Boss raids, raid eggs are back

Since this morning the one hour heads up raid eggs are back. Raids have been shortened to one hour as well.

With this reversal come a number of changes:

• Tiers one through four have a one hour speculation window
• It'll be harder to get people together for the unsoloable boss raids
• The time during which gyms are raid locked is cut in half
• It's possible to flip a gym and defend it in order to get the gym control bonus

Since entei is the only legendary raid boss available in Europe (and obviously other doggies elsewhere) the tier five gyms have no window of speculation at all. You know your local dog will pop into place.

In cities with a huge amount of gyms the speculation window part matters less. However, cutting the raid lock time in half does matter. It means it's a lot easier to take over gyms during day time compared to the last month or so. We should expect a greater gym turnover from now on.

In areas with fewer gyms it's worth taking over a gym with a legendary raid egg to ensure you get the gym control bous. It's after all a full item pack extra. Two extra balls doesn't hurt, but by now players have probably collected the dogs.

In regions where raikou spawns those extra balls might be more interesting, but entei and suicune are inferior to other options when attacking into gyms, and thus the need to actually catch the raid boss is lessened.