Not So Secret Aetherblade Jumping puzzle guide

A guide to the GW2 Not So Secret Aetherblade jumping puzzle that opens on the second week of Sky Pirates of Tyria patch.

How to Start
Video Guide
Written Guide
Rewards

How to Start

This jumping puzzle is located just south of the Broadhollow Waypoint in Gendarran Fields. There is also a new Point of Interest you can discover near the start of the puzzle. Start the puzzle by jumping on those steam pads.

Video guide

Note that the end of the puzzle is around 5:36. Rest of the video explains how to get to the diving goggles up at the very top.

This video here show you how to get down from the diving goggle platform. You need to jump from the right side of the platform and aim for the water below.

Written guide

Once you get past the steam jump pads at the beginning of the puzzle, you will encounter a fake wall that you can pass through.

Past the fake wall, you can jump down and there will be another set of two steam jump pads with another fake wall at the end.

There is a 3rd and final fake wall at the end of this jump sequence.

When you emerge from that, follow this path.

There is an Aetherblade cache you can grab and then it is off to the iron bars on the side.

This should bring you to the docked airship.Go inside the airship and then take a left. Jump on the chain of pillars outside.

At the end of the pillars, you will see a rusty pipe you can jump on top of. Then you will need to make this jump.

There is a jump pad on top that allow you to jump up and continue like this.

After a couple of jump pads, you should be able to continue across a bunch of steam vents to another jump pad at the end. When you are using that jump pad, aim a bit right to get on top.

Now you need to jump across the spiral ramps.

There is a jump pad at the end, you need to aim for this intersection between the pipes so you don’t overshoot and fall off.

Once you make the jump, jump down to this narrow beam below and walk to the top of the ship.

The jumping puzzle chest is a bit below and to the right of the ship on a platform.

Rewards

There are three Aetherblade caches inside the jumping puzzle (I pointed out their location but they may not worth your time as they are just normal jumping puzzle chests and don’t reward anything good).
Not so Secret Jumping puzzle achievement – 10 achievement points
Dive Master achievement – 38th location
Exotic Aetherized Shoulderpads as a reward from JP chests – [&AgEnqgAA] [&AgEoqgAA][&AgEpqgAA] (cannot be salvaged)

Unfortunately these shoulderpads uses existing skins

Light; Stately skin from karma merchants (Talabaroop Waves in Frostgorge Sound)
Medium: Prowler skin from crafting
Heavy: Heavy Plate skin from karma merchants (Talabaroop Waves in Frostgorge Sound)

Light

Medium

Heavy

Archived Disqus comments

Ki

Do you get these shoulder items for every completion? Or only the first time (per character/account)?
- Dulfy
  
  I think you get one for every character you run through the puzzle. I am not sure if you can get a second one if you run the same character through twice (didn’t try it).
  - asd
    
    since its soulbound, im sure its one per char
    - computerkate
      
      it is once per character. You can open the chest again and get other junk. I just got 2 greens from it.
  - Afya
    
    I just did the JP and I only got 2 greens from the magnificant chest!\ And it’s my first time I open that!!! 🙁
    - Dizza
      
      Same here, completed it for the first time an hour ago and got 2 greens and a medallion i think… :/ maybe now that the event is over there’s no more exotic reward?
      - Dulfy
        
        Ya that seems to be a likely explanation. They should have said something though so people know to get them while the event was active.
Nimryel

This is going to be up tomorrow, right?
- Dulfy
  
  Today or Tomorrow. The official GW2 release page still says July 1 but usually new stuff appear on Tuesday (July 2) so who knows.
Paladini

This supposed to open today? 🙂
- Dulfy
  
  Official GW2 release page says today, so wait till noon EST and see 🙂
Vrava

Thanks! Slight typo here: ” these shoulderpads uses existing skins”
Xaphan

This just opened in game 🙂
Ashlyr

Does this new POI counts needed for 100% map explore ?
- Dulfy
  
  yes it is needed but it outside the puzzle so it is not hard to get.
Deniu

Where to jump from Dive Spot??? Texture of some mountain is covering all the view 🙁
- Dulfy
  
  Good question, havn’t quite figured out that one myself.
  - Wolfdale
    
    You can jump to the water with one of caches, haven’t succeded without dying on my way down to it but it seem possible.
Dude

Is this reward one time only ?
- Dulfy
  
  Once per character maybe? not sure.
  - TheMoha
    
    yes it’s once per character but since it’s not salvageable or sell able so don’t waste your time unless you want the stat
    - Luthan
      
      If the screen above with the tooltpis is correct then they can be sold to the NPC vendor for 60 silver? Yeah I know… not much for people that farm dungeons but for some people this might be nice.
      - Belaesarius
        
        Fixed a bug that caused the sale value of the exotic shoulders that drop\ from the Aetherblade jumping puzzle to be higher than intended.
        
        Regina Buenaobra an hour ago
Soundwayve

Can the goggle portion be reached from the big chest?
- Dulfy
  
  May need a mesmer to port you back from the chest since it is below the ship
- Echoen
  
  You can port to the goggles all the way from the place underneath the ship with multiple pipes, maybe even from the cache in the water.
Sceela Karha

http://s7.directupload.net/images/130701/pawi6e4p.jpg\ I jumped into the water down there.
Gaf

eny 1 know wtf, you jump 2 when you get the diving goggles on???????\ you Cant se down, ther is just Rocks…
Johnathan

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1hfxvc/video_how_to_get_the_diving_location_achievement/
Ādolfs Firsts

Dulfy what armor are u wearing in this tut vid?
Guest

sry Dulfy… 😉
GRRRizly

JUMP!!!
Dulfy

I added a video showing you how to jump down from the very top with the diving goggles. Let me know if it works for you.
- Deniu
  
  Works for me. Thank You!:D
Paladini

For those who didnt figured how to do google jump, my friend Duetto frapped.

http://tinyurl.com/m6oqv3x
- Paladini
  
  Some are saying you wont get +1 dive master, but me and friend go
  - Paladini
    
    damn typo got*
  - Finix
    
    You have to jump from the platform, not the pipe. on the pipe you can\ still see inside a little bit, but from the platform, you’re going in\ blind.
  - The Spirit Molecule
    
    if u got 38/38 then once u do this u won’t get 39/38….
Aruvqan

To be honest, this puzzle is full of crap. I am not spending 3 freaking hours trying to jump, I have enough damned issues with lag preventing me from being able to actually accomplish jumping puzzles that it simply isn’t worth wasting my damned time trying and getting frustrated.
Belaesarius

You can Salvage the rune with transmute the Exo on a basic piece lv 80.
- Oglethorpe
  
  Looks like that doesn’t work anymore – I did it with the Mad King’s Slippers, but no dice here :-/
Pexra

Just a heads up! I spent 2 hours working towards this Dive Master achievement only to realize I was already at 38/38 diving locations found from months ago. So…yeah, make sure you check your achievements so you don’t pull your hair out in frustration over nothing! 😛
- The Spirit Molecule
  
  Haha same here, but It took me like 15 mins of dying and using mesmer ports to realize that :p
NataliaShadowmoon

The shoulders are PER Character and you can only get a max of 1.
Summer

Not So Secret Aetherblade Jumping puzzle DOWN!thank you!!!
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