Guild Wars 2

Alright I’ve seen alot of posts about people having issues with the jump puzzle and thought I would offer the advice that helped me to be able to succeed about 4 out of 5 tries.

1. Turn all graphical settings and audio quality down to the lowest settings possible. this will increase your frame rate and the closer to 40FPS you can get the better (tho its not required)

2. When the travel dialog pops up to leave overflow, take it. It seems that on Jade Quarry at least the non overflow is less populated than the overflow.

3. Turn up mouse sensitivity. and turn by holding your right mouse button and moving it right and left. your goal is to be able to turn a full 180 degrees in the space of your mouse area (no lifting and moving mouse to go from looking straight at right shoulder to looking straight at left shoulder)

4. While jumping try using right and left strife to jump sideways without turning sideways. This reduces the amount of turning you have to do.

5. There are several jumps that you can skip. if you see three platforms close together try skipping the middle one by waiting until the last moment to jump then trying to make it to the farthest one.

6. Sometimes a near miss can be saved. when you hit the edge of something but still miss if your reflexes are quick enough at the moment you hit the edge you can jump again and sometimes luck will be with you and you can actually jump back on the platform ( there is no good way to do this and it is not reliable but it has saved me on more than one occasion.

7. You can dodge roll through snowman breath.

8. You have more time than you think you do. Take your time and learn the jumps. and if you fail due to being too slow while learning at least you learned something.

9. When you have to jump from the platforms to two candy canes angle your jumps so you are hitting the canes at an angle and you will have a larger margin of error.

10. Be patient.
10a. If there is a large group at the start let them go and be one jump behind them, so you can see yourself.
10b. Until you are certain of the timing on the snowballs go ahead and wait for the next one.
10c. Anger and Frustration do not necessarily make you any better at the jumps.
10d. Use the reset time after a failure to calm down and use the stripes on the candy cane to practice jumping with mouse turn.