# 6.8 Update: Treasures & Temptations **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [February 21, 2023, 11:30pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012 "2023-02-21T23:30:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![AMT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/amt/32/56829_2.png) [@AMT](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/AMT)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 3:27am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/64 "2023-02-22T03:27:20Z")
> [@Jeto](#): > > If a player currently has a Gnome-A-Palooza running, Wandering Merchant encounters will not appear. Just more evidence that they know how far they can push the playerbase to increase/slow the grind, without it tipping over. IP2 monetisation strategy: slowing down players and adding RNG layers in the hopes of getting $$ from frustrated customers. šŸ™„ šŸ¤¦ šŸ–– (hereā€™s to hoping the powers that be donā€™t start deleting/moving non-forum-rule-breaking comments they dislike again) ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Hurricane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@Madd\_Hurricane](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Madd_Hurricane)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/65 "2023-02-22T03:29:59Z")
Overall I like the update, but I wish Genies and Daemons were limited to Delves only as they do slow down token grinding in Explore. Merchants (and especially Angels) are certainly good additions to help with getting certain resources that arenā€™t farmable or are very difficult to get, like deeds and Nysha tokens. ---
**Author:** ![sylverscale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@sylverscale](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/sylverscale)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 3:32am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/66 "2023-02-22T03:32:25Z")
Players: Please eliminate the useless kingdom helper offers and give us things we actually need. Devs: Hmm, they want more relevant offers, hereā€™s an idea how we can offer them unlimited offers they might like. Players: We hate that. It slows us down (and we still get so many things we donā€™t need). Devs: surprised Pikachu face Now I must say I donā€™t hate it. But thereā€™s so many offers I absolutely donā€™t need. Wish we had offers tailored more to our levels. Iā€™m 1,603 - I donā€™t need any ingots. I get it canā€™t be tailored to everyone individually but something like ā€œno more ingot offers after level 1000ā€ for example should be doable. Or no deed offers before level xyz (as theyā€™re useless and too expensive at level 200). ---
**Author:** ![Phillip](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/phillip/32/73831_2.png) [@Phillip](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Phillip)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 3:33am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/67 "2023-02-22T03:33:40Z")
Soā€¦ Nothing on Dragons and Dragonite? It is 2 months into ā€œnext yearā€ isnā€™t it? ---
**Author:** ![sylverscale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@sylverscale](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/sylverscale)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 3:34am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/68 "2023-02-22T03:34:31Z")
The year is still so long, and there are still so many more players to milkā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Shifty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/shifty/32/69144_2.png) [@Shifty](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shifty)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 3:38am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/69 "2023-02-22T03:38:30Z")
> [@Stratelier](#): > > Sure, which ā€œmostā€ and which ā€œusā€ are you referring to there? > > I like to ā€œspeed farmā€ too, I just donā€™t _choose_ to spend much time farming to begin with, so the impact on my play pattern personally is pretty low. Yeah I donā€™t ā€œchooseā€ to really do it either, but during vault events and GaP speed farming is the go-to method. Which brings me back to my initial point - constant spam offers while speed farming is annoying. So Iā€™m not really sure what your contribution or point of reply to my comment was as it wasnā€™t completely relevant to the point I made. ---
**Author:** ![danac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@danac](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/danac)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 3:43am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/70 "2023-02-22T03:43:30Z")
> [@genkicoll](#): > > This says bless _A_ random enemyā€¦ It blessed the entire enemy team. it didnā€™t say ONLY one random enemy. clearly a random enemy was blessed. four times. ---
**Author:** ![TheIdleOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@TheIdleOne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TheIdleOne)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 3:48am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/71 "2023-02-22T03:48:21Z")
> [@sylverscale](#): > > That actually depends. Where I live, I can buy single cans or 6 packs for example and in a supermarket, the single can costs the same as a can from a 6 pack unless there is a sale on the 6 pack. His reference was specifically to 24 vs 12, which is the difference between bulk and standard size. That doesnā€™t happen under most circumstances otherwise no one would buy the 24. 1 can vs 6 can is a little strange. The 6 packs youā€™re referring to arenā€™t the small versions that some vendors are selling, are they? Completely different sku. Those 6 packs, for the health conscious people I guess? I donā€™t even know who the target audience for it is, tend to cost more for less volume of soda. Iā€™ve also seen 6 cans with the plastic tops, but for me, those are usually from smaller markets (where Iā€™m from, I suspect they just buy them from Costco and section them off to sell at their own smaller markets). But those are the same places that jack up the price of a can to $1-$1.50 (or more) and bottles to $2+ since they know anyone that needs a drink at that moment will pay the mark upā€¦ which then makes it weird to have it as the same price as 6 packs. I donā€™t know, you get me on that one, that makes no sense to me. There would be no reason to buy the 6 pack at that location. I had to think to make sure it wasnā€™t a 1 refrigerated can vs 6 pack sitting on a shelf, but that would just lean it towards the 6 pack being cheaper. ---
**Author:** ![Stratelier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Stratelier](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Stratelier)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 3:50am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/72 "2023-02-22T03:50:34Z")
> [@sylverscale](#): > > Iā€™m 1,603 - I donā€™t need any ingots. Iā€™m Lv.1160-ish and _absolutely_ still need Ingots (mostly Legendary, some Mythics). Your character level is just a number, and IMO a poor indicator of what resource types you are necessarily looking for. > [@Phillip](#): > > Soā€¦ Nothing on Dragons and Dragonite? It is 2 months into ā€œnext yearā€ isnā€™t it? The Merchant occasionally offers Dragonite for sale (150 Gems for 30) but that is the only change right now. Otherwise, there are still 10 monthly updates before the year is over. ---
**Author:** ![NerdieBirdie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/nerdiebirdie/32/103793_2.png) [@NerdieBirdie](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/NerdieBirdie)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 3:51am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/73 "2023-02-22T03:51:11Z")
Just linking this thread so everyone sees it. Data collection is going well. [Wandering Merchants - Loot Table - #3 by NerdieBirdie](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/wandering-merchants-loot-table/79014/3) ---
**Author:** ![covertmuffin123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@covertmuffin123](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/covertmuffin123)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 3:52am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/74 "2023-02-22T03:52:30Z")
True, I was mostly thinking of people who are at the deed book stage of the game. If you buy individual deeds to craft into books, it costs some ungodly number of gems, like 300,000 total. ---
**Author:** ![danac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@danac](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/danac)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 4:00am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/75 "2023-02-22T04:00:18Z")
> [@Voq](#): > > Sure Iā€™ll take 2 Token of Anu how could you choose anu over ingots??? ---
**Author:** ![thejaz180](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/thejaz180/32/86249_2.png) [@thejaz180](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/thejaz180)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 5:20am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/77 "2023-02-22T05:20:11Z")
I saw this update and the 1st thing I do is come to the forum to see whatā€™s up. Treasures & Temptations? I read these comments and had my popcorn by my side. Some found treasure and some felt tempted to leave this game (maybe for the umpteenth time šŸ¤£). The devs had some us of waiting outside their shop like we were waiting for the latest iPhone. Instead, it felt like they gave out a box of chocolates šŸ¤£ (with Gems of War you never know what youā€™re going to get šŸ˜…). Man please, Iā€™m going to play through this update and see how I feel. I will let you know though that any resource I get to pay for with gold is a plus because I do have gold coming out of my butt, but as for paying with gems, (I donā€™t have gems coming out of my butt); I guess I have to grind the vault for thatā€¦ oh look, vault keys cost gemsā€¦ šŸ¤£šŸ˜‚šŸ˜… (better than costing more, I guess šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø). > [@Santandrix](#): > > I like the update so far! šŸ‘ i skipped through the complaints. šŸ¤£šŸ˜‚ it gets old seeimg the negativity but thats only human nature. Hence me staying away from the forums more these days Iā€™m with you on this, but for me, the forum is my show. šŸ˜€šŸæ šŸ•¶ ---
**Author:** ![Darkborne](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/darkborne/32/95796_2.png) [@Darkborne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Darkborne)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 5:35am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/78 "2023-02-22T05:35:12Z")
After trying this new update out, I can gather a simple fact: they basically took daily deals in a new direction and are promoting yet another gem sink so that we are more likely to pay for gems. Nice try devs, but I am not falling for it. Treasures and Temptations needs to be reworked (just ike dungeons). Again, the idea was good (a way to get power levels up for end gamers and helpful resources for newer players), but it just gets in the way of everything. You thought mimics were annoying during vault weekend? This update is even worse than that I fear. I am sorry to ask after such a brief time with this but we need a response @Kafka @Jeto or anyone else. Trust me when I say this, but the player base will be even smaller after people grow weary of this or thier gem stack is depletedā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![TimeKnight](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/timeknight/32/50221_2.png) [@TimeKnight](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TimeKnight)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 6:25am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/79 "2023-02-22T06:25:19Z")
> [@TheIdleOne](#): > > 150 for 30 vs 300 for 60 doesnā€™t really change anything. Those same players can easily buy the daily version at a later time without losing anything For me, itā€™s not about the price, but availability. Say, I failed to get a perfect run, buy daily 60 Dragonnites offer in Dungeon, but I still want more, what can I do? The only way right now is to play until I get Dragonite Gnome, which is unrealistic outside Vault Event. So I donā€™t even try. Now, every explore battles I do have a chance to spawn Dragonnite offer. Itā€™s the same price as the daily Dungeon deal, but it can appear more, and more affordable. Iā€™m already have all 6 dragons, so itā€™s the matter of how quick I can get 3K Dragonite for Diamantina now, so I can be done with Dragonite issue. So more offers for it are appreciated, as itā€™s a way to speed up my progress. ---
**Author:** ![sylverscale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@sylverscale](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/sylverscale)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 6:30am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/80 "2023-02-22T06:30:27Z")
I donā€™t think we even have 24 packs over here very often. But Iā€™m in Germany so that may be why itā€™s so different. 6 packs are the standard, usually. Some things come in 12 or 24 packs (mini soda cans do). I just tried to say that itā€™s not universally true (worldwide) that bulk = cheaper. Sometimes bulk costs more. But over here itā€™s law that you have to add price per unit (could be piece, 100g, 1000g, liter or whatever so you can compare directly). Over here itā€™s usually the case that buying one unit out of a 6 pack (if sold separately) costs the same per piece as buying 6. Itā€™s basically just bundled for convenience. No idea how it is in Australia for example. ---
**Author:** ![sylverscale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@sylverscale](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/sylverscale)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 6:35am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/81 "2023-02-22T06:35:45Z")
> [@Stratelier](#): > > Iā€™m Lv.1160-ish and _absolutely_ still need Ingots (mostly Legendary, some Mythics). Your character level is just a number, and IMO a poor indicator of what resource types you are necessarily looking for. 1600 vs 1160 is a huge difference. Still makes me wonder, Iā€™m pretty sure I had more than enough at level 1100. But it could have to do with how developed your underworld is. I was only throwing out an arbitrary number. But there would surely be ways to figure one out (or tie it to something different). But Iā€™m pretty sure that at level 1300 at the latest youā€™ll be swimming in ingots (plus orbs of ingots. ---
**Author:** ![TheIdleOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@TheIdleOne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TheIdleOne)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 6:41am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/82 "2023-02-22T06:41:48Z")
> [@Darkborne](#): > > Again, the idea was good (a way to get power levels up for end gamers and helpful resources for newer players), but it just gets in the way of everything. Yeah the idea is fine, but the offers pop up needs to be sped up. It takes over 5 seconds from clicking out of the battle until the offer shows up, which is 1/3 to 1/2 of the length of another battleā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![TheIdleOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@TheIdleOne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TheIdleOne)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 6:43am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/83 "2023-02-22T06:43:31Z")
> [@sylverscale](#): > > I donā€™t think we even have 24 packs over here very often. But Iā€™m in Germany so that may be why itā€™s so different. Thatā€™s definitely a fair distinction. ---
**Author:** ![Tresk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/tresk/32/98004_2.png) [@Tresk](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Tresk)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 6:47am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012/84 "2023-02-22T06:47:08Z")
More like an anti vault event mechanic. [Previous page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012.md?page=3) [Next page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-8-update-treasures-temptations/79012.md?page=5)