Revamped Jungle Ruins Guide

are the safe spots in Moonmist Chamber still safe after the update that changed patrol pattern of certain mobs? need some confirmation

Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

I made a video walkthrough of Jungle Ruins showing a full run including getting the belt at the end.
Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIL5VGAWvyc

Nice run. Couple comments..
-In the miasma swamp with the last pool of (6) bugs. I've always just waited for them to spread out enough and would holy path through the middle, but I think I'll try your method of staying against the right wall and following the bug back. @2:12
-I prefer going through moonmist chamber over scorching. Probably because I'm not used to going the other way, whenever I try I tend to slip up. I used to hate moonmist the most out of the whole run, but after learning the bugs walking patterns it got considerably easier to navigate. Do think scorching is a bit quicker to get through though, depending on where the moonmist bugs are when you get there. (there are 2 that have quite long walking paths)

I've always liked this event, but it's really under appreciated by most. Still remember the first week it came out, think I spent the entire 2 hours trying to get through; wasn't able to until the next week. Overall I've gotten 3 belts on Heaven's Tear, 4 on Raging Tides, and thousands of insignias/mirages/socket stones. I chuckled at the spies at the end of the above video - it's a pretty low thing to do. Someone's been doing it on HT for a while now too..I've tried leashing the walkers onto them but to no avail. Gave up trying since I don't run it much on that server anymore.

As for ring/jade selections, I've always just gone with a gut choice. At one point I thought there might be a pattern to it, however I scrapped it since it felt like I was just trying to make order out of a random event.

Oh, and they changed it a while back, but I believe burning bugs do 20% hp a hit now as opposed to 10% they used to.
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Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

The right wall in miasma is definitely easier than going through the middle. The bottom right corner is safe and from there you only have to worry about that one bug in front of the exit. I rarely have to wait there.

Moonmist is fine if that works for you. I'm one of the few that pick scorching just because I never learned moonmist. If I'm racing against someone else and they go moonmist we tend to meet up at the later intersection at around the same time so I don't think either is faster. I'm pretty consistent on scorching so have no reason to change other than to save the cost of a IG / sutra.

The only real variability with scorching is the positioning of the final two ?-flame patrols. Even if you aggro them though you can hug the inside wall around the corner to lose them as long as you can still holy path.

Asterelle how much regen does your freaking genie have I mean omg you were hittin Holy Path more than half the entire vid lol. b:laugh

This Jungle Ruins guide is really nice, TY
I made the belt *Eye of the Jungle *Void and I want to up grade it now.
Althought your guide tells details about cashing in rewards it does not say how to upgrade the belt with the Stones of the Jungle. The PWI Database says that the NPC "Guide of the Ruins" will do this. Where is this NPC inside the instance?
You might include the upgrade process in this guide.

It is also my pet peeve to mention that the forum is for discussions and the PWI WIKI is for game information, something many people seem to ignore as they keep inserting guides into the forum where they are harder to find.