Guild Wars 2

Ok, from what I understand, Jumping Puzzles were to be an optional activity. Fine.

However, in Dredgehaunt, and now in Diessa, I have found Jumping Puzzles that are indeed mandatory for zone completion, and in Diessa even for skill point.

I have a motor skills disability from Rhuematoid Arthritus. I would never ask that jumping puzzles be made easier for me. I would ask that I not be forever gated from world completion by being forced to do this “optional” content to achieve a separate goal.

It is very frustrating to attempt to finish a zone and find one of these mandatory puzzles, knowing that the time spent was a waste of time.

Jumping puzzle should be a choice. They should be unrelated to any other game achievement.

This killed my fun again. When I hit the puzzle in Dredgehaunt, I quit and went back to EQ2 for several weeks. I’m in the mood to do that again after discovering this one.

I agree 100%. Even some of the “simple” jumping puzzles (that aren’t technically jumping puzzles) are really hard to do. Stuff like the skritt vista in the sylvari map.

You can ask a Mesmer to portal you.

Ok I have made quite a few whiny posts myself, but this is ridiculousness. You are being forced to do jumping puzzles because you want map completion? I would pity you if the puzzles were even slightly difficult or tedious; but they aren’t.

The point is that jumping puzzles do not count for map completion. So having a jumping puzzle required for it is a bit contradictory.

100% exploration is optional as well. If they felt like making you an actual explorer, then they should have included all jumping puzzles in the achievement.

Emissary Vex.5690:

Ok I have made quite a few whiny posts myself, but this is ridiculousness. You are being forced to do jumping puzzles because you want map completion? I would pity you if the puzzles were even slightly difficult or tedious; but they aren’t.

Congrats on your empathy. Try jumping puzzles with one usable finger on the left hand, and 4 too twisted and twitchy for adequate control on the right. Do not lecture me on difficulty, I play this game at a level of difficulty you cannot dream of, and I hope never have to.

My problem lies in this developer statement.

Josh Foreman.8250:

. But after I handed the map off to someone else, I know we changed our policy so that no JPs are required for events, map complete, etc. I haven’t actually gone back to that map since launch, so I haven’t seen all the changes, but it’s possible that what you’re seeing is left overs from work I did that had to be cut. But I know that several enterprising map artists are digging around for spots to add more JPs, so I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it got reopened at some point.

If their policy is indeed that “no JPs are required for events, map complete, etc” they should insure that it is true. Optional means just that.

Hey there, I am a mesmer. I’d be glad to try and do these for you and portal you in.

Feel free to message me in game (often on after 6pm PDT)

Some of those vistas can be hard. I found that putting my jump skill on the space bar so I can hit it with my thumb to really help me out. Also, a guildie with a Mesmer should be able to port you to the ones you can’t reach.

I do agree that map completion points should not be put at the end of jump puzzles