Guild Wars 2

Shame on you for forcing people that can’t do jumping puzzles to do one to finish up the collections. I’ve been at this for an hour and still can’t get past the first part.

there are 11 samples and you only need 10

Can you get 25 achievements without that sample? That is, if you are horrible at the crab toss like me.

Just go to the waypoint and head due west from there. Check to see if there are any mesmers portaling folk up to the top. Lot of very kind folk are doing that for those who cannot do jumping puzzles.

Tachenon.5270:

Can you get 25 achievements without that sample? That is, if you are horrible at the crab toss like me.

Yes, you can.

3 for basically just running around doing events:
Consortium Rewards Club Member
Southsun Settle Supporter
Southsun Sightseer

11 for collecting the other 10 samples (count them, there’s 11 in total):
The other 10 Sample Collection achievements
Southsun Volunteer Fieldwork

6 for talking to NPCs
Gossip with Lord Faren
Gossip with Lady Kasmeer
Briefing by Inspector Kiel
Consultation with Researcher Levvi
Confer with Subdirector Noll
VIP Meet and Greet

Crab Toss Participant (you get this just for entering the arena)
Southsun Omelette Gourmand
The Goggles Do Nothing
Southsun Skinny Dipper

Plus any one of the achievements which haven’t been added yet, which will probably just be a dynamic event.

Did you honestly say shame on you ro ANet for adding something which is too difficult for you? That is just plain silly. Imagine this in PvP.

That guy kills me.. I turn around and say “Shame on you for being a better player and killing me!”

You can’t have and do everything, but if you really want it, why not learn to play better instead?

Just learn to jump, it´s not that difficult. Even if it was difficult it´s nothing wrong with it, you got to have some challenge within the game, everything can´t be served on a silver plate.

Honestly I’m horrible at jumping puzzles. I suck at Super Mario Brothers. Couldn’t jump my way out of a wet paper bag…but even I managed to do the jp for this event. The hardest part is the second set of stones, about halfway theres a set of stones that always tripped me up; luckily the jet didn’t blow me off when it fired again so it was possible to continue.

Actually the really hard part is the beginning. You can just wait on the second set of stones until the steam stops and jump your way through.

Galiviel.4918:

Just learn to jump, it´s not that difficult. Even if it was difficult it´s nothing wrong with it, you got to have some challenge within the game, everything can´t be served on a silver plate.

Well, yeah, it is ‘that difficult’ — for some of us. I’ve done every other PVE jumping puzzle in the game (barring the two holiday ones) and two of the PVP ones but I gave up on this one long ago. Mesmer portal for the win.

Shame on you for whining on the forums about something that is really easy to complete.

Farzo.8410:

Shame on you for whining on the forums about something that is really easy to complete.

To whom are you speaking?

I agree. JP are so far out of reach for me it isn’t funny. I was really sad when I found out you had to do a not 1 but 2 part puzzle? You’ve got to be kidding me

The learn to jump advice isn’t at all helpful. With jumping puzzles you can find yourself getting worse again if you persevere longer than your patience allows. You can easily spend your time just getting back to where you were ten minutes ago, only to fall off again on the next jump without really learning anything new. If you can’t do them, you can’t do them (unless a mesmers cheats for you).

Not everyone can master jumping puzzles for a variety of reasons. But in light of that, you don’t really need to get more than 10 collection samples, you can bypass this one if you are unable to do it and do the all the other things Danikat mentioned above.

I do not see it as cheating if a mesmer is present and offering portals to those who would like them. Just make sure you thank them or tip them if you want to for the kind effort they are putting out for those of us who have difficulties with jumping puzzles. This just shows how folk in this game are willing to help others. Some of us have RL handicaps that make it difficult to master jumping puzzles so such kind help is very much appreciated.

I’d also point out that if the entire game was designed to cater only to the lowest common denominator people’d get very bored, very quickly and move onto games that are more engaging.

As it is anet has gone out their way to ensure you can get full completion several different ways in case one or more option is outside of you abilities or time constraints,

Jemmi.6058:

Did you honestly say shame on you ro ANet for adding something which is too difficult for you? That is just plain silly. Imagine this in PvP.

That guy kills me.. I turn around and say “Shame on you for being a better player and killing me!”

You can’t have and do everything, but if you really want it, why not learn to play better instead?

Your example is not appropriate. They gated one of the only cosmetic rewards that (in this person’s mistaken belief) required jumping puzzle completion otherwise both of the back items could not be obtained (because he believed the sample at the end of the puzzle was required for the Fervid Censer as well as the 25 achievements for the Scelerite Shell). He believed getting every other sample location and doing all the other achievements would leave him one sample short of completing the final achievement and thus missing out on both items and devaluing all the other content he had done.

Fortunately (unlike you) ArenaNet agreed that would be a sucky situation so they created an additional sample so that the jumping puzzle sample was not required and the achievement could be completed without doing it (as well as other achievements which would count towards the Scelerite Shell) because jumping puzzles are supposed to be an optional extra for people who enjoy that content and gating the primary rewards behind them (and so far, exclusive rewards beyond achievement points) is not fair.

Shiren.9532:

Jemmi.6058:

Did you honestly say shame on you ro ANet for adding something which is too difficult for you? That is just plain silly. Imagine this in PvP.

That guy kills me.. I turn around and say “Shame on you for being a better player and killing me!”

You can’t have and do everything, but if you really want it, why not learn to play better instead?

Your example is not appropriate. They gated one of the only cosmetic rewards that (in this person’s mistaken belief) required jumping puzzle completion otherwise both of the back items could not be obtained (because he believed the sample at the end of the puzzle was required for the Fervid Censer as well as the 25 achievements for the Scelerite Shell). He believed getting every other sample location and doing all the other achievements would leave him one sample short of completing the final achievement and thus missing out on both items and devaluing all the other content he had done.

Fortunately (unlike you) ArenaNet agreed that would be a sucky situation so they created an additional sample so that the jumping puzzle sample was not required and the achievement could be completed without doing it (as well as other achievements which would count towards the Scelerite Shell) because jumping puzzles are supposed to be an optional extra for people who enjoy that content and gating the primary rewards behind them (and so far, exclusive rewards beyond achievement points) is not fair.

I’m glad you addressed her before I did. You said pretty much everything I was going to, but with more tact. I will add:

There is no reason to be unnecessarily rude on these forums. Too often, I see the same people attacking again and again. It really fosters a poor forum environment. If you disagree with someone, please try to be constructive. If you can’t do that, try not to be a negative influence and refrain from adding pollution here.