Guild Wars 2

I was doing the jumping puzzle today with my alt and I couldn’t open the chest. It turned out that in a recent patch the chest has been made account-bound. Like if this game isn’t alt unfriendly enough already.

Please stop making these kind of bad and silly changes and fix the stuff that needs to get fixed. You know like (make it possible to) disable right button click https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/An-option-to-disable-right-click-targeting/page/10 and add like 100 missing guild-options https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Guild-System-Improvements/page/4 and add end-content that keeps people playing like putting mini’s and mounts into the world so people can collect them, raid dungeons and put the consumable items (that made WvW a little more tactical) back in WvW and remove invisible walls (World of Invisible walls would be nice in 1999)

The new dungeon is really great. It’s fun, some nice rare drops people like to do the dungeon. It would be really great if it wasn’t for 1 thing. It’s temporary. That dungeon shows you know how end-content can look like even if it is just one of the sort of end-content you can make.

Anyway, in stead of making such changes you make the WvW chest account-bound. I did some research on the forums and the reason for this seems to be (not confirmed) that people got a friend with a mesmer there and they then ported up all chars so they farmed the chest for the badges of honer in just a few min.

Well I can understand that you don’t like that but then there is the good way to solve this and the easy bad way to solve this where you get rid of the problem and also punish all people who do it correctly. Now the better solution was to put a timer on the chest before you can open it with another character. The timer would then be about the time you need for doing the jumping puzzle (including changing char and going to the jp). Of course it would still be possible to port people up but people could not easily farm it in the time they where possible before.
So do it this way in stead of making it account-bound and making the game even more alt-unfriendly.

While talking about the chest anyway. Why is the reset 24 hours after it’s opened and not every night at the same time. (pretty sure, before (months ago) it resetted at the same time as the daily. In that case this is yet another example of a silly bad change)

In both cases you can still only do it once a day. Yeah if you time it you can open the chest twice in a few min without doing the puzzle twice but then again, but the here you can add the same solution as I gave for the previous problem… just add a short timer. Now it happens more then once that you get to the chest to discover that apparently you did it the day before an hour earlier.

It’s great that you guys keep updating this game but some decisions are simply bad and the priority also seems to be messed up.

PvE tears, soon to be enhanced when the jp becomes a combat pit.

Maybe duels and guild wars will move to the formerly-EB JP now?

Whose members feel the need to include anyone attempting the puzzle, of course.

Enjoy getting your legendaries the lazy way now, PvE scrubadubdubs. :V)

No wonder you named your character Scumbag Though do enjoy trying to play the game as it goes out of business. When the PvE’ers leave, this game is done. Whom do you think buys Gems to keep the servers running? You think they’ll encourage others to buy the game???

DeWolfe.2174:

No wonder you named your character Scumbag Though do enjoy trying to play the game as it goes out of business. When the PvE’ers leave, this game is done. Whom do you think buys Gems to keep the servers running? You think they’ll encourage others to buy the game???

snortgigglepfffff

So, because the EB JP has been made a daily reward and will have fewer/no ports, all PvErs will quit?

Mhm, mhm. Sound logic right there. The EB JP chest is the glue that holds GW2 together, after all.

I suppose it never occurred to anyone grinding their legendaries that the Badge of Honor requirement was so you’d actually have to partake of another gameplay mode and aid your servermates to obtain the most elusive items in the game.

Now if they were called Badge of Jumping Puzzle Exploit, this topic might have a point.

in my oppinion wvwvw JP reward should reset every sunday , not every day

Rayya.2591:

in my oppinion wvwvw JP reward should reset every sunday , not every day

Splendid idea.

Don’t forget the borderland JPs

Yeah, NO THANK YOU on that idea too. It should be account bound, alt friendly, and every day! Siege is WAY too expensive to actually buy on the level it’s used. I don’t believe you folks see the way the higher tiers roll.

No. As long as the JP requires you to queue for the wvw map to enter it, it is better to stay account bound.
Even actually if that wasn’t the case, badges should never have been put in chests anyway, only players/lords/claimers should have dropped them imo.

Jp has no place in wvw

i have an ide make it charecter bound put in 1-2 piece of siege more and take out all the badges;)

Korsbaek.9803:

i have an ide make it charecter bound put in 1-2 piece of siege more and take out all the badges;)

This.

Korsbaek.9803:

i have an ide make it charecter bound put in 1-2 piece of siege more and take out all the badges;)

That would be a great fix. Love it.

I’m sure this is a bug here.
EB JP chest account bound and one of BL chests too (in the our matchup - Blue map BL JP chest account bound too and do not consume 1st and 2nd keys to open it). Two another chests are OK and still character bound.
Obviously this is a bug and must be fixed.

The biggest complaint I’ve seen about the change to this chest is people cannot easy mode collecting the badges for their legendary weapons. I can see where this change would be bad for servers that do not have a lot of WvW players. But, in my experience it does not take long at all (maybe a week if you put in at least some effort) to collect 500 badges through player kills. You either had to grind out getting gold or collecting in PvE for the rest of the mats, so why not take a week or so and grind in WvW?

The perfect solution in my opinion is to make badge drops out of the chest once per account per day, and siege drops from the chest once per character per day.

First of all. Half of the time I am in the JP I am there to fight. I Like the jumping puzzle because there is are smaller and more tactical fights going on. Secondly, it’s not ’the easy way to farm badges". The easy way to farm badges is to run with zergs and when defending using arrow-cards. That is the easy way of getting badges. I got most badges that way. I also never did the JP with all chars just to loot the badges (I did it once when I needed siege-weapons) but I guess it is a fair way for the PvE only players to get them. Still I would suggest them running brainless with a zerg and using arrow-cards. That works much better.

However it totally sucks that if I am there with another char I can not open the chest anymore.

Now I was talking about bad changes in this post 4 days ago and 2 days later you show that it can be even worse. Now it is an instance (Why?) with a waypoint at the entrance.

A lot of people used to fight inside the JP and now dead people can just spawn back a few meters back. Before they at least needed to run a little bid.
For me I did the JP while in WVW, it was a nice break of the zerg-fest but now I first need to get in line for EB, then I get in the JP. There I kill some and die some but I can not repair my armor.. I can’t even really leave the dungeon in a good way except for the portal at the end. and if I want to go back to EB (maybe to go on there or just to repair) I need to get in line again.. WTF?:S

Besides that I can’t use any of the wapoints what also makes no sence because I was also able to use the other border-lands waypoints from EB and the other way around.

Please think before you change something. Changes should make thinks better not worse.

To end on a positive note. In my post I also said that it was bad that the chest resets after 24 hours in stead of at the same time as the daily. It looks like ArenaNet agreed that that was a bad change and they now changed it back. So that is good!

Valik Shin.9027:

Jp has no place in wvw

Why not. The best PvP is going on (or was going on before the change) in the WvW JP. The normal WvW is mostly zerging and the PvP is just not so much fun. I do still like the normal W kittenittenhere most of the time but for some nice fights and more tactics you went to the JP.

And one more question. I read a lot of PvP people here who think they are superior to PvE players (I do both by the way) but please explain my why (other then for those badges, but most of the people in the EB JP where not there just for the badges) would do that JP while there are many other JP’s in de PvE world. If they are really PvE players they don’t go and to the JP in EB they do it in PvE and if they need badges they can just run with a zerg. You don’t need to be a PvPer to be able to run brainless with a zerg.