Guild Wars 2

What’s the problem Aircool? What are you raging about now?

The Bell choir, I’m colourblind! Need I say more?

Would Arenanet like my home address so they can come round and just kick me in the cobblers? Y’know, as a Wintersday gift?

I’m being flippant of course. However, colourblind people have been hammering on at games designers for well over a decade now to have some sympathy and not make parts of the game rely on colours alone.

Shame on you :p

I don’t use zerker armour, mostly plain old soldier with about 35% crit rate, and that’s just for proccing my sigils.

I use a few buffs to bump up my boon durations so I can keep Retaliation and Protection up all the time. Not sure if that’s the way it’s ‘meant’ to be played, but it’s lots of fun.

biofrog.1568:

I find it easy, collecting dozens of gifts last night already. I also find the changes are improvements from the first iteration.
Maybe those who keep failing are used to mesmer portals? I don’t know.

One thing that I would dislike is changes to make it easier. It’s a skill based game and like it or not, Jumping requires some skill.

And yet, it’s OK to be bad at parts of the game. I suck at sPvP, but I don’t go around asking to be buffed because I suck. I say try it, and if it doesn’t appeal to your sense of self-satisfaction, then move on.

Well, bully for you.

As you say;

It’s a skill based game and like it or not, Jumping requires some skill.

As you may have noticed, this discussion is about elements of the puzzle where skill is irrelevant, due to one reason or another.

I don’t have problems with the other jumping puzzles, I quite like them. I even did quite well at the clockwork tower despite my ageing reactions.

No, the problematic parts of the puzzle that I’ve highlighted are actually lacking in true ‘puzzle’ elements.

I suppose I should note that I’m terrible at PvP, as well as the Thief and Elementalist classes, I die so easily. However, as far as I’m aware, I’ve never asked them to be buffed to cater for my woeful inadequacies. That also rings true for the Wintersday jumping puzzle; no buffs requested.

I take on board your point about the mesmer portals; I wouldn’t even be able to get out of bed in the morning without my mesmer portal being on hand…

Ok, I know it’s not supposed to be easy. However, I’m having three problems that are a long way from fun and beyond frustration, so some help and sympathy would be appreciated.

1. Huge hairy tigers and chunky Norn’s – My toons aren’t large, and I can’t see when the big chaps are jumping around at the same time. Wouldn’t be a problem if there was no timer and melting snowflakes. However, it’s much worse…

2. At the stairs of exploding presents. Even if I wait a looong time until there’s no one else around, as jumping with other people is extreeemely difficult and totally random, I can’t seem to press the jump button fast enough, my old, war wounded hands just can’t take it :’(

3. And what do old people suffer from the most? WIND! Yep, it doesn’t help that I’m freezing to death (and we’re not just talking about the price of electricity in the UK here), with my health running low, but random gusts of wind keep blowing me out of safe spots.

The exploding presents and random winds are just too random, and way too frustrating. I really like jumping puzzles; as a test of skill, but the random nature of the latter part of this puzzle is provoking my PTSD….

RAAAAAAAGGGEEEEE!!!

Thankyou

For those who wish to pay their respects, I think it would be a nice gesture to have some group screenshots at The Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier (Ascalon Settlement – Gendarran Fields) on Sunday 10th November at 1100Z (1100 UTC).

If you can’t make it at that time on your server, perhaps people could get together on the hour, every hour for that particular day.

I would suggest that all weapons are unequipped, although armour is acceptable.

I’m no good at organising these sort of things (after all, no-one knows me on our server), so if Guild Members want to sort things out themselves, that would be great.