Brilliant Event: Darkest of Times Part 1
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hpwuPart 1 of the Brilliant Event: Darkest of Times starts Tuesday, 21 January at 11am PST.
For the duration of the event, Baruffio’s Brain Elixir will last 1 hour, as opposed to the usual 30 minutes. 😃
The magnificent OrangeWizard has again made infographics to sum up what we can expect, so here goes:
There are fifteen green Restricted Section Books and three red Spell Books to be had here, plus fifty gold, a Dark Detector and two silver keys.
Get a jump on task two by brewing potions in advance and not picking them up until you reach that task. If you're in a rush, you might also consider using the rental cauldron; it's cheaper than paying to brew faster and a better bet as long as you start it on time. (Bear in mind in your calculations, if you're using only one cauldron, you can only apply the Master Notes gestures to the first and the last of those three, and that's assuming the timing works out properly to do so on the third.)
For task three, you will need to unlock *five* portkeys. Given how wonky the buggers have been... Plan accordingly, people.
For task four, you will need to use three Dark Detectors. Folks on reddit have put a lot of work into collecting and analysing the data, and apparently you'll get more high foundables total (and more foundables as a whole, obviously) by putting those Dark Detectors in three different inns rather than three of them at once in one inn. It boils down to a question of time in two senses: if you don't have a convenient spot where you can reach multiple inns, placing them successively means more of your time spent stationary, on the other hand if you do have a spot to place them in different inns all at once, you have to be able to react quickly (and pay attention 😉) because with Dark Detectors the spawn only last until the next one appears, so you only have three minutes.
As for your registries:
You'll get the Glass Jug of Pumpkin Juice by completing task two and the Post Owl from task four.
Brilliant Portkeys for this event will once again be 3km, but apparently will only be rewarding Wizarding XP and the Trelawney Fragments. (So no ingredients. *shrug* Honestly, that sounds disappointing, so here's hoping they've increased the XP significantly.) As a reminder, Part 1 Portkeys will give you Part 1 rewards whenever they're opened, even if you wait to open them until during Part 2, so be sure to grab the ones you need to fill your registries before this part of the event ends.
Once again there are bonus tasks with four red Spell Books and three silver keys up for grabs. The problem is they want you to unlock TEN portkeys to get them. 😐 (Here's hoping the Portkeys (magically) start working properly or I'm not going to bother.) If you want a prayer in hell, you'll need to get started on this early or use a lot of silver keys. (Purely by coincidence, I'm sure, they've bundled keys and Dark Detectors for the event. If you get stuck, you can always throw money at the problem. (I'll try not to judge... 😉))
Good luck with it. Let me know how you do, and as always, if you do nothing else, make sure you pick up the free gift: 1 Silver Key, Ingredients for a Baruffio’s Brain Elixir, and 25 Spell Energy.
For the duration of the event, Baruffio’s Brain Elixir will last 1 hour, as opposed to the usual 30 minutes. 😃
The magnificent OrangeWizard has again made infographics to sum up what we can expect, so here goes:
There are fifteen green Restricted Section Books and three red Spell Books to be had here, plus fifty gold, a Dark Detector and two silver keys.
Get a jump on task two by brewing potions in advance and not picking them up until you reach that task. If you're in a rush, you might also consider using the rental cauldron; it's cheaper than paying to brew faster and a better bet as long as you start it on time. (Bear in mind in your calculations, if you're using only one cauldron, you can only apply the Master Notes gestures to the first and the last of those three, and that's assuming the timing works out properly to do so on the third.)
For task three, you will need to unlock *five* portkeys. Given how wonky the buggers have been... Plan accordingly, people.
For task four, you will need to use three Dark Detectors. Folks on reddit have put a lot of work into collecting and analysing the data, and apparently you'll get more high foundables total (and more foundables as a whole, obviously) by putting those Dark Detectors in three different inns rather than three of them at once in one inn. It boils down to a question of time in two senses: if you don't have a convenient spot where you can reach multiple inns, placing them successively means more of your time spent stationary, on the other hand if you do have a spot to place them in different inns all at once, you have to be able to react quickly (and pay attention 😉) because with Dark Detectors the spawn only last until the next one appears, so you only have three minutes.
As for your registries:
You'll get the Glass Jug of Pumpkin Juice by completing task two and the Post Owl from task four.
Brilliant Portkeys for this event will once again be 3km, but apparently will only be rewarding Wizarding XP and the Trelawney Fragments. (So no ingredients. *shrug* Honestly, that sounds disappointing, so here's hoping they've increased the XP significantly.) As a reminder, Part 1 Portkeys will give you Part 1 rewards whenever they're opened, even if you wait to open them until during Part 2, so be sure to grab the ones you need to fill your registries before this part of the event ends.
Once again there are bonus tasks with four red Spell Books and three silver keys up for grabs. The problem is they want you to unlock TEN portkeys to get them. 😐 (Here's hoping the Portkeys (magically) start working properly or I'm not going to bother.) If you want a prayer in hell, you'll need to get started on this early or use a lot of silver keys. (Purely by coincidence, I'm sure, they've bundled keys and Dark Detectors for the event. If you get stuck, you can always throw money at the problem. (I'll try not to judge... 😉))
Good luck with it. Let me know how you do, and as always, if you do nothing else, make sure you pick up the free gift: 1 Silver Key, Ingredients for a Baruffio’s Brain Elixir, and 25 Spell Energy.
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Date: 2020-01-21 03:14 am (UTC)TEN FUCKING PORTKEYS ARE YOU KIDDING ME
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Date: 2020-01-21 07:39 am (UTC)😐
Interesting aside, for the first time in a while, I actually had some gps drift in the game on my phone on wifi yesterday. I mean, it was only .07 k, and I'd gone further than that running up and down the (non-moving) stairs yesterday, but usually stuff like that doesn't count at all, and some of that showed up while I was stationary. So who knows... Maybe they've fixed it. Some. Or have undone whatever they did to bork it in the first place. I'll see tomorrow.
Of course, you'll probably get a chance to see before me, so if you happen to want to let me know how it went... 😉
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Date: 2020-01-21 09:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-01-21 09:52 am (UTC)(But yes, I really need those books as well... Bugger.)