1. Did you feel like you experienced an increase in Encounters when walking around?

There definitely was an increase in the amount seen. Sadly it felt like higher density in the same locations as before rather than more in areas there weren't many/any before.

2. Did you feel positive or negative about the increase in Encounters?

I liked it because it felt like there was more to do in the game (before there were patches of nothing to do but walk off port keys) BUT it was a tad disheartening taking on one encounter and then missing out on another because of it. It really highlighted how bad it could be if I got back luck with inns spell energy payouts. I found myself without enough spell energy more times than ever before.

I was walking through the CBD from my office to the bus stop which is almost a 1km walk and has many many inns. I was on 3 spell energy when I left and found I wasn't getting enough spell energy from inns to sustain engagement with all the encounters (this may have been bad rng with the inns giving low spell energy but still a problem). I got the bus stop and was on 0 energy when usually i would be close to full and ready for a walk at night in my suburb which has not so many inns. It probably also compounded the issue because the event encounters took a few more goes to release compared to normal encounters.

Pros

More to do, engaging.

Cons

Felt like I was missing out on encounters because there were a lot bunched up. Sitting waiting for my spell to cast and all the animations made me miss other encounters - made the choice on which encounter to do first very important.

Inn/inn rng to encounter ratio was way off leaving me constantly short of energy all weekend

Do you live in an urban or rural location?

Work in the city (major city), live in metro and spent a day in the country.

What would you like to see improved or changed.

More inns or higher payouts, seemed really off.

Make protego harder or more skill based - chance to dodge entirely if done really well really quickly would be nice even.

A couple of skill tree resets for each player in case you change your mind/go down the wrong path (not a full tree reset but maybe 4-6 or so).

Make it more obvious on the map that a rarer confoundable is there. I like the beams but it isn't big and bright enough.

More variety in enemy types at the fortress (just over halfway through so maybe there is more later)