Event went pretty smooth for me; ok, I got kicked out of 2 chains, but overall no complaints from my side (well, other than that the encounters are pretty boring to play).
My wife is kind of annoyed about the back-to-back events and decided to ignore all tasks (like what she did with the 12 days of christmas event (even though apparently she did happened to do the two masterful in a row...)).
@SwampRatUK has a very good idea about getting the fragments but I seem to need to use a potion to take care of the second guard guarding the horntail.
I apologise to my teammates about my network difficulty during the Forest Chamber V challenge after midnight. After I defeated my second foe, I was notified of a network problem before HPWU logged me out and logged me in right after. Fortunately it brought me back into the challenge, and I was able to defeat 2 more foes. I prefer to help defeat more foes but I am very glad that we were able to complete the challenge (especially since I got my first Wit-Sharpening gift.)
I don't know if it is a bug that causes me to be logged out of HPWU and right back again. My friends assures me that they have the best (strongest/fastest) WiFi available since there are 5 people using it for work. And I am the only one using it past midnight during the work week. After I experienced the same thing earlier (plus not letting me fight after the first 2 foes in Forest Chamber IV), I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it, and downloaded the assets. It works well in Ruins and Tower Chambers so I don't know why this happened to me twice. (I got the second Wit-Sharpening gift in Ruins Chamber II.)
I found the Horntail Dragon Dark Marks by walking to a neighborhood where there are a lot of traces on the map. I stopped and fought my first Horntail Dragon; walked a little and found another DM; and so on for a couple more times. I probably got lucky because maybe they have bigger houses in the neighborhood or maybe because there are a lot more players in that area? I went by the inns, too, but didn't find any DM during the time I was stacking up on spell energy.
I have officially finished my first Adversaries Event. There were a lot of walking and Fortress challenges but it was worth it. Thank you very much for the increased amount of ginger roots on the map and for such an awesome event. *\0/* I had a great time, and will continue to hunt for the DMs every spare moment that I get until the event is over.
I quit attempting this short event as it capturing the horntails is too costly for a maxed out level40 prof:
3 Wit sharpening
4 health
3 strong
1 potent
11 potions in total to finish one challenge with many criticals cast. They need to "soften" the dragons a little as I have no issues with the others - e.g. too many attacks and too small window to complete the cast sometimes based on movement.
I really don't know why I keep bothering to write this type of reviews, @hpwulola , the game has been extremeley unstable, an now with this adversary event new bugs have risen... who would have known...?
I have fought Malfoy, Lockheart, Narcissa and the Hungarian Horntail and ALL OF THEM have kicked me out during the combat, before being defeated.
With or withoud an EDM, they do it. Usually it happens with te foes that are in the chain before the Feared Adversary, and with a low stamina before being complete killed. (I have a video of this happening, if possible, I'll try to share it here)
PLUS
Another issue, I had killed the Horntail, I was very low on Stamina, the screen froze, and the Dragon came back to life and hit me 2 times, which made me lose the battle.
Honestly, try to work on the fixes that are just accumulating and not getting solutions, the game is on a very unstable edge, one of this days is gonna take me out of the fortresses in the middle of a battle....oh wait...that is already happening.
I’ve got 21h left to go and only one task still not finished - the wit-task (of course).
After more than 50 fortresses (probably even more) I’ve got ONE gift.
And yes, I constantly sent, and now have to delete, runestones to be sure to have space for the wit-gift .... Not sure I will be able to finish but I will at least try.
26+ hours into this event and I've managed to accomplish a grand total of 2 adversary chains to completion yet attempted upwards of 20. Somehow the servers seem even worse today in that for several hours I wasn't even able to complete normal traces. I'd either get loading errors and thrown back to the map or I'd get a cast in or two and then ejected. I assumed that maybe once traces seemed to semi reliably complete that maybe I'd be able to do an adversary again but nope. The worst is the fact that if you make any progress into an adversary like a single hit and then get booted it's gone. At least when one fails to load and ejects me before the foe is loaded I can potentially try again in a few moments. I'm sorry but this honestly seems to be the most broken event thus far somehow topping out the fiasco with the wit-sharpening gift drops from the christmas event.
The only bright side of this was that I was able to get an edible refunded by the support function when all 3 adversaries it manifest ejected me. That was attempted during the first few hours of the event in my region but I've been afraid to use another simply because the AWFUL success rate.
edited January 2021#10120 January, 2021, 09:49 pm.
I had to change my strategy with this event due to it being shorten 24hrs, and the number of potions I am using.
Because the Horntail takes so many potions to defeat, I have decided that once I have enough fragments for the current page, I only battle the first two adversaries in the chain to farm the other fragments I need to prestige the page, then flee after defeating those two.
Also holding onto some of my potions and starting to brew more for the next months Adversary event.
My experience with game stability and game play seem significantly different than some here are reporting and while I completely believe that they are having these issues, there is clearly something specific to their situation either regionally or the platform they are gaming from.
I really and no issues with the way the event ran. I was able to readily obtain wit gifts both from KB Fortress and from a greenhouse. I have not been kicked out of any Adversary chains, but I do disable wifi any time I am mobile. I've had problems with traces before I started doing that. Maybe that could help someone.
I was using a greenhouse charm when I received the wit gift from the greenhouse. I was in Dark V with 5 wizards when I received wit gifts, but also received one in a lower chamber.
My biggest issue is finding enough snowdrop. I have over 50 Unicorn hairs as I open several portkeys a day and always run out of snowdrop so I can't really use them all.
I will adopt the strategy if fleeing after guards to prestige pages next outing. I don't seem to need potions to defeat most of the guards. It's really just the dragons.
After defeating Horntail chain, absolutely ZERO page fragments!!!! I'm not wasting all my resources if that's how this event is going to go....no, thank you....
Thanks for all the feedback! The team is actively investigating what is causing these Adversary issues - it seems like a mix of connectivity issues and bugs with specific encounters. We hope to find a fix to mitigate these issues soon.
We improved tuning for Wit-Sharpening gifts in this event. Your chance of receiving one will increase in higher chambers; I went between Tower 5 - Forrest 2 and was able to complete!
Fortunately was able to finally get 2/2 wit sharpening and finish the event. I actually got both in ruins chambers but had played in a variety of chambers.
Tons of Adversary encounters are glitching and booting me, rather than let me finish the battle. Just lost a dragon who only had 100 health left. Considering how many potions I still need to complete these encounters, I'm wasting a lot that way.
Done with everything except 15 page fragments....I have ZERO!!! I'm done.... Such a waste of resources! Only seen one horntail and it didn't give me any fragments when I defeated the entire chain!!! I'm not wasting another minute on this event.... Over it!!!!
edited January 2021#10821 January, 2021, 05:18 am.
I managed to collect the 2 wit sharpening gifts, they showed up as rewards & my potions increased each time however the assignment didn’t acknowledge them. I’ve now completed everything.... except that task.
"as an auror with all feared adver nodes in (x75 dadas x2 nodes) I need 1 (maxed from sos both) potent and 1 wit and 0-1 healing potions and usually I'm left w 2-3 potent charges on the Hungarian (dragon). Sounds like youre either not maxed on feared nodes and/or not an auror. a magi needs less potions and more SE and a prof needs more extims than an auror but less healings and abt same SE as magi"
The Adversaries feature announcement said the top Adversaries would be balanced for all classes. That's not the player perception.
edited January 2021#11021 January, 2021, 07:33 am.
it's balanced in as much that all 3 classes can defeat every dif. adver. if player is maxed on 1st profession plan. Theyre not balanced in that a magiz if adver feared nodes are done can do most advers. w/o a single potion (extim/wit/healing) if they dont mind spending 30-40 SE per adver archfoe, and if they need a potion it'll most likely be a single healing. An auror with full feared nodes can do draco and fenrir chains entirely potionless, but in all others they'll need more healings and at least 1 potent/strong + 1 wit, healings will range between 1 -6 per chain. A prof will full feared nodes will need fewer healing potions than an auror but many more extims, 2-3 more extims + wits per chain. Their only real advantage so far (idk what/how Lethal advers will be like) is that Narcissa doesn't dodge them as much as magiz/aurors.
Beyond that magiz and auror are full power in advers. magiz has the '5 focus' for beast mode and def. vs spiders in spider foes and aragog (more defense). Auror has 1st strike DWD, 85% crit chances (far more damage done overall) more damage and def. when foes drop below 50% stamina and extra power vs 'dark forces' (death eaters and dark wizards in forts) that applies to almost all if not all advers. even if therye not a death eater (malfoys/peter), since when are dragons or fenrir (full moon warewolf etc) dark forces as how its meant in forts?
Professors arent full power. if it wasnt for the x2 sos tree nodes giving the 2 enchantments theyd have 79 instead of 96 damage and less defense, since impairments cant be applied to adver chains (even if they could theyd need aurors so that each foe can be trippled hexed) they dont get full power (148 i think?) and full defense.
Advers are survivable and defeatable by all 3 classes, beyond that theyre unbalanced to **** and back. And that its the same adversarial tree copy-pasted x3 times speaks volumes to the devs' lazyness to actually balance and give each profession what it'd required. (power to profs, def/stamina to aurors etc)
And I don't think the "auror is higher risk but high rewards, magiz/prof is less risk less rewards" sure auror does more damage and will spend less of some resources while the other 2 spend more of them, but it's not like auror has 50%-50% chances of failing but if succeeded/won will be rewards 5 dada while prof/magi are rewarded 1-2 per chain. it's 1 dada at archfoe vic with some chances of 1 per guardian plus whatever wit/strong potions, gold and some field guides.
@SharonPain Unfortunately you seem to have misunderstood the task.
The event task requires you to find two wit sharpening potion gifts that you can send to friends. You may find them in greenhouses or get them as a reward in Wizarding Challenges.
wit sharpening gift from greenhouses not credited. You need to do better. I even went a fair distance as there are no greenhouses near me. Very disappointing.
My high spell energy capacity is still not enough as a professor with these adversary events in my area. It points to a huge imbalance that has existed forever with oddities but is exacerbated with each new adversary event. I won't state numbers but with the same potion usage, other professions use significantly less spell energy and time against adversaries (and oddities) and while there's more risk of fainting for aurors, they can easily compensate by doing more dark mark encounters with the extra time and energy.
There are seemingly two easy changes that could help us immensely:
Give us 83 base power instead of 79 so we get 100 with the SOS lessons that unlock +2 enhancements (fixes vampires/erklings with 4 health left and 3 headed dog with 1 health left after 1 critical + 1 normal hit and helps a little against these adversary foes with defense)
Change the dodge % for adversary foes (OR only lethals if changing existing ones is problematic) so the professor accuracy advantage can be leveraged to mitigate dodges with lessons. Currently, only Narcissa seems to be cause frequent dodges to other professions but she doesn't do enough damage to be very dangerous and the lost time and energy still doesn't equal what a professor spends. Accuracy is an attribute that's underutilized: dodges never happen with oddities and fortress foes are easily mitigated by a 1 focus confusion spell. If the lesson plans for lethal adversaries give enough accuracy for all professions to avoid dodges from lethal foes, what's the point of professions having different accuracy stats? Hopefully it's not too late to make dodging a problem requiring some strategy with potion usage.
I think those two changes, if done with testing of maxed professions could greatly improve balance.
My experience as Auror with 3 precision and 1 dodge is that I can finish the first and second guard with zero potion use, except for maybe the Sphinx. That is dicey. I really only need one Potent and maybe two Healing for dragons, unless I manage to miss a few attacks because they are so elusive. Then I will need additional healing potions.
I am also max Prof but haven't done any L2 lessons. I need more Ex of course but dragons still require at least one Healing potion. Since CC and damage are lower for Prof anyway, I still feel as though there is an advantage for Auror. I am going through my Wormwood pretty fast now as I usually only play Prof for Wizarding Challenges abd also never use Healing.
This event was incredibly frustrating and disappointing. It really SHOULDN'T have been.
First and foremost: The "Find 2 specific type of gift" task needs to GO AWAY, or have that type guaranteed. I got ONE. Given the extra difficulty level for professors (and high potion requirements) to defeat Adversaries, I decided to wait to use my Dark Edible until after I found the second wit sharpening gift. At least this time I didn't blow that as well. I haven't been able to finish and get rewards for any of the Adversaries events so far, and its been purely due to **** luck with RNG on this quest line.
Yes, I did battles in the Fortress. I couldn't have finished the other quest items if I hadn't.
Other problems:
2. I was frequently thrown out of battles with adversaries, AFTER expending some energy and potions on them. They were not still on the map to return to them.
3. The threat circle vanished WELL before closing, especially on the 3rd Adversary, and dragons in particular.
4. Professors are supposed to have an advantage vs dragons, as they are Curiosities. Instead it seems like I am in fact penalized on damage.
5. You claim this was optimized for at home play due to the pandemic. Stop assuming that people have access to greenhouses and other POI from home. Many of us don't.
6. My last issue is a smaller one, but after the other problems still felt like a bit of mockery. With less than a minute on the countdown, I gave up on picking up the second wit gift from Fortress, but finally had another adversary spawn. Well, that's something at least... except that it loaded up as a ****** Hogwarts student instead.
P.S. Why did this end a day earlier than you told Orange Wizard it would?
@KisekiRin to answer your last question, the event was shortened by a day because they realized that the original time frame would overlap with the first few hours of community day in some time zones. In the past players have noted that having overlapping events messes up the spawns for at least one of them.
Yesterday I posted that I was going to change my strategy for this event and stop wasting my positions and only go after the first and second adversaries in a chain and not worry about the Horntail till after I prestige to the next page. I am so glad I did that as I was able to get to the Gold level on the Horntail, and use the potions on non-Horntail Adversaries that spawned.
I wish the event would of lasted the original 72hrs, would of meant more farming for DADA books (Ended up with 484 for this event), plus maybe other players could of gotten the Wit-Sharpening potions that seems to be an issue for a lot of players still.
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Event went pretty smooth for me; ok, I got kicked out of 2 chains, but overall no complaints from my side (well, other than that the encounters are pretty boring to play).
My wife is kind of annoyed about the back-to-back events and decided to ignore all tasks (like what she did with the 12 days of christmas event (even though apparently she did happened to do the two masterful in a row...)).
Half day into the event, I have all tasks finished EXCEPT the one with wit sharpening potions gifts - zero progress here.
I am doing fortresses (A LOT) .
It seems that I am not allowed to finish yet another event. I am happy for those players who have been given non-zero drop rate for the damned gifts.
@SwampRatUK has a very good idea about getting the fragments but I seem to need to use a potion to take care of the second guard guarding the horntail.
I apologise to my teammates about my network difficulty during the Forest Chamber V challenge after midnight. After I defeated my second foe, I was notified of a network problem before HPWU logged me out and logged me in right after. Fortunately it brought me back into the challenge, and I was able to defeat 2 more foes. I prefer to help defeat more foes but I am very glad that we were able to complete the challenge (especially since I got my first Wit-Sharpening gift.)
I don't know if it is a bug that causes me to be logged out of HPWU and right back again. My friends assures me that they have the best (strongest/fastest) WiFi available since there are 5 people using it for work. And I am the only one using it past midnight during the work week. After I experienced the same thing earlier (plus not letting me fight after the first 2 foes in Forest Chamber IV), I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it, and downloaded the assets. It works well in Ruins and Tower Chambers so I don't know why this happened to me twice. (I got the second Wit-Sharpening gift in Ruins Chamber II.)
I found the Horntail Dragon Dark Marks by walking to a neighborhood where there are a lot of traces on the map. I stopped and fought my first Horntail Dragon; walked a little and found another DM; and so on for a couple more times. I probably got lucky because maybe they have bigger houses in the neighborhood or maybe because there are a lot more players in that area? I went by the inns, too, but didn't find any DM during the time I was stacking up on spell energy.
I have officially finished my first Adversaries Event. There were a lot of walking and Fortress challenges but it was worth it. Thank you very much for the increased amount of ginger roots on the map and for such an awesome event. *\0/* I had a great time, and will continue to hunt for the DMs every spare moment that I get until the event is over.
I quit attempting this short event as it capturing the horntails is too costly for a maxed out level40 prof:
3 Wit sharpening
4 health
3 strong
1 potent
11 potions in total to finish one challenge with many criticals cast. They need to "soften" the dragons a little as I have no issues with the others - e.g. too many attacks and too small window to complete the cast sometimes based on movement.
I really don't know why I keep bothering to write this type of reviews, @hpwulola , the game has been extremeley unstable, an now with this adversary event new bugs have risen... who would have known...?
I have fought Malfoy, Lockheart, Narcissa and the Hungarian Horntail and ALL OF THEM have kicked me out during the combat, before being defeated.
With or withoud an EDM, they do it. Usually it happens with te foes that are in the chain before the Feared Adversary, and with a low stamina before being complete killed. (I have a video of this happening, if possible, I'll try to share it here)
PLUS
Another issue, I had killed the Horntail, I was very low on Stamina, the screen froze, and the Dragon came back to life and hit me 2 times, which made me lose the battle.
Honestly, try to work on the fixes that are just accumulating and not getting solutions, the game is on a very unstable edge, one of this days is gonna take me out of the fortresses in the middle of a battle....oh wait...that is already happening.
@C4tmonster Or they should make easier the growth in the adversaries profession tree.
I’ve got 21h left to go and only one task still not finished - the wit-task (of course).
After more than 50 fortresses (probably even more) I’ve got ONE gift.
And yes, I constantly sent, and now have to delete, runestones to be sure to have space for the wit-gift .... Not sure I will be able to finish but I will at least try.
Apart from this it’s fun play!
So back to the fortress (Knight bus)!
26+ hours into this event and I've managed to accomplish a grand total of 2 adversary chains to completion yet attempted upwards of 20. Somehow the servers seem even worse today in that for several hours I wasn't even able to complete normal traces. I'd either get loading errors and thrown back to the map or I'd get a cast in or two and then ejected. I assumed that maybe once traces seemed to semi reliably complete that maybe I'd be able to do an adversary again but nope. The worst is the fact that if you make any progress into an adversary like a single hit and then get booted it's gone. At least when one fails to load and ejects me before the foe is loaded I can potentially try again in a few moments. I'm sorry but this honestly seems to be the most broken event thus far somehow topping out the fiasco with the wit-sharpening gift drops from the christmas event.
The only bright side of this was that I was able to get an edible refunded by the support function when all 3 adversaries it manifest ejected me. That was attempted during the first few hours of the event in my region but I've been afraid to use another simply because the AWFUL success rate.
Stuck on gifts again, 1/2. I have space open in gifts, tried a variety of levels and runestones and groups/solo. Ready to give up.
I had to change my strategy with this event due to it being shorten 24hrs, and the number of potions I am using.
Because the Horntail takes so many potions to defeat, I have decided that once I have enough fragments for the current page, I only battle the first two adversaries in the chain to farm the other fragments I need to prestige the page, then flee after defeating those two.
Also holding onto some of my potions and starting to brew more for the next months Adversary event.
My experience with game stability and game play seem significantly different than some here are reporting and while I completely believe that they are having these issues, there is clearly something specific to their situation either regionally or the platform they are gaming from.
I really and no issues with the way the event ran. I was able to readily obtain wit gifts both from KB Fortress and from a greenhouse. I have not been kicked out of any Adversary chains, but I do disable wifi any time I am mobile. I've had problems with traces before I started doing that. Maybe that could help someone.
I was using a greenhouse charm when I received the wit gift from the greenhouse. I was in Dark V with 5 wizards when I received wit gifts, but also received one in a lower chamber.
My biggest issue is finding enough snowdrop. I have over 50 Unicorn hairs as I open several portkeys a day and always run out of snowdrop so I can't really use them all.
I will adopt the strategy if fleeing after guards to prestige pages next outing. I don't seem to need potions to defeat most of the guards. It's really just the dragons.
After defeating Horntail chain, absolutely ZERO page fragments!!!! I'm not wasting all my resources if that's how this event is going to go....no, thank you....
Thanks for all the feedback! The team is actively investigating what is causing these Adversary issues - it seems like a mix of connectivity issues and bugs with specific encounters. We hope to find a fix to mitigate these issues soon.
We improved tuning for Wit-Sharpening gifts in this event. Your chance of receiving one will increase in higher chambers; I went between Tower 5 - Forrest 2 and was able to complete!
Fortunately was able to finally get 2/2 wit sharpening and finish the event. I actually got both in ruins chambers but had played in a variety of chambers.
Tons of Adversary encounters are glitching and booting me, rather than let me finish the battle. Just lost a dragon who only had 100 health left. Considering how many potions I still need to complete these encounters, I'm wasting a lot that way.
Done with everything except 15 page fragments....I have ZERO!!! I'm done.... Such a waste of resources! Only seen one horntail and it didn't give me any fragments when I defeated the entire chain!!! I'm not wasting another minute on this event.... Over it!!!!
I managed to collect the 2 wit sharpening gifts, they showed up as rewards & my potions increased each time however the assignment didn’t acknowledge them. I’ve now completed everything.... except that task.
So. Much. Rage.
@Drakonite said:
"as an auror with all feared adver nodes in (x75 dadas x2 nodes) I need 1 (maxed from sos both) potent and 1 wit and 0-1 healing potions and usually I'm left w 2-3 potent charges on the Hungarian (dragon). Sounds like youre either not maxed on feared nodes and/or not an auror. a magi needs less potions and more SE and a prof needs more extims than an auror but less healings and abt same SE as magi"
The Adversaries feature announcement said the top Adversaries would be balanced for all classes. That's not the player perception.
@hpwulola said:
"We improved tuning for Wit-Sharpening gifts in this event. Your chance of receiving one will increase in higher chambers; "
That's great news; can you tell me where it was officially announced so I can pass it along to my local chats?
it's balanced in as much that all 3 classes can defeat every dif. adver. if player is maxed on 1st profession plan. Theyre not balanced in that a magiz if adver feared nodes are done can do most advers. w/o a single potion (extim/wit/healing) if they dont mind spending 30-40 SE per adver archfoe, and if they need a potion it'll most likely be a single healing. An auror with full feared nodes can do draco and fenrir chains entirely potionless, but in all others they'll need more healings and at least 1 potent/strong + 1 wit, healings will range between 1 -6 per chain. A prof will full feared nodes will need fewer healing potions than an auror but many more extims, 2-3 more extims + wits per chain. Their only real advantage so far (idk what/how Lethal advers will be like) is that Narcissa doesn't dodge them as much as magiz/aurors.
Beyond that magiz and auror are full power in advers. magiz has the '5 focus' for beast mode and def. vs spiders in spider foes and aragog (more defense). Auror has 1st strike DWD, 85% crit chances (far more damage done overall) more damage and def. when foes drop below 50% stamina and extra power vs 'dark forces' (death eaters and dark wizards in forts) that applies to almost all if not all advers. even if therye not a death eater (malfoys/peter), since when are dragons or fenrir (full moon warewolf etc) dark forces as how its meant in forts?
Professors arent full power. if it wasnt for the x2 sos tree nodes giving the 2 enchantments theyd have 79 instead of 96 damage and less defense, since impairments cant be applied to adver chains (even if they could theyd need aurors so that each foe can be trippled hexed) they dont get full power (148 i think?) and full defense.
Advers are survivable and defeatable by all 3 classes, beyond that theyre unbalanced to **** and back. And that its the same adversarial tree copy-pasted x3 times speaks volumes to the devs' lazyness to actually balance and give each profession what it'd required. (power to profs, def/stamina to aurors etc)
And I don't think the "auror is higher risk but high rewards, magiz/prof is less risk less rewards" sure auror does more damage and will spend less of some resources while the other 2 spend more of them, but it's not like auror has 50%-50% chances of failing but if succeeded/won will be rewards 5 dada while prof/magi are rewarded 1-2 per chain. it's 1 dada at archfoe vic with some chances of 1 per guardian plus whatever wit/strong potions, gold and some field guides.
@SharonPain Unfortunately you seem to have misunderstood the task.
The event task requires you to find two wit sharpening potion gifts that you can send to friends. You may find them in greenhouses or get them as a reward in Wizarding Challenges.
I'm happy for event adveseries to next silver frame *anyway this is bronze frame.*
I need supply potion for next adveseries ferbuary too.
@SharonPain if you want great chance get wit sharpein gift go to dark chamber V i got twice in 2 challenges.
wit sharpening gift from greenhouses not credited. You need to do better. I even went a fair distance as there are no greenhouses near me. Very disappointing.
My high spell energy capacity is still not enough as a professor with these adversary events in my area. It points to a huge imbalance that has existed forever with oddities but is exacerbated with each new adversary event. I won't state numbers but with the same potion usage, other professions use significantly less spell energy and time against adversaries (and oddities) and while there's more risk of fainting for aurors, they can easily compensate by doing more dark mark encounters with the extra time and energy.
There are seemingly two easy changes that could help us immensely:
I think those two changes, if done with testing of maxed professions could greatly improve balance.
My experience as Auror with 3 precision and 1 dodge is that I can finish the first and second guard with zero potion use, except for maybe the Sphinx. That is dicey. I really only need one Potent and maybe two Healing for dragons, unless I manage to miss a few attacks because they are so elusive. Then I will need additional healing potions.
I am also max Prof but haven't done any L2 lessons. I need more Ex of course but dragons still require at least one Healing potion. Since CC and damage are lower for Prof anyway, I still feel as though there is an advantage for Auror. I am going through my Wormwood pretty fast now as I usually only play Prof for Wizarding Challenges abd also never use Healing.
Nice color for two days event
This event was incredibly frustrating and disappointing. It really SHOULDN'T have been.
First and foremost: The "Find 2 specific type of gift" task needs to GO AWAY, or have that type guaranteed. I got ONE. Given the extra difficulty level for professors (and high potion requirements) to defeat Adversaries, I decided to wait to use my Dark Edible until after I found the second wit sharpening gift. At least this time I didn't blow that as well. I haven't been able to finish and get rewards for any of the Adversaries events so far, and its been purely due to **** luck with RNG on this quest line.
Yes, I did battles in the Fortress. I couldn't have finished the other quest items if I hadn't.
Other problems:
2. I was frequently thrown out of battles with adversaries, AFTER expending some energy and potions on them. They were not still on the map to return to them.
3. The threat circle vanished WELL before closing, especially on the 3rd Adversary, and dragons in particular.
4. Professors are supposed to have an advantage vs dragons, as they are Curiosities. Instead it seems like I am in fact penalized on damage.
5. You claim this was optimized for at home play due to the pandemic. Stop assuming that people have access to greenhouses and other POI from home. Many of us don't.
6. My last issue is a smaller one, but after the other problems still felt like a bit of mockery. With less than a minute on the countdown, I gave up on picking up the second wit gift from Fortress, but finally had another adversary spawn. Well, that's something at least... except that it loaded up as a ****** Hogwarts student instead.
P.S. Why did this end a day earlier than you told Orange Wizard it would?
@KisekiRin to answer your last question, the event was shortened by a day because they realized that the original time frame would overlap with the first few hours of community day in some time zones. In the past players have noted that having overlapping events messes up the spawns for at least one of them.
When did the event change from ending the 22nd to the 21st? (The email on 1/14 stated different from here)
@FixMyGreenStars wow, so lucky to have abundant of adversary. LoL
I still at basic with average about 15 adversary encounter/day.
Well its much much more adversary than usual once/day adversary to me.
Yesterday I posted that I was going to change my strategy for this event and stop wasting my positions and only go after the first and second adversaries in a chain and not worry about the Horntail till after I prestige to the next page. I am so glad I did that as I was able to get to the Gold level on the Horntail, and use the potions on non-Horntail Adversaries that spawned.
I wish the event would of lasted the original 72hrs, would of meant more farming for DADA books (Ended up with 484 for this event), plus maybe other players could of gotten the Wit-Sharpening potions that seems to be an issue for a lot of players still.