12 Tasks of Christmas
hpwulola
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Witches and Wizards,
Spend this holiday season participating in the special 12 Tasks of Christmas event and rounding up a variety of different Foundables and rewards!
From Tuesday, December 29 at 11 a.m. PT–Thursday, January 7 at 11 a.m. PT, keep an eye out for the following:
- 12 Special Assignments revolving around the 12 Days of Christmas, with rewards including Potions, Gifts, Spell Books, and DADA Books.
- Increased sightings of the Water Orb Confoundable Traces such as Gryffindor Student, Ministry Administrator, Baby Mandrake and Pickett, plus more Traces from Tonic for Trace Detection.
- Increased sightings of Music Box, Occamy Eggs, Golden Snitch, Quidditch Captain Harry Potter, Young Harry Potter and Yule Ball (Hagrid & Madame Maxime, Angelina & Fred, Hermione & Viktor, Parvati & Harry) Foundables, plus more Traces from Tonic for Trace Detection.
- Special Sapphire 1km Portmanteau of Honeydukes that rewards Yule Ball Programme.
Please note: To enable as many players around the world as possible to participate safely, this event has been adjusted to facilitate playing from wherever you are. Please remember to adhere to local rules and regulations, and be respectful of others and your surroundings.
-The Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Team
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anddd what are the tasks? 🤔
Thanks @Dewin99 ^
Hope you enjoy the sing songy-ness of the event task list!
They look interesting, I’m looking forward to finally completing Harry & Parvati.
They look like fun to me, no doubt there’ll be umpteen complaints about using 11 Potents and 2 Masterful casts in a row.
I’ll add my thanks before they start!
I hope you all have a great break for Christmas! @hpwulola & @HPWUTeam Thanks for all your hard work during incredibly difficult times this year!
@hpwulola Thanks for the info regarding the event.
Since they are over a couple of days, I can understand adding the challenging element to the tasks, however I am a bit concerned with two of the tasks that @Dewin99 also mentioned.
First: the use 11 potent extimulos - this one because many players depleted their potion stocks in the Adversary event (maybe also for the bonus task during the current Brilliant event) and may have only just started to replenish it.
Maybe the task could be adjusted to 11 any or at least to 11 strong/potent extimulo potions? Particularly, since some players may have trouble getting their hands on unicorn hair.
Second: the two masterful casts in a row - I mention this one because I remember comments for previous events where people had trouble with tasks for doing a couple of great casts in a row - they mentioned having trouble doing great casts, let alone doing them in a row.
Maybe the task can at least be adjusted to not being in a row?
Anyway, I am still excited for the event, the tasks and to see the boosted foundable spawns.
Thanks for the amazing events and features introduced this year.
I hope you and the rest of the @HPWUTeam have an amazing, safe and happy Christmas and New Year. 🎄
It’s been a difficult 2020, I hope 2021, brings a fresh start and a lot of joy and happiness for everyone.
Take care and stay safe! 😊
Agree with the above regarding the exstimulos. 11 potents is quite a fair chunk to burn up over the 8 days especially as they have a base brew time of 8 hours.
Pleased to see that all tasks are down to actions inside our control and not luck based like the wit potion gift
Its still 5 days ahead isnt it, there is plenty of time to brew (as long as the ingredients is easy to come by). The masterfull in row is the most troublesome, i think.
I have 27 potents in my vault right now, and hundreds of unicorn hairs. I will not be doing the potent task because I would rather save the potions for the next adversary event than collect the rewards from this event. I'm going to need to do much brewing and gifting to get to my 415 potion cap in time for the next adversary event. It's possible I'll complete it by coincidence if I encounter enough adversaries that justify using potents. My exploration registry is done, so no boosted foundables will tempt such use.
I will have no problem doing the masterful task myself. But a friend and level 57 day one player shared this screenshot with me: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/631201781468364814/791473017192185896/image0.png
I am excited for the event. But please consider to revised some of the task. Agree with the above on the masterful in a row and 11 potent.
Shouldn’t we the one who gets 11 Potent Exstimulo on the 11th day and 12 EDM on the 12th day? 😀
Or if you’re keeping the ‘use 11 Potent Exstimulo’ task, maybe you could increase the chance of getting it on the green houses, by at least 50%?
Thank you so
much for all your wonderful work HPWU team. Happy holidays!! ❤️
In general I don’t mind doing the more difficult/challenging tasks as long as the rewards are equally appealing.
But in this case it seems impropey balanced between the task and the rewards.
Why would I want to spend 11 potents to just get a silver key?
And some of the final bonuses are gifts that we can’t even enjoy for our own benefit. They’re are gifts for other people. So for me it doesn’t make sense and not appealing at all.
In my opinion 🙏🏼
yeah,
could we request EDM(s) for bonus rewards.
pretty pleaseeeee
I agree with the comments above. Perhaps another option might be to change the reward from 1 (one) silver key to 5 silver keys? It would be a nice end of the year present. (I'm guessing asking to gift 11 silver keys for 11 potent spells used is hoping for the impossible...)
Also, will the brew time for the Potent Exstimulo be reduced by 50% with the master notes?
Thank you and Merry Christmas everyone!
I've currently got 3 potents and 24 Snowdrops; my 17 regular exstimulos and 14 strongs (way more than I usually keep on hand) won't be doing any good. Telling people to get a head start on brewing when they just got depleted by Adversaries and still need to use 10 exstimulos on the current event seems a bit out of touch, especially for such a low-key reward.
Not that this matters for me - 2 Masterful casts in a row is way out of my depth. (In general, the increasing importance of dexterity elements is rather offputting. ) I'm going to just enjoy the extra Foundables and try to pretend there isn't yet another impossible event quest attached to them.
@hpwulola looks like a fun event, but could the designers possibly look into Not doing two masterful in a row?
I say this for three reasons :
1. Those with tremors or disabilities can have a hard enough time just getting a trace to read. Someone with Reynauds may not have a phone register their touch when their hands are cold.
2. Not all phones are the latest and greatest (remember this was a task last year at one point and there was a batch of phones that tended to ignore the first half of the trace, leaving a fair number of wizards ready to break their wands or phones)
3. Covid. Last time you guys did X traces in a row the workaround was often ask a friend to help out. Right now, this isn't a good idea.
I think having X masterful traces over the event might go better, giving those time to try over several days. From what I've been reading on discord servers, there are more than a few who have been playing since day one and are still on the silver portion of the achievement.
Thanks and happy holidays.
@hpwulola is HPWU death by time? Are there no more Beginners?
That is a real "against all beginners" event. 11x potent Ex, 10x Tower5, 3x highest chamber(most of us = D5) 2x master in a row...thats real hard for Beginners to Midlevel Player. And the rewards are really bad for what is required in the tasks
It is christmas and you make a event, only for the "Elite".. that's not good, that makes me sad.. and no!! I dont have problems with this tasks, i am a short of lvl60, so i wil get no troubles, but maybe with the 2 master in a row, only because i dont have the newest and best display on my phone...
Happy holidays
11 potents is an impossible task with barely any snowdrop or bitteroot around. I mostly brew weaker potions because of that, even for the Adversaries. I will enjoy what I can during this event while returning all the rare traces though.
@hpwulola I think that the two masterful casts in a row could be difficult for many players.
The task can be adjusted to not being in a row?
Maybe there'll be a gift crate of 20 potent doodad potions at the start of the event and a 99% brewing time reduction (so as not to rub it in entirely for those with broken stores still)
I hope the plain on giving unicorn hair . Not everyone has enough to even make 2 potions due to the last event
This is an easy decision for me.
I won't be trying to complete this event. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.
I will likely finish a few achievements but I can get better rewards simply playing the game. If I used 11 Potent on just Adversaries I'd receive 11 or more DADA books and I don't even need to use potent to get there.
Silver keys? I only use those during Wizarding Weekends, which won't be happening any longer.
I'd rather save Potent for things that have real value. I can't get enough Snowdrop as it is.
I will be glad to collect a few rewards as they may come, but I most certainly won't make a concerted effort to complete the challenge just for the rewards.
about potent tasks though.
could we also request to increase chance of potent extimulo potion gift from Green House?
its christmas and new year for everyone right? right?
I'm glad I didn't use many potents on adversaries and still have a little store of them. I only have 5 unicorn hairs, and can't get any more from portkeys given that adventure sync is broken on android devices. Unicorn hair can be hard to come by even without these limitations
That's not to mention rural players who may struggle to get the other ingredients. Seriously, if we are expected to use these potions, we should be given the ingredients for more than one of them in the complementary gift
I am not going to waste my strong exstimulo potions to do 3 highest chamber which is Dark Chamber V. The rewards for these tasks are not appealing at all in my opinion.
I am a level 54 player and have been playing for about 16 months. I KNOW how to make masterful casts (speed over accuracy, etc.). I USED to be able to get one to two dozen masterful casts every DAY. Now, I only get one or two every WEEK. Two things happened at about the same time I stopped being able to get masterful casts regularly: the new SOS lessons were introduced and I upgraded from a small screen iPhone 5 to a large screen iPhone 8.
Since then in forums I have seen similar comments in forums and two possible theories about why it is so hard now to get them.
I would really like to know if either, both or neither of these is true. If it is #2 maybe I can swap my SIM card on my new phone to my old phone for this event until I get two masterful casts in a row. If it is #1 I (and many others with this complaint) are SOL for this event. I would really hope that Niantic reconsiders these tasks and either makes it two, but not in a row, or, lowers the calculation on what constitutes a masterful cast for the duration of the event.
Just about the only cast where I have a chance of getting a masterful these days is Aguamenti. So, let's say I cast it and get a masterful but also defeat the confoundable. Now I have to hunt around first to find another fragment where I can use that spell (because I will break the 'streak' if I don't) then, if that works, I have to get a masterful on the first cast or the streak is broken. I hope you can understand how supremely frustrating this will be and make a minor change to that task - like two total, not two in a row. I possibly still won't be able to complete it, but at least that way there is a fighting chance. Thanks.
So that's why we got so much unicorn hair as a gift this week. I don't even use 11 potents a month, much less in 10 days. I agree it does seem out of ****, especially for the rewards. And especially for beginners. It does strike me that both this and Adversaries are resource intensive. Like a lot of folks are gonna have to buy more potions or spend to brew potions when they can't find ingredients or upgrade their potions vault. I'm just gonna play the game. And likely won't finish the tasks.
Jingle bells, the questbook smells...
Albus layed an egg...
The unicorn hair lost it's shine, and this player says **** nay...
Dit gaat 'm voor mij niet worden... Ik heb in 18 maanden (bijna lvl 60) 57 Meesterlijk gegooid. Dat is minder dan 1 per week en ik heb nog nooit 2 achter elkaar gegooid...
Jammer...
This is not going to work for me ... In 18 months (almost lvl 60) I have thrown 57 Masters.
That's less than 1 a week and I've never thrown 2 in a row ...
Unfortunately...
I am fine with everything except the 2 masterful spells in a row. This has been set up for many to fail, including me. I barely get two Good in a row. Don’t think I have gotten many Great in a row , only at level 40. Any way you can change it to just get two anytime? I should be able to do that in a week. Discourages people before they start knowing that you probably will not complete this event.
Thank you.
@HeLaPiDaKa Als je bijna lvl 60 bent dan zou je zeggen dat je inmiddels wel genoeg geoefend hebt. Snelheid is belangrijker dan accuraatheid. Probeer je spells sneller te casten en dat vergroot de kans op een meesterlijk aanzienlijk! Succes!!!