Guild Wars 2

Do we really have to complete all 5 choices to complete the daily? One of which is the jumping puzzle?

I hope I’m wrong but I have never been able to complete timed jumping puzzles.

It is 5 out of 6. You don’t have to do the jumping puzzle.

Thanks! I should count next time. I just saw the jumping puzzle listed and ran screaming into the night. :P

The holiday JP might be fun for those that have full motor skills. For myself with limited mobility, it is not fun or easy. I have yet to get from starting area. So I will never complete it. Same with the bell choir. The Devs are not looking at the handicapped players so will never complete the daily because of that reason. They should give more choices like the daily. Once the five is reached you get credit. The extra for fun. Just a idea.

I think you make an excellent point, Countess. I think maybe the last two could be extra (and maybe have some little bonus) and they could add one more, like protecting the Dolyak, or finding of the the big presents scattered around Tyria.

I couldn’t agree more. No matter how I try, I can’t complete the JP and, for all but one attempt out of many, I get a zero personal score for the choir. This will the the second day in a row I’ll have to forgo the 5/5 Wintersday dailies. Wake up, Anet, and consider those such as Countess Aire, or even the players who may be accessing through a slow connection, or a slower computer. This is both unfair and discriminatory. Never mind that it’s the only way to get a daily Laurel at present, not counting the occasional one you’ll get from the primarily useless daily login rewards.

Countess Aire.9410:

The Devs are not looking at the handicapped players so will never complete the daily because of that reason. They should give more choices like the daily. Once the five is reached you get credit. The extra for fun. Just a idea.

That would be nice, yes. As it is, two of the six Wintersday dailies require you to be good at twitchy content, thus excluding those in the player base who aren’t.

I have more or less normal mobility and dexterity, but I suck at the choir bell activity. Part of which is me just being bad at this kind of thing, the other part is that choir bell is just really poorly designed: I have never been able to choose the song, and I don’t even know which song has been chosen at any given stage, so I have no control over the difficulty level. Bad design. Really, really bad design.

As for the jumping puzzle, I actually have no problems with the first stage, even though I rather dislike the time pressure I’m under. The third stage with the rolling snow balls is easy. But the second stage with the randomly exploding parcels has so far stopped me all but three times in as many days. It has also made me hate all the players who apparently can make that first jump without the row of blue parcels being there – which I’ve never managed, ever – and which therefor make me wait for minutes on end until the coast is finally clear for once, only to either fail on my own or get interrupted by the stupid and useless score sheet.

So yeah, I’ve given up on the Winterday daily.

Another piece of annoyance here is that 3 of the permanent achievements are repeating achievements that (unless I miss my mark) are not counted for Adept Toymaker. Out of a possible 15, this means that if you give up on the Wintersday dailies and don’t like the choir bells, then you will have to do every other achievement on the list (including forking out three gold for Golden Generosity) in order to get the meta.

Alrighty then, I’ve got 4/5. I can’t get the Bell Choir to update. It says “to participate in”. What exactly does that mean? I have participated but I get no update. If participate means actually do well, then I’m out of luck.

I’m really not enjoying this wintersday.

Katz.5143:

Alrighty then, I’ve got 4/5. I can’t get the Bell Choir to update. It says “to participate in”. What exactly does that mean? I have participated but I get no update. If participate means actually do well, then I’m out of luck.

I’m really not enjoying this wintersday.

You have to survive to the end of a single song. The ones at the start of each cycle are easy, while the ones at the end are harder.

Olvendred.3027:

Katz.5143:

Alrighty then, I’ve got 4/5. I can’t get the Bell Choir to update. It says “to participate in”. What exactly does that mean? I have participated but I get no update. If participate means actually do well, then I’m out of luck.

I’m really not enjoying this wintersday.

You have to survive to the end of a single song. The ones at the start of each cycle are easy, while the ones at the end are harder.

Thanks, I’ll wait for it to cycle through and start over at an easy one.