Guild Wars 2

As you can no longer use the Mad Memories book to light your way through the dark room while stealthed. While I realize this change might not matter to a lot of people, it gives a lot more power to whomever decides to park on top of the arena, making the puzzle a much less dynamic place.

Ruined my good feelings about everything else that this patch brought.

Ever since the sieges were removed i had no problem fighting through the campers… Stop trying to solo it and bring a few friends…

Far from being unable to do the puzzle if I need to, but I will miss the days when I could solo it. Takes a unique experience out of the game, which was racing against the stealth clock, and I’m not sure it’s worth doing the puzzle now if I have to coordinate it.

Wow I didn’t even know you were able to do that! I run through the JP almost daily (without stealth) and usually don’t run into any difficulties. If I do hit some campers and die at the arena, I usually just go off and do the borderlands JPs. By the time I am done all of those, the campers are usually gone.

Darn, they disabled my consumables torches too. Its unfortunate we can’t blaze through the campers anymore, what’s the point of even having the Mystic Fountain stealth if you’re just going to be stopped at the dark cave?

Oh well. I’ll just continue the old way again because anet hasn’t fully fixed the pit shortcut thank goodness. THAT is the place where people love to camp.

EDIT: looks like anet actually finally fixed that shortcut completely by altering the terrain, clever, it actually confused me for a bit. However I happened to stumble across another short cut almost as good as the one they patched

So people (besides memsers) actually do the puzzle instead of using the mesmer portal?

And here I was using the green circle with aoe skills since day one ._.
how the hell did i not know this

People always talk about all this stuff in the JP. I just jump in when Im told there is a mesmer providing portals. I take portal 1, followed by portal 2, then press f on the chest and return to the fight in EB. Am I missing anything?

Yeah, its kinda lame how they made all these changes to make it super camper friendly. The only thing that could make me happy now is if they disabled mesmer portals in the JP.

I miss my peg legs so much. I could just whack all the campers off all day really. Today I went up there and ran past campers, I had to spam cnd off my attackers it was quite a struggle. I finally got past em and got my treasure. I had to watch a bunch of free loaders go through portal and couldn’t do anything to stop it. I had to wait until they ported a necro up and steal his fear skill and finally rid the campers. Thieves get no good CC skills!

So I’m wondering is Spikeroot fruit was disabled in WvW now? It’s not a karma item because it costs coppers.

sostronk.8167:

People always talk about all this stuff in the JP. I just jump in when Im told there is a mesmer providing portals. I take portal 1, followed by portal 2, then press f on the chest and return to the fight in EB. Am I missing anything?

Yeah, we mesmers have to get up there somehow in the first place. No objection to campers, just think there should be more reasons for them to stay on their toes.

Sure I could learn to do the dark room blindfolded, or bring along a buddy with a torch and hope he doesn’t get shot down, but why make it that much more difficult for me while leaving it so easy for them?

Fortunately (lol?) being the best of the worst in WvW Tiers means my server has control of JP 99% of the time, so I need not worry about such things.

Actually, another thing that Anet could do that would make me happy is enable people in Mystic Fountain stealth mode to pickup the torches before the dark room. It’s not like you can easymode stealth through the whole puzzle, you’re racing against time before the stealth runs out. I usually only have 30 seconds left before reaching the last fountain. There is almost no room for mistakes when you’re trying to run through with 100% stealth.

If they would disable portals in the JP, not only would they have made it fairer, they would also have reduced the population in it by 85% or some other made up number I can throw out here.

Personally I find it a bit silly that you need to organise for a Jumping Puzzle, while there is a fight outside that needs all those players in more important places

The fights can be fun, mostly they’re just ganking and completely unfair, but still: they ‘can’ be fun.
But they are always a waste of time, looking at the bigger picture.
The player gains something, the server only loses a player. Or a lot of players…

Yarrr, it be bring joy ’ta me heart ’ta see tears ’fer ’da puzzle.

Ye be not gettin free loot from ’dis pirate. Prepare ’ta earn ye plunder.

you realize the jp has trap MADE FOR CAMPERS!!!!! they want it to be camped. nothing new here, move along people.

My Dead Characters.9517:

you realize the jp has trap MADE FOR CAMPERS!!!!! they want it to be camped. nothing new here, move along people.

And the truth come out…