Guild Wars 2

The only jumping puzzle I’ve come across so far that has a dark room is the Eternal Battleground room. It was so challenging and fun, a different experience which I haven’t come across in any other MMO.

Why doesn’t arena net take the unique thing that they’ve done with the Eternal battlegrounds jumping puzzle dark room? Make more jumping puzzles with dark rooms, or make them completely dark.

With the Queen’s Jubilee content, there’s a torch that you can light up places with from one of the achievements, and I ask my self, “what’s the point?”. Because in the Eternal Battlegrounds Jumping puzzle it hands you a torch. Can we not get rid of that and have a pack that would give us a torch as a bundle, and you could get different torches, some exotic torches might glow farther than others, look different, maybe even glow a different colour like a acsalon ghost torch or something.

In addition to the Obsidian Sanctum, there is the Shark’s Maw jumping puzzle in Lion’s arch, and then there’s also the dwarf mini dungeon that has some pretty extensive dark content.

But yeah, those are the only 3 examples I can think of right now.

I always liked darkness as an element in puzzle mechanics, and I would like to see more content that utilises it.

On a related note, many players feel that nighttime in Tyria should be darker in general. As it stands, you can walk anywhere during the night (including caves!) and see perfectly where you’re going.

I would love to see more dark content. On that note, though, I’ve never been terribly impaired by darkness. Any character with access to a placed AoE can use the that to see the contour of the ground in front of them even if they can’t see the ground itself, and any character with torch as a weapon can actually use that torch as a torch to see in darkness.

I’d just like to say, that torch really doesn’t help too much, I had a go at the LA Pirate puzzle and gave up, as there’s no means of throwing it and it only gives off a tiny smidge of light. I got more light off my dragon wings. If it was expanded to include a throw mechanism like the ones you can pick up- then a new in the dark jumping puzzle would be fantastic. Throw the torch into an empty beacon to act as a checkpoint if it was a really long one though