EDMs only spawning 3 battles is pretty ridiculous for the price. Just used one and they dropped every 10 minutes on the dot. Not worth the money unless that rate improves
My initial EDM found on the map froze after defeating the fist adversary in the chain. The rewards page was blank and then the entire game froze and restarted trying to move to the next adversary. When it restarted, no more EDM; just the icon urging me to buy one.
@hpwulola For those of us without natural spawns this feature is dead in the water the moment it was activated. Spawn points need to be expanded immediately. It's not worth it to spend so much coins/ real money on EDMs with so few spawns and we likely won't be able to participate in events without them.
I was not aware from the previews that this was going to be a thing we have to pay for. Happy to read that it is also in the wild, but it is not worth it for me to pay for it. @hpwulola@HPWUrobert@HPWURiver
Regarding the Advanced Adversarial Combat training, I am disappointed that it doesn't apply to Fortress challenges, too. I was hoping for more lessons that would make high level fortress challenges easier.
Gotta say I'm disappointed with the start. I purchased an EDM and used it at a park and got my first and only adversary trace. I moved about and didn't get another. I went to another part in town with a challenge tower and greenhouse and didn't find any traces there, I went to another area with challenge tower and inn and still no adversary trace. I got home after the EDM finished its time and found an adversary trace. So I don't know why I didn't get my 3 adversary traces but at 295
I have now twice fought fenrir. I’ve made it through the first two but each time I’ve gotten to fenrir, I’ve gotten the wireless network error and the encounter ends. My registry only shows one of the two victories against the werewolf, one robe fragment and two of the wands. Extremely frustrating that I’ve only seen two dark marks and both have errored out. I’m on iOS and have all assets downloaded.
I am an almost maxed professor I just need to get 5 RSBs upgrades to be finished. I was at the final encounter for the Ukrainian Iron belly. I had already used 3 healing potions and 2 potent estimulo potents. I had gotten it down to 400 out of 2600hp. I got attacked 4 times in a row and couldn't even use a healing potion. You also need to fix the damage we do to them because I only do about 60 damage to them while my profession says I should do 84.
@DRAKONITE Can confirm... I saw a few while driving this afternoon. Fortunately, one was at a light, so I tapped on it then pulled into a parking lot to complete. It was fun!
And to add insult to injury, I redownloaded everything to see if that would help in adversaries battles and instead I’m greeted by the iOS purchase bug, so I can’t spend a penny even when I want to, and can’t find out if adversaries are in fact not working. So unbelievably frustrating.
Found EDM Fenrir Greyback in the wild at a VERY densely populated Park (1 Fortress & 5 Inns) . Was able to take down Fenrir Greyback & crew with 1 potion for Fenrir. (Fully maxed Professor with first 4 levels of Adversarial Combat completed).
Had 3 in the wild already, two Malfoys and one Basilisk. At this rate it won't matter the cost of the EDM because I'll be out of potions and spell energy to do them anyway lol. But did get an EDM as a reward for winning the second one so you can earn them.
There is already a guide on these forums. No need them to spam everyone, especially since you just proved that most people don't even read announcements, let alone e-mail.
You know they really should have given us a gift of one or two Edible Dark Marks for something new and big like this. They really seem to have lost a lot of their enthusiasm in providing something fun and new for players. It seems like if something like this had come out a year ago, they would have been happily giving us such a gift instead of putting them in the store for such a hefty cost, without even giving us a taste first for free.
I encountered one in the wild and the characters seemed bogged down and looked like they were having seizures between spell castings...and the lining up to cast a spell was awkward too, it kept freezing up and movements were slow and incremental. I can’t purchase anything because my account has had a “purchase failed” for gold and items but it seems really expensive and the amount of energy and potions needed is excessive for players who don’t have the pay to play advantage. This certainly should have been a complimentary item to play with or new potion to produce for unbanked players without $$$. I really wish they had spent this time actually fixing bugs instead of adding more broken features.
Maybe they could add an Edible Dark Mark to the daily task that rewards the Trace, Inn, and Greenhouse Charm. Or switch it out for one of the rewards that gives 2 scrolls. If those are too easy, make it the reward for finishing all the daily tasks.
Maybe I am misreading something, and I’m sorry if I am, but if they are only available to buy, that just seems so cold. And yes, I know they need to make money, I have spent plenty to help them with that, but enough people would pay for them that they could afford to hand some out for free. Some people just can’t afford to spend money on a game, especially right now.
So I didn't find any in my neighborhood or at the church near my house where the parking lot is always covered in traces. However, I went down to a nearby park that has numerous inns & greenhouses and a fortress and always has tons of traces around and I found 3 there, and also saw one on the drive over. So they definitely do appear on the map without the EDM, though obviously I can't say if those who aren't seeing them could be experiencing a glitch on their device or something.
For those who have asked, they have also said (forget specifically where I read it) that they will spawn at higher rates during the events, so you don't necessarily need an EDM - although I also read that they will *sometimes* be provided as part of the free packs for these events, so that will be helpful as well. I would hope we will see that in this first event so that everyone can experience the EDM and get a better idea of whether they're worth the price.
I have gotten one DADA book for each adversary when I complete the full chain. I also looked at just a few of the foundables on the registry and noticed that they seem to reach provide multiple DADA books, even before prestiging. As a newer player who only recently maxed out my first profession and had started working on a second before getting the news about Adversaries & associated skill tree coming up, I know that spell books will be the biggest hindrance for completing the new skill tree since they don't seem to be providing any new ways to get those.
edited December 2020#5815 December, 2020, 06:38 am.
@Klc5048 so from what I can tell with the few Adversaries I've fought (I didn't have much time to play today) the fragments you get are not actually the guards. For instance, I got a "basilisk skin" fragment from an acromantula and "white dragon scale" fragment from a mummy guard.
First, I appreciate all the work that was put in into this feature. New registry pages, new items, new enemies, new skills to learn. It's a huge amount of work. Well done on that.
On the other hand, I don't like it. It turns the game more to a stay-in-your-couch app. The new foes are impossible to with with during walking. And it is not safe to stay in one random place for 4-10 minutes. (Not to mention the winter cold.) But fine, the intention was to stay at home and play from home (which I never understood, because at home I'd like to play on my **** screen and something less repetitive). In this case: where are the ingredients. Unicorn hair are not dropping from portkeys anymore, and even though, the payers should walk to open those, but the intention right now is not to walk. Also ginger: it got extremely rare recently and I haven't seen ginger seeds in the last 6 (six!) months.
Bottom line. The new feature looks great (even I don't like it), but the supporting parts of the game were not properly designed.
And finally, seeing all this effort that was put into the last feature, how long should we wait for the simplest and one of the oldest request, we made: at midnight please auto-collect the rewards from the task list. There are so many distractions within the game and outside the world that every now and then we forget to collect the rewards (especially when a brilliant event is going on, that always hides the daily tasks). It is a simple change and would make thousands happy.
Sorry for double posting. I can't edit my previous comment after 1 hour.
Another thing I noticed. I have 15% DODGE versus these foes. From about 200 attacks so far I dodged 0 (none, nada, null, zero). I'm sure it's the infamously broken Niantic random (not so random) number generator which favors certain players all the time and lets down other players all the time (overall I'm sure it looks like it has normal distribution, but individually it is not). Can you please fix is in all the games? It's really annoying.
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EDMs only spawning 3 battles is pretty ridiculous for the price. Just used one and they dropped every 10 minutes on the dot. Not worth the money unless that rate improves
My initial EDM found on the map froze after defeating the fist adversary in the chain. The rewards page was blank and then the entire game froze and restarted trying to move to the next adversary. When it restarted, no more EDM; just the icon urging me to buy one.
wondering if switching from professor to auror might save some spell energy. funny cause fortresses are the opposite😂
How am I supposed to purchase an EDM when I still get the "Purchase Failed" response?????
@hpwulola For those of us without natural spawns this feature is dead in the water the moment it was activated. Spawn points need to be expanded immediately. It's not worth it to spend so much coins/ real money on EDMs with so few spawns and we likely won't be able to participate in events without them.
Isn't it rather poor story telling that these "Adversaries" start appearing, yet the Ministry of Magic says nothing?
This should have been rolled out during or after the current event along with a message from Constance, Harry et al
I’m just looking forward to seeing my first wild adversary. Almost 3 hours looking! :-D
I was not aware from the previews that this was going to be a thing we have to pay for. Happy to read that it is also in the wild, but it is not worth it for me to pay for it. @hpwulola @HPWUrobert @HPWURiver
Regarding the Advanced Adversarial Combat training, I am disappointed that it doesn't apply to Fortress challenges, too. I was hoping for more lessons that would make high level fortress challenges easier.
Gotta say I'm disappointed with the start. I purchased an EDM and used it at a park and got my first and only adversary trace. I moved about and didn't get another. I went to another part in town with a challenge tower and greenhouse and didn't find any traces there, I went to another area with challenge tower and inn and still no adversary trace. I got home after the EDM finished its time and found an adversary trace. So I don't know why I didn't get my 3 adversary traces but at 295
I have now twice fought fenrir. I’ve made it through the first two but each time I’ve gotten to fenrir, I’ve gotten the wireless network error and the encounter ends. My registry only shows one of the two victories against the werewolf, one robe fragment and two of the wands. Extremely frustrating that I’ve only seen two dark marks and both have errored out. I’m on iOS and have all assets downloaded.
I am an almost maxed professor I just need to get 5 RSBs upgrades to be finished. I was at the final encounter for the Ukrainian Iron belly. I had already used 3 healing potions and 2 potent estimulo potents. I had gotten it down to 400 out of 2600hp. I got attacked 4 times in a row and couldn't even use a healing potion. You also need to fix the damage we do to them because I only do about 60 damage to them while my profession says I should do 84.
This is so insanely unfair and not fun.
after this adversary live, any reports they spawns for "free"? 😂
@DRAKONITE Can confirm... I saw a few while driving this afternoon. Fortunately, one was at a light, so I tapped on it then pulled into a parking lot to complete. It was fun!
See, fragment count, but there's nothing in the registry to place the guard images
I've used TTD 3 times and have gotten a DM spawn on two of them . I'm playing at my house, which is a pretty good spawn point.
On the most recent battle (do we call them battles?), I defeated the first foe and got a EDM as a reward. That was nice.
And to add insult to injury, I redownloaded everything to see if that would help in adversaries battles and instead I’m greeted by the iOS purchase bug, so I can’t spend a penny even when I want to, and can’t find out if adversaries are in fact not working. So unbelievably frustrating.
Found EDM Fenrir Greyback in the wild at a VERY densely populated Park (1 Fortress & 5 Inns) . Was able to take down Fenrir Greyback & crew with 1 potion for Fenrir. (Fully maxed Professor with first 4 levels of Adversarial Combat completed).
I spent $5 to try it out.
Holy potions on the ancient Norwegian!
I got the Norwegian chain twice., and the Pettigrew chain once. (Won them all)
Healing potions will become very valuable.
It's a fun change....maybe more challenge points would be nice.
Had 3 in the wild already, two Malfoys and one Basilisk. At this rate it won't matter the cost of the EDM because I'll be out of potions and spell energy to do them anyway lol. But did get an EDM as a reward for winning the second one so you can earn them.
I had one adversary encounter in the wild. Why continue the post IN GAME that they will start in 3 days, 14 hours, when they have gone live?
The tutorial is good, but unless you happen on an encounter, or shell out for the dark mark, you will not see this information.
You have our e-mails, send us the guides, announcements, and hey, maybe a free edible dark mark.
@xxxlindy Because the timer is for an event.
There is already a guide on these forums. No need them to spam everyone, especially since you just proved that most people don't even read announcements, let alone e-mail.
You know they really should have given us a gift of one or two Edible Dark Marks for something new and big like this. They really seem to have lost a lot of their enthusiasm in providing something fun and new for players. It seems like if something like this had come out a year ago, they would have been happily giving us such a gift instead of putting them in the store for such a hefty cost, without even giving us a taste first for free.
I encountered one in the wild and the characters seemed bogged down and looked like they were having seizures between spell castings...and the lining up to cast a spell was awkward too, it kept freezing up and movements were slow and incremental. I can’t purchase anything because my account has had a “purchase failed” for gold and items but it seems really expensive and the amount of energy and potions needed is excessive for players who don’t have the pay to play advantage. This certainly should have been a complimentary item to play with or new potion to produce for unbanked players without $$$. I really wish they had spent this time actually fixing bugs instead of adding more broken features.
Maybe they could add an Edible Dark Mark to the daily task that rewards the Trace, Inn, and Greenhouse Charm. Or switch it out for one of the rewards that gives 2 scrolls. If those are too easy, make it the reward for finishing all the daily tasks.
Maybe I am misreading something, and I’m sorry if I am, but if they are only available to buy, that just seems so cold. And yes, I know they need to make money, I have spent plenty to help them with that, but enough people would pay for them that they could afford to hand some out for free. Some people just can’t afford to spend money on a game, especially right now.
So I didn't find any in my neighborhood or at the church near my house where the parking lot is always covered in traces. However, I went down to a nearby park that has numerous inns & greenhouses and a fortress and always has tons of traces around and I found 3 there, and also saw one on the drive over. So they definitely do appear on the map without the EDM, though obviously I can't say if those who aren't seeing them could be experiencing a glitch on their device or something.
For those who have asked, they have also said (forget specifically where I read it) that they will spawn at higher rates during the events, so you don't necessarily need an EDM - although I also read that they will *sometimes* be provided as part of the free packs for these events, so that will be helpful as well. I would hope we will see that in this first event so that everyone can experience the EDM and get a better idea of whether they're worth the price.
I have gotten one DADA book for each adversary when I complete the full chain. I also looked at just a few of the foundables on the registry and noticed that they seem to reach provide multiple DADA books, even before prestiging. As a newer player who only recently maxed out my first profession and had started working on a second before getting the news about Adversaries & associated skill tree coming up, I know that spell books will be the biggest hindrance for completing the new skill tree since they don't seem to be providing any new ways to get those.
@Klc5048 so from what I can tell with the few Adversaries I've fought (I didn't have much time to play today) the fragments you get are not actually the guards. For instance, I got a "basilisk skin" fragment from an acromantula and "white dragon scale" fragment from a mummy guard.
I gave up looking eventually last night but found a couple of wild spawns this morning, no sign of glitches with either; and good fun!
First, I appreciate all the work that was put in into this feature. New registry pages, new items, new enemies, new skills to learn. It's a huge amount of work. Well done on that.
On the other hand, I don't like it. It turns the game more to a stay-in-your-couch app. The new foes are impossible to with with during walking. And it is not safe to stay in one random place for 4-10 minutes. (Not to mention the winter cold.) But fine, the intention was to stay at home and play from home (which I never understood, because at home I'd like to play on my **** screen and something less repetitive). In this case: where are the ingredients. Unicorn hair are not dropping from portkeys anymore, and even though, the payers should walk to open those, but the intention right now is not to walk. Also ginger: it got extremely rare recently and I haven't seen ginger seeds in the last 6 (six!) months.
Bottom line. The new feature looks great (even I don't like it), but the supporting parts of the game were not properly designed.
And finally, seeing all this effort that was put into the last feature, how long should we wait for the simplest and one of the oldest request, we made: at midnight please auto-collect the rewards from the task list. There are so many distractions within the game and outside the world that every now and then we forget to collect the rewards (especially when a brilliant event is going on, that always hides the daily tasks). It is a simple change and would make thousands happy.
Sorry for double posting. I can't edit my previous comment after 1 hour.
Another thing I noticed. I have 15% DODGE versus these foes. From about 200 attacks so far I dodged 0 (none, nada, null, zero). I'm sure it's the infamously broken Niantic random (not so random) number generator which favors certain players all the time and lets down other players all the time (overall I'm sure it looks like it has normal distribution, but individually it is not). Can you please fix is in all the games? It's really annoying.