Guild Wars 2

1) Use a mouse. Touchpad affects your precision greatly and being able to aim your camera precisely makes it far easier to complete any JP, especially difficult/timed ones. Furthermore if you use the arrow keys to move and turn you are making a grave mistake in that you have no ability to precisely control the speed and direction of your turning. Use the WASD as your movement keys and the mouse to aim your camera.

2) Estimate jumping distance. I always categorize jumps by a fractional term. A ‘full’ jump will be for the maximum distance. The hardest jumps and ones that throw most people in for a loop are the short jumps like the candy cane poles in the Winter Wonderland JP (I would say to jump from candycane pole 1 to candycane pole to is a 1/4 to 1/2 jump). Practice 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 jumps outside of the jumping puzzle if you are having trouble making these tricky jumps.

3) Camera control. Controlling the camera is your best friend. The best way to control the camera is to hold the ‘right mouse button’ down to rotate the camera. When I am playing a jumping puzzle I keep it held down at all times while moving because I am constantly rotating the camera. It’s much faster and more precise than using the keyboard to rotate your player or the camera.

4) The diagonal jump. There are two kinds of diagonal jumps. The one that I would recommend when you want to save time is while aiming the camera, to perform both a sideways and forward movement while jumping. This means that you will jump diagonally left or diagonally right. This is a trick maneuver that will allow you to make jumps where the camera might otherwise be too slow to rotate in that direction or if you need to make a quick juke to the side without affecting the camera orientation too much.

5) The ‘other’ diagonal jump. A highly situational technique. This one is better for precisely controlling distance and takes a long time to set up. First of all, lets assume you jump 24 inches forward. And you need to get on a ledge that’s 14-22 inches. If you jump 12 inches (a half jump) then you will fall short, if you jump the full 24 inches then you will jump past the platform and fall off. The solution would be to perform a 3/4 distance jump which is tricky to pull off. The OTHER solution would be to jump at a diagonal angle if the platforms allow that. Jumping at a diagonal angle will shave off distance depending on how sharp the angle is. This principle helps during one of the final jumps (the jump onto the really thin candy cane near the very end).

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5) The ‘other’ diagonal jump. A highly situational technique. This one is better for precisely controlling distance and takes a long time to set up. First of all, lets assume you jump 24 inches forward. And you need to get on a ledge that’s 14-22 inches. If you jump 12 inches (a half jump) then you will fall short, if you jump the full 24 inches then you will jump past the platform and fall off. The solution would be to perform a 3/4 distance jump which is tricky to pull off. The OTHER solution would be to jump at a diagonal angle if the platforms allow that. Jumping at a diagonal angle will shave off distance depending on how sharp the angle is. This principle helps during one of the final jumps (the jump onto the really thin candy cane near the very end).

WTF, How am I supposed to do all this!? I will completely die of frostbite before I even get off the first snowflake if im trying to make all those measurements.

Its highly situational and meant for jumps that require extreme precision. The snowflake platforms do not require very precise jumps at all. But there are a few JPs that require a high amount of precision (the pirate JP in harathi is one such JP that benefits from that extensively on the part where you have to jump on several planks that are sticking out from the wall).

Diagonal jumps of that nature can also be quickly executed in situations where you need to shave just a little bit of distance off your jump.

One thing I do is practice everywhere. On fences, I jump from post to post. In this case, in the jumping puzzle lobby, I jump around the peppermint making sure to land on the red stripes every time. Tighter circles make for smaller/harder jumps. Go as fast as you can!

Jumping on fence posts is good practice for when you’re bored and not sure of what to do.