Mad King's Clock Tower

Mad King's Clock Tower

Map of Mad King's Clock Tower

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Activity

Region

Mad King's Realm

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Mad King's Clock Tower

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The clock tower! Good choice. You must be quick on your feet and able to jump. If you reach the top, you'll be rewarded.

— In-game description

Mad King's Clock Tower is a jumping puzzle-style festival activity set in the area of the same name within the Mad King's Realm. It was initially made available during Shadow of the Mad King 2012, and has been reopened for consecutive Halloweens.

Getting there

• From the starting area outside of each racial capital city: talk to the Lunatic Boatmaster and select to go to the clock tower.
• From Lion's Arch: enter a Mad King's Clock Tower haunted door, or talk to a Lunatic Boatmaster in front of any Mad King's Labyrinth haunted door.
• From the Eye of the North or various Halloween areas: talk to a Lunatic Boatmaster.
• From Gendarran Fields or Kessex Hills: Haunted Doors randomly give the option to enter after opening them. This will take you to the Mad King's Labyrinth where you'll find a Lunatic Boatmaster.

You'll first arrive at the Mad King's Tower Dock. This serves as a hub for groups waiting to start the jumping puzzle. The dock will teleport the player to the start of the puzzle and start a timer.

Walkthrough

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Part 1 You will start on a large gear and follow the platforms rotating around the the tower. Run up the stairs in front of you. It takes fewer jumps following the left side of the stairs. You will get to another cog. After ten seconds or so, the wall of the tower will explode, leaving rubble for you to climb. Jump on the clock, up to edge of the block, and then to the top of the block. Jump either on or over the floating cube in front. It's difficult to jump around. Jump to the next platform. Jump directly to the next block, ignoring the small gear. Hop up a step the jump to the platform on the right. Stay on the right side and jump to the next rock. There is a bar on the left side leading to a platform and chest, but it can be difficult/impossible to collect this one depending on how fast you have been going up to this point. (Chest 1) Hop to the next platform then onto the large gear. Continue directly to the next platform. Jump across a couple platforms and a large gear then head up to another rock platform. There is a chest to your left you can grab; you can jump to its small platform to progress as well. (Chest 2) There is a small cubic platform to your right, hop to it from the far edge, then head up the rock ahead. The next jump to the gear is long, so jump as late as possible. Jump up to the stairs on the right side. Part 2 Jump top of the giant gear tilted right. If you fall to the left, you cannot recover. Jump to the staircase then up a couple purple platforms. You must jump to the narrow metal bar on your left. You can either jump to it directly or from the small gear near it. Jump horizontally to the wall piece connected to the upper stairs and hop a couple times to get up. Part 3 Follow the path until you get to two narrow bars sticking out of the platform. Jump down to the gear below, it's a long fall. There is a chest on this gear you can grab; do note you can open the chest even while your character is knocked down from the fall. (Chest 3) Follow the next couple platforms. There will be two paths leading to the top, the longer one seemingly blocked off. You can follow this one if you use the next platform, but it takes much longer and has no chest for the effort. Hop across some rocks and a couple metal bars. At the end of second bar, jump to the rock piece on your left. Head up the connected stairs and wait at the top. The clock face will explode after spinning a couple times. The green vortex will begin encroaching by the final spin. Jump through the clock face when the window explodes. Collect the Magnificent Chest as your reward. Tips Stick to the right side of platforms. The further you move left, the more time you are wasting. Some players recommended using the Action Camera Mode for this challenge, as it makes camera movement much easier. Alternatively, press both mouse left and right buttons to control movement and rotation. Do not stop moving, you will not have much time to move after jumping to the lower platform. Gear, skills, and traits are all disabled in the jumping puzzle. This includes profession skills, novelties, and bundles. It is possible to get all three chests in the same run and still complete the puzzle. Disabling camera shake helps to focus.

Rewards

• The chests along the path can be opened every third round (additionally resets in a new instance).
• There is no reward given to the player who has obtained the highest score.
• No bags are received from the final chest if the player is rewarded with the mini.
• Rewards are per account.
  • First Chest
    • Trick-or-Treat Bag (1)
  • Second Chest
    • Trick-or-Treat Bag (1-2)
  • Third Chest
    • Trick-or-Treat Bag (2-3)
  • Final Magnificent Chest

Related achievements

• Halloween Daily: Jumping Mad — Complete the Mad King's Clock Tower jumping puzzle. (0)
• Halloween Rituals: (Annual) Mad King's Clock Tower — Complete the jumping puzzle. Achievement can be completed once every year. (0)
• Halloween Rituals: Clocktower's Champion — Complete the jumping puzzle. (5)
• Lunatic Wardrobe: Mad King's Clock Tower — Complete the jumping puzzle. (10)
• Shadow of the Mad King: Court Duty: Terror of the Tower — Open chests in the Mad King's Clock Tower jumping puzzle. Chests higher up the tower award extra progress. (5)
  • The three chest along the way each reward 5 points. The final chest gives 20 points.
  • You can also purchase progress from the Angry Chest.

Notes

The starting area

• The puzzle will reset after 90 seconds (the time it takes to complete it). If all players have failed, the timer will speed up to around 15 seconds.
• The normal chests will reset after about three minutes, the magnificent chest resets with the vortex every round.
• A score will display on the top of the screen for every time you get to the Mad King's Tower Belfry; the number on the left is your personal score, and the number on the right is the highest score of the people within the same instance.
• Skeletal hands will start grabbing at you once the vortex gets close.
• Mad King's Clock Tower counts for Daily Activity Participation.

Bugs:

• On some occasions, the player is teleported back to the start right when they reach Mad King's Tower Belfry, due to the rotating clock tower not synchronizing the opening to game clients.
• On some occasions, the player may fall through the green vortex without being sent back to the docks immediately.
• On some occasions, the player may be teleported to the sea and will be forced to leave the map in order to return to the docks.
• The system does not inform the player that no one can hear you when speaking in team chat. Local and map chat still works.

Trivia

The clock face of the tower resembles those of the Elizabeth Tower.

• Joshua Foreman built this map, he estimated "maybe 5% of people would make it to the top."
• This and Winter Wonderland are the only jumping puzzles that has its own activity-style instance.
• There are three versions of the clock tower:
  • The clock tower visible from Mad King's Tower Dock has platforms revolving around a stationary tower.
  • The actual puzzle instance of Mad King's Clock Tower has stationary platforms around a rotating tower. This is located directly behind the Dock in the distance, normally unable to be seen.
  • The clock tower is stationary when you are in Mad King's Tower Belfry.
• The clock tower was first introduced with the October 22, 2012 update, as part of the Shadow of the Mad King release, and has returned for every following Halloween.
• The Blood and Madness 2013 release changed various parts of the jumping puzzle:
  • The jumping puzzle was turned into an activity; this also turned players into enemies rather than allies.
  • Player skills were locked in the Mad King's Tower Dock in addition to the Clock Tower itself and traits disabled in both. This was done to prevent players applying swiftness or crowd control to themselves and others.
  • In the jumping puzzle part itself, player models were changed into small, blue wisps, in response to a widespread issue experienced during the previous year where large characters were obstructing the view of other players.
  • Opening chests were hastened, allowing players to instantly grab the contents rather than sitting through an opening animation. Before, it wasn't possible to grab all three chests and would be difficult to grab even two.
• The clock face on the Mad King's Clock Tower loading screen resembles the astronomical clock of Zytglogge upside down.

References

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Activities

Daily activities	Crab Toss Sanctum Sprint Southsun Survival Keg Brawl
Historical	Basket Brawl
Festival activities
Lunar New Year	Dragon Ball Arena Celestial Challenge
Festival of the Four Winds	Aspect Arena
Halloween	Lunatic Inquisition Mad King's Clock Tower Reaper's Rumble
Wintersday	Bell Choir Ensemble Winter Wonderland Snowball Mayhem Toypocalypse

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