Legendary raids, city view from the two day event

Observe that I live in Gothenburg, Sweden. We're rabid maniacs when it comes to organising, and the city area houses some 650 K inhabitants.


Legendary raids pop up all over the place. It's quite frankly insane, and to be honest it grows old pretty quickly.


The best part is running into fifty or sixty players coming for each raid. Obviously spread out over time, but still. Apart from a morning raid, which I had to run with six other players, fifteen to twenty players per group was normal. For the last two raids we went for private groups, which was great for individual dps but kind of mean to casual players at the raid.


Overall a 33% catch rate seemed to be the norm. Variation between players was large, but collecting one every three raids seems realistic.


Rather unsurprisingly 15+ random players steamroll right through these boss fights with well over half the time left. At one time we averaged a level of over 35 and the boss basically keeled over and died more or less immediately.


The big groups at the raids aren't just a matter of living in a city. I started this post by stating that we're rabid maniacs for organising stuff. The raid chats numbers well over 300 participants. People congregate on raid points like biblical locust.


Oh, XP intake is also absurd. As is the gifts of stardust and candy. Eggs pop through the incubators at an absurd rate and your buddy is on a feeding frenzy. Add that massive cluster spawns are all around us.