# 9.2 Crystal Kingdom: A Deep Dive! **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [May 13, 2026, 12:01am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654 "2026-05-13T00:01:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/977dab/32.png) [@Vorlon](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 8:23am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/199 "2026-05-15T08:23:10Z")
Having 32 kingdoms at power level 30, and the others nearly at their max level, I started to get superfluous books so I’m happy I can continue upgrading my kingdoms. I saw someone complaining about pets in the new system, but since the orb of minions it’s easy to mythic them. Mine all are anyway (except the immortal ones). ---
**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:** [May 15, 2026, 8:42am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/200 "2026-05-15T08:42:04Z")
> [@NerdieBirdie](#): > > What a major overhaul! This seems like a really neat system. I have been back and forth reading the patch notes, and it is a hefty change, but a good one, I think. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2026, 10:05am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/201 "2026-05-15T10:05:34Z")
> [@DarwinX](#): > > Random books was the only reason I care so much about gold marks. Without that choice the motivation for gold marks erodes, and the primary incentive for playing PvP with it. This! Exactly in the same position as you. But I am also now grateful that I most likely won’t have to farm gold marks anymore. It has not been fun for me, but did it for the books. But I will check into PvP to hunt the pet gnomes, my guilds loves pet. ---
**Author:** ![Hunk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/hunk/32/92446_2.png) [@Hunk](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Hunk)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 10:21am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/202 "2026-05-15T10:21:44Z")
> [@Darklord1](#): > > it’s not like you can target the shiny key or dust to specific troops. Actually you can. Sort of. When opening Shiny Chests you have a 20% chance to get a token for the “featured Troop of the Week”. 😉 Unfortunately due to the increasing pool of available shiny troops the chance to get a troop to shiny level 3 declines every week. Hopefully we will see some paid “Shiny Token Bundles” for specific troops in the Shop some day to get around this. ---
**Author:** ![TheIdleOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@TheIdleOne](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TheIdleOne)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 10:32am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/203 "2026-05-15T10:32:46Z")
> [@Eika](#): > > But I am also now grateful that I most likely won’t have to farm gold marks anymore. Kinda ironically, you’ll still probably want to farm gold marks for Shiny Keys from those Shiny requirements. Going off the top of my head, it actually takes longer to unlock the access to buy Shiny Keys in a new season. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2026, 10:34am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/204 "2026-05-15T10:34:32Z")
Damn, I kinda wanted to cut myself loose from PvP, as I spend too much time on it. I will see what to do. ---
**Author:** ![Nagflar\_dv](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/nagflar_dv/32/100704_2.png) [@Nagflar\_dv](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Nagflar_dv)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 10:34am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/205 "2026-05-15T10:34:54Z")
> [@Anam\_Cara](#): > > I just want to clarify, Thank you! So it’s me, who must look closelly) ---
**Author:** ![Kezef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Kezef](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Kezef)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 11:54am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/206 "2026-05-15T11:54:40Z")
> [@Eika](#): > > But I am also now grateful that I most likely won’t have to farm gold marks anymore. The way I see it is thus: Like many of you reading this, I farmed Gold Marks pretty aggressively (for a totally F2P) for the sake of the Books of Deeds. I’m still going to farm at the same rate, because honestly doing those handful of battles every day isn’t particularly onerous (IMO). But I’m going to use those Gold Marks to purchase the seasonal Mythic from the PvP shop instead of waiting forever and a Wednesday for it to come around in the Soulforge. (And then to have to spend the other resources to craft it there.) Any leftover Gold Marks after that, something I ought to have if from no other source than from my guild’s success in Guild Wars? I might buy Dragonite if I haven’t gotten Pandemonia by then. Otherwise I’ll start buying Shiny Keys because there’s actually a tangible benefit to making troops shiny now whereas there really wasn’t before. (Most troops with shiny levels aren’t worth using in any circumstance.) It still sucks that there’s no way to explicitly target shiny tokens for a particular troop or even just one particular kingdom at a time, but maybe the developers will fix that sometime around version 16.4. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/207 "2026-05-15T13:21:56Z")
If I understad it correctly I can now use my Rainbow Crystals to upgrade the magic kingdoms, and not be depended on the purple kingdom crystals and so on rising the magic kingdoms to the skill point level. If so, that is a win at least for me, that was struggling finding purple books in general for the 3 or so Magic kingdoms I have yet to get the extra magic skill point from. I read about 100 comments, thanks everyone that took place. I am now drained, and wont read 100 more.. lol I have not come to the part if Soulforge will have new offerings of the new resources as everything Deeds and whatever will get removed. But I assume for now there wont be any of the new resources there. Hope it is planned for the future, some crafting possibilities of them. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2026, 1:28pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/208 "2026-05-15T13:28:29Z")
Ref. Value of Gold Marks in 9.2 Can’t help but wonder if the Citadel Sigils Purchase$ will be affected, and therefore whether the design team has thought this through when they decided that: > [@Gems-of-War](#): > > The Random Book of Deeds and Imperial Deed offer have been removed, and not replaced with a new offer. 🤔🖖 ---
**Author:** ![Theoden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/50afbb/32.png) [@Theoden](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Theoden)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/210 "2026-05-15T14:25:09Z")
> [@SteamWhistle](#): > > No, they are not comparable — not even close. Two books were worth 3200 XP, and they replaced them with just one Rainbow Crystal, which is only worth 600 XP. The issue here is you’re comparing the _converted_ value of the 2 books in the new system, rather than their actual value now in the current system. The developers are actually being very generous in the conversion of deed books. In the current system, 2 books will get you from level 15-\>16, or halfway from 16-\>17, and less than halfway at higher levels. The Rainbow Crystal gives more than half enough xp to gain a level at high prestige, so a Rainbow crystal is pretty much worth more than 2 books now. It’s only because the conversion of the books to 16 crystals each is so generous, that they work out better after conversion. It’s for this reason I think complaining about the imbalance between the level/power-\>prestige conversion (which is fair IMO) compared with the books-\>crystals conversion (which is generous) is tantamount to complaining that the book conversion is too generous. Jeto seems to be saying this stuff is set now, so won’t be changed before 9.2, but if changes were still on the cards, I’d worry that complaining about the imbalance would backfire, and get the book conversion nerfed. I’m satisfied that my maxed kingdoms will convert to prestige 50 (seems very reasonable for level 20 / power 30 to convert to prestige 50). I’m not going to fret that other players who held off on upgrading now get more xp from books than me. I’m just grateful the book conversion is so generous and I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. ---
**Author:** ![SteamWhistle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@SteamWhistle](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/SteamWhistle)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 12:05am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/212 "2026-05-16T00:05:23Z")
That’s quite convincing. The developers have consistently added more ways to obtain Books of Deeds across all these patches for blancing. I’m glad with the new system. But I’m frustrated with the conversion, since I unfortunately happened to spend all the books I had been hoarding for years just a few days before the patch was posted. ---
**Author:** ![Starlite](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/starlite/32/43018_2.png) [@Starlite](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Starlite)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 5:48am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/213 "2026-05-16T05:48:44Z")
> [@Jeto](#): > > For example, if the update releases on a Wednesday, the force update would be Monday before weekly reset. Presumably, you mean the Monday reset _following_ the update’s release… (That’s not how it reads, right now.) ---
**Author:** ![Kelana](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/kelana/32/88601_2.png) [@Kelana](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Kelana)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 7:57pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/215 "2026-05-16T19:57:53Z")
I thought it was perfectly clear. It can’t very well force a reset \*before\* the update drops, can it? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/e/5/e5f9735f113f57b8b8bd91a21ad7ea1b928636c0.png) I have to be honest and say that it feels like you’re just really looking for things to be pedantic about. ---
**Author:** ![Diamond](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/diamond/32/84316_2.png) [@Diamond](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Diamond)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 8:45pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/216 "2026-05-16T20:45:19Z")
When exactly is the update coming? @Jeto We wait!!! ---
**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:** [May 16, 2026, 9:40pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/217 "2026-05-16T21:40:58Z")
Just calm down. No one is even here on the weekends anyway.🤣 Next week is already busy enough with Guild Wars, and with a new update, there are bound to be some problems. Switch will probably get the update on May 26, but it’s not really that big of a deal. ---
**Author:** ![cheshirecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@cheshirecat](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/cheshirecat)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 8:34am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/218 "2026-05-17T08:34:47Z")
What will happen if the update drops next week, during GW week and people are holding off on updating the game? That would mean we would not all be on the same version of the game, wouldn’t that be a recipe for disaster and cause stability issues with game crashes? ---
**Author:** ![Siba](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/siba/32/97152_2.png) [@Siba](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Siba)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/219 "2026-05-17T14:12:17Z")
No bother. It’s a lifetime normal thing, glitches during the GW week 😁 ---
**Author:** ![GANNICUS1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/gannicus1/32/70687_2.png) [@GANNICUS1](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/GANNICUS1)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 7:46pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/220 "2026-05-17T19:46:00Z")
SO with gws coming this week , @Jeto can we get the 9.2 update after gw because of past updates there always seems to be bugs with every update. And GW’s means so much to us that the timing of the 9.2 update would be better after these next week’s gw’s. I hate to see a gw bug B/c 9.2 update ---
**Author:** ![Jeto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeto/32/101682_2.png) [@Jeto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jeto)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 10:40pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654/221 "2026-05-17T22:40:51Z")
> [@Gems-of-War](#): > > | **Track 1 – Troops** | **Track 2 – Pets & Weapons** | **Track 3 – Heroes & More** | > | --- | --- | --- | > | Collect 2 Kingdom troops | Collect a Kingdom Weapon | Complete all Kingdom Quests | > | Collect 4 Kingdom troops | Fully upgrade a Kingdom Weapon | Complete the Tier I Trial Battle | > | Collect 6 Kingdom troops | Collect 2 Kingdom Weapons | Unlock the Kingdom Class | > | Collect 8 Kingdom troops | Collect a Kingdom Pet | Collect 2 Epic Troops | > | Collect 10 Kingdom troops | Fully upgrade 2 Kingdom Weapons | Upgrade Kingdom Class to Level 20 | > | Collect 11 Kingdom troops | Collect 3 Kingdom Weapons | Complete the Tier II Trial Battle | > | Upgrade 12 Kingdom troops to level 5 | Fully upgrade 3 Kingdom Weapons | Collect 1 Legendary Troop | > | Upgrade 14 Kingdom troops to level 10 | Upgrade a Kingdom Pet to level 10 | Unlock 3 Traits in Kingdom Class | > | Upgrade 16 Kingdom troops to level 15 | Collect 4 Kingdom Weapons | Complete all Underworld Quests | > | Upgrade 18 Kingdom troops to level 18 | Fully upgrade 4 Kingdom Weapons | Complete the Tier IV Trial Battle | > | Upgrade 20 Kingdom troops to level 20 | Collect 5 Kingdom Weapons | Collect 1 Mythic Troop | > | Unlock 3 traits on 21 Kingdom Troops | Collect 2 Kingdom Pets | Upgrade 1 Kingdom Troops to Elite Level Bronze | > | Upgrade 22 Kingdom troops to level 20 | Fully upgrade 5 Kingdom Weapons | Reach Champion Level 20 in the Kingdom’s Class | > | Unlock 3 traits on 23 Kingdom troops | Collect 6 Kingdom Weapons | Complete the Tier VI Trial Battle | > | Upgrade 24 Kingdom troops to level 20 | Fully upgrade 6 Kingdom Weapons | Earn 250 Faction Renown | > | Unlock 3 traits on 25 Kingdom troops | Upgrade 2 Kingdom Pets to level 15 | Upgrade 1 Kingdom troop to Shiny level 1 | > | Upgrade 26 Kingdom troops to level 20 | Collect 7 Kingdom Weapons | Upgrade 5 Kingdom Troops to Elite Level Bronze | > | Unlock 3 traits on 27 Kingdom troops | Fully upgrade 7 Kingdom Weapons | Complete the Tier VIII Trial Battle | > | Upgrade 28 Kingdom troops to level 20 | Collect 8 Kingdom Weapons | Earn 1000 Faction Renown | > | Unlock 3 traits on 29 Kingdom troops | Collect 3 Kingdom Pets | Upgrade 2 Kingdom troop to Shiny level 1 | > | Upgrade 30 Kingdom troops to level 20 | Fully upgrade 8 Kingdom Weapons | Earn 2 Mythic Troops | > | Unlock 3 traits on 31 Kingdom troops | Collect 9 Kingdom Weapons | Upgrade 5 Kingdom troops to Elite Level Silver | > | Upgrade 32 Kingdom troops to level 20 | Fully upgrade 9 Kingdom Weapons | Complete the Tier X Trial Battle | > | Unlock 3 traits on 33 Kingdom troops | Upgrade 3 Kingdom Pets to level 20 | Upgrade 10 Kingdom troops to Elite Level Silver | > | Upgrade 34 Kingdom troops to level 20 | Fully upgrade 10 Kingdom Weapons | Upgrade 3 Kingdom troops to Shiny Level 1 | > | Unlock 3 traits on 35 Kingdom troops | Collect 4 Kingdom Pets | Upgrade 10 Kingdom troops to Elite Level Gold | > | Upgrade 36 Kingdom troops to level 20 | Fully upgrade 11 Kingdom Weapons | Earn 2500 Faction Renown | > | Unlock 3 traits on 37 Kingdom troops | Upgrade 4 Kingdom Pets to level 20 | Upgrade 12 Kingdom troops to Elite Level Gold | > | Upgrade 38 Kingdom troops to level 20 | Fully upgrade 12 Kingdom Weapons | Upgrade 1 Kingdom troops to Shiny Level 2 | > | Unlock 3 traits on 39 Kingdom troops | Upgrade 5 Kingdom Pets to level 20 | Upgrade 14 Kingdom troops to Elite Level Gold | > | These will continue back and forth (upgrade traits & upgrade level) | These will continue back and forth (upgrade weapons & pet level) | These will continue back and forth (Shiny level & Elite Gold Level) | Updated the table as some of the Shiny tasks in track 3 were incorrect. Basically, lowered the Shiny level requirements Also, I haven’t shared a date for release cos we don’t have one yet. [Previous page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654.md?page=9) [Next page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/9-2-crystal-kingdom-a-deep-dive/89654.md?page=11)