Guild Wars 2

Okay so I have been doing the Clocktower for a few days now and I have completed it around 100+ times and have made around 40 gold selling the bags (Good for me as I am a new player and I like skill based puzzles/ too low level to make money other ways). I always finish the round with 3-6 wins normally.

However today the clocktower has been really laggy and the part when the disk and rocks appear lags in for a bit and then finally settles down. But the most annoying thing is the final jump, when you wait for the clocktower to do a rotation and for the clockface to break and then you jump in.

I have got to the end of the clocktower literally 10 times in a row now today and even though I am jumping at the correct time it just fails me on that final jump into the clockface. I completed it all day yesterday and a few times this morning, but now it isn’t letting me finish? Anyone else having this problem? I’m guessing it might something to do with the extreme lag because a few rounds two other people also made it to the final jump and we all failed and the score remained at 0.

Yeah, it’s a latency issue. You’re desynced enough from the server that the animation of the spinning clocktower is not matching up precisely with the small window of opportunity for you to jump through.

If the lag is minor, you might be able to compensate for it by jumping earlier than usual, but if it’s bad enough, I usually just leave the server and try to find another one with better ping. (As mentioned above, the giveaway is whether or not the gears exploding out of the tower at the start do so in a single smooth animation or whether it stutters/suddenly appears out of thin air.)

Zaxares.5419:

…the giveaway is whether or not the gears exploding out of the tower at the start do so in a single smooth animation or whether it stutters/suddenly appears out of thin air.

Thanks for that; it’s helpful to have an independent “tool” for measuring the latency.

I left the instance with *.38.162 as the IP address. It was too desynched from the game client. I tried to get into the tower after serveral tries but the dumb instance will not acknowledge my jump timing on MY screen. It was frustrating.

I joined another instance with *.38.158 as the IP. Went up and jumped. The game lets me in just one try.

So yeah, if you’re a map that’s not synchronized, try to enter a different instance.