hpwu | Brilliant Event: First Year at Hogwarts Part 1 (Reply)

Part 1 of the First Year at Hogwarts Brilliant Event starts Tuesday, 11 Aug at 11am PST and runs through 18 August. Once again, things have been adjusted to allow for playing from home. (shorter portkeys etc.)

OrangeWizard has put together infographics to help us better complete the tasks...

Task 1 requires us to brew a TFTD. Quaffing it will help you get your five Brilliant Monster Book of Monsters. If you don't have a lot of luck with ingredients spawning where you are, unlocking and using a portkey will give you a chance to get a new one to spawn, and that counts for this task. Other than the TFTD, it's a good idea to have a bunch of quick potions queued for pickup for once you reach Task 2, just be sure to queue the TFTD first to get the benefit of the Master Notes Gestures. You'll only be able to apply those to the first potion.

Task 2 has us brewing four potions. You can queue them in advance to speed things up. The Masters Notes we need to apply to two potions can either be from the potions brewing for this step, or from the potions queued once that requirement is met, whichever works best for you. The biggest snag will be the two Gringotts Facade Fragments. To get those, we'll need to have First Year at Hogwarts Brilliant Event Runestones, those are won at this stage by returning Brilliant Monster Book of Monsters and Brilliant Bogrods and the fifty BE XP rewarded for complete in Task 1. You'll need at least two Runestones if you were to use them in Dark V which has a 100% Fragment Drop Rate for your Runestone. If you use them in the lowest chambers, that rate sinks to fifty percent, and you'll need four or so to complete this task. (Ouch.) PROBLEM!! THERE'S CURRENTLY A BUG WITH FORTRESSES AND THE KNIGHT BUS, WHICH MAKES IT A BAD IDEA TO TRY TO COMPLETE THIS STEP RIGHT NOW. THEY'RE LIKELY TO MAKE ANOTHER IN GAME ANNOUNCEMENT WHEN THAT'S FIXED, ALTHOUGH THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES. ~~I'll try to keep an eye out and let you know when that changes, but no promises atm...~~ ETA: LOLA says we’re good to go again.

Task 3 is pretty straightforward. The two Baruffio's should help with those 3000 XP. You may need TFTD to get the ten Brilliant Bogrods, however.

For Task 4 we'll need to complete five Fortress Challenges with a team of three or more. (Typically we ourselves count towards that number, but no guarantees.) [~~See note on Task 2 as to why that's a problem atm, though.~~] If the Barrufio's from Task 3 is consumed late enough to still be active during Task 4, it will help with the 5,000 WXP from Fortress Challenges. Higher chambers award more XP, as do teams with more players. They also usually mean waiting longer, though. That can be a mixed bag when you're relying on a BBE that's running out to boost your XP. (If you haven't already, you may want to look at the post on SOS lessons and think about boosting your BBE.) The sticky wicket for this task, however, is the assignment to place five images on the Brilliant Event page. This means doing any *five* of the following: opening five Brilliant Event Portkeys ONCE YOU REACH THIS TASK (DO NOT DO SO ANY EARLIER), returning *twenty* Brilliant Bogrod or *twenty* Brilliant Monster Book of Monsters (they used to be only 15 fragments to place), or getting three of the Gringotts Facade Fortress Foundables. The problem here is at the absolute most efficient, you can still only do four of these in advance before having to place something in order to be able to place the fifth image. Expect to be stuck here for a while, and if you can reconcile it with yourself, PLACE NO IMAGES ON THE EVENT REGISTRY PAGE UNTIL YOU REACH THIS STEP, or you'll be stuck here even longer. The Fortress Fragment is probably the quickest way to be able to place something on this page, so I expect many of us will go with that one. Not by coincidence I'm sure, this is also a Fortress-centric Task.

Once you pick up your freebies, you'll need ingredients for brewing at least four other potions to complete the tasks. You'll need a total of two Baruffio's and one TFTD; the rest aren't specified.

Rewards include 15 green Restricted Section Books, 5 DADA Books, 3 red Spell Books, 1 silver key, 50 gold, a Dark Detector, 60 energy, some potions and ingredients.

Here is where you can find the Brilliant Foundables on the Event Registry page:

Note that thanks to the Knight Bus, we still have to win the Gringotts Facade Fragments in Fortress Battles, but the First Year Shopping List Portkey Fragments can be earned by completing the Bonus Assignments.

Brilliant Portkeys for this event have once again been reduced to 1.5km! As a reminder, Part 1 Portkeys will give you part 1 rewards any time you open them. As in the past, you don't have to unlock them now, as long as they are in your inventory, you can buy yourself some time to unlock them and get the fragments for your registries.

Once again, there's a Bonus Assignment after the main tasks are completed. Make sure to look for these in-game. As we've come to know, the 'highest unlocked chamber' is likely to hurt. It may help in terms of other players not flaking out that we're required to use five potions in the Fortress Battles, although an abundance of 'cheap' Health Potions might get players past that without making too much of a meaningful contribution. (They keep tweaking this requirement; I don't think this is the best combination they've come up with yet...)

Rewards include 5 DADA Books, 3 red Spell Books, 5 Brilliant First Year Shopping List Foundables, a Wit-Sharpening Potion, a Silver Key, 30 Energy, 2000 XP and 100 Event XP.

As usual, there will be freebies and bundles.