# 5.3 Update

**URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657
**Category:** Official News
**Created:** [December 16, 2020, 1:06am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657 "2020-12-16T01:06:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author: ![Saltypatra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/saltypatra/32/59750_2.png) [@Saltypatra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Saltypatra)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 5:50am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/41 "2020-12-16T05:50:58Z")

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What platform are you playing on @fleg?

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### Author: ![Fleg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fleg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fleg)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 5:52am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/42 "2020-12-16T05:52:58Z")

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Xbox One X

All 3 times was when I know the orange room had the unlock scroll (due to guildmates scouting) so I use heroism scroll on boss room without doing the orange room at all.

Just crashed again this time using fireball on orange room. (containing unlock scroll)

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### Author: ![Fleg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fleg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fleg)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 6:09am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/43 "2020-12-16T06:09:46Z")

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A small chance of power orb sounds like great news, unless of course they plan to release more than 1 boss troop per year in which case this buff to chaos orbs immediately cancels itself out and then some.

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### Author: ![Julli-of-North](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/julli-of-north/32/91083_2.png) [@Julli-of-North](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Julli-of-North)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 6:25am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/44 "2020-12-16T06:25:32Z")

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Did the Extra Turn use to hang around like this in Treasure Hunt before 5.3? Its making hard to see the moves. Playing the x4 speed, ofc.

 ![Screenshot (16)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/3/b/3b7c2c559abf2687e55591d0bef0aaa88828114b.jpeg)

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### Author: ![Smash](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/smash/32/5574_2.png) [@Smash](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Smash)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 6:46am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/46 "2020-12-16T06:46:26Z")

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Used Heroism on boss room without touching other rooms.

Platform: Steam

 ![GemsOfWar_4fM9JnWk78](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/5/2/529e9dfd57591be15414e8205c7c027310dcf133.jpeg)

Been doing this for a few min so far. EDIT: Going on 10 min now with no change. Need to force close the game now.

EDIT AGAIN: I used a Fireball scroll to get unlock, and it crashed again.

Not fixed, extra broken.

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### 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: [December 16, 2020, 7:01am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/47 "2020-12-16T07:01:55Z")

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I wonder if Chaos Orbs from non-shrine sources can do that … this is my dubious face.

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### Author: ![Smash](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/smash/32/5574_2.png) [@Smash](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Smash)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/48 "2020-12-16T07:22:10Z")

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The image above by @rojo is from ToD

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### Author: ![cyberkiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8dc957/32.png) [@cyberkiwi](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/cyberkiwi)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 7:26am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/50 "2020-12-16T07:26:38Z")

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> [@Jonathan](#):
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> Orb of Power from Chaos Orbs?

**Major** Orb of Chaos. Not just any orb.

This certainly makes leaderboards a wee bit more interesting, otherwise I’ll take the 1.5 Orbs of Power per year as an early Christmas present. 🤤

Weekly: World events 2 vs Tower of Doom 1  
Weekend: Raid, Invasion, Bounty 2 vs Arena, Vault, New Faction 0  
Let’s just say 3 rolls per week.

> [@Shimrra](#):
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> I wonder if Chaos Orbs from non-shrine sources can do that … this is my dubious face.

The screenshot above shows one normal orb and one major orb → chaos. So it must have been outside of shrines. And I doubt anyone would have filled a shrink that quickly, and paid the $ and received the 2 Major Orbs in the time since the update…

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### Author: ![cyberkiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8dc957/32.png) [@cyberkiwi](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/cyberkiwi)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/51 "2020-12-16T07:38:24Z")

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_Let’ **s assume** the 1% change for Orb of Power is taken from Orb of Growth, and nothing else in the chance table has been changed._

To put this into perspective, we can ignore the first 2 orbs.  
Based on the assumption, Orb of Clans =\> Mythic chance hasn’t changed.

If we look at Orb of Power as essentially equal to 3 Orbs of Ascension (for future Soulforge purposes), then this is effectively a 20% buff to Major Orbs of Chaos, i.e. every Major Orb roll is now worth a statistical average of 0.18x Orb of Ascention instead of 0.15x.

Not counting smaller orbs of chaos, according to current schedule, weekly/weekend events\*\* give about 150 Major Orbs of Chaos a year ~ 9 Orbs of Power, which would have been 7.5 before the 1% chance.

\*\* Not counting Vault events that give a chance at Major Orbs from Vault Keys.

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### Author: ![Lanny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cc9497/32.png) [@Lanny](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lanny)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 7:41am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/52 "2020-12-16T07:41:11Z")

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Same issue for me. Using Steam too. I lost to the boss so I decided to use the scroll. Been hanging at this screen since. About 7 minutes for me so far.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/5/f/5f8cb8d90e2ffea816d9df382b0e4a8c33e2733b.jpeg)

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### Author: ![mitamata](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mitamata/32/10313_2.png) [@mitamata](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/mitamata)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 7:44am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/53 "2020-12-16T07:44:12Z")

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Woah, Orbs of Power from major chaos orbs!? @Saltypatra If that’s accurate, that would be some wonderful news to include in the patch notes and garner some good will from the community! 🙂

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### Author: ![orangeink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c57346/32.png) [@orangeink](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/orangeink)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 7:46am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/54 "2020-12-16T07:46:13Z")

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Same here.

 ![IMG20201216184337](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/1/0/10c41e558456addd3e636b4e70135ad290957096.jpeg)

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### Author: ![alansirer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/46a35a/32.png) [@alansirer](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/alansirer)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 7:52am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/55 "2020-12-16T07:52:38Z")

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![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/3/4/3487573c48e80f825309648b07cb03316423ccdc.jpeg)  
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### Author: ![Tatz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/tatz/32/86556_2.png) [@Tatz](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Tatz)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 8:23am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/56 "2020-12-16T08:23:07Z")

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> [@cyberkiwi](#):
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> I’ll take the 1.5 Orbs of Power per year as an early Christmas present.

The vault event on the Christmas weekend may get your wish granted. 💰

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### Author: ![Fleg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fleg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fleg)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 8:34am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/57 "2020-12-16T08:34:34Z")

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Don’t get too excited for vks. The average # needed to pull a power orb would be in the many hundreds, maybe even thousands.

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### Author: ![Eika](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/eika/32/103088_2.png) [@Eika](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Eika)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 8:36am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/58 "2020-12-16T08:36:30Z")

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If anyone has a chance it must be you Fleg. How many vks have you stored right now? 2900?

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### Author: ![Rosenkreuz1979](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/rosenkreuz1979/32/61425_2.png) [@Rosenkreuz1979](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rosenkreuz1979)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 8:41am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/59 "2020-12-16T08:41:38Z")

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When developers start releasing updates instead of bugs?

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### Author: ![MagiBelgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@MagiBelgr](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/MagiBelgr)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/60 "2020-12-16T08:49:08Z")

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IF the power orbs are for real I have very mixed feelings about it. It’s only a good thing if we get no more than one new troop requiring 8 power orbs a year. Let’s see…

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### Author: ![Fleg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Fleg](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Fleg)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 8:53am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/61 "2020-12-16T08:53:19Z")

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I wish, only just reached 1000.

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### Author: ![Rosenkreuz1979](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/rosenkreuz1979/32/61425_2.png) [@Rosenkreuz1979](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rosenkreuz1979)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2020, 9:02am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/5-3-update/67657/62 "2020-12-16T09:02:45Z")

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> [@Saltypatra](#):
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> The first Shrine will be focused on Gold – The Shrine of Cunning

When will it be available?

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