The great golden raspberry drought
Writing this thread as a distraction from all the salty stardust drought threads today.
Does anyone think there's a golden raspberry drought since they added potions as raid rewards? Since then i haven't used golden raspberries outside of raids but my supply is still dwindling.
Discuss.
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Same here. I get more potions than i can use. Even with gym battling, they stack.
We have some people here who drive from raid to raid. They have sufficient berries and were always short of potions.
Those players are Niantics costumers, and they get what they need.
A free player is not NIantics costumer. They need not adjust raid reward to free players needs.
No. They do not want loot. They have rare candies, they have 100s of TMs. All they want 100%IV-legs and 10kXP, nothing else counts for them. If a 93%IV-Raidboss shows, they tend to use pinap-berries.
I do not want to complain about those players, they are always available and they help me to do my own daily raid.
I used to have up to 100 golden raspberries at once, used to use them on gyms and on common pokemon to make space in my bag.
I didn't mind that number being cut but not quite to this extent. Not when i'm getting unnecessary potions instead.
Guess i'll have to use pinaps sometimes and hope i get lucky!
I had 2 free passes today. Did a t1 raid, got 1 golden raspberry that I had to use to try to catch the boss (embarrassed to admit, I didn't even catch it). The 12 purple potions are useless.... The t2 raid got me 1 rare candy and a few potions. Another recent t2 raid got me nothing but a few revives!
So yes, definitely a change for the worse. So we have to make choices. I no longer routinely feed golden razz berries, will save them for catching challenging mon. Same with rare candy (I'm still walking a larvitar).
TMs haven't changed - as rare (but not rarer) than ever.
My best rewards seem to be solo t3 and small group t4 the t5s don't seem any better then t4 now and the extra one or two people you need cost you a damage ball and hence a reward bundle. But dropped back to only using golds on high IV catches, which then drops your catch rate dropping your rewards further (less specific candy increasing need to use rare for power up)
