Temple of the Lost God Puzzle

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In the Temple of the Lost God there is a puzzle with buttons on the yard. This is by far the most frustrating puzzle of the game simply because if you screw up, you have to start up from the very beginning. And to make the puzzle more frustrating, the hints are not clear. For example, the 3rd hint does not explain that it requires four characters on the buttons (even if hint picture shows three) and 2nd hint is sideways. And yes, I read the book The War of the Gods in my inventory.

Anyway, here is the solution.

WALL
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
Phase 1: Put your characters in buttons 5, 6, 8 and 9
Phase 2: Move the 5th character to 2. Remove the character standing at 8.
Phase 3: Move the character standing at 2 to 4
Phase 4: Move the character standing at 9 to 8
Phase 5: Move the character standing at 5 to 2
Phase 6: Move the character standing outside to 1

[frakthefriendly]

I have to say, that puzzle had me frustrated. I did figure it out, but boy that book did not help much.

[Milunay]

Thank you, it helps !

[Grumpy Old Dude]

this needs a sticky

[Sigmar]

This is such a misleading/confusing design. Literally the first puzzle in couple of decades i had too search in internet because i thought the game was bugged.
Thank you very much for the instruction.
Dear developers - if you make riddles - provide enough of sane clues!
Please consider this option :
- Add a definitive explanation that at certain frames all 5 figures should be on the trigger plates.

[Grumpy Old Dude]

So at this puzzle, you have an NPC with you? (5th character)

[Rianith]

How do you lose a god?

[Dagr]

Yeah this puzzle was rough. Usually I'm good at puzzles and I was on the right track but in the end I had to look up the right locations to position everyone.

[LonePaladin]

Turns out the trick to it is to have everyone in position for the *next* formation before removing anyone who isn't needed from the *previous* one. So the first step is easy, just place everyone in a square. But for the second, you have to have your extra character in the spot needed (i.e., spot 2 in OP's diagram) before removing the others.

Once you know that's how it works, you no longer need to refer to a walkthrough.

[Bunston]

Ya, they could have made it more clear that you're only supposed to move one person to get to the next shape.

[Osmodious]

Extremally useful. Thank you for taking the time to post this.

[Neo in Wonderland]

Yea, and make sure move a single character at a time, and to have the NPC hang out at the far left of the puzzle to prevent any: "Holy ♥♥♥♥, why the hell are you moving there..." kind of moments -.-

EDIT:
30 minutes of my life I will never, ever get back :(

[Frenzappa]

You sir, are amazing !

[yorgash]

The most frustrating thing here is not what to do, but the absolutely messed up designs.
Like the symbols do NOT look like it requires you to form.
Easiest example is no2, which requires you to stand at 2-5-6-9 when very clearly looks like it should be 1-4-6-9.
If you're doing a visual puzzle you should never make it ambiguous to interpret like this.

[DethRaaj]

Originally posted by Bunston:

Ya, they could have made it more clear that you're only supposed to move one person to get to the next shape.

The book with the clues in it tells you who to move. If folks think this is a difficult puzzle, you should play Secret World. Your brains will implode.

[Geraldão da Rívia]

This puzzle isn't difficult. It's design is just horrible. The images are misleading, the clues are awful and totally counterintuitive. I love many aspects of this game, but a lot of it's design and narrative are rough.