# 6.1 Update: Dark Smith's Curse

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-1-update-dark-smiths-curse/73326>\
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**Created:** [December 15, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-1-update-dark-smiths-curse/73326 "2021-12-15T00:01:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 11:20am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-1-update-dark-smiths-curse/73326/135 "2021-12-16T11:20:28Z")

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Reposting this here in regards to cursed gnomes giving vault keys.

> [@Arachnean Weaver compensation](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/arachnean-weaver-compensation/72178/99):
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> As of right now, the only free way to get cursed runes is from cursed gnomes. That’s different from any other gnome in the game. Even, to a degree, pet gnomes get 24 hour events for free at least weekly. So 100% a cursed rune is better than a vault key. It’s the exact ratio as 0 cursed runes after going to the trouble of finding a cursed gnome.

This way a dev can see it. I know the devs trauma therapists advised them to avoid reading anything about Arachnaean Weaver. But in this case it was from a AW thread that’s bleeding into the design principals of Cursed Gnomes.

As in, cursed runes are being advertised to drop exclusively from cursed gnomes (outside of paying for them). But even getting a cursed gnome, and winning the match could still result in 0 runes because of getting a vault key instead or bankers math.

Either way, just like Arachnaean Weaver in event chests, it’s 100% a bait and switch and is illegal AF in most countries save for the home country of Gems of War developers.

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