Guild Wars 2

To the maker of the Winter Wonderland Screw You! You could have made a fun challenging jumping puzzle, but no you make an unfair mess full of bugs and traps. So instead of enjoying it we have all beat our head against it until we finally beat it by a lucky break or shear force of will.

It’s just recycled content really. It used to be so much better.

Getting into the jumping puzzle how ever…

It isn’t really fair to blame the maker… It worked well enough other years and the puzzle is fair enough by itself.

It’s the way it got introduced this year. But that goes for the entire Wintersday update, it’s an ironically hot mess.

There is only one little bug in that JP and that’s the big Snowballs dissapearing after the present jumping part. However.. you also have skritt throwing snowballs. ( see red circle aoe’s on the ground)
Those are your jump indicators and after these dissapear you can usually continue your glorious jumps without problems.

If you fail to finish for other reasons you are simply doing it wrong ^^

CruSheR.3297:

There is only one little bug in that JP and that’s the big Snowballs dissapearing after the present jumping part. However.. you also have skritt throwing snowballs. ( see red circle aoe’s on the ground)
Those are your jump indicators and after these dissapear you can usually continue your glorious jumps without problems.

If you fail to finish for other reasons you are simply doing it wrong ^^

I call BS on that. I’ve had more than one instance where the snowflake platform were either invisible or broken down visually, while they were not actually.

The gifts to run up on sometimes fail to render in time or don’t show their blowing up animation so you randomly get knocked away.

Tbh, the whole puzzle is a mess. But if you run it enough times you can cope with it.

The jumping puzzle with all the bugs is mad easy still… You just have no patience

Ksardas.7381:

The jumping puzzle with all the bugs is mad easy still… You just have no patience

Even so, it’s not unreasonable to want something that is not riddled with bugs. In fact, it’s what we all rightfully expect. Anything less is sloppy.

Evans.6347:

CruSheR.3297:

There is only one little bug in that JP and that’s the big Snowballs dissapearing after the present jumping part. However.. you also have skritt throwing snowballs. ( see red circle aoe’s on the ground)
Those are your jump indicators and after these dissapear you can usually continue your glorious jumps without problems.

If you fail to finish for other reasons you are simply doing it wrong ^^

I call BS on that. I’ve had more than one instance where the snowflake platform were either invisible or broken down visually, while they were not actually.

The gifts to run up on sometimes fail to render in time or don’t show their blowing up animation so you randomly get knocked away.

Tbh, the whole puzzle is a mess. But if you run it enough times you can cope with it.

I only saw the bugs you mention once and this was when my internet connection was crappy. This might also be the case for you. Everything in the JP is on timers so if you have a little delay this might affect the visuals.. other than that I’ve had no problems so far.

It’s not so hard. If you know what to do your success is more than 50%. The only a bit unfair part is the parcel part which may screw you up, but the rest is in your control.

CruSheR.3297:

Evans.6347:

CruSheR.3297:

There is only one little bug in that JP and that’s the big Snowballs dissapearing after the present jumping part. However.. you also have skritt throwing snowballs. ( see red circle aoe’s on the ground)
Those are your jump indicators and after these dissapear you can usually continue your glorious jumps without problems.

If you fail to finish for other reasons you are simply doing it wrong ^^

I call BS on that. I’ve had more than one instance where the snowflake platform were either invisible or broken down visually, while they were not actually.

The gifts to run up on sometimes fail to render in time or don’t show their blowing up animation so you randomly get knocked away.

Tbh, the whole puzzle is a mess. But if you run it enough times you can cope with it.

I only saw the bugs you mention once and this was when my internet connection was crappy. This might also be the case for you. Everything in the JP is on timers so if you have a little delay this might affect the visuals.. other than that I’ve had no problems so far.

While poor internet connection certainly isn’t going to help the puzzle itself is just buggy. I’ve been doing the JP pretty much non stop living in a constant peppermint scented hell and I’ve encountered everything that was mentioned. I’ve been hit by invisible snowballs, had presents randomly disappear under my feet for no good reason, had snowflakes glitch out on me, I had a present that was next to the present I was on disappear and cause my character to trip up and fall over. And I know my internet connection is solid.

The JP itself isn’t that hard for me personally, but with the bugs it becomes extremely frustrating and I can understand where someone who already has issues with JPs for one reason or another would find it next to impossible.

This was just botched. The fact that you can’t even get INTO the JP half the time should be enough indication that it was botched.

I like that puzzle. It’s fun. It’s challenging enough but also doable. It just need a little bit of practice (and no heavy lags) and you’ll find it pretty easy. And I didn’t notice any bugs (or I am just lucky enough).

One thing Anet has made sure of is that after you’ve got your 10k drinks you’ll never step another foot into the JP for the rest of this festival or any in the future. Content killed by slapping you with a frying pan while pushing you off a ledge and setting you on fire!

Towatha.4671:

One thing Anet has made sure of is that after you’ve got your 10k drinks you’ll never step another foot into the JP for the rest of this festival or any in the future. Content killed by slapping you with a frying pan while pushing you off a ledge and setting you on fire!

haha this is true.. I got myself the 10k consumables thinking " aah.. i’ll do the jumping puzzle afterwards to balance out the costs" but nooooo.. never entered again xD

Having to spam an NPC and pray it functions properly is super fun btw.

Lol. It is you, not the puzzle. I can complete the puzzle with almost 100% success rate. Not hard at all. My eyes often go blurry mid jp because it is boringly easy. Still make it blurry eyed.

Just some perspective for the masses that cant do this JP.

I’ve looked at you tube videos, checked out all the threads and websites that offer assistance or tips on the JP, in detail.

After about 100 tries, (no I didn’t count) I made it about to half way once, based on what I’ve seen of the entire JP on videos.

At 17/18 (and 34 of 38 JP’s) but that’s not going to change, despite all the fanboi’s claims of how simple it is. Funny how I can have multiple sets of ascended armor, a legendary (near 2) world map completion on 3 toons, completed stories, on and on, yet they block progress with a JP after an expansion that uses mushrooms to jump.

It could be frustrating at first. I got it after like a dozen tries to learn things.

I can understand the OPs frustration. Granted, this year I have finally managed to complete it, but it took a lot of time and repeated failures since I’m terrible at platforming. Still, I have noted a few quirks with the puzzle which add to some of the frustration:

• Presents will randomly pop without their warning shake
• Red rings desync from the snowball pattern which can play havoc with the timing
• Invisble snowballs…nuff said

It can all be worked around, as many of us have shown by doing the puzzle repeatedly. It just gets a touch annoying at times.