Community Day Details!

[gingerbred.livejournal.com]

It's on Saturday the 21st. Here's the skinny:

* Free Diagon Alley Bundle!
* Increase all Mysterious Artefacts Traces on the Map, including Rare Traces
* Increase appearance of Hagrid’s Umbrella, the Weasley Clock, Mirror of Erised, and Time Turner Encounters (Seriously? Who needs more of that damn clock?)
* All Exstimulo Potions will have increased effect in Combat and Encounters
* All Exstimulo Potions brew times will be reduced by 50%
* All Exstimulo Potions Master Notes will decrease brew time by 50% instead of 15% (Not sure if this is an additional 50% on top of the previous buff; I'll let you know when (if) I get an answer... ETA: it appears to be on top of the original reduction, which means they'll brew in a quarter of the usual time. Cool shoes. So Exstimulo would take 30 minutes, Strong Exstimulo would need an hour, and Potent Exstimulo would need two hours. Don't know if the reduction extends *beyond* the event, but it might be worth trying to queue a cauldron and even considering renting one for three hours. (It costs 15 gold but gets you another 10% reduction in time on top of the 75%; optimal handling would get you two Potent Exstimulos and one Baruffio's for 19 gold (15 for the rental plus 4 to finish brewing the second potion and queue the third within the event window)(or three Potent Exstimulos) if you have the ingredients. That's less than the reward for completing two days' Daily Assignments gets you.) If you're feeling particularly lucky, you might try queueing one of the longer rentals during the event and see if that works. (Again, I'll let you know if anyone has an answer on that front.)) Time to stockpile Snowdrops, Bitterroot and Re'em Blood!
* Spell Energy will appear on the Map (Ginger breaks out into song... (Be glad you're at a safe distance.))
* Increased Spell Energy from Inns



Here are the regional start times:
Asian Pacific: 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. AEST (UTC +10)
Europe, Middle East, Africa, and India: 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. UTC
The Americas and Greenland: 11:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. PDT (UTC -7)

What time is that where you are?

The free Diagon Alley bundle will only be available during the 3 hour Community Day window for your region. This is unlike how they've done the free bundles in the past, so keep that on your radar! The Tonic for Trace Detection is particularly pricey, so this is nice to snag. Maybe set an alarm to collect it even if you do nothing else for the event?

The other thing to keep in mind is bonuses on brewing times frequently don't apply to things in the potions queue. No idea if that will be the case here, but it's worth considering that you might want to keep that fairly free going into the event. Just a thought. 😊

Comments

[gelsey.livejournal.com]

Planning to go out for about an hour that day, if possible. We'll see.

[gingerbred.livejournal.com]

I may even have a bike by that time. So taking advantage of at least an hour if I can.

(But I've begun the maths for the best possible application of my cauldron/s. 😉)