Guild Wars 2

and really is the Mad king Clocktower tribulation mode in disguise?

http://i.imgur.com/j74SykU.gif

Heh, I see I wasn’t the only one who had that thought.

Maybe on the outside it’s a Jumping Puzzle, but on the inside it’s a dungeon or new area. Maybe? Maybe not?

I hope yes, partly but sometimes Anet makes me angry, as they did with Clocktower. I couldnt finish it last year but I know that you could farm chest but now people who run around map using auto-attack are getting more rewarded than those who use SKILL and beat hardest JP in the game.

That would be fantastic, as long as it had proper rewards not just shards I cannot even store anymore.

g e o.2589:

I hope yes, partly but sometimes Anet makes me angry, as they did with Clocktower. I couldnt finish it last year but I know that you could farm chest but now people who run around map using auto-attack are getting more rewarded than those who use SKILL and beat hardest JP in the game.

+1

outside = Jumping puzzle
inside = Dungeon
top = sky pirate air ship dock to take us to the home of the zephyr sanctum after we finally kill scarlet and stop the aetherblades.
basement = free for all pvp arena
Heart of the Tower = an ancient Krait relic with lots of history that sparks interest of fractal researchers and leads to a new krait based fractal

Darkorical.9213:

Heart of the Tower = an ancient Krait relic with lots of history that sparks interest of fractal researchers and leads to a new krait based fractal

Now you’re talking crazy. We are still waiting on the fractal Elen Keil promised us months ago….

The inside could be a dungeon and jp together. That’d be kinda neat.

Delvoire.8930:

Darkorical.9213:

Heart of the Tower = an ancient Krait relic with lots of history that sparks interest of fractal researchers and leads to a new krait based fractal

Now you’re talking crazy. We are still waiting on the fractal Elen Keil promised us months ago….

This was said to be coming out near the end of the year or early next year if I recall.

Any time they put jumping (at ALL) in a dungeon, they should find a way to penalize the person who can’t jump, not the four other poor souls spending 15 minutes waiting on him.

Jade Maw Fractal PuGs 4 Life!… NOT!

Because there is always that ONE guy…

Good, we need more JPs for the people that actually enjoy them.

I HATE Jp’s but if it is a mix then I wouldn’t mind that much.
I like guild challenges and those are a good mix of puzzles, jp and combat.
If the whole thing is a giant JP tho I probably wont even bother.

It would be the Kraitest jumping puzzle ever made!

Then I will jump the kitten out of it.

That would be AMAZING!!

g e o.2589:

I hope yes, partly but sometimes Anet makes me angry, as they did with Clocktower. I couldnt finish it last year but I know that you could farm chest but now people who run around map using auto-attack are getting more rewarded than those who use SKILL and beat hardest JP in the game.

I’m not clear what the aetherbase has to do with what you’re talking about. Because clearly that is the hardest JP in the game right now. Clocktower is pretty straight forward, like the Southsun steam vents.

Please god not another JP. Anything but another JP. They were interesting at first but I feel like they’re friggin everywhere now.

Ahlen.7591:

Please god not another JP. Anything but another JP. They were interesting at first but I feel like they’re friggin everywhere now.

Every map……..

i concur. let’s take it easy on JP’s for about 6 months..

Here’s hopeing its a perm dungeon. But probably won’t be.

Kal Spiro.9745:

g e o.2589:

I hope yes, partly but sometimes Anet makes me angry, as they did with Clocktower. I couldnt finish it last year but I know that you could farm chest but now people who run around map using auto-attack are getting more rewarded than those who use SKILL and beat hardest JP in the game.

I’m not clear what the aetherbase has to do with what you’re talking about. Because clearly that is the hardest JP in the game right now. Clocktower is pretty straight forward, like the Southsun steam vents.

Not really, aetherbase is just loooong and you die if you fall, but in CT you have time limit and every lost second is death.

if it’s a JP style content update I will be furious I hate those things with a passion !
they shouldn’t even be in this beautiful game at all !
if I wanted to play mario I’d bring my NES out of retirement !

Latinkuro.9420:

if it’s a JP style content update I will be furious I hate those things with a passion !
they shouldn’t even be in this beautiful game at all !
if I wanted to play mario I’d bring my NES out of retirement !

if it’s a Dungeon style content update I will be furious I hate those things with a passion !
they shouldn’t even be in this beautiful game at all !
if I wanted to play zelda I’d bring my NES out of retirement !

Outside is a long, difficult JP. Inside is a 5-person dungeon route. Both lead to the top floor, with a nice reward.

Piogre.2164:

Outside is a long, difficult JP. Inside is a 5-person dungeon route. Both lead to the top floor, with a nice reward.

wishful thinking much I see !
if it was something like what you discribe and reward was the same for both I’d rage though sorry, doing a JP in my view is not something that should reward the same as doing dungeon content, but my opinion is obviously biased

Larkir.6502:

Latinkuro.9420:

if it’s a JP style content update I will be furious I hate those things with a passion !
they shouldn’t even be in this beautiful game at all !
if I wanted to play mario I’d bring my NES out of retirement !

if it’s a Dungeon style content update I will be furious I hate those things with a passion !
they shouldn’t even be in this beautiful game at all !
if I wanted to play zelda I’d bring my NES out of retirement !

if it’s a Killing content update I will be furious I hate those things with a passion !
they shouldn’t even be in this beautiful game at all !
if I wanted to play mega man I’d bring my NES out of retirement !

g e o.2589:

Kal Spiro.9745:

g e o.2589:

I hope yes, partly but sometimes Anet makes me angry, as they did with Clocktower. I couldnt finish it last year but I know that you could farm chest but now people who run around map using auto-attack are getting more rewarded than those who use SKILL and beat hardest JP in the game.

I’m not clear what the aetherbase has to do with what you’re talking about. Because clearly that is the hardest JP in the game right now. Clocktower is pretty straight forward, like the Southsun steam vents.

Not really, aetherbase is just loooong and you die if you fall, but in CT you have time limit and every lost second is death.

Exactly, it’s really long, and the longer you run it the more likely you are to fall and die or at least have to start over. Clocktower is comparably short and you can do it without ever pausing, cause you have to. The time limit doesn’t make it harder when it is possible to easily complete it within the limit without ever stopping. The only penalty for falling is having to wait, no matter how far you fall from you never die. Also, because it’s PvP now even if you did somehow glitch and die you don’t have to worry about a long trek back to the puzzle, nor the incurred repair costs. Aetherbase is by far more difficult and punishing than the Clocktower.

Latinkuro.9420:

Piogre.2164:

Outside is a long, difficult JP. Inside is a 5-person dungeon route. Both lead to the top floor, with a nice reward.

wishful thinking much I see !
if it was something like what you discribe and reward was the same for both I’d rage though sorry, doing a JP in my view is not something that should reward the same as doing dungeon content, but my opinion is obviously biased

I agree, but I would not be discontent to have the dungeon deposit you to the top of the tower where you can freely get the same reward chest as the JP, but fully separated from the rewards you got while doing the dungeon.

So if you go the JP route you only get the chest. If you go the dungeon route it takes longer, is harder, but you get dungeon rewards AND the chest at the top.

Latinkuro.9420:

if it’s a JP style content update I will be furious I hate those things with a passion…

Unfortunately, Anet is not mentally capable of producing new material that doesn’t have a jumping puzzle. The follow a checklist for all this stuff, because they have to.

1. Boss is a walking pile of hitpoints? CHECK!
2. Boss has Defiant? CHECK!
3. Boss has a one shot kill mechanic? CHECK!
4. Boss is completely immune at least once during the encounter? CHECK!
5. Boss needs an environmental weapon to remove that immunity? CHECK!
6. We put an environment weapon in the dungeon? CHECK!
7. There’s a jumping puzzle in here somewhere? (you know it’s going to be there).

Blackwyn.8127:

It would be the Kraitest jumping puzzle ever made!

I think my heart just stopped. What is wrong with you?

It breaks my heart that so many people just glossed over a pun strike of this magnitude.

jumping puzzles and krait? mother of god what is wrong with you? do you know how many push, pulls and knockbacks those kitten lizards have? not to mention conditions with very long durations.

and krait aren’t known for making towers with big platforms.

Ahlen.7591:

Please god not another JP. Anything but another JP. They were interesting at first but I feel like they’re friggin everywhere now.

That’s a rather odd complaint considering that there were like 5 Jps added to the game since release, which is not an awful lot.

Shadowsong.4820:

Ahlen.7591:

Please god not another JP. Anything but another JP. They were interesting at first but I feel like they’re friggin everywhere now.

That’s a rather odd complaint considering that there were like 5 Jps added to the game since release, which is not an awful lot.

Simple case of “It’s not content I enjoy so nobody enjoys it”.

You know how many new JP have been in the game since launch? Six, and four of those six were temporary. You gotta let someone else have the spotlight once in awhile.

Delvoire.8930:

Ahlen.7591:

Please god not another JP. Anything but another JP. They were interesting at first but I feel like they’re friggin everywhere now.

Every map……..

i concur. let’s take it easy on JP’s for about 6 months..

Don’t like jp’s, myself, but I guess some people do.

Because I’m rubbish at them they stop me doing a lot of the game content.

lol There have been so few JP’s added to the game since launch that it’s really an irrelevant argument to state that they have added too many of them…

Also, people already do jump puzzles in dungeons for like every run; you know those “shortcuts” you take in places like Sorrows Embrace, Ascalonian Catacombs, etc. where pretty much any group you run with does these make-shift jp’s to skip certain areas? Ya, you do them all the time without even thinking about them, but once it’s mentioned as an “official” JP you whine and complain “OMG a jump puzzle.”

I would love to see more JPs in dungeons; break up things and provide a bit more variety… but “OMG I HAS 2 ACTUALLY HITZ BUTTONS!”