Guild Wars 2

I have tried to do the eternal battle ground jumping puzzle for about a week now. every time i get 3/4 through, there are people who sit there in groups and kill players…..
this is a HUGE problem. I understand the concept of fighting players on a jumping puzzle, but when there are groups of 20+ people sitting waiting for me to be almost done just so they can kill me is the most rage inducing thing in the world. there needs to be some kind of penalty for this or something to discourage players from griefing other people. my server is already ALWAYS outmatched in wvw at least 3 to 1, so being able to get the keep to do the jumping puzzle is hard enough already and this just makes it impossible, its a rare occasion that my server even has access to the jumping puzzle, let alone being able to actually completer it without getting swarmed by tons of people. even if you add an option where players can make it so they aren’t able to be attacked just so they can do the jumping puzzle, just something please, if nothing is done in the future i’m sure this will drive me and other players to quit because a larger server population is waaaaaaay to favored in wvw.

For good or ill, it’s a PvP jumping puzzle. There are built-in traps all throughout, and places custom-designed to allow folks to be ambushed.

There are ways to mitigate the opportunity to be set upon – there are invisibility fountains in the puzzle, which you can use to become invisible for minutes at a time (four? five?) but ArenaNet put these puzzles on the WvW maps, and gave them WvW-specific rewards. They’re not likely to remove PvP from them.

Honestly, I’m mildly surprised they removed the siege weaponry from them (not displeased, mind you, but surprised.)

Putting in a suggestion that they put a “copy” of the puzzle elsewhere without the WvW rewards might possibly happen one day, but they’re never going to remove PvP from the WvW incarnation of the puzzles.