Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,243
Guh, this thread went and died (I'm partly to blame I guess, been too busy playing to post anything). I'm here to use a revive I guess.
So yeah, I went and go significantly more hardcore about this game weirdly. I'm at like 125+ million XP and I oscillate between 6 million and 7.5 million dust. My wife and I make it a sport to short-man anything we can (so we have 2-manned Azelf, Kyogre, Groudon, Giratina-O, Heatran, Ho-Oh, etc). I even managed to solo a Tyranitar before they boosted the HP stat on raid bosses. My son even managed to make it to level 40. I have 10 maxed out (L40) Blissey and a wide assortment of also-ran defenders that are L40 (multiple Snorlax, Chansey, Gardevoir, etc).
Also, my wife and I both changed teams to Instinct, mostly on account of a lost bet with my son (who has always been Instinct). My wife (formerly Valor) has hated the transition, but I'm pretty indifferent to it (formerly Mystic). I do enjoy that we can gym more easily together now. She also maxed out 10 Blissey so that we can take 20 gyms at a time and defend them properly should we feel the need. We raid enough that we always have as many as 200 to 300+ Golden berries so we can waste people's time really well.
So yeah, still having fun with the game and still playing a great deal.