I see a bunch of folks answered my last post ( I must have wondered off to play GW2 for 20-30 hours after that post :D), sorry I missed all of your answers! I’m on Tarnished Coast, my main name is Skye_Terrier.
I have 2 level 80s, a couple of mid-level chars and a baby necro char.
The only way to get better at jumping is to do lots of it. I have reached a plateau where I don’t suck and embarrass myself, but I don’t make all the jumps like the real pros either.
ETA: Start with jumping on a human or sylvari character. They are both the default model size and easier to get used to jumping with than a Charr or Norn or Asura. Some people like a speed boost and others don’t it will take some time to find what works best for you.
Oh I do practice, and I got to the plateau you mentioned, but can’t seem to break that barrier. Someone way further upthread mentioned doing JPs naked, which was likely a joke, but hell I’m willing to try anything. 
It’s a valid strategy - you don’t have your armor and weapons in the way, and if you go splat, your armor doesn’t get damaged.
I find moving the camera angle about so I’m looking almost directly down helps, since then I can see better where I’m about to land. Doesn’t help if the ceiling is really low though.
(For the Lion’s Arch one that involves falling down the well, don’t jump down. Just find the right spot on the walkway, and very slowly walk backwards off of the edge. You should land either in the well, or on the edge of it.)
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I really enjoy the JPs in GW2, and always have. I agree practice helps, knowing and being confident in your jumping distance and movement in midair will help. Also, I’d suggest moving the camera more, even if just for a tricky jump, sometimes viewing from as close to straight down on your character, or just making sure you’re using the right approach. and if worst comes to worst, finding a mesmer to portal you around. Another thing is to turn off double-tap to dodge, probably already did that, but worth reminding folks about.
And some puzzles are harder than others, Griffons Run was one of the hardest for me. (At least getting to the end with a bomb.)
Easier to just skip the bomb. You can complete the JP without it… then wait until someone else comes along to do it for you.
There is nothing you can do about getting better at jumping puzzles besides practicing.
Well you can get the chest for the JP without the bomb, but you can not get the achievement without it.
Odds are also that the players you see merrily skipping along have done those JPs so many times they’re operating on muscle memory. I like AyinMaiden’s JP walkthroughs on YouTube if you get stuck–she does them in very straightforward fashion with minimal chatter, which is nice.
She makes everything look so easy it actually kinda infuriates me. I just watched one of her videos yesterday while trying a JP in caledon forest and she said “this is my first time doing this” and proceeds to nail a jump i had been stuck and falling to my death on for 30 mins on the first try.
I have been trying to get the vista near Stormwreck Deeps in Caledon Forest for almost 7 months off and on [usually an hour or so every week or so when I am trying to bore myself to sleep at 2 am] though Spekks Lab is driving me nuts, I havent been able to get the timing down, by the time I manage to align myself, the damned platform has vanished, or vanishes right when I land. 
I have the feeling I could manage it if someone were to go with me and actuate the platforms for me, so all I would need to do is start jumping.
Let me know when you are on. Mondays and Tuesdays are often spent doing JPs and mini dungeons in our guild. We have mesmers who will portal people to the end of the puzzles…
Just something to keep in mind.
Yeah, some jumping puzzles are near-impossible without also making use of some secondary skill or signet, or by partnering. Deliberately so–the easy ones have a smaller chest reward. I have fun with them in general, except for some poor graphic boundaries like your head hitting a ceiling boundary that you can’t see, or getting damaged from an effect (e.g. flame trap) that it looks like you are plenty distant from.
The one I just can’t get is that one in Caledon with the spiral tree climb leading to floaty-rock jumps. I had to time-out myself in a corner the last try after performing a roll to my doom while I was trying to nudge to the edge of a jump at the very end. Tip: Remap commands prior to JPs to disable rolls.
I have a level 80 mesmer, plus a bunch of low-level alts (on Kaineng). Mesmers and Guardians have been the most fun to play for me so far.
Bookmarked, thanks!
If you’re interested, my best friend and I often play on evenings and weekends, he’s pretty good at the JPs has a mesmer, and I think he’s done Spekks a few times. Look us up if you want, my main play name is Skye Terrier.3805 and his is Norm.7148.
Because he’s in Anchorage, we don’t usually start playing until 8pm Colorado time (6pm Alaska time) on weeknights, on some weekends we play for …ahem…quite a while (much longer than we should).
I play on a euro server and they won’t let me guest on a US server
Oh bummer!!! How exactly does the whole “server” thing work anyway? In relation to MMOs I mean. This is my first, and only one so far (I tried Second Life and ended up in a weird pink only landscape and couldn’t figure out how to do anything, and I’m quite familiar with Sims, so it seems as if it shouldn’t have been that complicated, anyway I uninstalled it about 5 minutes after I installed it). And is there a chance that whining to Arenanet would make them modify things?
Thanks! I usually get on a few times during the workweek (more now that the shutdown is in effect), but most of my time in the game is on the weekends.
Given that the information is not correct for all MMOs, but in this case for the ones I have played that follow the business model.
Each server will have a complete program that is the game - it is huge compared to the cute little single DVD computer games because it has to hold all the account data for all the zones and all the computer monsters, cute little birdies that are 0 level monsters and all the items you will find in the game. When you start to play, you make a choice about which server you want to play on based typically either on what server all your friends are on or what is available to you based on where you live and frequently language choice. Korea frequently gets their own private server as does Russia and sometimes China. Once you have picked your server, you make a character. Many times the game company makes the choice to break up your choices by europe, pacific rim and US because of the more or less time zones - they try to make it so you have the 8 hours of your world-third as the time zones available to your world chunk. I successfully fake out server choices to get into Europe all the time.
They limit the populations of each server to minimize the amount of game lag due to crowding on the server, one of the things they do when testing the games before release is stress testing the server to see how it performs on certain population loads. It is really fun when they have all the testers and as many people they can hop onto the test server to try and ‘break the game’ by loading too many players and allowing them to try and use exploits and all the things that you are not supposed to do in game.
Arenanet will allow you to actually guest on another server that is in your region, so I can guest on any Euro server, just not the US ones. If I wanted to buy a second account, I could start a US character, but it wouldn’t get my main onto that damned vista!