Guild Wars 2

So I’ve been playing casually since BWE2 and have found all by myself 3 jumping puzzles (LA pirate cave, Morgan’s Leap, the one in Diessa Plateau). Now, granted I haven’t been hunting for them. I focus on hearts & DEs and what not. But I want to do them. So..

Should I use an online guide to find their starting positions and then figure them out on my own?
Should I hunt them out 100% on my own? If so, where do I start? What clues indicate a jumping puzzle?

From what I understand, each zone has 1 right? (aside from the 3 in LA)
I feel like kind of an idiot that I haven’t at least found them but couldn’t complete them. Haven’t even seen em!!

Some of them can be in very obscure locations you would doubtfully ever find playing the game regularly. Some zones have one, some have none, and some have more than one. I recommend looking up their starting locations online (such as on the wiki) and then exploring them on your own. It makes the experience much more rewarding that way.

Also, are the chest reward items scaled to my level or the zone’s level?

They are scaled to your level if memory serves.

I like to use a guide to locate them and then try to figure them out on my own. If I get stuck, then I look for some more help.

All else fails, YouTube. When I’ve used it what I usually find out is that one “tricky” jump IS the only way to complete it and it’s just a matter of trying again (and again and again…).

If you need help finding or finishing them, add me and send me a message in-game. I know most of the puzzles and don’t mind lending a hand to help.

If you want to find them yourself go to any zone, type /wiki in game and look up that zone in the wiki. It will list on the zone’s page everything in that zone, including jumping puzzles. It will even tell you the area of the zone you can find it. Then you can try to find it before you look for clues.

That’s how I do it.

I’ve managed to find quite a few myself without any hints.

In my case it helps that I spend a lot of time scrabbling around the scenery trying to climb everything just for the hell of it as that’s usually what I’m doing when I come across a puzzle.

But there’s a few things you can look out for, like waterfalls and ledges that look like you could stand on top of them but don’t have any obvious way up, ravines and caves that seem to go unusually far back (especially at the edge of the map), odd geographical features that a nearby vista seems to put a lot of emphasis on (the pirate cave in LA is an excellent example of that).

Sometimes you’ll also spot things like a patch of resource nodes (usually plants, sometimes ore) which seems totally inaccessible, or holding down ctrl+alt will cause the chest to show up even though it’s behind a wall or something.

And then very occasionally you come across something like Morgan’s Spiral or one of the ones in LA where you just look at it and think “That has to be a jumping puzzle”.

But basically if you just keep your eyes open and look out for places you can go which aren’t an obvious path you’ll come across them sooner or later.

perfectly possible to find them all by yourself if your into exploring and such (after all if they weren’t possible to find exploring they’d never be found) it all just depends entirely on how much time you want to spend exploring and how often you want to find them, if you just want them done then guides will be faster for sure.

Some of them are really really hidden. So if you like to do them, use the wiki http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Jumping_puzzle

Each page has an image of the starting location (map with the route to it). The actual walktrough is hidden as a spoiler.