Honestly, I usually finish events fast (only took about 2 hours of actual play time for this WW event)... but that is largely due to living in a good spawn area. I have completed every event (except Wizard fest), so most of my complaints are those that have been gathered from others.
They need to do something to accomodate those that are areas with low spawn rates. They should make trace tonics, so that they have a set percentage of spawning event traces regardless of the predetermined percentages from the area that you are in. I have made this suggestion multiple times, but as with most suggestions, they just get ignored.
There is a growing number of players that are frustrated, due to living in areas with low spawn rates. With the pandemic, many of them are not able to go to areas with better spawns, during events. Something needs to be done to address this, especially since the events contain books that are necessary to make progress in the game. You are forcing some players to put forth insane amounts of effort, just to progress in their skill trees.
As I have said several times before, we also need an alternate way to earn "event only" books. Some people cannot attend every event, so their progress is dampened.
Constantly forcing players to do events, just to make progress is turning the game in to a chore. This is not how you keep players. This is how you force players to quit.
Foundable are completely disproportionate to the tasks needed to complete. I'm still needing 5 Tom Riddles and after 4 tonics I haven't a single one! I'm not sure of the algorithm changed but please change it back. I've been playing since the beginning and this is the first event I didnt finish because the foundables are just not there. This game is no longer fun, just stressful!
And.... the complimentary gift pack has actually changed, to include ONE level one DA runestone, instead of multiple runestones from an unrelated family. Wow.
I finally just finished WW after multiple more TTD and depleting my potions due to low spawns and insanely high flee rates.
The spawns around me are alright, I usually finish events, but I couldn't finish this one. And it was infuriating that I can't prestige the Fallen Ministry Atrium because I need ONE "Tom Riddle Sr.'s Gravestone" but the event is locked to the knockturn alley sign.
Hi, first to all, thanks for a magical weekend, but I do not understand why wizard hub say you would continue the game as home edition and the experience playing home is terrible. The game need to be more balance is not enough difficult ingredient on the Ground a mean difficult ingriendt or key ingredients dragón horn, winter flowers, the foundable are any family but never of the family is the game taks, or too few, is supost the difficult foundable show more often never show aleast you used trace potion, and of you use is was totally unbalance, I need to used 8 trace detection potion and still have 24/25 Voldemort I refuse tonuse one more trace detection for 1 Voldemort trace. Please Fix this kind of thing, please thing some of us really need to play from home without go outside for the pademic situation. And the other hand the rewards are so ridiculous please really really sit down and thing in how to improve the rewards, I play forncomplete the mission for the foundable and the XP but the rewards is just a joke, no pointless, disapoint, bad, I do not know how to explain how bad are the rewards I waste a lot of potion (resource) and time for nothing, literally nothing, the rewards are so so so bad. The only thing I win is XP and enjoy the game.
But when I think in the reward you offer really make me thing this game do not respect me as player and fan.
Finally, I still really like to know why is not a Halloween event in the october calendar, thank you.
This weekend has totally sucked. Not only has it been a tedious grind to get 2000 points, but apparently the algorithm is so poorly designed that the Tom Riddle traces are so rare that the task can't be completed. Not only has this been a frustrating event, it makes me question whether to continue playing this "game". If the return on investment for spending money in pay-as-you-go entertainment like this becomes to high, as in this case, there ceases to be a reson to continue it. Ixve dropped a lot of real-world money into this, and am now getting angry with what seems to be a scam.
ABSOLUTE AND DISGUSTING SCAM THIS WIZARDING WEEKEND.
@hpwulola
These are my reasons:
1.- The black screen issue not being solved yet
2.- Wrong flair still shows and incorrect rewards when retrieving them
3.- "Boosted" foundables NOT BEING SHOWN WHEN USING A TONIC FOR TRACE DETECTION
4.- The guaranteed challenge foundables from the fallen ministry were changed in the last minute by another foundable and BLOCKING the possibility of retrieving the others.
5.- RIDICULOUSLY SMALL AND MISERABLE REWARDS after spending LOTS OF POTIONS AND ENERGY towards completing all the requirements.
It's very disappointing that even with all the difficulties, we hustle and struggle to play, and try to use the potions in order to get the foundables, but not even that, after 10 tonics, I wasn't able to complete the event.
SHAME ON YOU, this is disgusting and shameful.
We, the players, the users, the one who keep the game alive, are EXTREMELY ANGRY AND DISAPPOINTED.
Not everyone comes to these forums and leaves a comment because they think you people just ignore us, and I'm starting to think the same, we are struggling with the game in which we have invested time AND MONEY, and you are just sitting there, in your home/offices getting your salary and developing new events, not caring about the real situation of your users.
Sadly disappointing event. These events, as many are noting, have become a grind. I get that I just have particularly crappy RNG, but the departure rates vs required use of TTD and potions doesn't make it worth playing to finish the event.
Once this was an enjoyable experience, but sadly you have lost that spark..
So well said @Bormacska and I echo your words. This is just a sad downward spiral of what used to be a fantastic game. I wish that Niantic would listen to the players even just a little bit about the game dissolving into nothingness at the rate it is going currently!
For a DA weekend it seemed like I had less DA fragments than normal and there was no real chance of completing the tasks. Plus as others have mentioned only Knockturn Ally signs so completing my page was impossible.
Very disappointing- lets try a real community day instead of whatever this was.
This event has been awful. I’ve wasted so much time and energy trying to finish the tasks. I don’t know if the parameters have been changed, but I’ve never had this much trouble completing an event. I’m pretty much ready to delete this game. You have to know how to strike the balance between the game being challenging but not impossible.
Tried my atmost best to complete this event. Used a lot of TTD to get the spawns I needed but they just didn't spawn. All kinds of spawns but not those needed for the event. So NOT playable from home.
If the next event is just as poor as this one it will be my last.
Also fix the issue that whenever you're in a car as a passenger your fragments are not counted and most of the time you're unable to pick up ingredients and spell energy.
I do hope you fix these things. Trying so hard and wasting so much tonics and spell energy to get 2 books and not being able to complete is extremely frustrating.
Got to 14/15 Tom Riddle after walking 7,5 km in 'one' go, using 500 gold on exstimulos and 21 DDs (which dropped like 1 Tom altogether if any), could have completed it if the RNG gods game me just one TC.
I wish this project good luck, was fun until it lasted.
Got to 14/15 Tom Riddle after walking 9 km in 'one' go, using 500 gold on exstimulos and 21 DDs (which dropped like 1 Tom altogether if any) and a TTD., could have completed it if the RNG gods game me just one TC.
I wish this project good luck, was fun until it lasted.
Worst event ever!!! i spent like 8-12 trace detection, 18 exstimulo (strong and potent) and at least 10 dawdle draught for nothing... since yesterday night i spent 6 trace detectors por like 5 tom riddles foundable... thats for sure 3 hours of my time that meant nothing because shitty event didn't get me enough tom riddles foundable... and this was not that i left it for the last minute... i've been playing the whole weekend and still didn't get the spawn needed... you want this game to be playable or hated? another event like this and good bye my dear... my time it's a precious thing and this game it's making me lost it...
I found the weekend event super frustrating. Even with TTDs, I was not getting many of the foundables I needed to complete the tasks. I think over four TTDs on Saturday, I got three Tom Riddles total. Three days of play, including visiting parks, using dark detectors, and TTDs, and I ended the event at: 9/25 Voldemorts, 5/20 Percivals, and 6/15 Tom Riddles. Fortress-**** actually got me the FXP I needed, but the lack of needed traces was disappointing. By late Sunday I just gave up on it, why waste resources when they don't do any good at all toward the event.
With 41 minutes left to go I got my last Voldemort! No TTDs or TCs left, only 1 extimulo so I placed detectors on 2 Inns - kept my fingers crossed and finally, there he was!
This was the toughest event so far, almost not manageable, the family wasn't happy either (time consuming).
Emptied all potions so the brewing is on for next event starting tomorrow ... would have been nice with a longer breather.
That was most unsatisfying. Most unsatisfying, indeed. The necessary Dark Arts traces would disappear regularly, when they would appear at all. Sure, use Tonic for Trace Detection and Dawdle Draught to make the appear and prevent them from leaving, but the ROI on brewing these two is very bad. Taking 6 hours to brew Dawdle Draught for it to last only three spell casts is ridiculous. Same for TTD, but at least that lasts a bit longer.
Knowing what's coming next weekend, I'm not using up my runestones on this only to have none for challenges then.
The amount of family XP collected from traces is so low that you need to return hundreds to reach the 2000 FXP goal.
I was able to complete the event from my apartment, but at the cost of all my tonics I saved up and most of my exstimulo potions as well. The flee rate was as annoying as ever, but I'm used to that by now. Changing the available fortress fragments at last minute was ridiculous. There is no reason to make the game impossible to make it more challenging. BIG difference in the two. By luck I had started to grind for the previously announced fortress fragments and gotten pretty far, but I'll say my main complaint is having to do dark V for a guaranteed fragment every single time. Constant **** just to get what I already have does not make for a fun game, and it's actually ruining it for me and I see a lot of other people too
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This latest WW is rubbish. Almost impossible to complete. If they carry on like this I’ll be looking for something else.
Honestly, I usually finish events fast (only took about 2 hours of actual play time for this WW event)... but that is largely due to living in a good spawn area. I have completed every event (except Wizard fest), so most of my complaints are those that have been gathered from others.
They need to do something to accomodate those that are areas with low spawn rates. They should make trace tonics, so that they have a set percentage of spawning event traces regardless of the predetermined percentages from the area that you are in. I have made this suggestion multiple times, but as with most suggestions, they just get ignored.
There is a growing number of players that are frustrated, due to living in areas with low spawn rates. With the pandemic, many of them are not able to go to areas with better spawns, during events. Something needs to be done to address this, especially since the events contain books that are necessary to make progress in the game. You are forcing some players to put forth insane amounts of effort, just to progress in their skill trees.
As I have said several times before, we also need an alternate way to earn "event only" books. Some people cannot attend every event, so their progress is dampened.
Constantly forcing players to do events, just to make progress is turning the game in to a chore. This is not how you keep players. This is how you force players to quit.
2 DADA BOOKS? Thanks
weekend the end
Foundable are completely disproportionate to the tasks needed to complete. I'm still needing 5 Tom Riddles and after 4 tonics I haven't a single one! I'm not sure of the algorithm changed but please change it back. I've been playing since the beginning and this is the first event I didnt finish because the foundables are just not there. This game is no longer fun, just stressful!
And.... the complimentary gift pack has actually changed, to include ONE level one DA runestone, instead of multiple runestones from an unrelated family. Wow.
I finally just finished WW after multiple more TTD and depleting my potions due to low spawns and insanely high flee rates.
@CeruleanGirl I appreciate the encouragement!
Worst event ever due to the fact that some fortress fragments are unavailable.
The spawns around me are alright, I usually finish events, but I couldn't finish this one. And it was infuriating that I can't prestige the Fallen Ministry Atrium because I need ONE "Tom Riddle Sr.'s Gravestone" but the event is locked to the knockturn alley sign.
Hi, first to all, thanks for a magical weekend, but I do not understand why wizard hub say you would continue the game as home edition and the experience playing home is terrible. The game need to be more balance is not enough difficult ingredient on the Ground a mean difficult ingriendt or key ingredients dragón horn, winter flowers, the foundable are any family but never of the family is the game taks, or too few, is supost the difficult foundable show more often never show aleast you used trace potion, and of you use is was totally unbalance, I need to used 8 trace detection potion and still have 24/25 Voldemort I refuse tonuse one more trace detection for 1 Voldemort trace. Please Fix this kind of thing, please thing some of us really need to play from home without go outside for the pademic situation. And the other hand the rewards are so ridiculous please really really sit down and thing in how to improve the rewards, I play forncomplete the mission for the foundable and the XP but the rewards is just a joke, no pointless, disapoint, bad, I do not know how to explain how bad are the rewards I waste a lot of potion (resource) and time for nothing, literally nothing, the rewards are so so so bad. The only thing I win is XP and enjoy the game.
But when I think in the reward you offer really make me thing this game do not respect me as player and fan.
Finally, I still really like to know why is not a Halloween event in the october calendar, thank you.
This weekend has totally sucked. Not only has it been a tedious grind to get 2000 points, but apparently the algorithm is so poorly designed that the Tom Riddle traces are so rare that the task can't be completed. Not only has this been a frustrating event, it makes me question whether to continue playing this "game". If the return on investment for spending money in pay-as-you-go entertainment like this becomes to high, as in this case, there ceases to be a reson to continue it. Ixve dropped a lot of real-world money into this, and am now getting angry with what seems to be a scam.
I need 1345 Dada books for complete sos tree.
I dont complete the weekend event, so i lost 2 dada books.
If i had finished i would only need 1343. I think it was a very bad idea not to have completed this event!
ABSOLUTE AND DISGUSTING SCAM THIS WIZARDING WEEKEND.
@hpwulola
These are my reasons:
1.- The black screen issue not being solved yet
2.- Wrong flair still shows and incorrect rewards when retrieving them
3.- "Boosted" foundables NOT BEING SHOWN WHEN USING A TONIC FOR TRACE DETECTION
4.- The guaranteed challenge foundables from the fallen ministry were changed in the last minute by another foundable and BLOCKING the possibility of retrieving the others.
5.- RIDICULOUSLY SMALL AND MISERABLE REWARDS after spending LOTS OF POTIONS AND ENERGY towards completing all the requirements.
It's very disappointing that even with all the difficulties, we hustle and struggle to play, and try to use the potions in order to get the foundables, but not even that, after 10 tonics, I wasn't able to complete the event.
SHAME ON YOU, this is disgusting and shameful.
We, the players, the users, the one who keep the game alive, are EXTREMELY ANGRY AND DISAPPOINTED.
Not everyone comes to these forums and leaves a comment because they think you people just ignore us, and I'm starting to think the same, we are struggling with the game in which we have invested time AND MONEY, and you are just sitting there, in your home/offices getting your salary and developing new events, not caring about the real situation of your users.
This is it, I've had it with the game.
Sadly disappointing event. These events, as many are noting, have become a grind. I get that I just have particularly crappy RNG, but the departure rates vs required use of TTD and potions doesn't make it worth playing to finish the event.
Once this was an enjoyable experience, but sadly you have lost that spark..
So well said @Bormacska and I echo your words. This is just a sad downward spiral of what used to be a fantastic game. I wish that Niantic would listen to the players even just a little bit about the game dissolving into nothingness at the rate it is going currently!
This was an absolutely horrible community day.
For a DA weekend it seemed like I had less DA fragments than normal and there was no real chance of completing the tasks. Plus as others have mentioned only Knockturn Ally signs so completing my page was impossible.
Very disappointing- lets try a real community day instead of whatever this was.
This event has been awful. I’ve wasted so much time and energy trying to finish the tasks. I don’t know if the parameters have been changed, but I’ve never had this much trouble completing an event. I’m pretty much ready to delete this game. You have to know how to strike the balance between the game being challenging but not impossible.
I didn’t even get the knockturn alley as a reward... it was the most useless event EVER.
I used about 12 tonics for trace and all I got was NADA and frustration.... Worst event ever
So dissapointed....
Tried my atmost best to complete this event. Used a lot of TTD to get the spawns I needed but they just didn't spawn. All kinds of spawns but not those needed for the event. So NOT playable from home.
If the next event is just as poor as this one it will be my last.
Also fix the issue that whenever you're in a car as a passenger your fragments are not counted and most of the time you're unable to pick up ingredients and spell energy.
I do hope you fix these things. Trying so hard and wasting so much tonics and spell energy to get 2 books and not being able to complete is extremely frustrating.
I had one more Tom Riddle to get, to complete the entire event, after depleting all but one of my exstimulo potions...
He finally appeared at 1:58:30 EDT. Took 5 casts w/potion to get him.
"15/15 Tom Riddle foundables returned!"
Went to collect (meager) prizes and the event was already over.
I deleted the app and won't be coming back. Niantic should know much better at this point.
Got to 14/15 Tom Riddle after walking 7,5 km in 'one' go, using 500 gold on exstimulos and 21 DDs (which dropped like 1 Tom altogether if any), could have completed it if the RNG gods game me just one TC.
I wish this project good luck, was fun until it lasted.
See you in the next game Niantic... maybe.
Got to 14/15 Tom Riddle after walking 9 km in 'one' go, using 500 gold on exstimulos and 21 DDs (which dropped like 1 Tom altogether if any) and a TTD., could have completed it if the RNG gods game me just one TC.
I wish this project good luck, was fun until it lasted.
See you in the next game Niantic... maybe.
Thought it was nearly impossible... Turns out I was wrong, it was just impossible :(
I actually enjoyed the event. Prestiged my last Dark Arts page to gold and green started the Portrait of Voldemort, which was my main aim.
Worst event ever!!! i spent like 8-12 trace detection, 18 exstimulo (strong and potent) and at least 10 dawdle draught for nothing... since yesterday night i spent 6 trace detectors por like 5 tom riddles foundable... thats for sure 3 hours of my time that meant nothing because shitty event didn't get me enough tom riddles foundable... and this was not that i left it for the last minute... i've been playing the whole weekend and still didn't get the spawn needed... you want this game to be playable or hated? another event like this and good bye my dear... my time it's a precious thing and this game it's making me lost it...
I found the weekend event super frustrating. Even with TTDs, I was not getting many of the foundables I needed to complete the tasks. I think over four TTDs on Saturday, I got three Tom Riddles total. Three days of play, including visiting parks, using dark detectors, and TTDs, and I ended the event at: 9/25 Voldemorts, 5/20 Percivals, and 6/15 Tom Riddles. Fortress-**** actually got me the FXP I needed, but the lack of needed traces was disappointing. By late Sunday I just gave up on it, why waste resources when they don't do any good at all toward the event.
With 41 minutes left to go I got my last Voldemort! No TTDs or TCs left, only 1 extimulo so I placed detectors on 2 Inns - kept my fingers crossed and finally, there he was!
This was the toughest event so far, almost not manageable, the family wasn't happy either (time consuming).
Emptied all potions so the brewing is on for next event starting tomorrow ... would have been nice with a longer breather.
@CeruleanGirl thanks lol you must be one of the whiners
That was most unsatisfying. Most unsatisfying, indeed. The necessary Dark Arts traces would disappear regularly, when they would appear at all. Sure, use Tonic for Trace Detection and Dawdle Draught to make the appear and prevent them from leaving, but the ROI on brewing these two is very bad. Taking 6 hours to brew Dawdle Draught for it to last only three spell casts is ridiculous. Same for TTD, but at least that lasts a bit longer.
Knowing what's coming next weekend, I'm not using up my runestones on this only to have none for challenges then.
The amount of family XP collected from traces is so low that you need to return hundreds to reach the 2000 FXP goal.
Unsatisfying. Self-defeating and unsatisfying.
I was able to complete the event from my apartment, but at the cost of all my tonics I saved up and most of my exstimulo potions as well. The flee rate was as annoying as ever, but I'm used to that by now. Changing the available fortress fragments at last minute was ridiculous. There is no reason to make the game impossible to make it more challenging. BIG difference in the two. By luck I had started to grind for the previously announced fortress fragments and gotten pretty far, but I'll say my main complaint is having to do dark V for a guaranteed fragment every single time. Constant **** just to get what I already have does not make for a fun game, and it's actually ruining it for me and I see a lot of other people too
@Jkingsooner 🤣
This was by far the toughest WW event.
It's being followed up by an equally or even more tougher brilliant event.
I pity those who play the game but aren't in the know of what tasks assignments lie ahead.
Without preparation, the upcoming brilliant tasks won't be completed.