Guild Wars 2

Call me a whiner I don’t care. All I know is that as a resident of Crystal Desert I’m missing out on boatloads of badges every day because of the simple fact they we can almost never occupy the jumping puzzle. Tell me how it is fair that simply by virtue of being on a steamrolling server like Maguuma one can with near certainty be able to complete the jp every day (quickly and with all alts with the help of a mes), and thereby rake in 30 or more free badges a day, while those of us unfortunate enough to be on a dominated server have to pray and spam map chat every hour just to MAYBE have a chance every few days. Badges are the most patently unfair and poorly designed currency in this game, and it has everything to do with this kittening jumping puzzle.

And yes, I need lots of badges, since I make and sell legendaries. Badges are one of the biggest bottlenecks in making any legend once you have a sufficient amount of gold.

Give it a week. Maguuma will move up, SOS will move down, and we can have a much more balanced Tier 4.

Although if you are looking for badges via jumping puzzles, you’re doing it wrong. Following a zerg is much faster, up to 50-100 badges an hour.

Isn’t there another alternative and more effective way?
Just kill the enemy or cap camp instead of JP?

Just like in real life. Some of us don’t have access to something because someone is in control.

Don’t get me wrong. I also reside in a tier 6 server so I know how you feel but that’s life.

My suggestion is transfer to a dominant server and do jumping puzzles there.

How in the hell do you get 50-100 badges an hour following the zerg? Even as an ele with massive aoe attacks I get maybe 20-30 an hour, and that is when there are actually some decent sized battles (often there are none). And I feel like I get kill credit for most of the players I see die. 0-2 badges from taking a camp or fortification doesn’t really add up too quickly either.

I make around 100 badges a day just by playing WvW normally.

I have more badges than I know what to do with so I have been stockpiling myself with gifts of battle even though I don’t need them anymore. You don’t wanna know how many of those I got

I recommend that you do it the easy/fun way instead of the boring/noob way.

Wait wait wait…you are complaining about getting free things, that are normally awarded for you killing players, because you can’t handle a little combat in World Vs World to do something that shouldnt be in World Vs World? And then going to turn it all into profit anyways? Sorry but I can’t seem to understand that. Play WvW for the badges as it was intended, not farming the JP. Doing it right, like everyone one above said, you can easily get 50+ per day without the Puzzle.

You get so much more badges fighting, than just doing Eternal or Mistwrought. Plus, we Maguuma tend to drop Precursors from our dead bodies, so more incentive for you to come at me bro!

Jabberwock.9014:

And yes, I need lots of badges, since I make and sell legendaries. Badges are one of the biggest bottlenecks in making any legend once you have a sufficient amount of gold.

So let me get this straight- you want a change to make it easier for you to make yet more legendaries and more gold, but you don’t want to put any effort into obtaining something that should never have been rewarded from a JP in the first place?

Not a little tiny bit GREEDY are you? What exactly do you do with all the gold you make- as it’s quite clear you don’t need it for anything by now.

All the jumping puzzle campers are really enjoying this thread. Thanks for providing them an incentive to keep doing it.

You can always transfer off to a different server such as SF. If you’re selling legendaries I would guess that the transfer fee is pretty small potatoes.

There is one simple fix to this and that is to disable mesmer portals in JP. It lets people get free rides they don’t deserve and encourages camping by people who shouldn’t have been there in the first place.

The badges from puzzles after the last patch are negligible. I don’t have much else of a response to this that won’t get me reported.

Omne.4603:

The badges from puzzles after the last patch are negligible. I don’t have much else of a response to this that won’t get me reported.

O, so it’s true the jumping puzzle chest’s badges and other loot was nerfed. I thought so too.

Isaac.6041:

Omne.4603:

The badges from puzzles after the last patch are negligible. I don’t have much else of a response to this that won’t get me reported.

O, so it’s true the jumping puzzle chest’s badges and other loot was nerfed. I thought so too.

No I mean, as of right now there is a huge spike in activity of the wvw player base. As of a while ago badges definitely drop more. I honestly don’t understand these threads. Omg why can’t I push spacebar to get more PvP tokens without PvPing. It’s a wonder they don’t ban the people that post these.

Zerg or lownumber fights or camp caps all get badges. Personally, I find manning an arrowcart during a siege gets a lot of badges. Even better is manning a treb against enemy gate or chokepoint, especially if you have a spotter close in to help your aim.

JP are ok and the ones in BL take less than 10 minutes and give 4-6 badges regardless of level. More importantly, they also give free siege blueprints which you can then use to build the AC/treb for activities described above.

Main reason to do EB JP is to get even more free siege and to clear it out for other members of your server to also get free siege. Sometimes it’s worth it, sometimes other servers have it and are also mining that resource.

Grub is the best way to badge