# 4.2.5 Patch Notes **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [January 15, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/4-2-5-patch-notes/51039 "2019-01-15T00:10:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![SonorousMage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@SonorousMage](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/SonorousMage)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/4-2-5-patch-notes/51039/126 "2019-01-16T18:23:54Z")
Best patch ever, thank you Devs! ---
**Author:** ![Cyrup](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/cyrup/32/50181_2.png) [@Cyrup](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Cyrup)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 2:44am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/4-2-5-patch-notes/51039/127 "2019-01-17T02:44:04Z")
@Shimrra I gave a response over [here.](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/class-xp-points-no-longer-given-in-the-arena-mode-why/51053/27) Regarding the Guild Wars battles counting as losses if you fought an opponent without a Class, this should have been resolved (known issues were updated) yesterday before reset! ---
**Author:** ![Shimrra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/shimrra/32/87_2.png) [@Shimrra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shimrra)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/4-2-5-patch-notes/51039/128 "2019-01-17T03:06:55Z")
Touche. Also slightly ahead of my post. My apologies, I avoided that thread since it was clearly just going nowhere good. At least my explanation matched. ---
**Author:** ![Maxx](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/maxx/32/50891_2.png) [@Maxx](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Maxx)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 12:10pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/4-2-5-patch-notes/51039/129 "2019-01-21T12:10:00Z")
This is one of the best updates ever. I do some PvP everyday and only use the Skeleton key team which needs thief class so I’ve been sticking with that. I have more than enough traitstones and my thief is level 100 so I haven’t bothered doing explore. My delve team needs titan so I haven’t bothered doing them either. The last few weeks I’ve been a bit bored with the game just doing PvP. Last week was the most fun I’ve had with the game in a while. Everyday I did my daily tasks and some explore with frostmage to level it up then most days switched over to titan and did my delves then did GW with a few different class and went back and did some PvP with thief. For the first time ever I did some experimenting in PvP. I used a couple of different skull spam teams with archer, finally used my Arachnaean Weaver and Scorpius teams with titan and for the first time in 6+ months I used a dragon team with dragonguard. Thank you devs for removing the class change fee and giving me the freedom to experiment with different classes. ---
**Author:** ![Cyrup](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/cyrup/32/50181_2.png) [@Cyrup](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Cyrup)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/4-2-5-patch-notes/51039/130 "2019-01-21T23:52:38Z")
Thanks for sharing. I am glad that the time it took to make this change resulted in not just the Gem removal cost but also more flexibility for your gameplay 😍 ---
**Author:** ![UKresistance](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ukresistance/32/7558_2.png) [@UKresistance](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/UKresistance)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 2:06am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/4-2-5-patch-notes/51039/131 "2019-01-22T02:06:43Z")
Do you wish you could set hero traits per team? I do… ---
**Author:** ![Strat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Strat](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Strat)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/4-2-5-patch-notes/51039/132 "2019-01-23T18:00:32Z")
Not only is it “one of the best updates ever” from a gameplay perspective, It is also mostly free of MAJOR Bugs compared to past updates, another awesome thing. I’ve been critical of the QA testing in the past, so I welcome this and wish whatever they did to test GoW continues. ---
**Author:** ![Rickygervais](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@Rickygervais](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rickygervais)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2019, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/4-2-5-patch-notes/51039/133 "2019-01-23T21:29:31Z")
Bandit need to drop at 25% or maximum 3 summon. This is kinda out of control right now ---
**Author:** ![Shimrra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/shimrra/32/87_2.png) [@Shimrra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shimrra)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 2:12am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/4-2-5-patch-notes/51039/134 "2019-01-24T02:12:30Z")
I’d just like bandits to not summon from bandits. That seems like overkill to me. Given the coding nonsense that would have to happen, maybe reducing the chance is _easier_…? ---
**Author:** ![AlphaNate](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/alphanate/32/44933_2.png) [@AlphaNate](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/AlphaNate)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/4-2-5-patch-notes/51039/135 "2019-01-24T18:04:11Z")
How do I change the class next to my handle in the Guild rank/contribution screen? [Previous page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/4-2-5-patch-notes/51039.md?page=6)