PokeGo Fest Update + A New Event Happening NOW

[inkstone]

Looks like problems continued to plague Chicago PokeGo Fest, so if you're one of our Chicago players who attended, here's something for you.

For the rest of us, there's an event to celebrate the addition of legendary pokemon to the game (as Raid Bosses) for the next 48 hours!

• double stardust


• double candy


• double XP (use those lucky eggs for quadruple XP!)


• reduced hatching distance (looks like this only applies to new eggs put into incubators; an egg I already had in an incubator didn't update the distance)


• reduced buddy distance


• increased encounters

(Full details)

Get out there & walk!

Comments

[kirin]

Also, legendary raids for both Lugia and Articuno are active now, so keep an eye out. I haven't done one yet but I'm hearing they can be beaten comfortably with like 10 people; you can get away with less if they're high level and have the right teams. Also these 5-star raids have 5-minute battles and hit hard, so going through your whole team, healing, and re-joining is a valid strategy.

[lireavue]

Can confirm all of this; we went down to the university campus this morning to find enough people for a legendary raid and there were waves of players going after the Articuno. Took it with 9 people, all level 25+, and had over a minute on the clock when we defeated it.

(Also at this point I have a deep enough bench for battle 'mon that I could just jump back in with a second string of attackers, which is ALSO a valid tactic if you can do it.)

Loot was 3-4 rare candy, 4 revives, 2 fast TMs, and 13500? XP. The husband got a charge TM instead of 2 fasts, but about the same on the rares and revives.

[lilacsigil]

I was in one this morning with a very nice group of people! There were 11 of us and we took down a Lugia, but nobody managed to then catch it. We had over a minute left on the clock when it went down.

[kirin]

Update: all the bonuses have been extended through Thursday evening.

[raisedbymoogles]

nooooo! Worst time to be sick!