Darkest of Times Part 1, event feedback
BrokkTheViking
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While the portkey rewards were a major disappointment and with the lack of Adventure Sync, asking folks to unlock 15 portkeys in the middle of winter (here in USA) seemed like a particularly cruel joke... I enjoyed the ease of catching Fawkes and Dumbledore.
I found myself rushing to catch as many as I could. It feels like it's been a while since the last Brilliant event, and I was starving for cheap runestones that I could turn into Runestone Gifts to send to friends. Without the benefit of getting Brilliant family XP from the portkeys, it was much more of a grind to rank up. However, I really enjoyed being able to catch them with just a couple spell casts. The last couple Brilliant events always had at least one that was hard to catch and you'd find yourself just running from them, rather than wasting time and energy on 7-8 spell casts to catch them. I wouldn't have minded 2 weeks like this. Without needing to walk portkeys night and day of course...
I'm looking forward to Part 2, hopefully making use of Adventure Sync.
Comments
as owlx might say, here are my (not owlx’s) 2 knuts:
not the best brilliant event ... not even close:
1 - brilliant foundables, though graphics were well-done, were not the most interesting to pursue because of relative ease of capturing (threat level not high enough)
2 - brilliant portkeys, though graphics of dumbledore’s office were well-done, gave worst rewards ever ... monotonous and too low for the effort
3 - bonus task assignment that included opening an additional 10 portkey portmanteaus was poorly conceived and ill-timed (especially with daily treasure gift of 3 silver keys being awarded after end of brilliant event week 1)
Well said @BrokkTheViking - I agree 💯 with your assessment. I am glad the brilliant traces were easier to capture if you will as a few of the last events the brilliant traces were ridiculously hard to capture so this was nice.
The event portkeys were less then desirable as Dumbledore’s office should have given out fantastic gifts just because it was Dumbledore’s office. But what I really appreciate about the HPWU team is that they really seem to listen to our feedback and change things up regularly! I personally would like to request that any Portkey over 3km should NEVER EVER give out basic potion ingredients that are available on the map everywhere. The only potion ingredients should be unicorn hair, dragon claw, hermit crab shell, and leaping toadstools 🍄🍄. This is just my personal opinion.
Lastly, opening 15 portkeys was certainly a challenge and I ended up using two silver keys to open the 15 so I appreciate that they are making the events a little harder so they last longer. However, having that many portkeys during the dead of winter without Adventure Sync being live caused a lot of people to not be able to complete the bonus task. So hopefully lesson learned by the HPWU team.