8.0 Immortals Sneak Peek: A Quick Chat with Sirrian!

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8.0 Immortals Sneak Peek: A Quick Chat with Sirrian! Discover Gems of War’s biggest update of the year as the Immortals conquer PVP!

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Experience a new era of puzzle warfare as Gems of War prepares to enter its next decade of match-3 combat! With the arrival of Update 8.0, we’re excited to finally introduce a new aspect to Gems of War, Immortals! Adventurers both new and old have been exploring the mythical world of Krystara for nearly 10 years, building their teams and conquering the puzzle board. For such a big update, there is no better person to delve into the details like the Creative Head at Infinity Plus 2, Steve “Sirran” Fawkner!

Hello everyone! Sirrian here, and I’m so excited to finally talk more about Immortals in Update 8.0 and what it means for Gems of War moving forward. But first…

Who are the Immortals?

Immortals are a completely new type of content that houses a new troop, weapon, and pet for adventurers to progress. It is quite unique in that it’s ultimately an entirely new troop type in Gems of War, which we haven’t done in many years! Unlike other troops, Immortals progress and act very differently from their non-Immortal counterparts, breaking free from the current rarity system. Furthermore, these troops are so powerful that only one Immortal can be included on a team at a time. We’re excited to see what kind of teams will be built by the community to take advantage of each Immortal troop’s unique abilities!

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How are Immortals different from regular troops?

Immortals have a unique form of leveling separate from current troops that require a new item, Immortal Souls, to progress. At level 1, you’ll have the troop with its base stats which will already be viable to slot into any team, but as you build that immortal, you’ll unlock its unique weapon, pet, greater stats for all of that Immortal’s content, awakened traits, and mana reductions at higher levels. While there will be multiple ways to earn Immortal Souls, the primary way will be through the brand-new PVP Seasons!

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Introducing PVP Seasons

Our new PVP Seasons feature opens a completely new avenue for Gem warfare! These seasons will take place over 11 weeks and provide a set of “Seasonal Goals” to pursue throughout the season’s run. Completing these goals will earn you special PVP buffs to boost your resource collection and PVP marks to purchase items in the PVP shop.

The introduction of PVP Seasons also launches with a new “PVP Season Pass” to earn even greater rewards!

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One last note!

The 8.0 “Immortals” Update is the culmination of the last several updates focused on reinvigorating our PVP game mode in Gems of War. The team has done a tremendous job of developing new and exciting features including the introduction of “Regions” and new “Alliances” in the PVP map. The “Immortals” update brings all of these features together to establish the PVP system as a core pillar of the Gems of War formula.

We welcome all current, new, and returning adventurers to jump in a play today with our fully rich slate of PVE content or conquer the regions all across Krystara in PVP – there is something for everyone!

Dive into the latest update and recruit your new Immortal to smash gems and take over all of Krystara!

Watch for Sirrian’s 8.0 Immortals!

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so, the immortals just look like existing mythics aka guardians?
except glaycia i am really impressed by your design work

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:zipper_mouth_face: :vulcan_salute:

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The jury is still out. But the past 5 years or so would indicate that these troops will be very much pay to win.
Yet they are the only going to be classified as one troop type. Similar to how Dragons are that can only be obtained from Dragonite are. But at least with them it makes sense since they are born from dragon eggs.
Yet every new game mode introduced has more restrictions on troop type.
You see how that is a conflict right? You want the carrot of these rare troops to be grinded or bought. But then rarely can a player use the troops in events? Days before release the assumption is these troops have to be even more powerful than even Stellarix otherwise that is the point? But only one Immortal troop can be used at a time so even more restrictions.

There has been such a drive to only focus on balance in the game that actual fun is a distant thought. Why pay money in the game just to feel like you’re constantly hand cuffed?

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Thats the guy who talked about how much “fun” the first set of dragons were to get we got another to hunt in the same way. Can’t take him seriously since then talk about tone deaf

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Recycled pets (aka Starry) now Recycled Troops (Immortals).

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I’m guessing that the artwork for Glaycia and Titanius will be for the guardian of ice and innovation (lovely work btw):heart:.

In another video Sirrian did this year on the 7.5 update, he mentioned that “we would be able to acquire these powerful troops,” but at the time, he was showing the guardians that we were fighting during the citadel battles and NOT the immortals that we will be able to get. Something like that shows how disconnected they are from the community and that they are just forcing their own agenda on us. We can use that as evidence that the devs are just as confused as we are…

It seems like we will not be able to get the guardian troops that we fight during citadel wars, but they used that artwork for the immortal troops (plus they reskinned some astral sign mythics maybe because those troops were so horrible):rofl:.

I Don’t really care about anything else because we all know that the free season pass will have terrible rewards, and they want people to pay for more power. Whatever Sirrian says tomorrow was probably pre-recorded a month ago, and it will be a sad attempt to get us to…ummm…leave? No, wait, stay? I think? Oh, I forgot to pick up milk and eggs at the store! Yep, that was it.

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The first image showing the new pass: 150 immortal souls, which are not for free.

So much fun! I’m sooooo excited!
(Sarcasm.jpg)

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yeah that’s a double whammy of lame.

reused assets
of crappy troops

where’s my immortal fire bomb and immortal peasant…

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Just like to say a special thanks to the devs, for showing love to its loyal core player base, by making every resource weve collected so far invalid for this new and exciting stage of the development of your bank accounts. Xx

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There’s really just one thing that’s going to make this fly or die, whether Immortal Souls can be earned by playing instead of paying. They are needed to upgrade Immortals from level 1 to level 30, unlocking extra weapons, pets and improved traits. The power level of fully developed Immortals is extreme, low level ones are just a paper cutout. If this is heavily paygated, PvP and the upcoming GW will turn into a toxic mess best entirely avoided as non-heavy spender.

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I can’t wait to read chat during this preview of what’s to destroy the game next.

I wonder how many comments he’ll ignore.

They think awefully highly of this new and exciting content that we are all complaining about.

Too hilarious.

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I think that is the point - they are slightly different versions of the Guardians if you look at their spells too…I think just like we have the Boss versions and Tower Versions we encounter during events, but as players we have a slightly different Zuul and Leonis Tower with fewer colors etc. So the Guardians have corresponding Immortal Versions.

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they also have the same kingdoms :wink:
and as Darborne said: glaycia and titanius are guardian of ice and innovation.

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It an awful season pass structure as well given the way tiers are locked out rather than just being extra tiers on top.

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Not a single person wants this. Usually when every single customer says no the company listens…or goes out of business.

Its not too late to admit you were wrong devs

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Watch for Sirrian’s 8.0 Immortals teaser video, releasing tomorrow!

Will be ready to downvote once it goes live. Maybe they’ll listen to us, the players, when we mass downvote though don’t have my hopes up.

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just replace immortal with immoral and the text makes way more sense. Worked for diablo too

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I agree completely. However, at first glance I thought you said “non-heavy smoker”. I pictured a bunch of old men in leather chairs puffing away in a cigar room and bragging about the power of their immortal troops.

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revenue.

Fixed it for you.

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