Depends on how many people have stored up. People with hundreds upon hundreds may not feel the belt tighten for some time. I've actually been hurting for them somewhat for a while (less than 50) since Giratina doesn't seem to want to stay caught for me on the first few balls unlike Mewtwo. I think for a while I'll raid other things that I can comfortably Pinap and still catch.
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So the GRB decrease
With the GRB drop rare being decreased, I wonder what effect this is going to have on the meta. I know most people have large reserves of GRB, but thats likely been to the massive number of the raids gave out, with the substantially reduced drop rate I wonder if people will be as willing to spend as many defending a gym. Even raiding an instinct gym three man with all instinct players on giratina, we all got at most 6 GRB, and with the number of golden razz it takes to defend a gym as well as try catching legendaries, do you guys think most players would be less inclined to razz gyms?
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I love that suggestion, splitting Golden Razzberries and Silver Pinaps as Raid Rewards. But I'm not sure it would do much to help with Gym Defense; most of the people who are abusing the system seem to be the people who do 5+ Legendary Raids a day and have huge stores of GRB's saved up because they've gotten good at catching the Legendary's (and other raid bosses). So what is more likely to happen is that they would use the Silver Pinaps to catch the Legendary and save the GRB's for Gym Defense.
Still, I think it would be an option worth exploring to help change the gym defense meta.
Is it a confirmed drop in the number of GRB's being given out at Raids, or is this anecdotal? I've not noticed any drop with my raid rewards, but I tend to ignore anything that isn't Rare Candy or TM's.
If they do drop the number of GRB's being dropped, halleluiah! I don't think it will do much on the Gym scene side (as the people who drop multiple GR's during Gym defense are the hardcore, dedicated players who are likely doing enough raids to make it so that dropping GR's on gym defenders helps them manage their inventory) but I'd love to be wrong about that.
On the flip side, it's going to annoy the bleep out of me when I have to choose between keeping 2 GR's for raids or delaying that idiot taking my Gym at 11:50pm so that the gym lasts until 12:00 and I get the 50 coins for Gym Defense... 'cuz I consider that to be a legitimate time to use GRB's for gym defense. You try to take me down at 12:01am? I won't GRB it. You try to take me down at 11:50pm? If I'm awake, I GRB the bleep out of that gym until 12:01am.
I have no reserves of RC or stardust, but latter part of not raiding Mewtwo enough had me at 200 GRB and 20 Silver pinap. I would pinap gym pidgeys bc I wasn’t in that many gyms and I’d want 9pm ones to roll to the next day.
This Giratina time being easy to battle (somewhat tough to catch) I’m down to 100 gold and 20 silver and not spraying GRBs near to the previous extent. Just a Re-centering will occur since Giratina doesn’t matter, whether 1920+ or not and daily gyms not worth 20-30 GRB
I don't have a large reserve of GRB, because I need my inventory for other things. I start to aggressively use them if they exceed 50, so they stay at a pretty manageable number. I think we might eventually see a change with gym feeding, but it'll probably take a few weeks at least to deplete the 100s of GRBs that hardcore raiders are sitting on. After that they might start conserving them a bit more.
I don't collect GRB for gym defense anyway, so to me this sounds perfect. I'll probably get just enough to use on catching legendaries and Togetics and maybe occasionally have a few extra that I can use to replenish a gym that I happen to care about.
I used to have about 200 GRB, till that 108 berry event combined with Beldum day appeared. I wasn't worried about using up many berries cos i assumed i'd get loads back from raids, didn't foresee the drop rate going down.
It went down once before, then got put back up again. Maybe something similar will happen again?
