really shouldn’t complain too much about them beeing gone – you can still farm the SAB on easymode, requiring practically no jumping at all. Plus the skins are available on the TP, if you have the necessary gold

And the ending worked on infantile mode, at leats on monday oO You’re not supposed to fight the laser-eyes boss, only the cage. Plus you can usually avoid that laser rather easily.

Honestly, the only alternative I’d be content with is if you got them from open world Jumping Puzzles, all the people stating they should be able to get them without needing to step foot in SAB, to get SAB themed skins seem to think they’re somehow entitled.
If you want the reward from an event pretty much based around jumping, do the content to get the reward. What’s the point of even having original content when you want to be able to get the reward from not even doing it?

They added infantile mode, and they also added tradeable weapon skins, there’s your alternative to actually playing in the SAB, and that’s all there should be, even I think my above mentioned extra is pushing it.