So, what is the room for the portkeys? It looks like a library. But I can't pinpoint specifically what it is. Thoughts?
By the way, part of why I'm asking this is when they ask us later what our favorite environments are, I want to be able to say more than, "The one that went with that particular brilliante event." Because I have always had to guess at the rooms.
It would be nice if TfTD actually had the brilliant traces show up. Insert Jeff Goldblum gif, "there are going to be brilliant traces during your brilliant event right?"
I try to log in and get an error, I exit, try again and get in. Sync hasn't counted my steps. I opened my portkey tab this morning and got the beginners tutorial like I haven't been playing for 2 years. Now when I open the tab it tells me to check my connection. Neither of us can finish our dailies because sync isn't counting steps. Also, the meter that shows when you've reached a family xp goal is broken, but at least it still gives you your rune.
Again the Knight Bus is acting up during an event. I was trying to get into a Tower level (don't remember which number) chamber. I was kicked out while waiting for more to come in. When I finally got back in I was taken right to the same chamber, which had already started and was halfway through. I'm sure I was regarded as a lazy bum by the others there. Lost time on my Brain Elixer too.
This is my third TDD today. 20 minutes into it and not a single Brilliant Trace. I think I've had four total in all three TDD's. This is really annoying! I brewed a few TDD's in anticipation but I'm getting through them too quickly and not getting any return.
Event just isn't working as well as previous events. Received the game update today and trace flares are still wonky. Plus, Adventure Sync broke. It was working and now not.
I'm on page 3, so not really worried about completing the event, but it's just not right.
@apm1117: Flares seem to be a display thing only, just because some stuff now has different flares shouldn't have an effect on the return rate, afaik. That said:
The way that mastery plays out is terribad. Assuming that the fundamentals are the same as they where before the SOS tree (aside from that you have to skill mastery now instead of getting some every five levels), the base success rate for the lowest foundables (Hufflepuff students etc.) is not affected by mastery at all, so it stays at whatever it is (70% or so?). The effect of mastery increases with the level of the foundable, i.e. it is highest for emergency foundables, and then progressively lower for the lower levels.
So, basically, the trash remains as annoying as it was when you started, and the higher ones get easier (from "totally impossible to return w/o EP" to "still relatively unlikely to return w/o EP", which means that in all likelihood you still end up using an EP).
For the Moaning Myrtles of this world, you are probably improving things from like 20% success rate to like 30% success rate per cast. Awesome.
So, in essence, Mastery is mostly pointless (at least back then it did seem to increase the effect of EPs, not sure how that works now after the rework, though...).
I really hope they aren’t manipulating the game based on goals currently on. I needed slugs but completed Malfoy in the registry (1/4) and now I need Malfoy and got 10 slugs in a row. This is more than suspicious. This is not randomized spawning with TTD and no one likes to play a rigged game.
@LolaLegend they can't even make the game load properly and all basic game functions work, but you think they have somehow managed to rig it to make you less likely to give you the correct spawns? The chances of that being coded correctly are far less than the chance of getting 10 slugs in a row.
As many have said TTD don't appear to affect the number of event foundable spawn rates.
The rate of return for secrets runes is also incredibly low - used 10 and only 1 returned in higher chambers. I only have 4 left, so if this rate continues, this task might be impossible. I am using forest and above chambers.
Since reaching stage 4 - NO hogwarts school foundables are appearing. They were plentiful before and now not one for at least 1/2 day.
Glad to see events are still as buggy and glitchy as always.
Just got to the bonus task, and whereas all task info that I can see shows the Bonus tasks having one where one needs to ‘Cast 20 Great Bombarda spells’, with a Potent Exstimulo as a reward, I can’t see the same. Is this related to the 2.18 update or something else?
And will this prevent me from being able to "complete" the event?
Constance is consistently and persistently constant in telling me how portkeys work. Every time I go to that page. I wish she wouldn't be so consistently constant Constance.
Had to do a forced update and it is now noticeably harder to return foundables. Opening gifts causes the game to freeze and I notice the graphics aren’t smooth, they’re pretty delayed in loading. Every time I go to portkeys, the windows explaining the gold and silver keys pop up too.
It’s really to get a Hermione from the event runestone, I’ve only gotten 1 out of 5 battles played in tower and forest chambers. I don’t have 15 rune stones yet, even though I’ve opened 5 portkeys, they barely gave me any event family points. I’m also barely seeing ant hogwart school foundables for task 4 now, there were a lot before the update.
unfortunately I cannot complete stage 4. I've used 20 runes and out of stones. I'm now to the point where I have to return so many foundables it is going to take days of ****. Never had such bad luck fortune with runes part of challenge. I doing high chambers and when possible with multiple people.... VERY disappointed in the % - 10% chance... far too low.
Seems like the insane number of Fortress foes is mostly tied to using the Brilliant Runestone - was battling in Tower III earlier and had 6 foes each time which is almost unheard of, but then it dropped down to the usual 4 when I used a Legends of Hogwarts Runestone in the same session.
Just got kicked out of dark 5, while playing with others, due to a ‘supposed’ network issue, and auto-restart didn’t take me back to the chamber, unlike once or twice before
Apologies to the people who were in the chamber with me
Update: Tried a dark 5 again, with a different non-BE runestone, but which still had an insane number of foes (and with what looked like not everyone contributing, but given my own experience, giving the benefit of doubt here), while we did not win, the task for complete highest chamber was marked as complete
I was able to complete task 4, despite the number of foes issue. I collected the first fragment required battling 15 foes in Tower IV and using several potions. It was brutal, but I did get a fragment. I then tried Tower chambers and it didn't seem to have the same issue with foes, but was able to get fragment 2 after a few tries. I obtained the last fragment in Ruins III after about 5 tries. I had 10 event runes, so it worked.
Then, to obtain the needed Challenge XP, I used other Runes not event Runes. I used Fortress II with a Barufios. About 1200 XP each time.
With both of these approaches, you can complete those two tasks without completely draining resources.
Obtaining more Runes is going to take opening portkeys. Otherwise, it's a long slog.
The final task is not an issue at all. Just Hogwarts School traces. Any kind.
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So, what is the room for the portkeys? It looks like a library. But I can't pinpoint specifically what it is. Thoughts?
By the way, part of why I'm asking this is when they ask us later what our favorite environments are, I want to be able to say more than, "The one that went with that particular brilliante event." Because I have always had to guess at the rooms.
It would be nice if TfTD actually had the brilliant traces show up. Insert Jeff Goldblum gif, "there are going to be brilliant traces during your brilliant event right?"
Have used 10 runestones and only 1 polyjuice hermione???? What's the secret????
Anyone else having the game freeze when you try to open a gift?
I try to log in and get an error, I exit, try again and get in. Sync hasn't counted my steps. I opened my portkey tab this morning and got the beginners tutorial like I haven't been playing for 2 years. Now when I open the tab it tells me to check my connection. Neither of us can finish our dailies because sync isn't counting steps. Also, the meter that shows when you've reached a family xp goal is broken, but at least it still gives you your rune.
Again the Knight Bus is acting up during an event. I was trying to get into a Tower level (don't remember which number) chamber. I was kicked out while waiting for more to come in. When I finally got back in I was taken right to the same chamber, which had already started and was halfway through. I'm sure I was regarded as a lazy bum by the others there. Lost time on my Brain Elixer too.
This is my third TDD today. 20 minutes into it and not a single Brilliant Trace. I think I've had four total in all three TDD's. This is really annoying! I brewed a few TDD's in anticipation but I'm getting through them too quickly and not getting any return.
Without the mark-up, you can see that the conversation is with Gareth but is labelled as Ron.
Event just isn't working as well as previous events. Received the game update today and trace flares are still wonky. Plus, Adventure Sync broke. It was working and now not.
I'm on page 3, so not really worried about completing the event, but it's just not right.
Please release updates separately from events. Blank screens during events make for unhappy players.
I just finish only two days, luckily special assignment so easily too.
@Gervase looks like he forgot description for gareth because late brilliant event too.
@apm1117: Flares seem to be a display thing only, just because some stuff now has different flares shouldn't have an effect on the return rate, afaik. That said:
The way that mastery plays out is terribad. Assuming that the fundamentals are the same as they where before the SOS tree (aside from that you have to skill mastery now instead of getting some every five levels), the base success rate for the lowest foundables (Hufflepuff students etc.) is not affected by mastery at all, so it stays at whatever it is (70% or so?). The effect of mastery increases with the level of the foundable, i.e. it is highest for emergency foundables, and then progressively lower for the lower levels.
So, basically, the trash remains as annoying as it was when you started, and the higher ones get easier (from "totally impossible to return w/o EP" to "still relatively unlikely to return w/o EP", which means that in all likelihood you still end up using an EP).
For the Moaning Myrtles of this world, you are probably improving things from like 20% success rate to like 30% success rate per cast. Awesome.
So, in essence, Mastery is mostly pointless (at least back then it did seem to increase the effect of EPs, not sure how that works now after the rework, though...).
The incorrect dialog labelling is far from the first time 😀 This one is from an event in March this year. Check out the bottom panel.
I really hope they aren’t manipulating the game based on goals currently on. I needed slugs but completed Malfoy in the registry (1/4) and now I need Malfoy and got 10 slugs in a row. This is more than suspicious. This is not randomized spawning with TTD and no one likes to play a rigged game.
@Gervase it looks like hermione played some of harry's lines due to budget cuts and hoped we wouldn't notice it
its kinda funny tbh, i like it :)
@LolaLegend they can't even make the game load properly and all basic game functions work, but you think they have somehow managed to rig it to make you less likely to give you the correct spawns? The chances of that being coded correctly are far less than the chance of getting 10 slugs in a row.
@MtPollux hmmk. As I continue to add slugs to the registry…
As many have said TTD don't appear to affect the number of event foundable spawn rates.
The rate of return for secrets runes is also incredibly low - used 10 and only 1 returned in higher chambers. I only have 4 left, so if this rate continues, this task might be impossible. I am using forest and above chambers.
Since reaching stage 4 - NO hogwarts school foundables are appearing. They were plentiful before and now not one for at least 1/2 day.
Glad to see events are still as buggy and glitchy as always.
Just got to the bonus task, and whereas all task info that I can see shows the Bonus tasks having one where one needs to ‘Cast 20 Great Bombarda spells’, with a Potent Exstimulo as a reward, I can’t see the same. Is this related to the 2.18 update or something else?
And will this prevent me from being able to "complete" the event?
Just got kicked out of a chamber after using an invigoration potion. Now the knight bus button isn’t showing up even if I reopen.
Constance is consistently and persistently constant in telling me how portkeys work. Every time I go to that page. I wish she wouldn't be so consistently constant Constance.
Had to do a forced update and it is now noticeably harder to return foundables. Opening gifts causes the game to freeze and I notice the graphics aren’t smooth, they’re pretty delayed in loading. Every time I go to portkeys, the windows explaining the gold and silver keys pop up too.
It’s really to get a Hermione from the event runestone, I’ve only gotten 1 out of 5 battles played in tower and forest chambers. I don’t have 15 rune stones yet, even though I’ve opened 5 portkeys, they barely gave me any event family points. I’m also barely seeing ant hogwart school foundables for task 4 now, there were a lot before the update.
unfortunately I cannot complete stage 4. I've used 20 runes and out of stones. I'm now to the point where I have to return so many foundables it is going to take days of ****. Never had such bad luck fortune with runes part of challenge. I doing high chambers and when possible with multiple people.... VERY disappointed in the % - 10% chance... far too low.
@C4tmonster why just play in ruins chamber V to get more fragment? I just 3 times in 3 runestone too.
@TaviShankar you can use exstimulo potion at this time because there's a bug using invigoration potion.
@HPfanIn looks like prediction page was wrong time because there's different reward at this time.
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I just completed the bonus tasks, it seems like there were things missing. Only four tasks, no bombarda
Seems like the insane number of Fortress foes is mostly tied to using the Brilliant Runestone - was battling in Tower III earlier and had 6 foes each time which is almost unheard of, but then it dropped down to the usual 4 when I used a Legends of Hogwarts Runestone in the same session.
thank you for the highest chamber task at bonus part can be done without winning.
keep getting kick out with restart error after using several potions (i think about after the 4th potion),
and after back to the game it doesnt back to knight bus chamber.
Just got kicked out of dark 5, while playing with others, due to a ‘supposed’ network issue, and auto-restart didn’t take me back to the chamber, unlike once or twice before
Apologies to the people who were in the chamber with me
Update: Tried a dark 5 again, with a different non-BE runestone, but which still had an insane number of foes (and with what looked like not everyone contributing, but given my own experience, giving the benefit of doubt here), while we did not win, the task for complete highest chamber was marked as complete
please extend this event till you fix the game!!!!
I was able to complete task 4, despite the number of foes issue. I collected the first fragment required battling 15 foes in Tower IV and using several potions. It was brutal, but I did get a fragment. I then tried Tower chambers and it didn't seem to have the same issue with foes, but was able to get fragment 2 after a few tries. I obtained the last fragment in Ruins III after about 5 tries. I had 10 event runes, so it worked.
Then, to obtain the needed Challenge XP, I used other Runes not event Runes. I used Fortress II with a Barufios. About 1200 XP each time.
With both of these approaches, you can complete those two tasks without completely draining resources.
Obtaining more Runes is going to take opening portkeys. Otherwise, it's a long slog.
The final task is not an issue at all. Just Hogwarts School traces. Any kind.
Hope this helps those struggling.