I must admit, I don't enjoy the balance of the extra tasks this time.
It is definitely nice, that the needed adverseries spawn more. But having 2 in 5 chances to meet the adverseries for the first task was not the best choice, imho. (Or maybe require less than 8 of them.)
But yes, there is still time for me to get them and it is the bonus task, I know. I just feel, that this task is not balanced to the others.
A 2 in 5 chance to meet the needed adverseries would mean 4 encounters out of the 10 needed for the third task. Needing 4 (or 5) mummies or sphinx might have been better/more balanced ?
@Djea: Thanks for the response. You list things that you can gain from playing adversary events. However, my question was more about what you would lose from not playing them. Like, in what way would it be worse not playing it over it not happening at all.
Ok, yes, you would lose the "experience" of reading the "story" in game, rather than reading it later somewhere else. Fair enough,if that is important to you (I got a bemused comment from my wife the other day when she saw me actually reading the texts that she typically justs skips...).
But - unlike BEs - you are not left with an empty space in your registry. Everything you get here, you can always get at your own pace later on. So I do not feel the pressure to play them, which in turn means I'm not that annoyed by back-to-back events. I totally could do without BEs, though.
Ok, so are the adversaries just not dropping EDMs anymore? I must have done 50 this afternoon trying to get a second EDM to finish the main task. It's the only thing I need now as I've completed the rest of the event tasks.
Evento orribile, uno senza spawn.... Un sacco di marchi buttati al vento.... Non ci sono mummie da nessuna parte esce solo Draco Malfoy e Narcissa.... Niente animali... Sono veramente delusa!!! Mi spiace
I'm still in a low spawn area with little chance to gain spell energy, other than that which is dropped on the map. I'm also not walking much when I have cell service. So, I get one portkey opened because I can't launch the game and put a key in a new one unless I have cell service or Wifi.
Even then, I managed to complete the event plus the bonus tasks with plenty of time to spare. It was harder to find a spawn that allowed me to complete the mummy/Sphinx task, but I managed.
I know some people only come here to report problems they see with the game, but I've found it to be very playable and events are achievable.
There is far more to the game than completing registry pages, but if that's what matters to you, then skip them.
Why I play them is the more rewards I get, the more advanced I become and the easier it is to capture traces and Adversaries, which accelerates advancements, which makes it easier to ... you get the drift.
If your point is, don't sweat it and just play, then I'm with you. Adversaries are fun and interesting. They are variable and require a potion and spell energy strategy to manage them effectively without draining both. That adds a different element to the game.
I don't go out to conquer every Adversary chain I encounter, but play them carefully based on my registry needs and event tasks. If I have plenty of SE then I might skip a potion or use a less Potent one. If I'm short on SE, I might skip the Adversary and focus on guards, or just use more Potent potions.
I'm adjusting how I play all the time based on the conditions. That makes it fun and interesting.
You did. 😉 I had already posted my comment, but due to the picture, it had to be approved (by a mod), which can take time - enough time for you to post the same idea. 🙂
I've been playing HPWU since the game first went public here, in June, 2018. With this latest Adversaries Event, I've finally lost all enthusiasm for the game.
I finished the main tasks on the first day. Since then, I've used up all of my gold, EDMs, and most of my Exstimulo potions on the Bonus Tasks. No EDMs have dropped from Adversary Encounters, and I have only found four of the required eight Sphinx or Mummies. This is only because I violated the Covid-19 lockdown in my area twice today in failed attempts to finish the task. I stayed out walking for a total of four hours, and saw lots of everything except the two Dragons I need. Now, I'm home and can't finish. It's the first Event I won't finish since I started playing nearly two years ago. I've had close calls before, but this is ridiculous. If you want us to play, at least spawn what we need to complete all of the tasks. Please help me finish this one impossible task. @HPWUblue @hpwulola
@HPWUTeam thank you very much for a very challenging but enjoyable Adversaries Event. Also, thanks for the EDMs that spawned beast Adversaries, and all the ingredients and spell energy on the map. It made it easier to stay at home while enabling me to complete the special assignments.
This is the second event recently with problematic tasks involving particular spawn rates. The first was the masterful flipendo casts requirement. Now it's the mummy and sphinx. The spawn rates are too low, and you're not even guaranteed to face either with an EDM. I live in the suburbs near a decent park for HPWUing, but I still can't figure out why I struggle why the devs are putting out poorly engineered task (unless its a ridiculous cash grab to have us spend money on resources like EDMs). I'm thankful I'm not a rural player, but give us all a break. Adversary events CHEW through every reserve that we've got, even if we are higher level players with maxed or near-maxed professions. 3 adversary events in a month is ridiculous, especially after Brilliant Event Bonus Tasks that require us to waste Estimulo potions. @HPWUTeam, @hpwulola help us out here!
Spawn rates are a little ridiculous here. I saw mainly dragons during the regular tasks, with a couple basilisks and quite a few non event spawns. On the bonus tasks, 6 aragog in a row! Obviously not going to be able to finish this one.
Did the team turn on the dark witches and wizards Adversary event early? I was able to complete the tasks and the bonus just fine but have not succeeded in my original goal of prestiging the Basilisk and Hungarian Horntail pages. Went out on a walk an hour ago and all I found were Peter Pettigrew and Gilderoy Lockhart!
I stopped doing any bonus task from all the events as they are just a waste of resources and the rewards are pretty low... i'm not going to blow 10 potions for example like in the last BE... Felt a lot better with the game once i stopped chasing the bonus rounds. If people are finding the bonus tasks too much of a grind, then give them up and just focus on the main tasks... 5 DADA books + 3 red spellbooks isnt worth blowing through loads of EDM's and potions etc.
One thing ive noticed, and mentioned above is that no EDM's are dropping, so seeing as during this event you need to use 2 to complete a main task, quite clearly, the intention is to start to get people to buy them.. Which if that is the case, the game really has gone done in my estimations as now suddenly its PTW.. I was actually ok with that task this time around as i've built up a cache of them during previous events and I never used them, but going forward, if the only way of getting them is with gold then that is pretty poor... whatever gold you accumulate during the game you'll be spending on EDM's seeing as we are getting 2+ adversary events per month...
Is there any possibility of assisting a player? Player name: Robsmitch
Shes currently stuck on the last task, out of EDMs and has only 93 gold. Any chance of having this task removed so her efforts can still count before time runs out? The events going to end in a moment and trying to help her.
Mi opinion y al finalizar este evento sin terminar la extra. Desfe ayer solo me faltaban 6 momias o esfinges, use dos marcas y no me salio ninguna. Hoy no me salia ninguna y al final a las 18:00 he usado una marca y entonces me han salido 2, pero viendo que aun me faltaban 4 decidi dejar de gastar marcas. Despues hacia las 19:00 me ha salido otra. En fin a falta de 3 ya vi que estaba muy dificil terminar. Solo comentat que me salian un monton de las que no necesitaba. Espero lo tengan en cuenta para otros eventos no ponerlo tan dificil. Gracias.
Like many people I was unable to finish this event because I was unable to find the right Adversaries. 20 or 25 Feared Beasts would have been a much easier task than having to get lucky enough to find the "right" ones. (I think I hit 20 trying to complete the event.)
4 EDM wasted. Really does not motivate me to spend money on this game.
Luck is fine when the numbers involved are big enough for it to balance out over the long run. Not here.
@Not4u13 : Thanks, but again, this was not what I was going for. I posted my initial question after the early posts when some players complained about the fact that this event started right after the BE ended.
This implies that they would have prefered it if there was no event at all. So, my question was along the lines of what is the difference between
a) this event not happening at all or
b) the player not participating in the event.
And I feel for adversary events (AEs) and community days (CDs) there is no difference (ok, apart from the fact that you'd have to look up externally what happened in terms of "story", as @Djea mentioned, which personally to me is not a big deal). If that is so, what is the reason for complaining about the event happening in the first place?
And this is different to BEs: If a BE would not happen, well, obviously nothing changes. If a BE does happen and I would not participate, I would end up with an empty registry page. In other words, the BE creates a "problem" that I can solve only by playing that specifc event. AEs and CDs help me to solve "problems" that where created unrelated to the event and that I also can solve outside of said events.
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@CheekyNiffler unicorn hairs are best found in portmanteaus, seemingly random, but higher level and event ones usually give more.
I must admit, I don't enjoy the balance of the extra tasks this time.
It is definitely nice, that the needed adverseries spawn more. But having 2 in 5 chances to meet the adverseries for the first task was not the best choice, imho. (Or maybe require less than 8 of them.)
But yes, there is still time for me to get them and it is the bonus task, I know. I just feel, that this task is not balanced to the others.
A 2 in 5 chance to meet the needed adverseries would mean 4 encounters out of the 10 needed for the third task. Needing 4 (or 5) mummies or sphinx might have been better/more balanced ?
@Djea: Thanks for the response. You list things that you can gain from playing adversary events. However, my question was more about what you would lose from not playing them. Like, in what way would it be worse not playing it over it not happening at all.
Ok, yes, you would lose the "experience" of reading the "story" in game, rather than reading it later somewhere else. Fair enough,if that is important to you (I got a bemused comment from my wife the other day when she saw me actually reading the texts that she typically justs skips...).
But - unlike BEs - you are not left with an empty space in your registry. Everything you get here, you can always get at your own pace later on. So I do not feel the pressure to play them, which in turn means I'm not that annoyed by back-to-back events. I totally could do without BEs, though.
Ok, so are the adversaries just not dropping EDMs anymore? I must have done 50 this afternoon trying to get a second EDM to finish the main task. It's the only thing I need now as I've completed the rest of the event tasks.
Nada, zip, diddly, nothing.
So frustrating.
Evento orribile, uno senza spawn.... Un sacco di marchi buttati al vento.... Non ci sono mummie da nessuna parte esce solo Draco Malfoy e Narcissa.... Niente animali... Sono veramente delusa!!! Mi spiace
@Mirrorballman Didn't I just say that? 😉 lol
I'm still in a low spawn area with little chance to gain spell energy, other than that which is dropped on the map. I'm also not walking much when I have cell service. So, I get one portkey opened because I can't launch the game and put a key in a new one unless I have cell service or Wifi.
Even then, I managed to complete the event plus the bonus tasks with plenty of time to spare. It was harder to find a spawn that allowed me to complete the mummy/Sphinx task, but I managed.
I know some people only come here to report problems they see with the game, but I've found it to be very playable and events are achievable.
@HalloMami
There is far more to the game than completing registry pages, but if that's what matters to you, then skip them.
Why I play them is the more rewards I get, the more advanced I become and the easier it is to capture traces and Adversaries, which accelerates advancements, which makes it easier to ... you get the drift.
If your point is, don't sweat it and just play, then I'm with you. Adversaries are fun and interesting. They are variable and require a potion and spell energy strategy to manage them effectively without draining both. That adds a different element to the game.
I don't go out to conquer every Adversary chain I encounter, but play them carefully based on my registry needs and event tasks. If I have plenty of SE then I might skip a potion or use a less Potent one. If I'm short on SE, I might skip the Adversary and focus on guards, or just use more Potent potions.
I'm adjusting how I play all the time based on the conditions. That makes it fun and interesting.
@CeruleanGirl
You did. 😉 I had already posted my comment, but due to the picture, it had to be approved (by a mod), which can take time - enough time for you to post the same idea. 🙂
I've been playing HPWU since the game first went public here, in June, 2018. With this latest Adversaries Event, I've finally lost all enthusiasm for the game.
I finished the main tasks on the first day. Since then, I've used up all of my gold, EDMs, and most of my Exstimulo potions on the Bonus Tasks. No EDMs have dropped from Adversary Encounters, and I have only found four of the required eight Sphinx or Mummies. This is only because I violated the Covid-19 lockdown in my area twice today in failed attempts to finish the task. I stayed out walking for a total of four hours, and saw lots of everything except the two Dragons I need. Now, I'm home and can't finish. It's the first Event I won't finish since I started playing nearly two years ago. I've had close calls before, but this is ridiculous. If you want us to play, at least spawn what we need to complete all of the tasks. Please help me finish this one impossible task. @HPWUblue @hpwulola
@HPWUTeam thank you very much for a very challenging but enjoyable Adversaries Event. Also, thanks for the EDMs that spawned beast Adversaries, and all the ingredients and spell energy on the map. It made it easier to stay at home while enabling me to complete the special assignments.
This is the second event recently with problematic tasks involving particular spawn rates. The first was the masterful flipendo casts requirement. Now it's the mummy and sphinx. The spawn rates are too low, and you're not even guaranteed to face either with an EDM. I live in the suburbs near a decent park for HPWUing, but I still can't figure out why I struggle why the devs are putting out poorly engineered task (unless its a ridiculous cash grab to have us spend money on resources like EDMs). I'm thankful I'm not a rural player, but give us all a break. Adversary events CHEW through every reserve that we've got, even if we are higher level players with maxed or near-maxed professions. 3 adversary events in a month is ridiculous, especially after Brilliant Event Bonus Tasks that require us to waste Estimulo potions. @HPWUTeam, @hpwulola help us out here!
Spawn rates are a little ridiculous here. I saw mainly dragons during the regular tasks, with a couple basilisks and quite a few non event spawns. On the bonus tasks, 6 aragog in a row! Obviously not going to be able to finish this one.
Did the team turn on the dark witches and wizards Adversary event early? I was able to complete the tasks and the bonus just fine but have not succeeded in my original goal of prestiging the Basilisk and Hungarian Horntail pages. Went out on a walk an hour ago and all I found were Peter Pettigrew and Gilderoy Lockhart!
I stopped doing any bonus task from all the events as they are just a waste of resources and the rewards are pretty low... i'm not going to blow 10 potions for example like in the last BE... Felt a lot better with the game once i stopped chasing the bonus rounds. If people are finding the bonus tasks too much of a grind, then give them up and just focus on the main tasks... 5 DADA books + 3 red spellbooks isnt worth blowing through loads of EDM's and potions etc.
One thing ive noticed, and mentioned above is that no EDM's are dropping, so seeing as during this event you need to use 2 to complete a main task, quite clearly, the intention is to start to get people to buy them.. Which if that is the case, the game really has gone done in my estimations as now suddenly its PTW.. I was actually ok with that task this time around as i've built up a cache of them during previous events and I never used them, but going forward, if the only way of getting them is with gold then that is pretty poor... whatever gold you accumulate during the game you'll be spending on EDM's seeing as we are getting 2+ adversary events per month...
C’est fini! The end! Terminado! Adiós!
All finish adversaries with gold green stars.
SOMEONE ELSE ALSO FINISH TOO?
Where’s the Lethals?
@hpwulola
Is there any possibility of assisting a player? Player name: Robsmitch
Shes currently stuck on the last task, out of EDMs and has only 93 gold. Any chance of having this task removed so her efforts can still count before time runs out? The events going to end in a moment and trying to help her.
Mi opinion y al finalizar este evento sin terminar la extra. Desfe ayer solo me faltaban 6 momias o esfinges, use dos marcas y no me salio ninguna. Hoy no me salia ninguna y al final a las 18:00 he usado una marca y entonces me han salido 2, pero viendo que aun me faltaban 4 decidi dejar de gastar marcas. Despues hacia las 19:00 me ha salido otra. En fin a falta de 3 ya vi que estaba muy dificil terminar. Solo comentat que me salian un monton de las que no necesitaba. Espero lo tengan en cuenta para otros eventos no ponerlo tan dificil. Gracias.
Thanks a lot. For destroying this game the same as Ingress and Pokemon Go.
The first locked me for 8+ years, the second 4+, this one convinced me to leave after only 2 years.
Go ahead !! Next Niantic game probably start loosing player base after 6 months :-)
As already stated by a lot of players HPWU is becoming a PTW. I'm out.
Please explain me @hpwulola what kind of abilities is needed to have "luck".
Only 4 sphinx on over 20 (and counting) adversaries.
Tried with nothing, with EDM and also with trace potion. No spawn. And when happens is the wrong one :-(
Like many people I was unable to finish this event because I was unable to find the right Adversaries. 20 or 25 Feared Beasts would have been a much easier task than having to get lucky enough to find the "right" ones. (I think I hit 20 trying to complete the event.)
4 EDM wasted. Really does not motivate me to spend money on this game.
Luck is fine when the numbers involved are big enough for it to balance out over the long run. Not here.
@Not4u13 : Thanks, but again, this was not what I was going for. I posted my initial question after the early posts when some players complained about the fact that this event started right after the BE ended.
This implies that they would have prefered it if there was no event at all. So, my question was along the lines of what is the difference between
a) this event not happening at all or
b) the player not participating in the event.
And I feel for adversary events (AEs) and community days (CDs) there is no difference (ok, apart from the fact that you'd have to look up externally what happened in terms of "story", as @Djea mentioned, which personally to me is not a big deal). If that is so, what is the reason for complaining about the event happening in the first place?
And this is different to BEs: If a BE would not happen, well, obviously nothing changes. If a BE does happen and I would not participate, I would end up with an empty registry page. In other words, the BE creates a "problem" that I can solve only by playing that specifc event. AEs and CDs help me to solve "problems" that where created unrelated to the event and that I also can solve outside of said events.