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TribunalRelife
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in Guild Wars 2
What is the most challenging jumping puzzle ?
I tryed "not so secret" jumping puzzle, but failed. It very hard. Because if you fall - you die.
All jumping puzzles u can see at http://gw2jump.com
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Skipping Stones (although stability helps a lot) and the WvW ones are also pretty difficult. Griffin rook with the bomb to open the chest is also challenging.
Of course the king is the Halloween 2012 Mad King's Clock Tower.
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My computer is better than yours.
The Metrica one was the first...and last one I ever did. It took me an hour and 15 minutes to do. Granted I may not be a pro-jumping puzzle person (obviously), but after doing it, my hatred for jumping puzzles jumped to maximum height.
Jumping puzzles can go rot in some place not pleasant. And for a guy who LOVES to WvW/PvP, when I finally got my guild to come out to WvW, i just wanted to bang my head against the wall everytime they said "Hey guys lets go do the WvW Jumping Puzzle."
Get the eff outta here! lol.
But yeah...jumping puzzles and me just don't get along.
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Can be tricky, but not so hard after the first time
My computer is better than yours.
I have done all of the "non-seasonal" jumping puzzles. The hardest was, for me, by a freaking country light millennium, Dark Reverie.
Why? It is incredibly long and is actually two jumping puzzles in one: the latter part is actually the end to Morgan's leap. You actually have to do one entire jumping puzzle just to get to it and there is no shortcut.
Given that death is generally the price for failure, there are some VERY tricky jumps towards the end and you also have to clear some nasty veterans at times, I had to actually "cheat" by using spectral walk to do it .. or I never would have been able to do it.
Not only do you generally die if you fall, but if you don't make it back fast enough you have to do the event to open up the first part all over again, which is an annoying escort the NPC quest.
If you had trouble with "not so secret" this one might make you pull your hair out, although I cheated for that one as well.
I honestly don't like the "harder" ones that make you start all over if you fail once. I prefer jumping puzzles that have hard segments, but the ability to start right over (provided you're not killed) like Obsidian Sanctum.
I once spend half an hour or so helping some random dude by rezzing him whenever he failed a jump there.
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If you haven't done that one in a while, I'd suggest you go back and try to do it again to see how it feels to you now. This was the first JP I encountered in the game (along with Morgan's Spiral, since they go hand in hand) way back in beta. Morgan's Spiral was a piece of cake, but Dark Reverie had the lot of us scratching our heads. The thing was, we didn't even know if there was more to the puzzle, as we couldn't see where to go from some of the leaves way up high. There was one jump that looked like it might have been the way to go, but the jump looked impossibly high. All in all, we fell to our deaths several times, died to slowing plants, died to veterans at the bottom, and never made it to the top.
When I decided to go back there several months later as a seasoned puzzle jumper, I just waltzed my way up to the top in one try. I saw right where to go because my eye was more trained on what to look for. I effortlessly strafe-jumped that impossibly high jump. I calmly killed plant turrets from afar. I was surprised at how easy it all felt.
The moral of the story is even though you might not necessarily realize it, chances are you've probably gotten a lot better at jumping puzzles over time, and any puzzle you thought was super challenging back in the beginning might not actually be that hard after all.
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As for which I think is the hardest?
Scavenger's Chasm in Malchor's Leap can take you hours upon hours to find all 12 orbs needed to open the chests at the top. It's probably the puzzle that the fewest number of players have completed.
Obsidian Sanctum can be extremely difficult to complete due to the pvp element in additional to some seriously challenging puzzle elements.
Skipping Stones in Southsun can be pretty infuriating, as can the new Aetherblade puzzle in Gendarran. I think a lot of players relied on mesmer teleports to reach both and have never actually completed them themselves.
Edit to add that I can't wait for the return of the Clock Tower! I loved that thing. I made sure to get my (rather worthless) slippers on 5 characters. I hope it returns in all its glory this year, and yields a more displayable reward.
Shhh, we don't talk about that one. Devs are evil.
Excluding SAB.
Hardest (and most fun) was mad king's clocktower.
Not so secret isn't that hard. The only thing that makes it hard is the buggy spring and launch mechanics.
I found skipping stones easy. Like. Really easy.
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I actually didn't like Mad King's jumping puzzle... I'm not good at jumping and I like to take my time to do them slowly instead of rushing - e.g. tactics before twitch skills
Not so secret is damn hard if you go for diving goggles... If you don't have your friendly mesmer to jump you back up, you can literaly spend lifetime there
Also I'd go and check some mini dungeons. For example Forsaken Halls is quite fun dungeon a bit similar to dark room in EB with nice twist. It's actually quite hard if you do that one solo.
Flame Temple Tomb and Vexxa's Lab are also quite interesting mini dungeons/jumping puzzles.
It was hard, but perfectly doable. That Mesmer cannot port you there if he hasn't done it him/herself first
Yeah, what I mean, go to goggles, take a dive, miss that lil space you have to fall through by an inch, die, friendly mesmer ports you up so that you can try (and die) again
I went there with a mesmer and met another mesmer doing the same thing, so we took turns who tries next 
It took me about 10 tries or so... I can't really imagine how would it be to run up 10 times (and remember what I did last time and adjust that by a very small margin).
You see I like that. Even if it's hard, probably frustrating and irritating, when you get to the end, all the better you feel. If it was easy and bland, you would just jump through it and forget, never looked back. If you have someone else to jump with you, that makes even more awesome memories
Slippers are not worthless anymore
. Exotic 80 with MF, that was removed - so You can change them into something quite neat 
Are you sure?
It seems kind of easy. (see provided video). I guess people see it as "hard" because of the timer and/or confined space, but that only helps speed up progress for it.
For me, one of the most challenging ones is the Malacore's Leap one with the 12 Chests (because that one was completely time consuming and took forever having to repeat sections to get different chests over and over again).
The newer Aetherblade Airship is pretty challenging because most it's heights 1/2 way through end in instant death if falling, requiring a whole repeat of the entire thing.
But I would think that the most challenging of all, prior to any guides or anything, would have to have been the Rookery. What a nightmare that was doing it.
....only one guy out of the entire group made it to the end.
holy shit..... nice video)
When you do a jumping puzzle race like that, your bound to get distracted & cam-blocked by the others. To me that looks real easy (i did all the jumping puzzles at launch) compared to many other jumpers in the game.
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And I'm one of those large-and-in-charge Charrs! But as a courtesy, I take off all my clothes when doing a jumping puzzle with others. It's fun doing these with a Charr on a tunic.