This evening I found these 2 right outside my neighborhood in the parking lot of a small church - it always has a decent amount of traces & ingredients but this was my first time seeing a dark mark here after checking there at least a couple times a day since it went live. The nearest inn or greenhouse is about the inn on the screen (up & right from the dark marks) so it definitely seems possible to find them in other places, I would imagine just less often like with traces.
Maxed auror here. Encountered Hungarian Horntail final adversary in the wild. It attacked so many times in a row I wasn't able to use a healing potion and lost. Not fun at all and not worth paying for.
Since the release I got 16 adversaries. Each encounter gives 4 gragments from the page of the BOSS (1 boss fragment and 3 randome other from the same page) I did not get any EDM as reward :'(
7 of the 16 were random encounters, I even had two spawn at the same time once (I rushed the first one without moving a single feet in fear that the second would disapear)
3 emd gave me 3 encounters each.
PS : dont invest in dodge invest in presision you will save a lot more energy and reach the bonus for Lethal adversaries sooner.
I've had 5 or 7 adversaries so far. None using an EDM. Got kicked out of one for no reason. Passed all the rest. I find it funny that as an oddity I can beat pixies in one shot but as an adversary it takes a lot.
Do the different professions give you advantages over different adversaries like in forts?
i got kick out too when found petter pettigrew (?) the guards are okay, can fight it tru but got network error when tapping fight on last adversary.
from the adversary rewards are the same with fortress challenges is it safe to assume that they follow the fortress foes ( i mean there are dark forces adversaries for auror, beast adversaries for magiz and curiosities advsersaries for professor?)
@HypnoticMichael I've seen 3 wild ones. Q per day so far. Fenrir, draco, & basilisk . 1st two were no problem but game wouldn't let me use healing potions so got beaten by the basilisk
@Raidengl according to this guide I read, you have proficiencies over certain types of guards in feared adversary chains but all professions are considered equal against the final adversary. Which to me seems like professors have a big advantage there since their max (from the original skill tree) is a lot higher.
Wit-sharpening gifts? Really? So in order to complete this I have to drive 10 miles to town during a pandemic surge to find greenhouses to get these things? Because, they ARE NOT in any wizard challenges, so far.
@KitCaitsidhe They are dropping in wizarding challenges; I think you may have just had an unlucky streak. Maybe try towers and forest chambers in teams. Since it’s towers and forest it should be easier to do them back to back and a balanced team isn’t a priority (although it’s definitely nice).
I hope that helps and you get the three wit-sharpening potion gifts soon. Good luck 😊
Use 1 edible dark mark? I've found dark marks on the map and it doesn't count for this. What's the difference? And where can I find one? Besides paying for it?
I am LOVING the new Adversary Challenges!! @Niantic official JP However, given the cost of current dark marks, 3-4 spawns per 30 min IS a bit disappointing. Now, I don’t know as I have not completed the combat training academics, I’m hoping thats there’s a lesson plan to increase the spawn rate in future training.
edited December 2020#10919 December, 2020, 12:30 am.
I have collected a ton of wit sharpening potions, but they dont show up in my special assignment totals. Have completed everything, except those. Anyone else have this problem?
I finished all of the tasks except for the wit sharpening gifts. Not a single drop. I've visited over 50 inns and greenhouses, and battled in the fortress over 10 times.
I know there's more time left, but please let us know what is supposed to be going on.
edited December 2020#11319 December, 2020, 02:59 am.
@VoiceMaster they are given in greenhouses and also as rewards from challenges, though it’s random drops in the fortress. If you get them from fortress challenges, they will be given as an additional gift to the guaranteed runestone gift you already get (as long as your gift vault isn’t full and you haven’t reached the max number of gifts you can collect in a day).
I’m currently not sure if there are any other ways of obtaining them; I don’t think so, but like I said, I’m not sure.
1) I encountered quite a few dark marks in the wild this afternoon. I was able to easily complete the event in about two hours.
2) Completing just the first lesson in the second lesson plan helps more than I expected. I used Auror and can knock out the first guard with one cast for most Adversaries and the most of the time the second guard isn't too difficult either. The final Adversary though ... Strong or Potent Ex is the only way to go. Not enough Snowdrop for all the Ex I need.
3) I received Wit gifts from KB Fortress, Dark V.
4) I have now accumulated 38 DADA books. May not be as difficult to advance lesson plan two as it initially seemed.
5) Can't figure out how fragments are rewarded. I have beat several of the same guards, but have not gathered that many fragments for them.
6) I always my WiFi off when trekking across the map. I have not had connection lost errors when completing Adversary challenges as some have reported.
7) You don't need to stand still to complete the Adversary chain.
8) I now have 2 edible dark marks I didn't use. I have not collected free gift yet, which has another one. I didn't use any gold to get them.
Hope this helps. Enjoying the Adversary update for sure!!
A few observations on the Adversaries from my side:
1) Combined with what it takes to complete an Adversary, I have my doubts on the usability of the 30min for an EDM. Because:
2) An Adversaries battle costs me SO much energy and all kinds of potions (multiple Exstimulos of all strengths, Wit Sharpening for the finale, multiple health recovery potions) just for one(!) single battle series, that maybe I can do a 2nd one but after that my resources are drained way too much to take yet another Adversary. While the time left for the EDM is not even halved and more are still spawned...!
3) Tmho, the adversaries are too hard to finish, especially in the finale. Ok, they are a specialty that should cost more and you can do trainings, but with my health and strength at max (I'm a max level Professor) and being a Level42 (no not the pop group 😉) I consider this should be quite enough to not become completely drained in resources that much, even at the beginners level of adversaries training. Mind that these trainings also cost that many books, that it will take long time before you can even do just one.
4) The reward of just 1 for the orange/green book (don't know the English name), I find it very low as these books are pretty hard to get while the Adversaries on the other hand are rather tough.
So far my 2 cents on this nice new game feature! 😃
I just completed my 175th fortress battle. Only 1 Wit-sharpening gift. It's 10 degrees and windy outside. I have given up on finishing the event. Overall, I think it is a good event minus the 1 task.
The only way to get the gifts is from greenhouses or fortresses. Of course I'm using the Hogwarts option from my home. I don't have an indoor greenhouse option.
So far I havn't completed professor lessons as main profession, because green books not exactly hanging on the trees, and what few we received during BEs, I've invested in SOS training. However, I have finished half of Auror profession, no green books invested at all. Upon switching from almost complete Professor to half accomplished Auror, I've noticed that to get through adversaries is slightly easier. What a bummer. I'm at level 43 and still struggling, what a lower level players suppose do is a mystery to me.
I've encountered Ironbelly dragon. I've droped healing potion before I was able to cast my spells, by the time I've set estimulo and wit potions, I was out of energy and had to use a second healing potion! Either allow us to have faster potion drop, or pause adversaries, please. Draco and Grayback are relatively reasonable. Nice to have DMs show up without EDM.
Please let us know how we suppose to obtain wit potion gifts, because so far success rate from fortresses 0%, and how many green houses I've visited I've received only 1.
Two days of wizard challenges up to and including dark chamber 5. With and without teams. NOT ONE WIT-SHARPENING GIFT! Closest greenhouse is 10 miles away. This is garbage.
I've done at least 50 challenges and no gifts. I've been through all chamber types including a few runs at dark 5. What is the drop rate from green houses during the event? Is it a guaranteed drop? If not that stinks.
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same @MacKatch I'm primarily a professor and I got kicked out during a pixie/Gilderoy encounter no less😂
I was out for about an hour and saw 3 dark marks in my neighborhood. None were nearer than a a block and a half from an Inn or Greenhouse.
Don't know if that is representative,but wanted to pass along the intel.
This evening I found these 2 right outside my neighborhood in the parking lot of a small church - it always has a decent amount of traces & ingredients but this was my first time seeing a dark mark here after checking there at least a couple times a day since it went live. The nearest inn or greenhouse is about the inn on the screen (up & right from the dark marks) so it definitely seems possible to find them in other places, I would imagine just less often like with traces.
Maxed auror here. Encountered Hungarian Horntail final adversary in the wild. It attacked so many times in a row I wasn't able to use a healing potion and lost. Not fun at all and not worth paying for.
Since the release I got 16 adversaries. Each encounter gives 4 gragments from the page of the BOSS (1 boss fragment and 3 randome other from the same page) I did not get any EDM as reward :'(
7 of the 16 were random encounters, I even had two spawn at the same time once (I rushed the first one without moving a single feet in fear that the second would disapear)
3 emd gave me 3 encounters each.
PS : dont invest in dodge invest in presision you will save a lot more energy and reach the bonus for Lethal adversaries sooner.
I've had 5 or 7 adversaries so far. None using an EDM. Got kicked out of one for no reason. Passed all the rest. I find it funny that as an oddity I can beat pixies in one shot but as an adversary it takes a lot.
Do the different professions give you advantages over different adversaries like in forts?
@Raidengl if you passed wave 1 or 2, you save the foundable fragment because this is hard find one.
@Nikrul use presision to finished quick because ironbelly defence is a big one too.
i got kick out too when found petter pettigrew (?) the guards are okay, can fight it tru but got network error when tapping fight on last adversary.
from the adversary rewards are the same with fortress challenges is it safe to assume that they follow the fortress foes ( i mean there are dark forces adversaries for auror, beast adversaries for magiz and curiosities advsersaries for professor?)
@HypnoticMichael I've seen 3 wild ones. Q per day so far. Fenrir, draco, & basilisk . 1st two were no problem but game wouldn't let me use healing potions so got beaten by the basilisk
@Raidengl according to this guide I read, you have proficiencies over certain types of guards in feared adversary chains but all professions are considered equal against the final adversary. Which to me seems like professors have a big advantage there since their max (from the original skill tree) is a lot higher.
https://wizardsunitehub.info/news/wizards-unite-adversaries-faq/
Euh, you should have said "professors have a big disadvantage because their max (without strategic spells) is a lot lower"...
Against the final foes, I am dealing 63 damage if non-crit and 132 if crit... Ridiculous !
Wit-sharpening gifts? Really? So in order to complete this I have to drive 10 miles to town during a pandemic surge to find greenhouses to get these things? Because, they ARE NOT in any wizard challenges, so far.
@KitCaitsidhe They are dropping in wizarding challenges; I think you may have just had an unlucky streak. Maybe try towers and forest chambers in teams. Since it’s towers and forest it should be easier to do them back to back and a balanced team isn’t a priority (although it’s definitely nice).
I hope that helps and you get the three wit-sharpening potion gifts soon. Good luck 😊
Use 1 edible dark mark? I've found dark marks on the map and it doesn't count for this. What's the difference? And where can I find one? Besides paying for it?
Would be interested to hear what Niantic expected as encounter rate from the dark marks.
I think 3 in 30 minutes is pretty disappointing, to be honest. That’s about 1 Euro per encounter...
is that really what was intended?
I am LOVING the new Adversary Challenges!! @Niantic official JP However, given the cost of current dark marks, 3-4 spawns per 30 min IS a bit disappointing. Now, I don’t know as I have not completed the combat training academics, I’m hoping thats there’s a lesson plan to increase the spawn rate in future training.
@VoiceMaster The dark marks you find on the map are just that - dark marks.
The edible dark marks are sweets that work like a tonic for trace detection only they bring up adversaries.
You get one if you collect the free event gift and you get another one as reward for one of the event tasks.
I have collected a ton of wit sharpening potions, but they dont show up in my special assignment totals. Have completed everything, except those. Anyone else have this problem?
@Blindowl I read this as finding the gifts to GIVE. I'm assuming they may come as prizes in challenges or at inns? Not certain.
@Lycindelle Thank you. It was confusing.
I finished all of the tasks except for the wit sharpening gifts. Not a single drop. I've visited over 50 inns and greenhouses, and battled in the fortress over 10 times.
I know there's more time left, but please let us know what is supposed to be going on.
maybe gift vault already full?
@VoiceMaster they are given in greenhouses and also as rewards from challenges, though it’s random drops in the fortress. If you get them from fortress challenges, they will be given as an additional gift to the guaranteed runestone gift you already get (as long as your gift vault isn’t full and you haven’t reached the max number of gifts you can collect in a day).
I’m currently not sure if there are any other ways of obtaining them; I don’t think so, but like I said, I’m not sure.
I finished the event. A few thoughts.
1) I encountered quite a few dark marks in the wild this afternoon. I was able to easily complete the event in about two hours.
2) Completing just the first lesson in the second lesson plan helps more than I expected. I used Auror and can knock out the first guard with one cast for most Adversaries and the most of the time the second guard isn't too difficult either. The final Adversary though ... Strong or Potent Ex is the only way to go. Not enough Snowdrop for all the Ex I need.
3) I received Wit gifts from KB Fortress, Dark V.
4) I have now accumulated 38 DADA books. May not be as difficult to advance lesson plan two as it initially seemed.
5) Can't figure out how fragments are rewarded. I have beat several of the same guards, but have not gathered that many fragments for them.
6) I always my WiFi off when trekking across the map. I have not had connection lost errors when completing Adversary challenges as some have reported.
7) You don't need to stand still to complete the Adversary chain.
8) I now have 2 edible dark marks I didn't use. I have not collected free gift yet, which has another one. I didn't use any gold to get them.
Hope this helps. Enjoying the Adversary update for sure!!
What I really need now is RSB.
A few observations on the Adversaries from my side:
1) Combined with what it takes to complete an Adversary, I have my doubts on the usability of the 30min for an EDM. Because:
2) An Adversaries battle costs me SO much energy and all kinds of potions (multiple Exstimulos of all strengths, Wit Sharpening for the finale, multiple health recovery potions) just for one(!) single battle series, that maybe I can do a 2nd one but after that my resources are drained way too much to take yet another Adversary. While the time left for the EDM is not even halved and more are still spawned...!
3) Tmho, the adversaries are too hard to finish, especially in the finale. Ok, they are a specialty that should cost more and you can do trainings, but with my health and strength at max (I'm a max level Professor) and being a Level42 (no not the pop group 😉) I consider this should be quite enough to not become completely drained in resources that much, even at the beginners level of adversaries training. Mind that these trainings also cost that many books, that it will take long time before you can even do just one.
4) The reward of just 1 for the orange/green book (don't know the English name), I find it very low as these books are pretty hard to get while the Adversaries on the other hand are rather tough.
So far my 2 cents on this nice new game feature! 😃
I just completed my 175th fortress battle. Only 1 Wit-sharpening gift. It's 10 degrees and windy outside. I have given up on finishing the event. Overall, I think it is a good event minus the 1 task.
@CappedJugler the event goes on until the 21st, plenty of time to finish it, and you have the knight bus no reason to stand outside to fort.
im loving the event, or rather the 180 dada ive gotten in the 1st day of the event. lol
The only way to get the gifts is from greenhouses or fortresses. Of course I'm using the Hogwarts option from my home. I don't have an indoor greenhouse option.
So far I havn't completed professor lessons as main profession, because green books not exactly hanging on the trees, and what few we received during BEs, I've invested in SOS training. However, I have finished half of Auror profession, no green books invested at all. Upon switching from almost complete Professor to half accomplished Auror, I've noticed that to get through adversaries is slightly easier. What a bummer. I'm at level 43 and still struggling, what a lower level players suppose do is a mystery to me.
I've encountered Ironbelly dragon. I've droped healing potion before I was able to cast my spells, by the time I've set estimulo and wit potions, I was out of energy and had to use a second healing potion! Either allow us to have faster potion drop, or pause adversaries, please. Draco and Grayback are relatively reasonable. Nice to have DMs show up without EDM.
Please let us know how we suppose to obtain wit potion gifts, because so far success rate from fortresses 0%, and how many green houses I've visited I've received only 1.
Two days of wizard challenges up to and including dark chamber 5. With and without teams. NOT ONE WIT-SHARPENING GIFT! Closest greenhouse is 10 miles away. This is garbage.
I've done at least 50 challenges and no gifts. I've been through all chamber types including a few runs at dark 5. What is the drop rate from green houses during the event? Is it a guaranteed drop? If not that stinks.