Guild Wars 2

I am not sure if it is a bug or if it is intentional, however; the gears that throw players to desired location in the jumping puzzle, “Not So Secret” have recently been throwing player models way too far. It isn’t a 100% occurrence (for I have completed the jumping puzzle and the diving goggles whilst this was happening) but the gears did throw me past platforms a good 9 times resulting in my death. It has made even getting into the jumping puzzle, I normally do for fun and practice, nearly impossible. Originally I thought maybe it was just me being bad at them because i recently came back from almost a year long break of the game, although after talking to other jumping puzzle members around the community, it has been recognized by nearly every single one of them. “Not So Secret” alone was a frustrating jumping puzzle however it is infuriating when you are almost at the diving goggles and a gear shoots you directly over the next platform (without coming in contact with the next gear) and stopping half way between the two landings only to do a comedic Scooby-Doo mid air run before plummeting past pipes, airships, and steam vents. Loving Wintersday and every other aspect of the game though! Keep up the good work arena net.

At least you can get past the entrance with gliding. Forgot about those other two gears. =_=

It’s still possible to use the gears which take you up to the goggles. It is very difficult to do though. It involves positioning yourself just barely on the gear, so it throws you far enough you pass over the next gear, but land just past it on the platform.

Sometimes i nail it first try, other times I just can’t seem to align it just right and go flying to my death.

I keep a character parked in the area to help those who need it. Since this change, there’s no end to the number of players asking/needing help. Especially since there are legendary collections up there.

There is another thread which this is discussed, not many posts.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/NSS-Jumping-Puzzle-is-broken

I have noticed this bug as well (I can’t imagine that it was intentional).
Thanks for the tip about standing far back on the double gear – I will experiment with that! In the meantime, I have my “spare” chrono parked at the goggles.

I did chest path at autumn. Today I tried googles path.
Cogs are definitely pushes me much father today than half a year ago. I noticed this on cogs near JP entrance too. I experimented there but didn’t find any way too make this jumps shorter.
On the googles path today I made 6 attemts. Always jumping too far, over the platform (not even touching it). No matter which direction I’m aiming. There’s small wall on that platform (presumably for safe landing). But I jumped over it twice.

It’s still broken, i’m afraid. It’s around half a year already, and there’s not even an indication that Anet’s even aware that something may not be right.

Astralporing.1957:

It’s still broken, i’m afraid. It’s around half a year already, and there’s not even an indication that Anet’s even aware that something may not be right.

There’s been an indication, among other sources, there’s the Curated Issue Tracker

Issue: Gendarran Fields: Not So Secret Jumping Puzzle: Launch pads will sometimes launch players too far.
Status: Investigating = we are aware of the issue, but haven’t yet found a fix for it.

There are workarounds for the problem.

1) use weapon swap to stop the movement, if you are thinking “but I am an ele! I don’t have weapon swap” you can use something like the birthday blaster or any number of things that give you a bundle

2) get the experimental rifle from malchor’s leap and just use that to do the jump. if you are an engineer you can just equip a rifle and use the #5 on that, DH F2 and DD’s vault might also work if they have enough range