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You've only got 5 minutes to attack the boss, who appears at set times and you need a ticket to join in the attack. It's going to take some doing to get a raid done correctly.

A few of my local pokestops have now been converted to gyms.
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I have 8 balls in my bag (not a euphemism I promise) all of which are 10km
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Eggs?
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Oh yeah (lol)
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I wondered why it sounded different to usual hence the euphemism bit (blush)
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The gyms haven't opened near me, although they have changed. I was hoping they would open last night at 9pm as I was walking the dog.
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They weren't working for me last night either.

Have you noticed the Raid search on the nearby list? Mine says I'm not a high enough level (level 27)
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The raid function hasn't been switched on yet. They're rolling it out next month to stop the servers from crashing.
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Raids are now available for level 35+ players. Lower levels are said to be allowed to raid next week.

I got into a gym last night but didn't last long. It's all team Instinct around me. All 4 local gyms were yellow within about 10 minutes of being opened.

Not sure what the set up is with the new gyms but I didn't get anything when I put a pokemon in. It does look like it's a lot easier to take a gym now with the CP being reduced and staying low until topped up.
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So you have to have a pokemon in a gym for an hour to get 1 lot of coins. I don't know what the limit is in terms of time though.

Also, you only get the coins once your pokemon leaves the gym
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Ah ok, thanks for that. Do you get dust as well?
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Haven't seen any mention of it..

The raid system is quite good though.

You need a pass to get in. You can only hold 1 pass at a time and that pass allows you unlimited access to 1 raid of your choosing. You can leave the raid battle at any time to revive and restore pokemon then rejoin without issue. Max player battling = 20 at any one time but you could have 30 people rotating.

You can buy more raid passes. you can only receive/use 1 raid pass a day but the ones you buy (premium raid passes) can be used to enable you access to more than 1 raid a day.

You can only catch boss pokemon using raid balls (called premium balls) so once you run out, that's it.
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I wonder if the boss pokemon can be used for battles?
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Legendaries won't be eligible for defending a gym - no mention of banning for battling gyms

I believe Boss pokemon will be eligible for battling and defending but I assume you won't be catching a 25,000CP Tyranitar - more likely to be a 100%IV 90%CP pokemon
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Where do you get your info from?
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I've just read that feeding berries to a friendly pokemon in a gym gives you a candy for that type. That's a good way to increase your big hitters. Trying to get Blissey candy is hard.
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Part of a local Pokemon Go FB group - they're always posting up info

Oh okay.. so what, you feed 1 candy and get 3 back or something?
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Did my first raid this morning. Level 2 raid. It was a 12,060 Electrabuzz. 3 of us were playing. It didn't take long to take it down as it's not a very strong Pokemon.

Go a few rewards including several white pokeballs to catch it, which I did. You get a 10% version of the one you defeated, so this one is 1206CP, which is crap.

When a raid is ongoing you can't access the gym. I couldn't use it as a pokestop or add a pokemon.

I got a couple of rare candy, which you can use on any pokemon to get a candy for that one. I got a couple of golden razzberry as well which I've not used yet. I got a load of stardust as well as 3000 xp.

So they're a good little add on to the game.
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I got a Tier 4 yesterday with 9 of us battling. Rhydon.

I've now levelled it up (it was 96%IV) and it's 2669 and my highest level Pokemon

I'm holding out for Alakazam and Machamp (already got them both but don't have very good ones)

I also got Golden Razz Berries, Fast TM and Charged TM
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No TMs for me yet.

I didn't realise that you lose the premier balls once the raid is over.
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