New info on Ex Raid Passes and Rewards for normal Raids

Time to get that gold badge on the local sbux gym.

Sweet! Regular potions are worthless. I never understood why they were given as raid rewards. I hope this means that they will be hyperpotions at least. As an added bonus, I might get a TM at some point.

So how much dust per raid?

Stardust whether you win or lose... gotta be careful about that or people might go into a private raid with throwaway pokemon to intentionally lose and farm stardust.

... actually, could be worthwhile use of time while waiting for that player that is "5 minutes away."

I'm pretty much hosed then, no sponsored gyms nearby and the parks near me don't have gyms either.

I'm not one to bash Niantic, but I must say that they have no idea what they are doing. The whole EX raid pass system and the randomization of rewards has been hugely disappointing and discouraging. I'm glad they are finally trying to fix this broken system, but it was enough for me to go from 10-12 raids a week to almost no raids at all. It's hard for trainers to remain loyal to the game when they aren't loyal to us.

"◦EX Raid Battles will take place most commonly at Gyms found in parks and sponsored locations."

"Gyms found in parks"

"parks"

IT'S ALMOST (BLEEPING) WINTER YOU (BLEEPING) IDIOTS AT (BLEEPING) NIANTIC!!!

And you want to put EX Raids in PARKS?!?!?

I have all the gold badges for my local gyms & the ones on my route to work. None of these are anywhere near a park & in the UK there are v few sponsored gyms & none anywhere near me. So my Ex raid invite won't be in the post, thanks Niantic, another well thought out 'improvement'. If they think i'm gonna drive to the nearest park gym, which is miles away, & try to get a gold badge on there where ur Mon lasts about 10 mins they have another thing coming. Just make Mewtwo a level 6 raid, problem solved & give everyone who plays a chance to catch him. It's not rocket science & makes perfect sense to me.