Guild Wars 2

Will the new jumping puzzles treat player characters of different sizes equally? Have you evened out new jumping puzzles to have portions that favor tall characters to balance out those portions that are buggy/hard for tall characters and easy for short ones?

It is such an established meme that small characters have a distinct advantage in current JPs, it is unfair to players with tall characters.

I would like to see the tables turned for once, and see JP sections that give an advantage to tall players and put short ones at a disadvantage. So many players with short characters specifically rolled with JPs in mind now complain JPs are not hard enough.

Give them harder by introducing JP sections that challenge short players while giving tall ones an edge. It’s all about balance.

Errr, weren’t short characters like Asura complaining that they were DISadvantaged in the Clock Tower?

And speaking for myself, I tend to have the easiest time doing JP’s on my Human and Sylvari, for some reason. Norn is pretty easy too unless the JP is really cramped. With Asura and Charr it’s a lot easier to over/underestimate distances and end up eating dirt.

I hope its not insanely twitch based being from Australia i never as to yet got the Sunset cove JP ever done, because of lag issues and ping times, i had to get a friendly mes help me out in the end it was just too impossible with lag symptoms..

Jalad Lantana.3027:

Will the new jumping puzzles treat player characters of different sizes equally? Have you evened out new jumping puzzles to have portions that favor tall characters to balance out those portions that are buggy/hard for tall characters and easy for short ones?

It is such an established meme that small characters have a distinct advantage in current JPs, it is unfair to players with tall characters.

I would like to see the tables turned for once, and see JP sections that give an advantage to tall players and put short ones at a disadvantage. So many players with short characters specifically rolled with JPs in mind now complain JPs are not hard enough.

Give them harder by introducing JP sections that challenge short players while giving tall ones an edge. It’s all about balance.

I would love to hear why you think small characters have an advantage in the current JPs and what exactly they could do to give an advantage to big characters…

Tbh it sounds more like you want revenge because you’ve fealt disadvantaged this far than wishing for equality but that may just be the wording.
If it’s an established meme is also debatable, there are players that like their cam angle / FoV better on bigger characters and there are those that prefer and are able to jump more acurately on smaller characters.
For me personally for the current JP’s in game there’s some where I have an easier time on my sylvari, norn and human than on my asura and some where Asura is easier for me. So for me there’s already some sort of balance.
Overall I prefer the sylvari, not too big, not too small and always able to see my own character when other people around (on asura the cam is more “distant” if zoomed out which makes it harder to estimate “mid flight” where you’re going to land and if there’s other players around you don’t see your character at all).

I knew all those short people are up to something! Why else would anyone make an Asura??
They should all be punished for their sins!

I’ll admit, I’m generally running around on my Charr, but I found the clocktower easiest on my Sylvari. Camera angle wasn’t too bad on the Charr, but I could see more, and thus get a faster response on the Sylvari. Also, Humans and Asura were constantly complaining about the Norn and Charr obscuring everything. It was just as bad being in a crowd the same size as you, which is another reason I prefer the Sylvari, as they are more distinctive. And the Asura don’t get a choice in the matter, because everyone else is at least the same size as them, so they are a bit screwed on timed jumping puzzles where many people are attempting it at the same time, but that does not excuse the attitude and vituperosity of some of the complaints. And no, I don’t personally see much appeal in playing an Asura, so I won’t be making one for jumping puzzles, thus I will always be bigger than you.

Dante.1508:

I hope its not insanely twitch based being from Australia i never as to yet got the Sunset cove JP ever done, because of lag issues and ping times, i had to get a friendly mes help me out in the end it was just too impossible with lag symptoms..

I’m also from Australasia and Skipping Stones is not a problem. Ping doesn’t factor into it.

Well according to Massively primer, its kinda the same setup as Halloweens JP. So its still grouped, but there’s different/branching paths, so race shouldn’t be as much of a problem this time (as long as everyone doesn’t go the same way every time).