1. Adjust the distance from the edge of the platform you are jumping from. I found that while initially I started at the far edge to give myself a running start, I actually achieved fairly consistent results by giving myself only a very small area to run.

2. The Maxos Temple jumps will actually become quite easy and routine once you get the knack.

3. The Barnabus jumps are horrid. I hate them and don't even bother with them. I have never succeeded once I get up to that jump at the top where you have to go over the sinking platform and land on the moving platform. I sincerely hope that they leave jumping out of the Flames Expansion. The only good thing I can say about the Barnabus jumps is that it is not an essential quest. Those jumps should be taken out of the game. Horrible. Too dang hard. No fun at all.

The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
~Jeremy Bentham