harry potter: witches unite!

If you're still playing, you have just under three days to pick up a super freebie.



They're discontinuing water and seed spawns in favour of more energy and ingredients. To make up for it, they're including generous amounts of water and seeds in this weekend's freebie, but you need to pick them up before the time window of the event closes.

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Sounds like they're upping the Fantastic Beasts content, so who knows, maybe there's some progress on that front?

They're definitely changing the way the Portkeys work, which is a shame. This means a couple of things: 1) you'll have to have lots of slots open to pick them up in the first place or cover lots of kilometres during the event and 2) you'll have to use Silver Keys to get the most out of any Portkeys in your vault, because you won't be able to successively unlock them using your free Gold Key in the days to come. Not pleased. I think this is the first time we've had things removed from our vaults by their hand, too. Up till now, anything you had collected was yours until you decided otherwise. On the other hand, it does make it more likely they'll have plenty of them lying around so they can milk the rubes. I know the last few times they had special Portkeys, I'd used Silver Keys to be able to pick up more, and was left with unfilled slots in my vault and a feeling I'd wasted those keys. Hopefully that, at least, will change if it can potentially earn them even more money.

Part 2 of the Imperfect Love Brilliant Event runs from Tuesday, 23 February at 11am PT through 02 March. Orange Wizard has again made us some infographics to better prepare...

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Keep in mind this is a week long event and pace yourself. Your registry will not be incomplete if you don't finish (or even attempt) the bonus. Completing the bonus is a way not to have to unlock five Event Portkeys however. (Worth a think. 😉) If you do nothing else, don’t forget to pick up your free TFTD ingredients and Spell Energy.

Good luck, my witchards. Let me know how you do. ❤️

Heads up, my witchards! You can use ANY type of Runestone in the Tower, Forest, and Dark V chambers to get the guaranteed Fragment rewards. You don’t need to use a family Runestone to get them, so this may be the time to use some of those extra brilliant event Runestones, say.

What November in HPWU has in store for us... Brilliant Events, Community Day and a second Wizarding Weekend.

Part 2 of the Darkness Rising Brilliant Event runs from Tuesday, 20 October at 11am PT through 27 October. The thoroughly amazing Orange Wizard has been at it again and made us some infographics to help us prepare...

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If you do nothing else, don’t forget to pick up your free TFTD and 2 Health Potion ingredients and 25 Spell Energy.

Good luck, guys. Fingers crossed that it's better than part 1... 😉

October's more Fortress-centric Community Day takes place tomorrow Sunday 18 October all day from 12:01am till 11:59pm local time. Special Assignments will reward 3 DADA books, 3 Spellbooks, a Silver Key, 40 Gold, 20 Energy, some potions and some ingredients. In the past, there have been issues with Fortress bonuses not being properly received unless a person in an active Community Day time zone enters the Fortress chamber first. (To be on the safe side, it helps to be the first person into the chamber. On the other hand, if the bug persists, it allows us to extend the bonuses as long as someone else enters first.) It's still unclear if this has been fixed or not.

As usual, the ever magnificent OrangeWizard has been so lovely as to make us some infographics with the details and tasks:

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If you do nothing else, grab your freebies and download your assets.

Similarly to September's CD Event, that's 70 Foundables we need to return, which for me at least means 3 TFTD and a boatload of energy or a lot of energy and potions. The good news remains that the Tonics will brew much more quickly, but frankly we just had that same perk the day before, and I don't know about you, but I just don't have enough ingredients for that to be much help on back to back days. So yeah, once again, unfortunately that's about it on that front. Especially as that's in addition to 5 Fortress Challenges fought. My complaint about Energy spawns remains as well, and yet again the rewards are pretty paltry compared with August's 5 Spellbooks, 30 Field Guides, 5 Ministry Manuals, 13 Runestones, 100 Gold, 70 Energy, a Potent Exstimulo potion and ingredients.

I'll repeat this in case anyone missed it: the Community manager has said they'll be adjusting part 2 of the Brilliant Event to make it more playable due to rampant complaints about part 1 (and as a Professor, I found it particularly galling), but poorly balanced events like this one aren't exactly making me optimistic. I've already sat this month's Wizarding Weekend out because it was all but unplayable for me, and the rewards simply weren't worth any effort to try to change that. Keep in mind, part 2 of the Brilliant Event is coming up Tuesday, and this is a lot of energy we'll need for... what? At present my strategy is trying to save my energy for the Brilliant Events, because those at least make a difference to my registry. Hmm. All I can say to that is I seriously hope Niantic gets their shit together and looks more closely at balancing some of the game's mechanics, because holy cricket...

This month's Wizarding Weekend begins Friday 02 October at 11 a.m. *PDT* and runs through Monday 05 October 11 a.m. PDT. Please note, that's not local time! (What time is that where you are?) ( Read more... )As always, if you do nothing else, be sure to pick up your complimentary gift...

Part 2 of the Battle of the Department of Mysteries Brilliant Event runs from Tuesday, 22 September at 11am PT through 29 September. Once again, the magnificent Orange Wizard has made some infographics to help us prepare, so let's take a peek at those tasks...

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If you do nothing else, don’t forget to pick up your free TFTD ingredients and 25 Spell Energy.

Good luck, guys. 😊