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I wish all the spells had the same kind of potency. It gets boring to have to use the same spell over and over to win.

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Or that they had some sort of rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock system set up to give different spells varying potencies, to add risk to casting each spell. Might not be as good for my point total, but would be interesting (and frustrating.)

But yes, it would be great to make more of the spells equal. Or make certain spells harder to cast but worth overall more points - make some of them move faster, or have a cursor that varies rates, so it would be much harder to cast perfectly (but is worth an immense number of points when you do, leading to duel strategy: do you go for a risky but powerful hex that nets you 150 for a perfect cast but with a lower success rate at casting it, or the Body-Bind, which is easier to type and nets a consistent 140-144?)

I think it's odd that Body-Bind is worth most; personally, I think Jelly-Legs is harder to cast. Is that just me? (I mean, I'm not complaining - I'm good at PT, after all!)

But they probably wouldn't implement either any time soon. Given that everything seems to be working very well, I'm hoping they'll do a New Year's release to the public, which would mean leaving gameplay as-is and focusing on getting their eBook shop up.

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It would be nice if they did something with dueling to make it possible to use all the spells. Right now, if you can't do a spell that earns at least 140 points, it is hard to win when challenging another house. So you have to use the same spell over and over again, :( which I did all day long. But tonight I've been doing practice duels with members of my house so that I can use all the different spells. And so far it seems like they are also using the different spells, too. It is almost more fun that doing a duel that counts. :agree:

I wonder if it would be better if the duels used the same spell. So if someone cast jelly legs they would be matched with another person who did jelly legs, for example. I've been doing that with the practice duels, and it makes it more interesting.

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Are that many people using non-Body-Bind spells in duels? I've been dueling a lot and I'd guess that at least 90% of my opponents are also using the Body Bind, which I'm using exclusively.

Matching does seem to be random, though - I have over 1,000 dueling points and I've been paired with people who have 0, and also with the school leader (we tied, I felt proud.) Got a score of 145 once, but can't figure out what's the difference between the times when I get 142 and 143 or 144; in fact, there are times when it looks like I've missed a letter slightly and still get a 142.

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Almost everyone I duel, except maybe the beginners who don't have a lot of dueling points, are using the Full Body Bind spell. I was doing body bind exclusively when I challenged other houses. I just do the other spells when I dueling my own house. It is less boring than doing one spell all day long.

I saw you dueling all day today. I was dueling, too, but I was also at work, so couldn't do it all the time. I get better scores on my work computer, for some reason, than at home. But, like you, it is hard to tell what gives the higher score. I've been surprised to get a 141 when it didn't seem like a did a good spell.

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Dueling has been strangely addictive. I'm sure I'll get burnt out on it soon enough, like I did with Potion brewing, but it's probably a good thing that lockout is there. (How long is it? I usually had about 40 minutes between sessions, but I think the time is actually around 20.)

Has it been producing a ton of friend requests for you, as well? I think a couple dozen people at least have sent me friend requests since I started, and it's not just people I've dueled - I've gotten a ton of requests from House-mates, and I've been declining duels from fellow Claws, since I'm pretty sure practicing with a Housemate counts towards your limit.

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Do you know if doing the duels against your own house count for your amount of allowed duels during each time period when you are allowed to do more duels?

I mean I just wonder if I were to go in there and just duel people from my house if eventually I would reach my duel limit and not be able to do more for a while. If so I don't really want to practice against my house if it means I can do less duels for points.

Anyway I do wish that all of the spells could generate the same amount of power because it does get annoying how it's like you have to constantly do the same spell or you aren't going to win as many duels.

EDIT:

Random but a Slytherin who just dueled with me has almost the exact same wand as Draco.

I looked and this person has Hawthorn like Draco, Unicorn core like Draco, and I'm not sure if "Reasonably Springy" is one of the wand descriptions on Pottermore but this person has "Slightly Springy" which might be the closest description to Draco's that exists on Pottermore. The length is a little different....Draco's is 10 inches apparently, this person has 11 1/2 inches.

They're both in Slytherin too. LOL.

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Yes, dueling with your own house counts toward your limit. But I've also had more fun dueling my house, because it isn't so terrible when you lose. ;) I really like a few of the other spells, but until they are worth as much as the full body bind, I'll only be using them with my fellow Gryffindors. I also like to challenge myself with the spells I'm not good at. It is making me feel more comfortable using the keyboard.

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Wahey, this is my first post on here in ages! Well I discovered duelling was back yesterday, and it's great fun! =D The time out is a bit annoying, but I guess it's necessary to make people have a break. My highest score is 143, but my average score is about 139. :P I like the new potion times too.

BUT where are the house rankings? I hadn't been on PM in ages and was looking forward to seeing how far i'd slipped in the ranks XD Boohoo.

Also, Kathleen Malfoy, i'm really pleased for you that your account works now! Good job you didn't delete it eh XD

There are still improvements that could be made on PM, but I think the return of duelling has given it another spring of life, for sure.

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Gone. I know some who lost interest in Pottermore when they removed them.

I've suggested that, when we challenge a member, instead of a house, the member be required to use the same spell we used. I think it would add interest.

I actually don't like the shortened brewing times. I keep forgetting I have a potion brewing.

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That really sucks. I hope they put it back because, that was the main thing that gave me motivation to keep brewing. Seeing myself overtake others :D Without it, I don't think i'll ever go back to brewing/duelling full time.

Yeah that's an idea. I thought, like someone up there ^ a rock, paper scissors type thing might also work. That would get people using different spells. As it is, you'd be destined for failure using anything other than Petrificus Totalus.

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I discovered, much to my sadness, that they brought back the exploding cauldron feature. :scared: I haven't blown up a cauldron in months, although I've ruined a lot of potions. But this last failure resulted in having my new copper cauldron blow up. :grumble: And I lost five points, too, which I thought they stopped doing because of the apparent sabotage that people were doing when they didn't like their House.

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Is Pottermore open to people who didn't get in on the beta-testing stage yet? I was way too busy with school during pre-registration, but I'm currently out of school and out of work and having loads of free time on my hands.

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Sadly no :(

There hasn't been any official word on when this will be, either...

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As far as I know, they never actually removed the exploding cauldron feature: letting your cauldron get too hot would still blow it up, unless you used the back button. (Are you using the back button? It used to be that if you hit "back" when you knew you'd messed up a potion, you'd still lose the ingredients, but you wouldn't run the risk of the cauldron explosion.)

I'm glad they've shortened brewing times with the other cauldrons: it gives you an incentive to use non-pewter cauldrons.

As for opening date, nobody knows when it's coming out of Beta; best guess is whenever they get the eBook store up and running, since the site itself seems to have most of the bugs worked out. Personally, I doubt it'll be this month.

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I didn't overheat my cauldron. They said I added the wrong amount of an ingredient. It usually only blows up if you over heat it, so I was surprised it blew up because I added too much of something. And, to tell the truth, I think I added the right amount.

I used to use the back button all the time when the green smoke started, but I guess I got lax about it. :whistle:

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Hmm...I had a green-smoke incident on the second stage of a Sleeping Draught without the cauldron explosion. It gave me a "You added the standard ingredient to the wrong container" message when I know I didn't (I mean, there's nowhere to drop it between the standard ingredient and the cauldron!) but at least it didn't blow up. And I know that one of my Tumblr friends had it accuse them of attempted computer clock adjustment on a potion yesterday when they hadn't, and exploded the cauldron (apparently, that's an actual potion failure message now.) So maybe Potions is still a bit buggy?

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It's definitely still buggy. I had around 3,098 pints, brewed a potion, and was given 3,007 points. I was set back 1,000 points. I've reported it.

Cauldrons should only blow up if they''re over heating, if I'm remembering it correctly. The wrong ingredient should never cause a cauldron to go ka-boom.

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Wait, a thousand, or a hundred?

I don't know what they intend their rules to be, but it doesn't seem to make any logical sense for it to blow up from a wrong ingredient.

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Thousand :grumble: It should have given me 4,007 points, but instead it took me down to 3,007. I should reach 4,000 again by the weekend - should be interesting....