350 Brillliant XP - Darkness Rising - Stage 2
Meadmire
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There are multiple complaint threads about amassing 350 Brilliant XP on the second stage of this Brilliant Event challenge. That seems incredibly difficult even after playing for a few hours, but this is not a thread for a back and forth about how difficult this is or whether to play or not. The question is has anyone figured out an actual trick or way to do this reasonably?
I do agree this Brilliant Event and the last Wizarding Weekend just seems designed to grind you down and are less about fun, but, again, that’s not the point. Looking for any good advice related to moving forward (beyond quitting). Cheers!
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Not only the Brilliant XP, but also super frustrated by the low XP for the Brilliant Poacher and Snatcher. It takes multiple casts to return them, but even with Baruffio’s potion only 125 xp? I caught a non Brilliant low level fragment and got twice that. This does feel likes grind. Add to that the mixed up color coding that still isn’t fixed and I am close to quitting. I don’t have 4 hours a day to play, and it seems like that is what it takes now to get any progress.
Portkeys. I opened 4 today (1 gold, 3 silver keys) and got about 90 points alone from them. It's far from the ideal solution for two reasons: 1) due to the RNG of the rewards you can get any amount between 0 and 50 points (maybe even more if you're extremely lucky)
2) a lot of players are in strict lockdown conditions and don't have the chance to go out.
Still, I'm greatful for any amount of fxp I get from the Portkeys, because even 5 points mean (almost) 2 less foundables to return, so about 10 SE less spent.
Plus, I think one gets 10 or 20 fxp for placing the portkey fragment, so this means even further SE savings.
Wizard Challenges, provided you get the fragment for it, gives 10 FXP. You can do Ruins IV or a lower Tower, but it may not give a fragment every time and you don't get the FXP without that happening. It's less SE when it works though for the amount of FXP you get. It's really frustrating! I didn't finish the last weekend event or the bonus task for the last brilliant event, which is the first time since I started playing a year ago. My 9-year-old daughter recently got into playing with me, but she's a lower level, so it takes so much SE to return the oddities this time. She wasn't able to finish the last brilliant event either, and it really upset her. It's making her not want to play anymore, because she doesn't like not being able to at least completel the event. She would love to be able to do the bonus too, but just the main event would make her happy. I really hope that whoever makes these decisions at Niantic really thinks about this next time. I fear a lot of people will stop playing, and that's a shame.
Portkeys are the solution. I opend 14 during the event and got fxp from 5 to 105, the 105 sadly during the bonus task, when I didn't needed them anymore. I used all the silver keys I collected after the dragon event, but I guess that's what they are for anyway.
If you do NOT place the image and keep returning fragments when you are at 20/20, then you get 4 fxp instead of 3.
A 25%gain and also get the next runestone (40fxp) quicker. 😊
Portkeys are only an answer if you are not self isolating.
Working from home between school I (like many others) don't get much opportunity to walk at the moment.
And anyway, my last two Brilliant Portkeys have given me 0 FXP
This is what I left in the help box just now: You have made this game really hard to enjoy since the last update. Traces are really hard to catch, which is not a huge issue since we can find spell energy more easily, but the brilliant tasks have gotten ridiculous. In order to satisfy the one requiring 350 brilliant XP I have to catch 117 poachers or snatchers or place 59 items or play 35 challenges (with runestones that aren’t dropping) or open 35 brilliant portkeys or some combination of this. I play a lot and this is still frustrating to me..I can’t imagine the less frequent players are even finishing the second page. Please change that requirement to more like 50XP or make it easier to get xp..?
I noticed this last time but thought it was a glitch. I can’t even get runestones to do more event battles, but those do give 10 XP if you get a fragment.
I concur that portkeys are the best way to get the XP needed. I finished the task last night and while Tonic for Trace helps it's hard to walk and stop to spend 5-8 spell energy taking down one trace. I think in my first 10 event rune uses I got maybe 20 XP as it seems to yield less than any other event rune before.
i can’t tell which event the portkeys are from. So I don’t know if Ive collected them. Can you?
Portrays. If you have okay wi-fi, you'll bounce across the map and it'll count towards unlocking them. I leave my phone on at work, try to check it every half hour and I almost always have another unlocked.
I’m not familiar with the other professions but mine is a professor. I have gotten to a level where I start each wizarding chamber with four focus. When I impair a foe it looses 35 each cast. This means in the lower chambers I can not expend any spell energy and just let the foes expend all of theirs. I win the challenge, expend no energy and get family XP/foundables much of the time. I’ve used this for both the wizarding xp challenges and the family xp challenges.
@EngorgioCoffee That hex is exclusive to professors and no other profession has an equivalent. And whilst it seems fine, even earning runestones is time and spell energy consuming with such high level oddities. Harder than dragons but with none of the rewards!
@Magpie31 It is definitely time & runestone consuming, but I do it with zero spell energy expenditure. It works for me to make wizarding family or XP points. I have plenty of runestones so that's not a concern of mine. I'll sit there and read a book or watch tv and just keep playing the lower levels. I've had no problems getting to the required points in any of the challenges. I know it won't work for everyone but I wanted to offer it up as a possibility for some. OP asked for tricks and I offered mine.
I've only been able to collect 6 runestones, and I've gotten 2 fragments from those. I've opened several portkeys and received 0 fxp. Am I doing something wrong? Am I supposed to be using a Baruffio potion or something? SUPER frustrating. I don't have 12 hours a day to collect foundables.
Completed the Event + Bonus Assignment Yesterday. Total play time about 10 hours since it went live last week (avg 2 hrs a day).
L41 Maxed Auror
End Stats on event:
Total Poachers returned: 65
Total Snatchers returned: 40
Family XP Level: 24
Used a lot of spell energy, but I would replenish easily on a single 30min train trip (I live in Japan).
Def more of a grind, but I actually prefer nailing combat traces as opposed to there being a chance that the foundable escapes.
Would be more challenging for lower level/less experienced players of course.
FYI, If you do NOT place the image (after reaching 20 fragments) then you get +1 FXP per poacher/snatcher which does add up. Probably works similarly with candle and sign but didn’t think of the former (math probably doesn’t make sense here anyway) and don’t do the latter (I’m unlucky with portkeys so I avoid them, in a previous event I ended up with 10 FXP from 5 portkeys which is pointless).
Delaying image placement also worked well for me because then I had the poacher and snatcher images queued up for the final task. For place 5 images, I did poacher (queued), snatcher (queued), spider (from tasks), candle (from rune collection) and one final one (chose poacher since it is more common than snatcher and I didn’t have enough runes for another candle).
For 5 image placement, i use portkey because spawns its pretty low here ( so snatcher and poacher just once).
With 10 portkey begin unlocking from day 1 mean it give 2 image (but i take 15 portkey, 5 first to fill the image just not tapping it to replace, 5 portkey opened while playing, and 5 last portkey are for bonus task).
5 first portkey only give about 50-ish brilliant FXP, finished task 2 about at day 3.
Still have enough time for finishing it until bonus task (time consuming tasks after that is only the 15 poacher one.