"(Opinion) The Normal-Type bonus is the second best bonus!"

#PokemonGO: Everyone wants the Dust bonus for sure when the event ticks, and people are talkin about which ones to prioritize. I personally thing getting the spawn rate bonus unlocked ASAP is super important because it will make EVERY OTHER BONUS better. It means more Pokemon to get extra candy, EXP, dust and so on. No to mention if the bonuses activate while the challenges are happening, the additional spawns will make completing them easier.If you agree and this makes sense, please spread the word!EDIT : A lot of people pointed out that the bonuses probably wont be activated at the same time as the actual challenge is happening, and after looking at the details again, I would agree. Though, I still think having the added spawns would benefit all the other bonuses greatly.Also, lots of people are commenting that access to stops, and having enough Pokeballs for the extra spawns is a big problem for them. I can totally 100% understand that. Despite all the improvements to the game recently, that is a glaring problem still crippling the balance of the game for players geographically. It sucks hard. That would certainly make the desire for quality of catches to be more valuable than quantity, therefor, more dust, xp and candy...and what was previously stuff like egg distance and buddy distance as the last place desired bonuses prolly seem a lot more legit to people in that situation too. That all said, EVEN IF THE EXTRA SPAWNS DIDN'T HAPPEN I would still say maybe throw down a few bucks for some pokeballs just so you can go real hard on the event regardless. Even without extra spawns, it gonna be such a small window to take advantage of, if you are a big PoGO player it might be the time to just make a day of it.There were a few comments talking about how 'only the top bonus will be active' and I just don't see that. The bronze, silver and gold tier of the challenge, and the multiple time periods...I just don't agree that is what will happen. And unfortunately we don't really know yet the threshholds for the challenge. I suspect that getting bronze for all the challenge tiers will be fairly doable. If the value increases per tier, than thats pretty bonkers. I still think Dust is the MOST valuable bonus.My current bonus ranking...1 - Stardust Bonus - GrassIn this new meta, I think we can all agree that we are getting bottlenecked on Dust and we have all been screaming for this for a long time. Even I think more spawns doesn't compare to this one.2 - Encounter Rate - NormalFor reasons mentioned above. Having more spawns, aside from just making harder to find pokemon potentially more plentiful, it would compound bonus dust, candy and XP bonuses. Also if it was strong enough, it would mean Lucky eggs used while catching could be optimized. Previously popping a lucky egg was marred if you hit a dry spell in your catching. This would potentially help that problem.3 - Candy Bonus - FireThis only narrowly beat XP because even with running out and catching tons of 'mons, the best way to grind XP is gonna be mass evolving, and nailing those new Pokedex entries with a Lucky Egg on. Though I would really count this and XP bonus as tied.4 - XP Bonus - WaterReally this is tied with candy bonus almost. IMO though, the XP grind is always and forever a slog. Even though extra XP is nice, its pretty common for events, and has a pretty low impact to a player overall. It is also useless unless you have cool other stuff to take advantage of it, like more candy! Also I feel its worth mentioning, due to the tier rewarded nature of the challenges (bronze, silver, gold) I doubt that bronze is gonna = 2x XP, probably more like 1.5. I would prioritize climbing the other bonuses ahead of it.5 - Buddy Distance Bonus - RockWe are all gonna be out and about during the event, so our buddy candy is gonna be raking in. But even if they did something like make Mereep candy now 1k per, its a pretty low return on investment. I personally think it will be more like you get 2 candy at bronze, 3 silver, 4 gold. But thats just a guess. And this one only eeks out over Egg hatching for one reason...6 - Egg Distance Bonus - ElectricThis is ranked last based on one big glaring principal. It sucks that you would need to spend a bunch of cash and coin to take advantage of this bonus. Its kind of a trashy bonus if its just making you spend more money to use the bonus. That said, if you have cash and coins to spend, its STILL A TERRIBLE REWARD because the EGG POOLS SUCK NOW! The only way I can see this being a good bonus is if on the event they did something crazy like let regionals hatch from eggs, or released Gen3 or something nuts. Don't get me wrong, I'll take the bonus, but I would rather any of the other ones before this one. via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2ubXkXj