Guild Wars 2

just curious if someone from anet can comment on how often people do the eb jump puzle compared to before it seems dead now. if you see far less people use it was that the intnention?

I have never once completed it. After being ganked halfway by mesmers and thieves 3 or 4 times, I said “screw it.” I’ve been ported to the end by a mesmer 3 times, but that’s it.

The fact that you can invest 25 minutes in that thing only to get ganked right at the end is just insanity to me. Stupid game design.

Hickeroar.9734:

I have never once completed it. After being ganked halfway by mesmers and thieves 3 or 4 times, I said “screw it.” I’ve been ported to the end by a mesmer 3 times, but that’s it.

The fact that you can invest 25 minutes in that thing only to get ganked right at the end is just insanity to me. Stupid game design.

There’s 2-3 fountains that grant you 5 minutes of invisibility when you use it. You can use any skills while the invis is up, but you can at least run the puzzle in relative peace. To answer the OP’s question I have noticed the traffic flow in EB’s jumping puzzle has seriously died down. I don’t mind so much since I usually just want to run the puzzle real quick then head out.

People stopped doing the jp because its a waste of time like all other jps in the game. Badges, siege and two items thats not even worth 2 minutes

I only started doing it when they moved it to it’s own map. Getting better and faster every day. I don’t use the fountains because there are not many enemies. And in Dark Room it does not help that much if you can’t use a torch cause of the invisibility buff.

Luthan.5236:

I only started doing it when they moved it to it’s own map. Getting better and faster every day. I don’t use the fountains because there are not many enemies. And in Dark Room it does not help that much if you can’t use a torch cause of the invisibility buff.

yes no one ganks there anymore because no one does the puzle anymore . i just dont understand if they intended to make it so the gankers disapear because there is no point. you get maybe 1 fight an hour because only 1 person an hour does the jp.

Didn’t even know there was fountains.

My favorite thing to do in the JP is kill the people killing noobs in there. They’re usually pretty bad themselves.

Shanks R Us.2489:

Didn’t even know there was fountains.

My favorite thing to do in the JP is kill the people killing noobs in there. They’re usually pretty bad themselves.

have you been able to do this since they seperated it from eb?

I did it a few times because I don’t want to pay for siege. Even though quite a few times I did just to avoid doing the JP. I like playing PvP and the JP aint PvP.

gidorah.4960:

yes no one ganks there anymore because no one does the puzle anymore . i just dont understand if they intended to make it so the gankers disapear because there is no point. you get maybe 1 fight an hour because only 1 person an hour does the jp.

It depends on the server and the time you are playing. I’m on Underworld. Last matchup when we played against Augury Rock – a higher tiered server that even had lots of people at night… I went into JP and barely anyone of them was there. They must all play on the maps only to controll that stuff and keep their high ranking.

This matchup against lower tiered servers I often see a few people there… at some time also larger groups of 5-6 each server… at spawn or Arena.

Luthan.5236:

gidorah.4960:

yes no one ganks there anymore because no one does the puzle anymore . i just dont understand if they intended to make it so the gankers disapear because there is no point. you get maybe 1 fight an hour because only 1 person an hour does the jp.

It depends on the server and the time you are playing. I’m on Underworld. Last matchup when we played against Augury Rock – a higher tiered server that even had lots of people at night… I went into JP and barely anyone of them was there. They must all play on the maps only to controll that stuff and keep their high ranking.

This matchup against lower tiered servers I often see a few people there… at some time also larger groups of 5-6 each server… at spawn or Arena.

but the higher tiered servers used to have plenty of people in the jp they no longer do

The problem is that you have to re-queue for EB… if they already have queue(likely if they are a high tiered server) they only can do it at the end of the day before they logout and go to sleep.

They should just make a direct portal in LA – would also prevent others from “stealing” the access by taking all 3 keeps(which makes it even more boring – 0 enemies all the time then – you can’t even open outer wall of a keep and use the portal you have to completely control the keep… this is not necessary).

JP gives blueprints… weaker servers need all the help they can get… makes no sense to have it work the way it is where the stronger server with all the full exo players with tons of gold and perma queue on EB can just take all 3 keeps making the weaker server even more weak(they now can’t even get free blueprints anymore).

I stopped doing it because they removed the 2 Orc minds in there.

Shadow.3475:

I stopped doing it because they removed the 2 Orc minds in there.

They came back with a later patch… at least I can find always 1 normal Orichalcum node and 1 riche Orichalcum node(not working like the usual other rich nodes… still only 3 “hits” but you often get 2 per hit).

gidorah.4960:

Shanks R Us.2489:

Didn’t even know there was fountains.

My favorite thing to do in the JP is kill the people killing noobs in there. They’re usually pretty bad themselves.

have you been able to do this since they seperated it from eb?

What, kill people? But of course.

When I’m on my mesmer I do it cause people are pretty thankful when I elevator them to the top. Plus it’s really fun when I don’t get ganked.

yeah, i’ll normally try to do it once a day, only because i’m told the medals are useful, and i hate PvP inngeneral, so this lets me get them without having to the annoying bit.

But i have now come to the beleif that people who camp at any point along the JP to kill people are the most evil people in the entire game. The sanctum is difficult enough WITHOUT people running around one-shotting me, thank you very much :/

There isn’t much reason to do that puzzle. WXP leveling and the chests give all the regular players tons of badges and siege, so why would anyone spend the time in the puzzle? Unless of course you really, really like jumping puzzles in a PvP zone, and I don’t like them to begin with.

I don’t like jumping puzzles to the point that the next game I buy? If it says “jumping puzzle” on the box I’ll put that box back on the shelf.

I also have a list of game dev names whose products I wont be buying in the future. This list isn’t exclusive to former/current Anet employees, but there are a couple of them on the list.

Still love doing it. Also a great place to duel imo. Tried ever dueling in pure darkness with names off? It’s great fun.

It’ll be more popular with the next patch, seeing as Anet is putting one of the Aetherblade chests in there(needed for the achievement). So expect a lot more gankers and fights from tomorrow.

Saint Scarlet.2906:

It’ll be more popular with the next patch, seeing as Anet is putting one of the Aetherblade chests in there(needed for the achievement). So expect a lot more gankers and fights from tomorrow.

Exciting news indeed

Beg to differ, it has devolved into pure gankfest with whole zergs specifically running after the PvE players. I just don’t see any fun in that.