I swear whoever invented the very first jump to some high point to get a chest or data crystal or vista has a mean not to mention  sadistic streak in them. Poor little old ladies like me who have never learnt to jump well struggle I mean literally hours to get it but OMG when I do the feeling of achievement knows no bounds.

I recall the waterworks data crystal in SWTOR had me cursing. You know the whole run and jump thing eluded me since Everquest but my son used to help me and that particularly nasty jump that had people going oh stupid women wish we did not need a healer or we would have chucked her out of the group half an hour ago in Wailing Caverns in WoW used to make me apologize and I knew what was going through their minds. This is why mothers should not play....ahh my son is back okay one try done.

My son is going to university this month and my expert jumper is deserting me. So here I am trying to jump the breached wall on my own. Oh god I finally got to where the captain and cultist were like after 30 tries maybe and he punts me into a crevice the cultist ...I cried. I finally did it but I have 4 other toons....save me 

Morgan's Spiral gives me nightmare... *shudders* All those veteran mobs and husks ready to kill you if you fall and the only waypoint is BEFORE the whole jumping puzzle.....

At least the Asurans ones have the decency of having these nice little robots that can teleport you to the latest "checkpoint" in the puzzle so even if you fall and fall and fall... you can continue from near-ish where you were.

That being said, I will eventually conquer the cursed mushroom stairway! You can bet I will....

And I hate platformers in general, never played any Mario games, go figures :P

That feeling of relief, happiness and triumph that you felt when you finally made it is exactly why we play these games.

Well I can tell you they are the most challenging thing in a game for me as well! I'm no spring chicken by any means but variety is what we need. 

I hate anything in life I have to go backwards in, and falling off of any puzzle like this and having to start again is so irritating sometimes!  The loot at the end is the prize, but the end is the reward, it is very satisfying!

"Hang" in there!

you can buy something called "telportation device", i repeat "telportation" without the e...i forgot where but gw2db maybe could tell you or otherwise google. (not sure if it was device or something else, but it was telportation)

what it basically does is making you jump forward in the direction you stand in, or something like that. it's much farther than your normal jump. they're not expensive so you can try one out anyways.

haha that was a great read =)

hang in there :>

Originally posted by Vesavius
Made me lol :)

Me too. Reminds me of a very close friend I had on WoW's Rexxar server. Bless her heart............

Originally posted by cheyane

I swear whoever invented the very first jump to some high point to get a chest or data crystal or vista has a mean not to mention  sadistic streak in them. Poor little old ladies like me who have never learnt to jump well struggle I mean literally hours to get it but OMG when I do the feeling of achievement knows no bounds.

 

I recall the waterworks data crystal in SWTOR had me cursing. You know the whole run and jump thing eluded me since Everquest but my son used to help me and that particularly nasty jump that had people going oh stupid women wish we did not need a healer or we would have chucked her out of the group half an hour ago in Wailing Caverns in WoW used to make me apologize and I knew what was going through their minds. This is why mothers should not play....ahh my son is back okay one try done.

 

My son is going to university this month and my expert jumper is deserting me. So here I am trying to jump the breached wall on my own. Oh god I finally got to where the captain and cultist were like after 30 tries maybe and he punts me into a crevice the cultist ...I cried. I finally did it but I have 4 other toons....save me 

 I used to be baffled by people who couldn't make the WC jump in WoW over and over. I'd be standing there like "Ok I can see missing it once, but the person has missed 3 times in a row?!"

I would say the best thing for you would be to complete everything on one character and not worry about being 100% on the others as after doing all those over and over you are going to get more and more frustrated.

You should try a tombraider game. :)

Really, the key to jumping in a game like this is practice. A few hours and you should jump like a pro.

Find a good vista where you need to jump but wont fall to your death and practice, DR have several that would work.

Ok, finally... after so many tries I'm standing in the final platform, the vista is right in front of me, I just need to take two steps forward and I'll be in range to grab it.. carefull *taps W* one step... *taps W* NOOOO!!! I MEANT TO TAKE A STEP!!! NOT ROLL FORWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRGGHHHRR *SPLAT*

Wonder if I'm the only one keeps doing this.. :)

a couple of hints on jumping puzzles .

1. learn when to turn off the run key and go into walk mode and when to be in run mode. This helps prevent "overjumping"
2. remap the jump and foward keys to a couple of adjacent ones that you feel comfortable with. I use the left arrow as a jump and the up arrow for forward. I just use the mouse ( in my case trackball ) to turn

Originally posted by Jackdog

a couple of hints on jumping puzzles .

1. learn when to turn off the run key and go into walk mode and when to be in run mode. This helps prevent "overjumping"
2. remap the jump and foward keys to a couple of adjacent ones that you feel comfortable with. I use the left arrow as a jump and the up arrow for forward. I just use the mouse ( in my case trackball ) to turn

Nah, that doesnt sounds fun. I use my lotus petal 2 knife attack instead of space to jump when Im bored, makes things interesting. :)

But yes, good advice for people who have problems though.

Originally posted by L0C0Man

Ok, finally... after so many tries I'm standing in the final platform, the vista is right in front of me, I just need to take two steps forward and I'll be in range to grab it.. carefull *taps W* one step... *taps W* NOOOO!!! I MEANT TO TAKE A STEP!!! NOT ROLL FORWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRGGHHHRR *SPLAT*

Wonder if I'm the only one keeps doing this.. :)

 I did this once. Then discovered the lovely option to turn off double tap to dodge. Now I turn it off for all tricky jumping puzzles.